"...Don't follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters..."  Subterranean Homesick Blues -B.Dylan-

Here's a revealing story I clipped November 3/00.  (Newspapers often
remove their story links after X-amount of time, so the link to the full
story may not still exist.):

"Aides admit Gore is hooked on Diet Coke
http://www.the-times.co.uk/article/0,,30131,00.html
BY DAMIAN WHITWORTH
IT MAY not be his most pressing concern but one has to wonder about the
state of Al Gore’s teeth.
The Vice-President is awake each day before 6am. Within half an hour he
is meeting his campaign staff and cracking open his first Diet Coke. By
the time he goes to bed again half a dozen or more of the sticky drinks
will have been sluiced down."