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JAY LENO ON AL GORE!

"Al Gore ... he once was pro-life, now he's pro-choice. He once was against gun control, now he's for it. He claimed he invented the Internet. Hey, Gore just needs to debate himself!"

"Al Gore visited a bookstore today. He was shocked to find a book about everything he has said in his campaign could be found in the fiction section."

"Our country has come a long way: first we had George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie. Then we had Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the truth. And now we have Al Gore, who can't tell the difference..."

and now, on to the serious stuff...

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Gore wants to create 20 new government programs... and Gore "promises" that he won't hire one new government employee. Yeah right!

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AL GORE'S BAIT-AND-SWITCH
New York Post
9/06/00

Vice President Gore will be advertising a veritable candy store of tax-relief goodies when he releases his long-awaited budget plan today. But after reading the fine print, you'd almost expect someone like Mark Green to be calling for Gore's arrest on a bait-and-switch rap. And this is from a guy who's already carrying too much credibility baggage.

The veep will be promising federal breaks on everything from college tuition to the marriage penalty to retirement plans to pre-school programs to the time parents spend at home with their kids. Trouble is, even with a $2.2 trillion budget surplus expected over the next 10 years, the Democratic standard-bearer couldn't possibly pay for all these goodies with the expected revenues.

Even he knows that. Which is why each of his promises comes with an asterisk attached. Follow the footnotes and you find: * Gore's promise of relief for the marriage tax penalty excludes marginal income for families who own their own homes.

* And it excludes those who make more than $60,000. (A veteran New York City teacher, for example.)

* When Gore calls for "universal" pre-school programs, he defines "universal" to exclude 3-year-olds - a healthy chunk of the pre-K population.

* His college-tuition credit is limited to $10,000 in expenses per family.

* His tax bonbon for stay-at-home parents applies only those with babies under a year old.

But the disclaimers on Gore's savings plan, Retirement Savings Plus, take the cake. As illustrated in The Wall Street Journal, the plan offers tax exemptions for savings up to $2,000. Gore's federal candy store kicks in matching funds, based on family income.

Now, ready for the catches? To qualify:
* You can't make more than $50,000 a year. (There's that teacher again.)
* You can't be retired.
* You can't be a full-time student.
* You can't take full advantage of the program until 2009 (when Gore assuredly would be gone from office).
* The kicker: To stay within budget, only half of those eligible can participate to the maximum extent possible.

At the end of the day, we figure there are about seven people in Idaho who might get something out of Gore's plans. Certainly few New York teachers. Gore backers, to be sure, accuse Gov. George W. Bush of similar budgetary ploys. And on some points, they might be right. But Gore, not Bush, is the candidate who emphasizes repeatedly that his is the fiscally "responsible" plan. Gore won't bust the budget and "wreck the economy" with imprudent tax cuts. Or so he says.

And Gore is the one who must prove his honesty. Remember when he told investigators that he could remember only one of 23 fund-raising coffee klatches he attended at the White House? Remember his memory loss on whether he knew that that Buddhist temple event was a fund-raiser?

Most of all, remember the one thing for which the Clinton-Gore administration will forever be known: scandals. Now, Americans want to know if Gore, free from the grip of President Clinton, will finally tell the truth. Doesn't look like it.
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O Great One ! I thought you would love these "Goreisms".
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1. Gorons sincerely believe that Vice President Gore is a true Environmentalist, when he has an environmental disaster on his own farm: a polluting zinc mine, from which he received $500,000 of income last year.

2. Gorons likewise believe that the VP is anti-smoking and anti-tobacco when he has operated a tobacco farm for decades and accepted government subsidies.

3. Gorons truly believe that Gore is a Vietnam war hero, when in fact he was placed by family influence in a cushy correspondent's job and the only action he saw was that of his Brownie camera.

4. Gorons actually believe that Mr. Gore is justified in illegally raising political funds from the Office of the VP, simply because the Vanderbilt Law School educated VP claims he was ignorant of the illegality.

5. Gorons further believe that it was okay for Al to accept large sums of political money from China through buddhist monks who had taken vows of poverty, since he again claimed ignorance.

6. Gorons also believe that the man who claimed to "invent the Internet"would be so computationally ignorant that he could lose weeks of potentially incriminating e-mail!

7. Gorons, incredibly, believe Gore's claim that he and Tipper were the models for the book and movie, "Love Story" even though the book's author, Erich Segal, says not.

8. Gorons, amazingly, believe that Gore will be the consumer's championagainst high gasoline prices although Gore holds a million dollars in Occidental Petroleum stock.

9. Gorons applaud Mr. Lieberman's open rejection of President Clinton's immorality, but believe it was fine for Mr.Gore to remain silent on the subject, while simultaneously declaring Mr.Clinton "One of the greatest Presidents of our history."

10. Gorons believe that Al Gore is an effective leader, when they won't bother to look at his record as a Tennessee Senator, a record so ineffective that it has led to the election of Republicans as BOTH of Tennessee's Senators!

11. Gorons hold the belief that Gore is a compassionate man who will be the working man's friend, in spite of the eviction notice he served to the poor family who complained about theconditions of the run down slum house that he was renting to them.

CAUTIONARY NOTE: Medical researchers acknowledge that Gorons are generally harmless, except when allowed into a voting booth. Once there, unfortunately, overcome by their gullibility syndrome, they are apt to actually vote for Gore! They should be carefully protected from their ailment, since it may be harmful to their well-being, yours, mine, and that of the USA

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

 

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By Patrick Poole
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
 
A Nashville radio talk show host investigating alleged corruption on the part of rural Tennessee's so-called "Hillbilly Mafia" has uncovered suspicious business dealings between members of the group and Vice President Al Gore.

The allegations have, in turn, led to a series of threats and legal tactics by one member of the group against the radio station in an attempt to silence the talk show host. Phil Valentine, the afternoon host for Nashville talk station WLAC first talked about the "Hillbilly Mafia" story on his show late last week. "Almost two decades after Al Gore left Tennessee for Washington, why does he keep associating with low-lifes like this, one of which is trying to beat a racketeering rap?" Valentine asked.

Valentine's investigation has centered around Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe, currently facing allegations in a civil racketeering case of having used his position as sheriff to harass and intimidate his political rival, Dewey Lineberry, and using his powers to damage Lineberry's real estate business. According to federal court documents submitted in the civil racketeering case, the "Hillbilly Mafia" is an informal organization of Tennessee business and elected officials who operate near Gore's hometown of Carthage, Tenn.

Critics say the group's members use their influence and positions to engage in illegal or legal-but-questionable activities by harassing and threatening business competitors and political opponents alike.

In a filing for the racketeering trial, Ashe admitted to keeping 140 head of cattle on Al Gore's Carthage, Tenn., farm, which serves as surety for a $71,000 negative balance on a joint investment account held by MAC Farms, a venture owned by Ashe and fellow "Hillbilly Mafia" members Monty Mires and Jimmy Comer, at the Gore-owned Community Bank of Carthage.

The mere mention of cows raises eyebrows in rural Tennessee political circles. In their book, "Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of Al Gore," David Bossie and Floyd Brown relate how Gore's father, Al Gore Sr., during his tenure as a U.S. senator, used to host cattle auctions for lobbyists and other influence peddlers at the Carthage family farm. While the cattle would be purchased at staggering prices, the cattle would always remain on the farm to be sold again at the next auction.

After Valentine brought up the alleged connections between the "Hillbilly Mafia" and Gore, Ashe began calling station officials to pressure them to clamp down on Valentine.

The station was reluctant to interfere, which prompted Ashe to contact his attorney to subpoena audio recordings of the programs and any related documents, even after Valentine allowed Ashe to come on his show to give his side of the story. But Valentine told WorldNetDaily that he suspected the legal tactics were designed to obtain information about his confidential sources that have given him documents and other information related to his investigation.

"They are clearly trying to get at my sources, which I am never going to divulge. Ashe and his goons can subpoena us all day long, but we're not going to allow our contacts to be subjected to the abuse that the Hillbilly Mafia is able to inflict," Valentine said. "We'll be glad to give them copies of the show, but we are not going to let these thugs intimidate us or the folks who were brave enough to come forward with this information."

Ashe's attorney, Rebecca Demaree, confirmed for WorldNetDaily that she had subpoenaed WLAC for the audio recordings of Valentine's comments about the racketeering trial and for any documents related to the case. In the on-air interview with Valentine last week, Ashe admitted to the group's bovine business arrangement with Gore.

"Well, sure I have cows on Al Gore's farm. Al's an old friend of mine. I've been trying to sell him cows for years," Ashe said. But Ashe vigorously denied in his interview that the racketeering trial is moving ahead. "Now, the judge hasn't allowed anything to go forward. It has not been upheld to go forward to trial, so again your information is wrong," Ashe said.

Demaree, his attorney, told WorldNetDaily that U.S. District Judge Robert Echols had dismissed some of the charges alleged in the racketeering lawsuit, but that additional charges are still being investigated while Lineberry's attorneys conduct discovery on the claims. Because the matter is still pending, she couldn't comment specifically about the case.

Ashe is also accused of conspiring to cover up the beating and hospitalization of an underage female high school student allegedly assaulted by one of Ashe's deputies, by threatening and conducting regular surveillance on the girl. When the girl was called recently as a witness in an unrelated slander case against Ashe, she refused to testify for fear of reprisals against her and her family. Those allegations are also part of the forthcoming racketeering trial.

When Valentine asked about his alleged participation in covering up the girl's beating, Ashe flatly denied any involvement, "If I'd done that, I should have been prosecuted." One Wilson County elected official, who spoke to WorldNetDaily anonymously for fear of retaliation by Hillbilly Mafia members, said that threats and intimidation are common methods used by the group to cover up their questionable business dealings. "The members of the Hillbilly Mafia get sloppy in how they handle their affairs because they are confident in the protection that Gore would give them if they got into a jam," the informant told WorldNetDaily. "These guys are known for getting into trouble, so they have to resort to threatening everyone and everybody to keep it from getting out. But it seems like that policy is finally catching up with them."

The informant claimed to have been personally subject to threats made by one Hillbilly Mafia member, Monty Mires -- one of the business partners in the MAC Farms venture that keeps the herd of cattle at Gore's farm.

Another source, also speaking anonymously out of fear of retribution, claimed to have been subjected to the group's threats, as part of a pattern of intimidation, and added that the group operates under the presumption of Gore's protection. Despite what he sees as the intense pressure that Gore and his "old friends" can bring to bear on the radio station and his family, Valentine vowed to stay on the case.

"The people I've talked with in Wilson County are very much aware of the Hillbilly Mafia, and it's apparently a very real and very dangerous organized criminal element. And it's not only the sheriff, but several other Gore business associates who are alleged members," Valentine said. "Now, I couldn't care less who the people of Wilson County choose as their sheriff, but I believe the American people have a right to know who their vice-president is in business with."

As reported in WorldNetDaily, Valentine was part of a quartet of Nashville talk radio personalities who took on Gov. Don Sundquist last June after Sundquist attempted to push an unpopular state income-tax proposal through the legislature, prompting massive tax protests.

Another alleged member of the Hillbilly Mafia, Wilson County Road Superintendent Steve Armistead, also has close ties to Gore, having stood on the platform with the vice president during his speech to the Democratic National Convention held in Los Angeles two weeks ago.

According to several sources, Armistead was also involved in difficulties that Gore had with a rental home on his Carthage property earlier this year. When Armistead failed to perform the repairs that Gore had promised the renters would occur, the renters moved out of the home. WorldNetDaily reported that as a result of Gore's failure to resolve the problems with the property, the Tennessee Republican Party came to Gore's rescue and assisted the family in its move from Tennessee to Lima, Ohio.

Valentine said he is surprised the repeated scandals of the Clinton administration and Gore's own political history haven't prevented him from having business dealings with such questionable associates. "You would think that with the difficulties that Bill Clinton has had in recent years from his shady Arkansas connections, Al Gore might have learned something, but apparently he hasn't," Valentine told WorldNetDaily. "You only need to look at the cast of characters involved in the Hillbilly Mafia and the curious business dealings they continue to have with Gore to see that America might be in store for more of the same under a Gore administration. Is anybody in his campaign seeing these problems?"

