Reply #64: It wasn't Gore's Lingo

[demwing]

It was his tone.

Gore was being chided for sounding as if he thought he had to define the words LOCK and BOX so that the rest of us wouldn't get lost.

Like an arrogant college professor who knows he's more intelligent than you, and thus speaks too slowly and too simply, Gore had the right words and the right answers, but just could grab hold of the right delivery.

Think of how Clinton would have delivered the lock box line. It would have been more like your favorite uncle sneaking you a $20, then telling you how to hide it from your mom and dad so they wouldn't know you had it.

Great line, poor delivery.