Reply #43: I think Gore wanted people to see that he was bigger and taller

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than Bush, and he also wanted to fluster Bush while Bush was trying to answer.

Bush had spent way to much time in his life feeling confindent that his last name would get him out of anything, and way too much time fraternizing over a stiff drink, to be flustered by that move.

He really turned it around on Gore.