Gore campaign officials did not return repeated requests for comment.
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An opponent's hypocrisy
WASHINGTON -- Al Gore has given George W. Bush the greatest present any politician can receive: The gift of an opponent's hypocrisy.

Consider Gore's insistent harping that Bush produce "specifics." This is an example of accusing a foe of the sins you are committing. In large part, the Gore political platform consists of gauzy phrases, unsupported by proposals, let alone specifics.
Check out the Gore Web site, and you'll see: The vice president provides a price tag for precious few of the dozens of new spending programs he has in mind. Begin with his topic of the week, health care.

Gore envisions expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program, but doesn't mention price, suspected enrollments, or eligibility for promised tax credits. He wants to punish states that don't sign up children for health insurance -- even though the biggest barrier to participation today is red tape, much of it imposed by the Clinton-Gore administration.

His Web site says the candidate will "eliminate cumbersome barriers to child enrollment in health insurance. He will advocate new options for schools and child-care centers to enroll kids on the spot. ... He will reach more eligible children by encouraging states to link their children's health insurance programs to their school lunch programs ... " And so on. It neither asks nor answers the crucial questions: How, when, why, for whom, and at what cost?

Here's a partial listing of initiatives for which Gore has high hopes but no details:

Health care: -- strengthening Medicare "through competition" -- strengthening Medicare "through cost savings" -- creating a National Family Care Giving Support Initiative -- reaching underserved populations, including the homeless, for mental-health care -- strengthening Medicaid

Education: -- school standards -- teacher standards -- student standards -- standards for Universal Preschool -- cost of hiring new teachers

Defense: -- size of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and reserves -- definition of "the next generation" of military technology -- rebuilding military-industrial base

Government reform: -- creating a "more accountable and effective federal government" -- making government more efficient and less expensive -- protecting Internet privacy. Again, this is just a partial listing, but you get the idea. Gore has plenty of program titles. He just doesn't have programs to go with them.

Yet, if there's one thing worse for the Democratic nominee than the lack of specifics, it is the presence of them. Gore wants to spend $42 billion over five years to insure 1 million children. If you do the math, that works out to $42,000 per child over five years -- or $700 per month per kid for insurance premiums. Most policies these days will cover one or more children for $10-20 per month. Gore has chosen to spend dozens of times that amount. (What's that about cutting government waste?)

His desire to spend $253 billion over 10 years on prescription drugs is "specific," but nuts. When is the last time the government made anything cheaper by promising to spend an extra quarter-trillion dollars on it?

And check out these nuggets from his tax plan: His much touted college-tuition tax credit applies to only one child per family, and doesn't cover room and board. It doesn't help poor people. His marriage-penalty relief doesn't apply to families who own their homes or accumulate annual earnings in excess of $60,000. Working seniors don't get a tax cut. If you're single, you're not guaranteed any tax relief, either.

The point is that "targeted" tax cuts pick out a few fortunate beneficiaries -- and leave the rest of us out in the cold. They're not designed to focus benefits on "working people." They're drawn up to appease very specific voting groups or modify behavior -- hence, tax credits to parents who send kids to day care, but not to those who stay at home with toddlers and preschoolers.

Bush, rather than stammering about budget projections, ought to take up the Gore challenge. He has published a fat book filled with "specifics," some of which may make sense, many of which may reflect the dreamy desires of policy wonks -- but all of which give a pretty good sense of where Bush would go as president.

As for Gore, here's his "specific" vision of the future: "I believe we must create more than effective government agencies -- we must create a country and economy that are strong and vibrant and equipped for the challenges of change. And at the same time we must create a new trust and faith in our people, and in each other."
Huh?
©2000 Creators Syndicate, Inc

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Regards,
Nicole - Atlanta
Penson Political Pages - www.mindspring.com/~jdpnlp
I am asking you all to take a few minutes to please read my personal message to you..

Hi all,
Just a reminder...make sure that you know, NOW, where your polling place is and that you are registered to vote in November. If you are planning on being out of town on November 7th, please get your absentee ballot. If you have any questions about this stuff, let me know and I'll see what I can find out for you.

Bush needs our votes, and our help NOW. We are facing the toughest possible race yet. If you can say "President Gore" without flinching, then you are stronger than I. This race is more important than most people realize. We are facing the potential loss of the presidency AND the Congress - both the Senate AND the House.

I want you to ponder for a moment what a completely Democrat controlled Executive, Judicial and Legislative branch will mean for those of us making over $55,000 a year, not to mention what it will mean for morality in this country. Under a President Gore we, and I mean those of you reading this, will see a higher tax rate - there is no doubt that with gas shortages and a winter that will be wrought with high fuel/oil/gas prices, Congress and Gore will seek to raise taxes on those of us who make over $55,000 a year, not to mention raising the current 36% a gallon tax higher.

Yes, that's right, currently 36% of the cost of each gallon of gas goes to Clinton/Gore - and you can thank Gore for breaking the tie in the Senate to raise this tax to this level. Read Gore's tax plan - if you make over $55,000 you are rich. Under Gore, you can kiss EVER seeing anymore of your money coming back to you in the form of tax breaks or privatizing a portion of social security. Bush wants to give us THE OPTION of getting 2-3% of our social security money BACK and investing it ourselves. You don't HAVE to do it - it is COMPLETELY OPTIONAL. Under Gore, you will see your social security tax increase.

Bush wants to give moms and dads incentives for one parent to stay home - a tax credit. Under Gore, he will force moms to work - the plan is for universal childcare for 4 year olds and up - 3 year olds need not apply BTW (yes, we will be paying for THAT too). THAT is supposed to help moms - Gore DOESN'T give stay at home moms that money, you only get it if you put your kid in day care and work.

What else is there you say? Can you say new liberal Supreme Court justices? Gore will NEVER ban partial birth abortion - this is the killing of babies in the 3RD trimester. Yes folks, these are babies that CAN survive in todays hospitals. If you don't know what the barbaric procedure is, look it up - it'll make you sick. President Bush will ban this horrible procedure - even pro-choice women know it to be awful.

Another trend in the Supreme Court these days is to reduce our freedoms. What do I mean? Jimmy and I went to see Ken Starr speak earlier this year, and he talked about many of the cases the high court had seen. One that was particularly alarming was a case banning political ad expenditures. The Supreme Court of the U.S. actually upheld a ruling that a group of Americans could only spend a SPECIFIC amount of their own, after taxed, money to get their
message out on television and radio.

I want you to ponder this a moment. I want you to think of a cause that you dearly love - for me, it would be animal rescue, for some it may be to preserve Roe v Wade, for some to get their religious message across, etc..The Supreme Court has set a precedent that you may spend "x" amount of money promoting it. In this country of freedom of speech and press, the high court has begun to set plateaus. Instead of interpreting law, we are seeing justices do what they "feel" is the right thing based on their own philosophy. Add a few more liberals to that bench under Gore, we may see the abolishment of the death penalty, and even more restrictions on our freedoms - don't be naive and think it won't happen. It has already.

Can you say no more 2nd amendment? A federal magistrate has already stated publicly that the 2nd amendment doesn't apply to us - you and me. This was in the news this week and posted on my website. I'll be honest, I hate hunting and I'm not fond of guns in general. But I'll be damned if the federal government is going to restrict my rights to have a weapon when they won't do jack to keep criminals behind bars. Under Clinton/Gore the Justice department prosecuted over 40% LESS felons than in previous administrations - ie, they'd rather pass more legislation to ban guns than do the hard part and figure out how to deal with criminals and real crime.

I find it ironic that Hollywood types like Rosie O'Donnell and Susan Sarandon will march and tell us that we don't have a right to guns - this is all true, I've read their quotes - but yet these are the same women who will defend CRIMINALS and DEATH ROW INMATES. Yes, these same women will defend the scum who rape, pillage and murder our neighbors, families and friends. They will defend the aggressor, the murderers of good people AND THEY WILL TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHT TO PROTECT OURSELVES AGAINST THEM!

Don't you love the irony? They, who have the money to hide behind brick gates and bodyguards don't want you and I to have the one thing that'll protect us against the scum they protect. And these are the same people giving to the Gore campaign and sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom.

Campaign Finance Reform - you'll see it. This is John McCain's fatal mistake - pushing this. I think most of us know the liberal media bias. Can you imagine if conservatives have to put a cap on spending to get our message out? ABC,NBC, CBS, CNN, etc...all released this week a report that GW Bush could be dyslexic because he has mispronounced words. (And, by the way, even IF Bush was dyslexic, he'd be in good company - Einstein, JFK, and Alexander G. Bell were dyslexic) Yes, dyslexic.

Have you ever heard a disorder being ascribed to Gore for his pathological lying? Yes, I'll debate - No, I never said that. Yes, I took the incentive in inventing the internet - Matt, I don't know much about computers. I grew up in Tennessee - he grew up in D.C., I knew it was a fundraiser - I didn't know it was fundraiser, I discovered Love Canal - he DID NOT discover Love Canal, Tipper and I were the subject of Love Story - they were NOT the subject of Love Story...I could go on.

Bush is dumb, but Algore, who flunked out of Vanderbilt and claimed that Clinton was one of the greatest presidents in U.S. history is brilliant. Do I have to go on?

Aren't you sick of all of this? Don't you want your money back? Don't you want morality restored to the Office? I for one am so sick of dealing with Clinton/Gore for 8 years! I am sick of having disdain for my president. I am sick of being told that Clinton/Gore have done more for minorities than anyone when the achievement gap in our schools has INCREASED during Clinton/Gore - the two guys who's states were at the bottom in education (50th when Hillary ran it in Arkansas). And these two have the nerve to try to criticize Texas achievement under Bush - it still amazes me. Texas improved minority scoring and achievement under Bush - Texas is #1 in minority improvement.

Now, get the message out, talk to your neighbors and do what you can. This is our country and we should all fight for it! We need to get more than 36% of registered voters to vote in this election - that's right, only 36% of registered voters even vote. When you think of all the men who died fighting for that right, the right to keep us free, the right for us to vote - and most Americans spit on their memory by not caring. All the blood that was shed, all the misery - all for this country. If you truly love this country and what it stands for like I do, let's put this guy away for good.It's time for them to go.

My 2 pence...

 

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Al Gore & Charity-

I heard that Al Gore made over $200,000 last year, (according to his income tax return), and paid a mere $353 in charitable contributions. This is less than two-tenths of one percent (0.001765) of his income. Does it strike anyone else odd that a man that feels the pain of the poor and needy and wants to raise our taxes to support these people, personally contributes so little? He doesn't even come close to a tithe with his church. Doesn't he realize that his return would be public, and people might notice this hypocracy?

Carey

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AL GORE AND JANET RENO... VOTED TO BE THE TWO MOST LIKELY CANDIDATES TO TURN SCHIZOPHRENIC AND IMPOSE MARTIAL LAW ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.

From Mark (Santa Maria Cal.)

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Have you heard the latest Al Gore goof?

He was in Minnesota and and said, "They will be the eduacation team that Missouri needs to move into the 21st century and create good public schools here" Someone on stage quickly reminded him he was in the state of Minnesota.

You can confirm this on the msnbc web sigth with Claire Shipman.

Sincerley,

David

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I can remember when Al and Tipper (Flipper?) were pro-life. In some ways, they are worse than the dynamic duo they hang around with.

Joe

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How did you miss it? Taking down the hydro dams equals more CO2

Dear Rush,

A NY TImes article today, 9/26/99, titled "Returning River to Salmon, and Man to the Drawing Board", discusses the environmentalist's view that the hydro-electric dams must go. None of them seem to have thought about wherethe replacement electric power is going to come from.

The answer is of course,duh, from increased use of coal fired, oil fired, or gas fired power plants.The article discusses plans to remove the dams on the Snake River, which supply 4 % of the electricity for the entire North West.

