But Barack Obama, as Senator Lloyd Bentsen might have put it, is no Jack Kennedy.
Simon going so far as to seek the personal intervention toward this end of Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen.
W. Bush's choice of relatively inexperienced Dan Quayle, whose counterpart on the Democratic ticket was veteran senator Lloyd Bentsen.
After Mr Bentsen's retirement in 1994, the state's upper offices turned solidly Republican.
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Mr Bentsen said this was silly, and headed back to his cabin.
Like his political hero Sam Rayburn, the legendary Texan speaker of the House, Mr Bentsen took pride in the fact that both sides liked him.
And even losing nominees for the office, from Lloyd Bentsen to Jack Kemp to Joe Lieberman to John Edwards and Sarah Palin, have had a lasting impact.
During his AP tenure, King broke several major political stories, including Michael Dukakis' selection of Lloyd Bentsen as his running mate in 1988 and Clinton's selection of Al Gore in 1992.
So much so that after 20 years close up reporting on the original I can't resist the temptation to paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen's comment when Dan Quayle unwisely compared himself to John F.
Critics now include not only perennial liberal advocates of engagement with Castro, but also the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Lloyd Bentsen, whose old job as treasury secretary included enforcing the ban.
He said the most recent instance of candidates having sway with voters was in 1988, when studies indicate that the choice between Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen affected about 1 percent of the population.
Lloyd Bentsen, IV helped with this editorial.
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Mr Reich's battle with the inscrutable Japanese president of the Bridgestone tyre company, whom he is trying to nail for safety infractions, is nothing compared to his struggles with Lloyd Bentsen and then Bob Rubin at the Treasury.
With all due respect to my friends in the media, let me paraphrase the late Senator Lloyd Bentsen: I know Geert Wilders, Geert Wilders is a friend of mine and Geert Wilders is no fascist, demagogue or extremist.
This confused even his own party allies, such as finance committee chairman Lloyd Bentsen, who assumed that a newly elected Republican president who hailed from the Eastern establishment would be permitted a cap gains rate cut as a matter of course.
Vice-presidential nominees most often carry their home state, but a handful in recent history haven't, among them Democrats John Edwards of North Carolina in 2004 and Lloyd Bentsen of Texas in 1988, and Republican Jack Kemp of New York in 1996.
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But I would tell Bush that all he has to do is to stay nice and loose, working Gore in a rope-a-dope sort of way, mocking him lightly, and wait for one of those openings that can produce a fatal sound-bite -- something along the lines of Lloyd Bentsen's line in 1988: "I knew John Kennedy, and you're no John Kennedy!"
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