Another politician might have delivered a breathlessly exuberant sound bite ready-made for the 5 o'clock news.
The 1992 debates, in which all three candidates recited polished sound bites no matter what the question or format, produced not a single memorable sentence, let alone idea.
The entire structure plays to George W. Bush's strength in repeating his scripted sound bites over and over, without any danger of being challenged with follow-up questions.
Opposing the anti-liberal sound bites that have played so well in middle America, they want to remind the Democratic candidates of the party's proud liberal past.
That's what the Chancellor should be giving his sound bites about.
He is also a collector of unlikely music and spoken-word sound bites that sometimes comment on what he is up to: "The cut-up experiments appear random," a voice intoned.
They had lived so long with Sharpton's angry sound bites that most started the primary season with an image of him as an irresponsible, inflammatory, race-baiting agitator hungry for publicity.
Of all the voices he would not have expected to hear raised, that voice spoke up now, and the sound of it bit him deep.
"Just for the political sound bite the Governor wants?"
This reality is poorly understood by urbanites and does not play as well in the media, where simplistic sound bites that appeal to raw emotion reign supreme.
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