The Clinton-Gore administration is the first administration to force a hydro-electric dam to be taken out of service. Has the environmental Vice President calculated how much carbon dioxide will be added to the air, daily, by removing our hydro-electric dams? Has he calculated how much CO2 was not put in the air because of the long service of these dams which arethe cleanest of all energy sources?

I am surprised that your insightful genius did not immediatly pick up on this when it first became news several months ago. Remember the picture of our Secretary of Interior fishing in front of the dam on the Kennebec river in Maine that he was proud to announce was gonna come down.

By the way, I heard an apt term for Al Gore's stretches of the imagination e.g. invented the internet, model for the novel Love Story, farming experiences, etc. They are called GoreGasms.

Best Regards,

H. Hall
South Carolina

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The Democrats Mistake

Hi Rush,

I am a listener of your program and a "former" Democratic supporter. But after the second term of the Clinton presidency, I will no longer vote Democratic.

I believe the Democratic party made a tactical error in not voting to impeach Clinton. Al Gore would be president today. He could have restored dignity to the presidency and possibly earned the goodwill of a country which is simply sick of the current administation. Instead, Al Gore is in a fight with one of the dullest, uninspiring candidates I've ever seen (namely Bill Bradley) and the Clinton adminstration continues to be an embarrassment to the Democrats with the FALN terrorist debacle, WACO, Hillary for Senate, and who knows what else. Oh well, when you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas!!

Keep up the good work!

Debbie

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Gore Quotes

I found this Al Gore quote online, (recently), and I thought it was a classic Goreism. Health maintenance organizations, he said, should have less power over people's lives and medical needs.

``They don't have a right to play God,'' Gore said. ``These decisions ought to be made by doctors and nurses.''

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Bradley VS Gore

Rush, your two previous callers were mixed up about the question asked Bill Bradley last night. The questions were: "What three qualities do you think it is most important for a president to possess?" "What world leaders do you think had these qualities?" His first answer was "Integrity and honesty" and I think that Jimmy Carter is a good example of that." He was not asked which leaders he most admired.

I believe his last answer was "The ability to assess reality and to change directions when his policies are not working" and he gave Mikail Gorbechev as a good example of this quality when he recognized that communism had failed and tried something different.At no time did he put his three examples up as his most admired leaders!!!!

At least, he answered the questions posed to him. Gore did not give a single straight answer as far as I could tell. It was evident that he was trying to mimic Bill Clinton by moving forward on the podium toward the questioner, asking about their families, names, etc.

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Jackson's Motives -Unify Constituencies for Gore

I caught your comments about the Decatur, IL. school situation. Yes, it is boring; but, Rev. Jesse Jackson is accomplishing a liberal political end. He is attempting to keep the minority and liberal vote galvanized. Clinton and the Dems used the' Mosley' appointment on the eve of the last election to increase turnout (I believe Sen. Helms fell into that trap). This effort is designed to keep things 'stirred-up' and keep the traditional Dem constituencies unified behind Jesse so he can deliver them for Al Gore.

Just me humble thoughts,
Bob

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Breaching Dams

Nov.16,1999
I would be curious to know what your opinion is concerning the enviromentalists wanting to breach all the dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers. People in the north-west are really concerned about this. I understand the enviromentalis are now going to petition Clinton to breach the dams to save the salmon.

They don't understand that those dams are the life line for the north-west, and cities along the river would become ghost towns without it,especially Lewiston, Idaho, which is a sea port town.

Laurie

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Al Gore Picture

The picture of Al Gore, in USA Today, with the m-16 rifle made me think. If he really wants to be an alpha male, next time put a magazine in it.

Sincerely,

Lewis from Glennville, Georgia

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Rape is a criminal matter. Attention Al Gore... It's not about Bill Clinton's personal life. PLEASE NOTE: Al Gore did not say that Bill Clinton is innocent of rape.

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In the past issue of Outdoor Life it exposes the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for misuse of funds. If Al Gore is such an ecologist, why would he let this waste take place? The GAO said the FWS had the worst accounting system of any other branch of the federal government.

Max

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I find it fascinating that in the early stages of Campaign 2000 Al Gore has established himself as "a Protestant and a Baptist". Gore is hard at work peddling to the American public a facade of a friendly Bible-thumping Southern Baptist who reads his Scriptures and is "hard at work for the American family". What rank hypocrisy. In his book, Earth in the Balance, the tree-hugging liberal not only trashed orthodox Christian beliefs but also essentially discredited biblical values as a legitimate source of spirituality. It only goes to show you that Gore doesn't actually believe in anything but the power of elected office. Gore, your pseudo-Christian antics won't win my vote this November.

Go Dubya!

Scott
Reno, NV

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Al Gore Invents Faith

To the Editor:

Al Gore told a group of Olympia school children last week that America has a spiritual problem. He said that America has left its spiritual past. The "spiritual" past he says we left was our faith in America. Let's test Al Gore's knowledge. A quote from a small paperback I purchased in a used book store for fifty cents is all that is needed to dispell Al Gore's mythology. On 8-12-1861, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the National Fast Day to be observed the following month. In the proclamation he said that " it is fit and becoming in all people, at all times, to acknowledge and revere the Supreme Government of God, to bow in humble submission to His chastisements, to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in full conviction that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and to pray, with all fervency and contrition for the pardon of their past offenses, and for a blessing upon their present and prospective action...."

After the proclamation was made, and the day observed, there was no takeover of the country by religious zealots, nor did the federal government find it necessary to vanquish the church in America. Americans demanded no separation of faith from government. They knew that a government that would not fear God would also be incapable of respecting mankind. The spiritual heritage exercised by Abraham Lincoln and Americans of our past was faith based upon the fear of God, not upon faith in the country itself. Will the teachers in Olympia tell the school children that Al Gore lied to them, or will they allow the deception to continue?

Fritz Denze

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Subject: Gore and Marijuana

Now the pattern fits, it has been an ongoing mystery why Gore continues to fabricate delusions of greatness (from Humprey's running for President and Gore's extensive assistance, which never existed, and Gore's comments that the campaign manager and dozens of real participants have stated Gore had no involvement ,as "Bad memories" on all their parts, to his Vietnamvalor, which never existed, he was a sheltered senator's son corespondent who spent as much time in danger/harms way, as I did as a civilian living in Sacramento California during the Gulf War), he invented the Internet, this bizarre behavior and delusional fraudulent past is typical of some one with an extensive drug abuse past. Gore's whole persona is made up to compensate for a spoiled individual with sever serious emotional and mental problems, His book on the environment, he was asked several direct questions out of the book of which Gore had no clue and could not answer, it became more than apparent the book was written by someone else, Gore only put his name on it. The pattern is pervasive, it existed with Clinton as well, except the womanizing preoccupation superceded the drug use.

It has always been a worry that individuals out of the drug culture of the 60's would fabricate or reinvent themselves to gain power; Clinton was the first one out of the stalls, Gore is number 2..should the public be informed.. A GIANT YES, it would have prevented the Clinton Mistake, these are individuals who are not qualified to run for President, and the public is suffering for it, thanks to the private sector and an extensive booming stock market, our economy is screaming along, The Whitehouse has had nothing to do with it, but has used it as a get out of jail free card, a shield, for what would normally be intolerable behavior (unless you buy Gore's invention of the internet), Clinton was the President who is leading us into the new millenium and can not type, nor use a computer, nor understands them,and the public has been kept in the dark to this day,Commander and Chief of the Arm Forces, and draft dodged the Vietnam War when it came time for him to serve (more than likely a poor minority was sent in his cowardly vacancy) he ran away to Russia where they were manufacturing SAM missiles to help the Viet Cong, and Regulars, shoot down our planes, probably the one Senator McCain was in that caused him to live in hell as a P.O.W for 6 years.

Individuals pasts do matter, Individuals are scrutinized about their past, called a resume, and work history in getting a minimum pay job. Clinton's Governorship of Arkansas, was glossed over and for the most part buried, because it was shameful, and filled with corruption,quite frankly, Clinton was a lousy Governor. Gore's past is very important, GW Bush may have used Cocaine 30 years ago, once.. Gore abused drugs for 6-7 years as a hop-head, a loadie, a stoner, this would explain the huge delusions of grandeur, and excessively faulty memory Gore is exhibiting big time and serious dangerous warning to the American Public.

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"There is a difference between talking about compassion and actually putting your highest ideals into practice."
-Vice President Al Gore, December 2, 1998

Carthage, Tennessee

If Tracy Mayberry's life were a country song, it wouldn't be sung by the ersatz Hat Acts or New Country bunnies currently infesting the airwaves. It would be sung by the old cast of Hee Haw, who, for all their hokum, exhibited a certain genius for tear-in-your-beer lamentations with "Gloom, Despair and Agony On Me." The song's most poignant lyric went: "If it weren't for bad luck, / I'd have no luck at all." For as long as she can remember, that's the only luck Tracy Mayberry has known.

Now 36 years old, Tracy was unlucky at 13, when she married her first husband who beat her, then left her after she slugged him in the eye. By the age of 16, she'd met her current husband, Charles. A second-grade dropout, he hasn't had much luck either. Together, they started an unlucky family. Charles brought along four kids from a previous marriage. They had two of their own, then adopted two more-the unlucky offspring of more unlucky parents. The five kids currently living in their house suffer every malady from retardation to epileptic seizures. But luckily for the Mayberrys, they get $1,536 in monthly disability checks. It's the only money coming in, as 51-year-old Charles, a tobacco and timber cutter, is unable to ply his trade since suffering congestive heart failure five years ago. Herself a tobacco cutter, Tracy is also unable to work since her diabetic stroke. While she's without a vocation (or welfare or food stamps, which she's too proud to take), she has a new hobby: injecting herself in the stomach with two shots of insulin every day.

It might seem the Mayberrys' luck couldn't turn any worse. It did. Eighteen months ago, they escaped a cramped three-bedroom trailer in Cookeville, Tennessee, and moved to nearby Carthage, 50 miles east of Nashville. Here, Tracy thought her family lucky when they secured a $400-per-month four-bedroom rambler. But when she wrote out her rent check, her luck turned for the worse-she discovered her new landlord was Vice President Al Gore.

Not that Gore was meddlesome. Though Tracy makes her checks out directly to "Al Gore," and while the Mayberrys' house sits only 150 yards or so from that of Carthage's Washington, D.C.-bred native son, Gore has been extremely hands off. So hands off, in fact, that when Tracy complained to Gore's property managers that the plaster was coming off the walls, the linoleum was peeling off the kitchen floor, the basin of the bathroom sink was a constipated sludge puddle, the guts of one toilet tank had to be held together with Sunbeam bread bag twisties, and both bathroom toilets overflowed-when they flushed at all-(making the whole house smell, in Charles's formulation, "like sheee-it"), the managers managed not to fix anything at all.

Over the course of a year, Mayberry says she complained some 30 times to Gore's property managers, Charles and Audrey Elrod, a husband and wife team who have been in the employ of the Gore family (going back to Al's late father) for 12 years. The Elrods aren't some sort of distant managerial subcontractor. They actually live on the acreage of Pauline Gore, Al's mother. Audrey manages the staff of what Tracy's kids call "The Pink Mansion," Pauline's house on the hill across the Caney Fork River, a view of which the Mayberrys enjoy when they pop an Icehouse beer and kick back next to the belching duct-taped air-conditioning window unit on their front porch. Tracy hadn't had much luck getting any response from Gore entities, but last month, when the Post Office delivered a notice saying she had a registered letter from Al Gore, she thought she might have caught a break. After all, it wouldn't seem too tall an order for the second most powerful man in the world to make sure the Mayberrys' toilets flushed properly. He could probably even get a good deal on parts, since his wife Tipper was a shareholder in her father's plumbing supplies business (an asset that Gore's 1998 financial disclosure report valued at between $100,000 and $250,000).

But when Tracy went to pick up the letter, it wasn't actually from Gore. It was an eviction notice from Audrey, written on Gore Realty letterhead, spelled "Gore Reality." The reality of Gore Realty, admits Audrey, is that there isn't any such company, only the two rental houses Al Gore owns. "That's just something we call it," she says. According to Gore's most recent disclosure reports, he grosses $4,800 annually from the stopped-up sinkhole that is the Mayberrys' home. The eviction letter stated that because of the unsanitary condition of the septic system and the amount of time it would take to fix, "We believe that it would be to everyone's advantage if you could find somewhere else to move. This seems to be an ongoing problem with the plumbing and it is not in the best interest or health of the people living there for us to continue renting the house." Mayberry says that Audrey told her the Secret Service would be taking over the house, an assertion Audrey now backs away from. "Oh, that was just something I came up with," she says. "[The Gores] never said nothing about that."

True to form, Al Gore never said anything at all-at least not until Tracy Mayberry called Nashville's NewsChannel 5 on June 2, to give them a tour of the dilapidated house from which "slumlord" Gore was evicting her. The next day, Tracy received a call from the force behind Gore Reality, the vice president himself. He apologized profusely, telling Mayberry he'd known nothing about the problems. To make it up to her, and to defuse media interest, he promised to have the place repaired, to charge her no rent until it was, to drop the eviction, and even to put the Mayberry family up somewhere while the renovations were underway if they so desired. By the end of the conversation, they were even talking dinner invites, with Tracy promising to make fried chicken, cornbread, and a peach cobbler. (She may have gotten carried away-when I ask if she'd really like to have Gore over for dinner, she says, "No. . . .
He invited himself, I didn't invite him. I really don't care if I meet him or not.")

As damage control goes, Gore's strategy largely worked. The Mayberry story was nearly over before it began. Network newscasts ignored it. Most major papers ran wire copy. So did the Nashville Tennessean, where Gore once worked as a reporter, and whose Goreophile editor, Frank Sutherland, has appeared in a Gore campaign video.

If it were possible for Dickens to mount a comeback and this time go Southern Gothic, a stop by the Mayberry homestead would give him a good leg up on source material. The house sits a mere chaw-hock from the Gores', and is nearly as close to the Golden Nugget Lounge, a kicker bar that promises karaoke and one-dollar longnecks for the ladies. Around the perimeter of the Mayberrys' medium-sized yard is a barbed-wire cattle fence, a gentle reminder to their children not to wander off onto the Gore property where they could get intercepted by Secret Service agents or electrocuted on another interior fence. Like most rural southern settings, the Mayberrys' yard exhibits a healthy amalgam of cars and dogs. In the driveway, there's their son's beat-up '91 Camaro, Charles's '79 Bonneville with its festive coat of gray primer, a 1990 Olds Cutlass, and Tracy's Ford pickup featuring the bumper sticker"Women come and go, but you can rely on a truck" (the Mayberrys have relied on theirs since 1988).

On the dog side of the ledger, there's Miss Lady the boxer, Jake the pit bull/rottweiler mix, and four others who are tethered to trees and other immovable objects with thick timber chains. The dogs subsist on "fat meat" donated by a charitable butcher. "Sometimes they eat better than I do," says Tracy. "My husband says bologna is a poor man's steak." As for kids, the place is crawling with them. There's 25-year-old Linda, who Tracy says is retarded, though she doesn't seem it ("Just talk to her awhile," Tracy encourages). There's also 14-year-old Anna, who is a self-described "maniac depressive," and who also experiences such severe agoraphobia that her teachers drop her lessons off at the house. Ten-year-old John, who sports an orange tank top and no shoes, is 5'3" and 211 lbs, says sister Anna, who adds, with clockwork timing, that he's on a "see-food diet . . . if he sees it-he eats it."

John remains unruffled. "I could live off cheeseburgers," he says, though he often makes do with fried potatoes and pinto beans when money gets tight-and it always does. The Mayberrys adopted 9-year-old Candace-not knowing that she'd have occasional seizures, be mildly retarded, and be prone to making mischief at school, such as when she told her teachers that Tracy had given birth to twins, killed one, and given the other away. Last up is 4-year-old Jordan, a hard-boned shirtless jumping bean, who was also adopted from a mother who drank and took drugs throughout her pregnancy, afflicting Jordan with fetal alcohol syndrome, attention deficit disorder, and God knows what else. "He's been on the Ritalin," says Tracy. "Sometimes it calms him down, other times it'll run him crazy."

Tracy sits at her kitchen table in an aquamarine Winnie-the-Pooh T-shirt, black sweats, and Birkenstocks. Since she spoke out against Gore, she's received several abusive letters from his supporters. One called her an "asshole Republican" (though she's always voted Democrat). Another said she looked like a frog. "I don't wear makeup that often," she says. "I don't dress to please anybody. Where can I afford to go?"

Though Tracy doesn't own much-not even a full set of teeth-she does have all the accouterments of a professional chain smoker, including her Marlboro 100s and a cigarette pouch with a side holster from which she draws her pink lighter. Husband Charles sits next to her, decked to his facial stubble in faded denim. He doesn't say much, and when he does, he's difficult to understand. Instead, he lets his black hat do the talking. It says, "I can't take it anymore." And indeed he can't, as Charles's nerves are shot, and he adjourns to a backbedroom where he falls asleep to the accompaniment of "Busted" from Johnny Cash's At Folsom Prison album.

As Tracy gives a tour of her house, she speaks of its other unnamed occupants-the rather robust arachnid population. Tracy says they've killed all kinds of spiders, from black widows to fiddle backs. In recent months, they've bought nearly 20 cans of Raid; they activate it, then go off to hunt for other houses. While we are standing in Tracy's living room, a large flying cockroach lands on the wall above my head. Tracy takes after it with her ever-ready flyswatter, but she doesn't have the wingspan. She hands it to me, and I make contact with the cockroach, dropping it to the floor-we think. We hunt for a body for several minutes, but then call off the search party, reasoning that even if we killed it, there're more where it came from.

While various repairmen scurry about the house under the eye of property manager Charles Elrod, it's clear they have quite a job ahead of them. Manhole-sized swaths of linoleum are missing from the kitchen floor, though the Elrods, along with the Gores' local lawyer, James Bass, not-so-subtly insinuate that the damage was done by the Mayberrys, since the floorcoverings were replaced before they moved in 1998. (Never mind that the allegedly new linoleum pattern looks to have been out of style since 1978, that the size of the holes suggests the Mayberrys would have had to drop a jackhammer from a forklift, and that the faux-marble countertops, supposedly replaced around the same time, are in immaculate condition.)

In the hallways, there are fault lines in the ceiling and peeling plaster bordered by yellow rings, perhaps from old water damage. The paint in some places is mismatched, but it wouldn't make much difference if it were uniform, as it bears enough scuff marks to look like the inside of a handball court. A red-faced, sweaty Plumber Bob goes to town in the bathrooms, snaking and plunging, and dodging a chirpy local television reporter who wants to know if she can get some footage of Tracy "talking around the toilet."

As we huddle inside the house, we hear the chopping of helicopter blades. "Momma, it's Al Gore!" exclaims Anna. We all pile out into the yard, tending to believe Anna, since one doesn't see much helicopter traffic in Carthage-there aren't many places to land, what with all the Kissing Dutch Children lawn ornaments. The helicopter hovers, then disappears without revealing its passenger, but it is clearly not Al Gore. At the moment, he is in New York, promoting his "family agenda" at a $15,000-per-year Upper East Side preschool. He gets help from Rosie O'Donnell, who tells the assembly, "I'm very fortunate that I am very, very rich."

Soon after the false alarm, Plumber Bob and Elrod, who looks as if he coifs his hair with high-viscosity motor oil, haul one of the perpetually clogged toilets out into the yard. They leave a trail of water throughout the house that they don't bother swabbing up. While Plumber Bob goes after the toilet with sharp objects and a garden hose, an ugly thing happens. I'm standing in the front yard talking to Gore's man on the scene, and he begins casting aspersions on the Mayberrys. Says Elrod: "I've been aggravated to death. . . . They trashed the house. . . . When they moved in . . . it was completely new inside and out." While Elrod says Gore operatives told him that "we're supposed to be nice," he later claims he even told Tipper Gore -"I think it was in an e-mail"-that the Mayberrys were responsible for the disrepair. (A Tipper Gore spokesperson says she's heard no such thing.) Elrod goes on to suggest that 14 people are living in the house, though only 7 do. He says the toilets have not been cleaned, though Tracy tells me she cleans her bowls at least once a week, and I spot cleaning bleach in her bathroom. He suggests that the disrepair of the walls is their fault, though the peeling plaster, for instance, is higher than any of the children's natural reach, and young Jordan would have had to launch a shotput to cause the cracks in the ceiling. Elrod even expresses regret that they weren't evicted: "I think it would be in their best interest to find another place to move."

It exhausts credulity to believe that the Elrods, Al Gore's property managers of 12 years, are speaking autonomously in this potentially incendiary situation, even as Gore apologizes and makes restitution. Letting surrogates attack, after all, is a familiar Gore campaign strategy.Gore also has a political interest in appearing not to know anything about his own rental property, particularly since Tracy Mayberry says the Elrods told her no repairs could be made without Gore's consent. She says that she implored the Elrods, on no less than five occasions, to contact Gore directly. And a few months ago, she says, she even went so far as to call the vice president's Carthage office to complain. (She was referred right back to Gore's property managers.) Still, one might be tempted to give Gore the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps he has no time for such minutiae, as he busies himself speechifying about compassion.

But when I tell Tracy Mayberry what Gore's surrogates are saying, she is no longer prepared to accept his pleas of ignorance. "Boy that makes me mad," she says. "All I ask for is to get my house fixed, and they start attackin' me, sayin' I'm nasty. . . . You know [Gore] has to know something about it. ...I don't have to put up with it and I'm not going to."

A day after visiting Tracy, I call for a progress report on the repairs. The first time her husband flushed the toilet, she says, it seeped water all over the floor. And, she says, the linoleum guys inadvertently created two big dents in her kitchen floor by failing to patch up holes before they laid the new covering. Tracy Mayberry has given up hope of getting lucky enough ever to see her house repaired. So she's made another plan. "I'm packin' my stuff up," she says, "and they can take this house and go to hell with it."

In a couple of days, Mayberry says, she will drop her children off at her mother's trailer, while she and her husband sleep in their truck. When they receive their disability checks on the first of the month, they'll begin looking for a new place to live. "We ain't got the money for motels right now," she says matter-of-factly.As for Gore, he might not want to count on Tracy's vote in November, or even on a taste of that cornbread and peach cobbler. "The way I consider it," she says, "Gore can kiss my ass."
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by Matt Labash

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Thanks, Al (from the Iowa GOP

Al GoreGas-O-Meter
June 26, 2000
Average Amount Iowans spent on gas in a day in 1999 $4,387,000
Average Amount Iowans spend on gas in a day in 2000 $7,257,000
Iowans are spending $2,870,000 MORE EVERY DAY than last year.
Thanks to Al Gore.

In 1993, Gore cast the tie-breaking vote to INCREASE the gas tax by 4.3 cents a gallon. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, a $241 billion tax increase proposed by the Clinton-Gore Administration, passed on September 6, 1993 on the tie-breaking vote cast by Gore (CQ Vote #247). Included in the bill was a 4.3 cent per gallon gas tax increase that translates into $31 billion in higher gas tax receipts.###

Paid for by the Republican Party of Iowa.

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Gore Blanked Out 85 Times - How can he be President if he has Pre mature alzhimers (sp)

Gore's memory fails him 85 times In sworn testimony to FBI, veep blanked out once every 3 minutes

By Paul Sperry
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Al Gore lost his memory at least 85 times during recent FBI grilling over his role in various campaign- finance scandals, a computer-aided analysis of his four-hour testimony shows. The WorldNetDaily analysis reveals that the likely Democratic presidential nod blanked out once every three minutes under examination by prosecutors.

"That sounds a bit excessive to me," said Republican National Committee spokesman Bill Pascoe. "I don't think a witness on a stand would be able to get away with losing their memory every three minutes." Neither Gore's White House office nor his Nashville, Tenn., campaign office cared to comment.

The April 18 transcripts, released late Friday, show that Gore answered:"I have no recollection" or "I have no independent recollection" at least 30 times. "I can't recall" or "I don't recall" at least 22. "I can't remember," "I don't remember" or "I'm not remembering" at least 23. At least one of the following, 10 times: "I have no memory," "I have no independent memory," "I have no special memory," "I don't have a memory of it," or "I have a vague memory."The search, which reviewed all answers in context, did not include the dozens of times Gore replied "not to my knowledge."

Several times, prosecutors tried to "refresh" Gore's memory by showing him memos and other documents.Toward the end of the interview, Gore remarked: "I can't even remember now from yesterday." Here is the context in which he said
it:

Q: Are you familiar with an individual, the chairman of that group (China Resources Holding Co.), named Shen Juren [sic]?

A: No.

Q Are you aware of a meeting --

A: Now, I was told yesterday in preparation for this meeting that -- I can't even remember now from yesterday. But I have no independent recollection of him. Of course, prosecutors asked Gore about events and relationships spanning some dozen years, which might have taxed anyone's recollection. His "cram-packed" schedule, as he called it, also may have clouded his memory.But sources say Gore was prepared for the interview and alert, even testy, throughout.

At one point, in fact, his anger seemed to help clear his head. "I sure as hell don't recall -- I sure as hell did not have any conversations with anyone saying this is a fund-raising event," he asserted, referring to the illegal Buddhist temple fund-raiser he hosted in 1996.

Another time, Gore tried to refresh lead prosecutor Robert Conrad's memory by reminding him of the text of an e-mail: "You will recall that I said ... ."After the April 18 interview, conducted under oath, Conrad urged Attorney General Janet Reno to name an outside special counsel to investigate Gore. Several other prosecutors, including a high-ranking Justice political appointee, also have recommended Reno investigate Gore for possible perjury in earlier interviews.

"Mona Losh" <mlosh@bright.net>

 

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By Paul Sperry
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

 

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Al Gore acts as if he barely knows convicted fund-raiser Maria Hsia. He can't recall sitting next to her at a Buddhist Temple fund-raiser. He says he was blind to her illegal fund-raising scheme. He doesn't even recall talking to her.At least that's what he told the Justice Department's campaign- finance task force in April.

But Gore's ties to Hsia run deep. No fly-by-night fund-raiser, Hsia coordinated campaign events for Gore for eight years. More than that, she was a "great friend," as he once told her. Investigators have discovered that Gore even sought her help in writing his 1992 book, "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit."

Hsia also advised Gore on immigration and environmental policy when he was a U.S. senator. In 1989, the suspected Beijing agent escorted him on a trip to Asia. Becky Chan would know. She was one of the special FBI agents assigned to the Senate to investigate the Buddhist Temple fund-raiser. She told WorldNetDaily that she and other agents spent some nine months in 1997 probing, among other things, Hsia's links to the vice president. Though she won't comment on Gore's latest denials, her work, which included translating documents written in Chinese, proved valuable to the so-called Thompson committee.

Among other links, the investigators found a letter from Gore's former chief of staff thanking Hsia for contributing to his book. "The materials you got for Al's book on the environment were perfect. Thanks so much for taking the time to do it," Peter Knight wrote to Hsia in a March 6, 1991, letter. "He would have been lost without your efforts, because the chapter on religion and the environment is integral to his work."

That would be chapter 13: "Environmentalism of the Spirit." Hsia's contribution, showing an alleged link between Christianity and Buddhism, appears on page 261."A common thread in many religions is the sacred quality of water. Christians are baptized in water, as a sign of purification," Gore wrote. "In the Lotus 'Sutra,' Buddha is presented metaphorically as a 'rain cloud,' covering, permeating, fertilizing and enriching 'all parched living beings, to free them from their misery to attain the joy of peace, joy of the present world and joy of Nirvana ... everywhere impartially without distinction of persons ... ever to all beings I preach the Law equally ... equally I rain the Law -- rain untiringly."

In March, Hsia was convicted of charges related to the laundering of more than $100,000 in illegal temple money for the '96 Clinton-Gore reelection effort. She awaits sentencing. In an April 18 interview with task-force prosecutors, Gore, under oath, claimed he couldn't remember sitting with Hsia at the temple fund-raiser that she organized and he hosted.

Q: Do you recall being seated at her table?

A: No, I don't.

Maria Hsia, Master Hsing Yun and Vice President Al Gore at the April 1996 fund-raiser at the Hsi Lai Temple in Los Angeles. (Reuters) But a temple photograph of the event shows Gore looking in the direction of Hsia, who sat in the second chair to his right. Gore also denied knowing the event was a fund-raiser, or that Hsia [pronounced: Shaw] solicited donations in connection with the event.But Gore was hardly out of the loop. Just six weeks before the April 29, 1996, temple fund-raiser in Los Angeles, Gore met with Hsia and the temple's master, Hsing Yun, in the White House. (Gore and Hsia, who stayed at the Hay-Adams Hotel, also spoke by phone the morning of the meeting.) A week later, on March 23, Hsia followed up with a letter to Gore. She informed him she was "organizing a fund-raising lunch event, with your anticipated presence, on behalf of the local Chinese community. .... The event is tentatively scheduled for April 29."

Two weeks before the event, memos show there was no doubt among Gore's staff that their boss would be the guest of honor at a tax-exempt church. Even his national security advisers knew."Hsing Yun has invited the VP to visit the Hsi Lai Temple in L.A. Hsing Yun would host a fund-raising lunch for about 150 people in the VP's honor," wrote Gore national security staffer John Norris in an April 15, 1996, e-mail to staffer Robert Suettinger. At least two guests at the event told investigators that they recall fund-raising actually being discussed from the lectern -- in Gore's presence.

Since quizzing Gore about the Hsi Lai [pronounced: See Lie] Temple fund-raiser, task force chief Robert Conrad has urged Reno to turn the case over to a special outside prosecutor. Former prosecutors have doubted Gore's memory lapses and denials in previous sworn interviews, and have urged Reno to investigate the vice president for possibly making false statements to the FBI.

Paul Sperry is Washington bureau chief for WorldNetDaily

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Sale of federal oil field boosts Gore fortune

Washington Times
By Bill Sammon
06/26/2000

Vice President Al Gore's push to privatize a federal oil field added tens of thousands of dollars to the value of oil stock owned by the Gore family, which has been further enriched by skyrocketing gasoline prices. Shares of Occidental Petroleum jumped 10 percent after the company purchased the Elk Hills oil field in California from the federal government in 1998. Mr. Gore, whose family owns at least $500,000 in Occidental stock, recommended the sale as part of his "reinventing government" reform package.

The sale, which constituted the largest privatization of federal land in U.S. history, transformed Occidental from a lackluster financial performer into a dynamic, profit-spewing, oil giant. Having instantly tripled its U.S. oil reserves, the company began pumping out vast sums of crude at low cost. As the months went by, Occidental was able to sell the oil, which ends up at gasoline retail outlets like Union 76, for more profit. Rising oil prices have significantly improved Occidental's bottom line, said analyst Christopher Stavros of Paine Webber.This year, the company posted first quarter revenues of $2.5 billion, or 87 percent higher than a year earlier. That's a bigger increase than at nine of 10 other oil companies listed in a survey that Mr. Gore cited last week as evidence of price gouging.

The rise in Occidental oil prices, coupled with the acquisition of the Elk Hills field, has paid handsome dividends for the Gore family. The vice president recently updated his financial disclosure form to put the value of his family's Occidental stock at between $500,000 and $1 million. Prior to the Elk Hills sale and gasoline price spike, Mr. Gore had listed the value of the stock at between $250,000 and $500,000. Gore aides insist the vice president's push to sell Elk Hills does not constitute a conflict of interest. They point out the family's Occidental shares were originally owned by Mr. Gore's father, who died in 1998, leaving the stock in an estate for which the vice president serves as executor. Although Mr. Gore continues to list the stock on his financial disclosure forms, aides said the shares are in a trust for the vice president's mother, Pauline.

"He doesn't own stock because he's trying to avoid conflicts of interest," said Gore spokesman Doug Hattaway. "He's the executor of the estate, but he's not the trustee of the trust. It's a separate thing."Still, Mr. Gore's recommendation to privatize Elk Hills ended up enriching his mother, who is expected to eventually bequeath the stock to the vice president, her sole heir.

Last week, Mr. Gore began a concerted effort to blame skyrocketing gasoline prices not only on "big oil," but also on Texas Gov. George W. Bush. Gore aides have emphasized that Mr. Bush once ran several oil-exploration firms and has accepted more campaign contributions from oil companies than the vice president. The Texas governor has dismissed the attacks as an attempt to divert attention away from Mr. Gore's energy and environmental policies, which have driven up gasoline prices. Political analysts say the spiraling gas prices could imperil Mr. Gore's presidential bid because they are highest in the Midwest, which he must carry in order to win the White House.

The political and financial fortunes of the Gore family were established largely with oil money from Occidental's founder, Armand Hammer. Part capitalist and part Communist, Mr. Hammer became the elder Gore's patron more than half a century ago, showering him with riches and nurturing his political career through the House and Senate.The elder Gore enthusiastically returned the favors. In the early 1960s, Sen. Gore took to the Senate floor to defend Mr. Hammer against FBI Director , J. Edgar Hoover, who wanted to investigate Mr. Hammer's Soviet ties. In 1965, the elder Gore helped Mr. Hammer obtain a visa to Libya, where he opened oil fields that turned Occidental into a multinational powerhouse. When the elder Mr. Gore lost his re-election bid in 1970, Mr. Hammer installed him as head of an Occidental subsidiary and gave him a $500,000 annual salary. The man who had begun his career as a struggling schoolteacher in rural Tennessee ended it as a millionaire oil tycoon.

The younger Gore also benefited from Mr. Hammer's generosity. He was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual payments of $20,000 for mineral rights to a parcel of land near the family's homestead in Tennessee that Occidental never bothered mining.When the younger Gore first ran for president in 1988, Mr. Hammer promised former Sen. Paul Simon "any Cabinet spot I wanted" if he would withdraw from the primary, according to a 1989 book by the Illinois Democrat. Mr. Gore and his wife, Tipper, once flew in Mr. Hammer's private jet across the Atlantic Ocean. They hosted Mr. Hammer at several presidential inaugurations and remained close to the oilman until his death in 1990.

In 1992, when Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton was considering Mr. Gore as his running mate, the elder Gore wrote a memo describing his son's ties to Mr. Hammer. The document was designed to provide Mr. Clinton with answers to possible questions from reporters, most of whom did not focus on the connections after all.Mr. Hammer's successor at Occidental, Ray Irani, has continued to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars into the campaigns of Mr. Gore and the Democratic Party. For example, two days after spending the night in the Lincoln Bedroom in 1996, he cut a check for $100,000 to the Democratic Party.

Meanwhile, the vice president has reciprocated in much the same way his father did decades ago. In 1995, Mr. Gore recommended the sale of the Elk Hills field, which had been zealously guarded by the U.S. Navy as a strategic oil supply since 1912. When the $3.5 billion sale to Occidental went through in 1998, the Energy Department dispensed with its customary assessment of environmental impact. Instead, it allowed the assessment to be handled by a private firm that was run in part by Tony Coelho, who served as Mr. Gore's campaign chairman until this month. The privatization of Elk Hills, which covers 74 square miles near Bakersfield, Calif., was a dramatic departure for the Clinton-Gore administration, which has used federal funds to purchase vast tracts of private land in order to block development.

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"ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU, BUT WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRY".

It is as fitting today as it ever was, and as a Republican, I wonder what a democrat has to say about that quote - especially in light of their gimme gimme, open hands, empire building approach to almost any issue.

Thank you very much for you time.
Sincerely,
Steve From Oklahoma

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Rush, thanks for bringing out Al Gore is impersonating Ronald Reagan. When I saw him with that big hair and that head dip I fell out of my chair. Doesn't he know some Republicans actually have brains and can think for themselves with out the Democrats telling us how to do it. I knew a compulsive liar once and after about the l0th lie i tuned him out for good. I know plenty of americans that bleep clinton and hillary out everytime they come on TV and I know very few Republicans that watch CNN.

You said the standard was lowered thats an understatement. About a year ago I heard Ted Koppel tell someone who called in we don't deal in the Truth we deal in facts. He got that right. I really don't think he knew what he said. The news media now has lock jaw. If they can go after a Republican or a Christian they are happy campers. Al Gore comment that Bill Clinton was the greatest President that ever lived after the impeachment debacle will sink him. I'm not sure he knows what greatest is is.

Every time President Clinton says the american people leave me out, I didn't vote for him and we sure don'tthink like him The so called experts on TV, did they go to colloge or ever read a book. And by the way all this poll business is pure garbage. Any poll can be swayed. Check CNN's record, they've never taken a poll that didn't sway towards there daddy.

Mike

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Justice Investigates Withholding of Gore Influence Memo

6/3/00

By Jerry Seper

The Justice Department is investigating concerns by a House committee that a key document sought during its 1998 probe of a controversial $400 million Washington real estate projectlinking Vice President Al Gore to the venture was illegally withheld.

The review was requested by the House Commerce Committee, following the receipt of a previously undisclosed memo contradicting Mr. Gore's sworn denials to the FBI that he had no involvement in bailing out the failing project for its developer, a longtime Democratic fund- raiser.

During a briefing last week by the Justice Department and the FBI, committee investigators were told the panel's concerns that it had been obstructed in its investigation would be reviewed "expeditiously" and a report would be made within two weeks.

The three-paragraph, unsigned and undated memo surfaced during the FBI's investigation of campaign-finance abuses during the 1996 presidential election. It said Mr. Gore sought to influence the development by calling the head of the General Services Administration to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to move into the building.

The development, known as the Portals Project, is owned by Tennessee businessman Franklin Haney, a longtime Gore supporter. The memo said Mr. Gore "has called or is ready to call" Roger Johnson, then-headof the GSA, and that an unidentified contact, listed only in the document as "xxx," would "follow up that call."

Mr. Gore, during a June 10, 1998, interview by the FBI, denied any knowledge of the memo. He said he had "no idea" what it was or who had prepared it, and denied having any conversations with Mr. Haney or Mr. Johnson about the Portals project.

He also told the agents he was never asked to "assist, influence or intercede" in the venture; never told anyone "directly or indirectly" how to lessen then-pending resistance by the FCC to the move to the Portals site; and did not know the identity of "xxx."

Mr. Gore's attorney, James F. Neal, said the FBI interviewed his client about the memo, believing it had "some relevance to the Portals project," but later determined "there was nothing to it."

The FBI has declined comment.

Mr. Haney has denied any wrongdoing. In December 1998, he was indicted on 42 unrelated counts of making illegal donations to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign, but later acquitted on all charges.

Mr. Johnson told reporters he never spoke with Mr. Gore or anyone else in the administration about Portals. He said he was questioned by the FBI on whether he had been pressured concerning the project and that he answered, "Absolutely not."

The memo was given to the committee April 14. The author was not identified to committee investigators, although the memo appears to be addressed to Mr. Haney. It suggests how he should use his political connections to Mr. Gore and his role as a top Democratic
fund-raiser to influence the GSA concerning the Portals project.

In 1998, Portals was the subject of criminal referral by the committee in connection with separate $1 million payments by Mr. Haney to Peter Knight, former chief of staff to Mr. Gore, and James Sasser, a former Democratic Tennessee senator.

The committee wanted to know if the payments were illegal contingency fees for helping get the FCC to move to the Portals site.

The move to Portals had been contested by the FCC until Mr. Knight intervened. The committee, following its investigation, concluded there was "substantial reason to believe" that some of the Portals players lied under oath or made other false statements to "conceal
the true nature of their fee arrangements."

The Justice Department declined to prosecute the case, saying there was insufficient evidence to show that payments made by Mr. Haney were illegal.

Spokesmen for Mr. Haney have said the payment to Mr. Knight was made for three years of strategic and legal counseling on a dozen projects and not as a contingency fee for the Portals project.

They said Mr. Sasser was paid $1 million for helping arrange a $100 million construction loan, and denied it was a contingency fee.

©2000, The Washington Times. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Business News

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Do you think the UAW is going to put up with the unwarranted heat SUVs are taking? The US industry makes nearly 70% of SUVs sold. Mr. Gore is not making friends within the working masses. The auto manufacturing line employees are making some good bucks..overtime, bonuses, stock equity, etc.

What next? Reducing the size of new homes so that the landscape isn't "littered(!)" with homes? How about communal apartments?

It won't stop at the SUVs!

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SURPRISE--THE WHITE HOUSE E-MAILS ARE DELAYED

Wow! What an incredible surprise!

First the White House promised to restore its missing e-mail archivesbefore the election. Then the consultants they hired said if couldn't be done before Thanksgiving. And now they're just not sure. Justice Department lawyers filed a brief in U.S. District Court saying that "the restoration project is still in too early and evolutionary a stage foranyone to meaningfully estimate a completion time."

This despite the offers of computer consultants to restore the missing e-mails in just a few weeks.White House staffers know what will happen when those e-mails hit the press. It could be bad--very bad indeed for the Clintons and the presidential aspirations of Al Gore. So it's delay, delay, delay until well after the presidential election and after the public has had the time to soften on Bill Clinton. And maybe even after the presidential library plans are finalized and construction begins.

From Neal Boortz

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Subject: [B2K] Gore Tea Party

What you do is you make these things a media event. You could have public "tea parties" around the nation. Have somebody dress up as a big cannister of Lipton or something. Link into the Boston Tea Party theme and tie them both together. Remember, the original "Tea Party" was a tax protest, so tying the two issues together would be effective.

From: Liz Michael

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This story got a lot of play on the Memphis TV stations yesterday. They showed extensive video during a tour of the house. This lady is exactly right. The paper was peeling from the sheetrock from water damage. The bathroom was one that you would only use in an emergency - the toilet, sink, and walls were terrible. Contrary to what Gore told, the house had not been repainted, and water would not drain from the kitchen sink. I saw no replaced linoleum, and what was there was bad. This time, the Memphis news crews did not take Gore's side. They told it like it is. And they interviewed some of the local GOP leaders, who looked very good next to Gore. It was told on Fox 13 that the Tennessee GOP had rented the family an apartment in town, and given them money to help them move. This played on the early and late news on all networks as a prominant story.
From: TENNGOP

 

Former Gore tenants moving to Lima

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By ROBERT ZIEGLER, The Lima News
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A Tennessee family that has had some very public disputes with Vice President Al Gore about a rental property he owns, has decided to move to Lima.

Charles and Tracy Mayberry are expected to arrive today, along with five children, at their new home on Lima's south side. Tracy Mayberry said Friday night from Carthage, Tenn., that she had lived in Lima "a few years ago."

"The people there were always friendly to us and we have some dear friends there, so we're really very excited to be moving there," Mayberry told The Lima News. "The Gore administration here has just been so tough on us and we want to get out of her e and get away from him, so we're moving to Lima."

The couple recently entered the spotlight when their unhappiness with Gore's management of the home was aired in the national media. Problems included a damaged kitchen floor, shoddy plumbing and wiring. Friends of Gore who manage the property say the problems were due to negligence on the part of the Mayberrys.

Gore, who is the presumptive Democratic nominee for President, called Mayberry last month and promised to fix the problems. Gore has said through spokesmen that all of the Mayberrys' concerns have been met through $5,000 of repair work, but Mayberry said problems remain and that a recent eviction notice, which was later rescinded, convinced the couple to move.

"The Elrods (Audrey and Charles, the property managers) kept picking at us so we decided to get out of here," Mayberry said. "They keep going back and forth on the road and looking at us. He's called me names."

She said two family pets have turned up dead under mysterious circumstances since the dispute became public.

Employees of the Tennessee Republican Party were on hand at the Mayberry home Friday, helping to load a moving van. The GOP kicked in approximately $1,000 to pay for the move. Tracy Mayberry acknowledged the political aspect of the dispute. "I'm sure they are using it politically," Mayberry said. "When this first happened they offered to put us in a hotel and I told them no thank you because Gore was going to do that. Well his friend put us up and just for one night. After the things weren't fixed I called the Republicans back."

Mayberry said Gore's aides have "lied" about the cause of the damage in the home and whether it had been properly fixed.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Reporter Robert Ziegler can be reached by phone at 993-2094 or e-mail!
at rziegler(at)limanews.com.

© 2000 The Lima News

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I am one of those "emotional females". I am so emotional that I sometimes cry at inopportune times and have embarrassed myself at work before when my hormones were particularly overwhelming. My spouse has jokingly called me "Sybil" because my moods can change so quickly and dramatically.

On the other hand, I am a college graduate, have passed three parts ofthe CPA exam (I sit for the last part in November) and am the mother ofan eleven year old boy. Given this small sampling of trivia about me, Ialso want you to know that I have never, ever been so disgusted as I waslistening to all of your female callers in defense of Algore last week.

I may be emotional, but I'm not stupid! I do not understand where thesewomen get off. Al is unconscionable, and I cannot believe that womenespecially do not see this. I am only 36 years old, but I can spot aliar when I see one. Algore may not have cheated on Tipper, but he sure
as hell has cheated on the American people for the last eight years.

He certainly has "slicked up" (or down?) nicely under the tutelage of Willie. I told my spouse last week that if we lose in 2000 and open the gates of hell for Hillary in 2004, we will move to another country!

And it really isn't just women...how many men out there just don't careto get involved or are afraid to make a change "because of the economy"(that one really makes me scream!) I have had more than one person tellme they just don't see what it matters, and what could one person do anyway?

Maybe we should run that old movie several times before November, Idon't remember the name, but it was about nuclear holocaust, The Last Day or something like that. I think it came out in the 70's and parents weren't supposed to let their kids watch. There appear to be several generations of people who seem to have forgotten what the real role of government is. If Clinton wasn't enough of a wake-up call, I'm really concerned.

But for now, I am faithfully spreading the word at every opportunity to women and men alike. I have made it a personal goal to spread the word about the Boy Scouts and United Way to as many people as possible. Did you know that even though United Way has a moratorium against the Boy Scouts that they still must honor designated donations?

You see, in corporate America, United Way is not a charity, it is a political tool. Why not use that tool to benefit our cause?

Keep up the great work Rush...

Faithfully,

Cynthia

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In the last seven and half years we have seen:

Lands taken out of production and made into wilderness areas. Roads closed in national forests and parks. Mines have been closed Logging has been eliminated. Fishing industries have been forced to slow down production We have become more dependent on foreign oil. Many ranchers have been run off their lands Farmers are being regulated out of business. The economy isn't so great when it takes both father and mother to make ends meet. Prices are much higher and our dollar has shrunk considerably.

Education of children is shameful in a country as rich as ours. We have a military stripped of preparedness and pride. Morality has been on the decline. Our Second Amendment Rights are threatened with extinction. Our right to own property is being threatened

Our health care system is in shambles by threats of socialized medical care. We have seen a total lack of respect for our legal system. Our national pride is diminished. So when you go to the polls to vote, consider what the conditions are and who has caused this to happen.

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Everything Gore is proposing is as if he was never in the White House what happened over 8 years of his occupation of the White House as Vice President ??, and for 2 solid years of those 8, Both Clinton and Gore had a clear majority of Democrats in both houses to push through all of Gore's so call great ideas to his heart's content, even Gore's own party believed it was all non-nonsense for 8 long years we saw nothing, If Gore was Unable to convince President Clinton, a fellow liberal Democrat, of any of his great ideas, just ONE person, how is he going to deal with 535 senators ??, Gore has proven beyond any shadow of any doubt that he was, and is, a non-effectual Vice President, he should be running on a solid proven record after 8 long years, maybe because of his weak bladder from too much "ICE TEA" he just was not around and could not remember the real important events of those past 8 years. We the American public do, and Gore needs to be shown the door.

From Dale

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Guess you have heard that Gore thinks gasoline should be $3 per gallon and everyone should be driving a Goremobile (Chevy. GEO equivalent). He was my Senator when I lived in Tenn. and he has done a 180 degree turn on many things since then. I watched one of his speeches for approximately 10 minutes and caught him in four lies in that 10 minutes. Had to turn to something else - couldn't stand to watch and hear him. He is promising people all those things and Clinton is jetting around the world with Chelsea and promising the people money etc. Is it true (I read it somewhere) that Clinton has traveled more and produced more Executive Orders, than all the other presidents in the past. Keep up the good work Rush.
H. Gibson / Florence, AL. (Then there is the Carpetbagger, Hillary Clinton.)

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It has occured to me that liberals are a coalition of two subsets; the ignorant and the selfish. The ignorant are people who are either too young to understand real issues or are so uneducated as to be easily manipulated by liberal propoganda. The selfish are not ignorant at all; they have a full understanding of the issues, but they have made a conscious choice to support candidates and policies that enrich or empower themselves at the expense of the greater good of the country. The representatives that they elect are those who pander to and deliver with respect to their selfish needs. It's a scandal and i think the greatest threat to our republic. If the coalition of the ignorant and the selfish ever rise to a solid majority size number and clinton/hillary/gore type people consistently get elected we're in trouble.

William

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Woman who questioned Gore now faces IRS inquiry
By Bill Sammon
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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The woman who sharply questioned Vice President Al Gore at a town-hall meeting about Juanita Broaddrick's rape accusation against President Clinton has become the subject of an inquiry by the Internal Revenue Service. "I find it very suspicious," said Katherine Prudhomme, who subjected Mr. Gore to several long, uncomfortable minutes of questioning about the Broaddrick case in December. "I feel like I'm being harassed." Mrs. Prudhomme said she was notified of the IRS inquiry on Aug. 18, one day before she delivered a long-planned speech about Mrs. Broaddrick outside Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign headquarters in New York. After the speech, she walked into the headquarters and gave a videotape of Mrs. Broaddrick's NBC interview to a campaign aide, asking that it be forwarded to Mrs. Clinton.

Although the IRS did not initiate a formal audit of Mrs. Prudhomme, the tax agency has demanded expense forms pertaining to her daughter's schooling in 1998."My taxes are far too simple for them to audit me," she told The Washington Times. "So they said I owe them $1,500 if I don't come up with these forms from my child's school that I sent in two years ago and that they must have lost. It doesn't make sense." Mrs. Prudhomme, a homemaker in Derry, N.H., is doubly suspicious because in June she accused the IRS of auditing Mrs. Broaddrick's nursing home business "for political reasons."

The accusation was contained in an op-ed newspaper column that also questioned audits of Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers and Elizabeth Ward Gracen, all of whom have accused Mr. Clinton of sexual affairs or advances. "We certainly don't target people" for political reasons, said an IRS spokesperson who asked to remain anonymous. "The IRS strictly adheres to a standard of reviewing cases only when there are questions involving tax law. No other factors enter into our procedures." Gore spokesman Jano Cabrera said: "We have nothing to do with the IRS or its activities."

The Prudhomme case recalls the case of Glenn and Patricia Mendoza, who were attending a festival in Chicago in July 1993 when they encountered Mr. Clinton, who staged an impromptu visit to shake hands with voters. Mrs. Mendoza was the first person the president approached, but she refused to shake his hand. "You suck, and those boys died," Mrs. Mendoza told Mr. Clinton, referring to the June 1993 truck-bombing at a U.S. barracks in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen. After the president departed, the Secret Service apprehended the Mendozas, who were accused of unruliness. They were arrested by Chicago police and later investigated by the IRS. After the tax agency's inquiry was publicized by The Times, the IRS dropped the matter, blaming it on a "computer error."
Yesterday, Mr. Mendoza said he was not surprised that Mrs. Prudhomme has been targeted.He said he sympathizes with her plight because IRS secrecy makes it impossible to prove the tax agency is motivated by reasons of politics rather than finance. "Nobody believes you and that's the hard part," he said. "It sounds like you're a nut case. And so they're really in a quite unique position to keep doing this to people."

In an effort to find concrete evidence of political motivation, Mrs. Prudhomme has enlisted Judicial Watch, a conservative legal foundation that has long been a thorn in the Clinton-Gore administration's side. Yesterday, Judicial Watch invoked the Freedom of Information Act in requesting any documents pertaining to Mrs. Prudhomme that might exist in the offices of Mr. Gore, Mr. Clinton, the IRS, the Secret Service and the FBI. "We blanketed everybody," said Judicial Watch chairman Larry Klayman. "There's an eerie symmetry here in that our client, Juanita Broaddrick, gets a tax audit after she sues the White House." The Clinton-Gore IRS has targeted the National Rifle Association and numerous conservative organizations and individuals who have crossed the administration. The audits sparked the first congressional inquiry of accusations of political abuses by the IRS since the Nixon era, although the tax agency has steadfastly denied political motivations. Mrs. Prudhomme, a self-described "rape survivor," flummoxed Mr. Gore during the town-hall meeting by asking him if he believed Mrs. Broaddrick's claim that Mr. Clinton once raped her. Last year's interview of Mrs. Broaddrick by NBC's Lisa Myers electrified the nation, 80 percent of whom told pollsters they believed her story. "My question to you is not a question about you being a presidential candidate, but a question to you as a husband, a father and a student of Christianity," Mrs. Prudhomme told the vice president. "When Juanita Broaddrick made the claim, which I found to be quite credible, that she was raped by Bill Clinton, did it change your opinion about him being one of the best presidents in history? "And do you believe Juanita Broaddrick's claim?" she added. "And what did you tell your son about this?"

"Well, I didn't know what to make of her claim, because I don't know how to evaluate that story," Mr. Gore replied. "I didn't see the interview. . . . What show was it on?" Mr. Gore went on to defend his boss. "Whatever mistakes he made in his personal life are, in the minds of most Americans, balanced against what he has done in his public life as president," he said. "I'm taught in my religious tradition to hate the sin and love the sinner. I'm taught that all of us are . . . prone to the mistakes that flesh is heir to." Mrs. Prudhomme was employed at a musical instrument factory in 1998, although she currently spends her time home-schooling her daughter.

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Al Gore, in his infinite wisdom, wants to slash prescription drug prices to Senior Citizens (to hell with non-Senior Citizens, who have years of productivity left as long as they can be sustained on their prescription drugs), by creating a system of price fixing and competitive bidding to create a national drug formulary for seniors.

Yes, pharmaceutical companies do have attractive profit margin, ROI, etc. But what will take the hit? Research and Development! Don't we need R+D money to fight disease so that anyone (regardless of age or projected productivity) has the greatest access and ability to lead a productive life?

Charles

 

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Subject: getting gored

Al gore has admitted openly that it was a big mistake to infer he was responsible for creating the internet. He has also stated he has had lapses in his past where his fund raising was less than perfect. Using his own words "in context" is not negative. Not one democrat on the "talk" circuits has accused the text to be inaccurate. Nobody has claimed there are circumstances that make this ad deceitful.The only responses i have heard is that this is an attempt to make gore look less than honest. If the facts are correct, and in context, and the viewer comes away with that perception, guess what?

Gore runs ads and makes speaches accusing bush and cheyney of ruining the enviroment, supporting apparthied, starving children, denying healthcare to children, wanting to ruin SS, lying to minorities, working for drug companies, working for oil companies, & ruining texas all in the interest of helping a the rich. If someone doesn't start hitting the airwaves soon, and explain how negative gore has been since shortly after birth, i fear voters will start believing all the liberal media, and think bush is the one with the negative campaign. that my friend, is known as being "gored".
jay payne

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SAVE OUR SCOUTS launches Petition campaign that Could Affect the Election


IT IS TIME FOR THEM TO GO VOTE FOR GEORGE W. BUSH
All -- This just appeared on Free Republic. This is fast becoming an election issue and later today there will be a petition on-line for
supporters of the Boy Scouts of America. This is a must read article because we have not heard the last of this! I have bolded Gov Bush's
comments for everyone. Sharon
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SAVE OUR SCOUTS launches Petition campaign that Could Affect the Election

Culture/Society News Keywords: CULTURE WAR, EXECUTIVE ORDER 13160,
ACLU,
Source: Original Sources
Published: September 1, 2000 Author: Mary Mostert
(www.originalsources.com)
Posted on 09/01/2000 06:23:25 PDT by Stand Watch Listen

 

America Prepares to Change Course

I have been involved in politics and social issues such as the Civil Rights movement, the effort to ban the testing of Nuclear bombs in the atmosphere, etc. for more than fifty years. Only occasionally in those fifty years have I seen this nation suddenly rise up and change course quickly. In fact, it is America's ability to do just that, combined with its Constitution, which gives all of us the opportunity to choose those who serve in our state and federal governments, that have enabled this very diverse nation of people to avoid civil wars over the years.

The first time I witnessed America's ability to turn itself around, after years of public policy in the opposite direction, was in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was bombed. I was only 12 years old, but I remember not only being the first in my family to hear the radio announcement of thebombing of Pearl Harbor, but going to my mother and older siblings and asking, "Where's Pearl Harbor?" My mother stopped what she was doing and said, "It's in Hawaii. Why?" "It's just been bombed," I replied. Everything stopped and we all listened, as my mother wept. She knew what it meant. She also knew her sons were old enough they would probably be involved, if the war lasted a few years. She also knew that the bombing put an end to all the discussions about whether or not America should get involved in "Europe's war" or remain aloof, as it had done while Hitler invaded one country after another. Two days after Hitler invaded Poland, exactly 61 years ago today, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in a fireside chat, announced to the world, "This nation will remain a neutral nation."

America changed course on December 8, 1941 when, with only one dissenting vote, the United States Congress declared war on Japan and thousands of young men who had pledged NEVER to go to war, lined up to join the Army, Navy or Air Corps.

In recent years, another war has been raging in the world in which most Americans have tried very hard to remain neutral - the culture war. From the 1960s, a rebellious generation of young people who wanted no part of the World War II generation's bitter memories of staying neutral too long, unceremoniously dumped their parents' culture. A large number of the 1960s generation of youth demanded the "right" to evade the draft, have many sex partners outside of marriage, get abortions and consume a truly amazing amount of illegal substances.

While there have been some indication that the Sixties thinking was wearing a bit thin, in spite of one of its most stereotypical members winning two elections as President, there has been no real about face in our culture comparable to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the sudden rejection of McCarthyism in the 1950s, or the Anti-War riots on College campuses in the 1960s.

However, I am beginning to see a real rejection of the Sixties culture war in the past few days in, of all things, the unbridled attack on the Boy Scouts of America which began in earnest in July when eight Eagle scouts who were posting the colors on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles were booed. This followed two events in June that didn't seem to be real turning points at the time, but in retrospect obviously were: On June 23rd, President Bill Clinton issued an executive order which was hardly reported at the time entitled: "Executive Order 13160 - Nondiscrimination on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, and status as a parent in Federally conducted education and training programs.

On June 28th, Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnqust, in a 5-4 decision in the Boy Scouts of America vs Dale, declared that New Jersey's law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of "sexual orientation" did not apply to the Boy Scouts and New Jersey violated the First Amendment in trying to force the Scouts to retain a homosexual, James Dale, as a Scoutmaster. Justice Rehnquist wrote:"The Boy Scouts asserts that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the values it seeks to instill. Respondent is James Dale, a former Eagle Scout whose adult membership in the Boy Scouts was revoked when the Boy Scouts learned that he is an avowed homosexual and gay rights activist. The New Jersey Supreme Court held that New Jersey's public accommodations law requires that the Boy Scouts admit Dale. This case presents the question whether applying New Jersey's public accommodations law in this way violates the Boy Scouts' First Amendment right of expressive association. We hold that it does."

While legislation exists concerning nondiscrimination on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, disability, religion and age, Congress has passed no law that added "sexual orientation and status of a parent." Clinton has attempted to create law in his executive order. Five days later, a co-equal branch of government, the Supreme Court, ruled that the Boy Scouts' First Amendment rights were violated by the State of New Jersey in its attempts to require the organization to alter its message and accept all forms of "sexual orientation."

Coming, as it has, two months before the Presidential and Congressional elections, this situation sets up a Constitutional conflict that will be settled conclusively by the November 7th election. Will the public accept this new "law" issued by one man, Bill Clinton, or will it demand that the next Congress and President take the nation another direction?

Clinton's vice-president, Al Gore, has already shown by word and deed that he is fully supportive of Clinton's Executive order. If he is elected, with a Congress also controlled by the Democrats, Executive order 13160 will become the law of the land and Gore appointments to the Supreme Court, approved by a like-minded Senate, will force not only the Boy Scouts of America, but eventually every other private group, private school, church, business, and social group, to accept the notion that the undefined sexual gratification ,called "sexual orientation" is a "right" that cannot be opposed. Discussion on the international level clearly indicate that making "sexual orientation" a "human right" permits any kind of sexual practice, pedophilia, homosexuality, bi-sexuality, trans-sexuality, bestiality (sex with animals), and even sexual sadism.

The strong-arm tactics of the Clinton Administration in trying to gain by executive order what is denied them by the Supreme Court has caused what appears to be causing a major shift in the spirit of America, similar to the bombs dropped on Pearl Harbor. Every family centered organization in America, it seems, is talking about what is happening to the Boy Scouts. The Scouts are being attacked by groups who are determined to destroy them, if they cannot force them to lower their "morally straight" standards in an increasingly hedonistic world.

This is an issue that will erase party lines and ethnic barriers as Americans wake up to the real meaning of the Constitutional crisis that faces them as Clinton orders his department heads to "investigate" the Boy Scouts of America. Representative JC Watts (R-OK), chairman of the House Republican Conference, said, "The Boy Scouts are not a hate group. For the Interior and Justice departments of the Clinton-Gore administration to be investigating the Boy Scouts because they teach our children to have high moral ideals is an absolute insult to families and scouts. This is election year pandering by Clinton-Gore."

According to The Washington Times today the issue of the Boy Scouts and the Clinton-Gore administration's present stance of treating them like a public enemy in need of "investigation" has already become a campaign issue. The White House yesterday defended its probe of the Boy Scouts' use of federal facilities. White House Deputy Press Secretary Jake Siewert confirmed "an effort to determine whether federal agencies are complying with President Clinton's recent executive order banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The bottom line is there's been no final determination yet on the federal government's involvement with the Boy Scouts - whether it violates the order. The Justice Department's developing guidelines, and they are still working on them."

The Justice Department is developing guidelines that the Supreme Court has already declared a violation of the First Amendment? George W. Bush expressed concern over the Interior Department memo ordering officials to "cooperate" with the Justice Department's probe of the Boy Scouts. "For many years, the Boy Scouts have conducted Jamborees and other events on public lands and provided thousands of volunteer hours to help maintain our national parks," George W. Bush said. "I hope that President Clinton and Vice President [Al] Gore respect the role the Boy Scouts play in our society and will not allow them to be shut out of federal lands."

Even though Al Gore is a former Boy Scout, he neither apologized to the Eagle Scouts who were booed at the Democratic National Convention nor moved to defend the Scouts. His spokesman, Chris Lehane, said, "Throughout society, we ought to look for ways to guarantee there's no discrimination," he said. "With respect to this specific action, I'd have to look and see what they're doing." Even House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, an Eagle Scout, would not defend the Scouts.

Support for the Scouts did come, however, from a source that is usually staunchly Democrat - the ACLU. Matt Coles, director of the American Civil Liberty Union's lesbian and gay rights project warned that "The government, in our view, cannot refuse to give or make available to the Boy Scouts anything that they make available to other organizations. Their not wanting to have gay leaders is a protected First Amendment activity."

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California Republican and co-chairman of the congressional Scouting Caucus, promised "bipartisan action" when Congress returns to Washington next week."I do not understand how anyone who works for the government can believe this gratuitous attack on the Boy Scouts represents what the people of the United States want their government to do," said Mr. Rohrabacher, an Eagle Scout.

Meanwhile, Chase Manhattan Corp. who may be experiencing a backlash after their announcement they would no longer fund the Boy Scouts, announced yesterday it will resume what it had suspended after the Supreme Court decision.

The groups which gathered 55,000 names on a petition in two years demanding that the Scouts allow homosexual Scoutmasters want to use laws enacted by state and local governments that ban discrimination against homosexuals to limit Boy Scout troops' access to public funding and use of public facilities held rallies in 36 cities last week to further their cause. Late today, however, another petition goes on line at
http://www.saveourscouts.com, which reads:

"I support the Boy Scouts of America for their defense of our First Amendment right peaceably to assemble in order to teach boys to do their duty to God and country, obey the Scout Law, help other people and keep physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight. I urge the leadership of the Boy Scouts of America to resist all efforts being made today, through lawsuits and financial and social intimidation, to modify the meaning or to abandon these time-tested precepts of responsible manhood."

The group, headed by Gavin Grooms, a former Scoutmaster and father of a 14 year old Eagle Scout, plans on asking Congressional candidates to sign the petition. Those signing the petition will be encouraged to financially support not only the Scouting units that lose funds as a result of the intimidation, but also candidates who support the Scouts and who sign Save Our Scouts petitions.

Now is the time for the American people to make their views known on the Boy Scouts. Do you want the group to continue, or to be destroyed?To comment, and to get updates on the Scout situation: mmostert@originalsources.com

To Contact Gavin Grooms: ggrooms@bannerofliberty.com

http://www.saveourscouts.com, which reads:

SOS:Save Our Scouts!

Here's the Problem:
On June 28, 2000 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the First Amendment Constitutional right of the Boy Scouts of America to assemble peaceablyfor the purpose of teaching boys standards of the Scout Oath and Law. In the Scout Oath Scouters promise to do their duty to God and Country, obey the Scout Law, help other people and keep physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.

Those who lost that lawsuit were represented by LAMDA, the legal defense wing of an organization of homosexual, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered people. They claim that the Boy Scout standard of being "morally straight" discriminates against those who are not straight, i.e. homosexuals, lesbians, bi-sexual and transgendered people.

Since losing this court case, a coalition of liberal groups has been attacking the Boy Scouts at the state and local level. These escalatingattacks include pressuring companies to withdraw support for the scouts, demanding that United Way organizations drop the scouts from their fundraising drives and filing law suits against local governments to try to force them to prohibit the Scouts from using parks and public buildings.

Here's How You Can Help:
Sign the following petition to the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Also send e-mail to ten of your friends and urge them to visit our site. Finally, please consider making a small donation to help spread the word.

I support the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America for their defense of our First Amendment right peaceably to assemble in order to teach boys to do their duty to God and country, obey the Scout Law, help other people and keep physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight. I urge the leadership of the Boy Scouts of America to resist all efforts being made today, through lawsuits and financial and social intimidation, to modify the meaning or to abandon these time-tested precepts of responsible manhood.

http://www.saveourscouts.com

 

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RNC Alert -- Gore Promises "HillaryCare 2001!

Light Up the Phones!

Republican National Committee

While Clinton/Gore Have Blocked Bipartisan Prescription Drug Reform, Gore Promises HillaryCare 2001.

· Wow, Pa, 13 pennies a day! Al Gore today will travel from New Mexico to Oregon delivering the same tired attacks on Republicans and on Governor George W. Bush's approach to reforming Medicare - an approach that gives seniors a choice of health insurance plans, with prescription drugs included. And Gore won't tell seniors that his plan really should be called HillaryCare 2001.

Gore is proposing a one-size-fits-all prescription drug plan that herds all seniors into a Big Government-run program. Under Gore's plan, the federal government would be the dispenser of all prescription drugs. The bottom line is that Gore is trying to move â step by step(as Gore himself put it to The New York Times, 8/28/00) toward the kind of nationalized health care system Hillary Clinton tried to shove down America's throat in 1993. What's more, under Gore's plan, seniors would end up only getting 13 cents a day to subsidize their prescription drugs. Don't spend all 13 cents in one place, Pa!

· Roadblock to reform. Not only is Al Gore proposing HillaryCare 2001, but he's also joined with Bill Clinton to block bipartisan Medicare reform. Clinton put together a National Bipartisan Commission that came up with a comprehensive reform plan - a plan that was supported by Democrats such as Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-NE) and John Breaux (D-LA) and yes, even Senator and Gore running-mate Joe Lieberman. The bipartisan plan would have offered seniors the option to choose from a variety of comprehensive health plans that included a prescription drug benefit. But Clinton and Gore rejected their own commission because they wanted an issue - not a solution. Not only that, but when the House of Representatives recently passed a prescription drug plan that would have cut drug costs by an average of 25 percent, House Democrats actually walked off the House floor rather than stay and fight for seniors. Maybe Gore and House Democrats should stop talking and walking - and instead work on a bipartisan basis to help seniors now!

· Dollars and sense. Gore's numbers don't crunch: According to the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation and the Congressional Budget Office, the average senior spends $673 a year on prescription drugs. The Gore prescription drug plan requires seniors to make a 50 percent co-payment to cover the cost of their drugs, or $337 for an average senior (50 percent of $673). In addition, the Gore proposal requires seniors to pay a new monthly premium of $24 or $288 a year. That means an average senior will pay $625 to receive $673 worth of prescription drugs under the Gore proposal. By contrast, Governor Bush's plan is based on the bipartisan Breaux-Frist Medicare reform proposal. Under Governor Bush, Medicare will, for the first time, give seniors a choice of health insurance plans so they can pick the policy that best meets their needs. The policies will include prescription drugs and Governor Bush will pay for the costs for low-income seniors. Americans didn't want HillaryCare 7 years ago, and they don't want it now! (SOUND GRAB: Call the Bush/Cheney actuality line.)GUESTS: Call the RNC Radio Hotline.

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From: PCTRAMM

An opponent's hypocrisy

WASHINGTON -- Al Gore has given George W. Bush the greatest present any politician can receive: The gift of an opponent's hypocrisy.

Consider Gore's insistent harping that Bush produce "specifics." This is an example of accusing a foe of the sins you are committing. In large part, the Gore political platform consists of gauzy phrases, unsupported by proposals, let alone specifics.

Check out the Gore Web site, and you'll see: The vice president provides a price tag for precious few of the dozens of new spending programs he has in mind. Begin with his topic of the week, health care.

Gore envisions expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program, but doesn't mention price, suspected enrollments, or eligibility for promised tax credits. He wants to punish states that don't sign up children for health insurance -- even though the biggest barrier to participation today is red tape, much of it imposed by the Clinton-Gore administration.

His Web site says the candidate will "eliminate cumbersome barriers to child enrollment in health insurance. He will advocate new options for schools and child-care centers to enroll kids on the spot. ... He will reach more eligible children by encouraging states to link their children's health insurance programs to their school lunch programs ... " And so on. It neither asks nor answers the crucial questions: How, when, why, for whom, and at what cost?

Here's a partial listing of initiatives for which Gore has high hopes but no details:

Health care: -- strengthening Medicare "through competition" -- strengthening Medicare "through cost savings" -- creating a National Family Care Giving Support Initiative -- reaching underserved populations, including the homeless, for mental-health care -- strengthening Medicaid

Education: -- school standards -- teacher standards -- student standards -- standards for Universal Preschool -- cost of hiring new teachers

Defense: -- size of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and reserves -- definition of "the next generation" of military technology -- rebuilding military-industrial base

Government reform: -- creating a "more accountable and effective federal government" -- making government more efficient and less expensive -- protecting Internet privacy

Again, this is just a partial listing, but you get the idea. Gore has plenty of program titles. He just doesn't have programs to go with them.

Yet, if there's one thing worse for the Democratic nominee than the lack of specifics, it is the presence of them. Gore wants to spend $42 billion over five years to insure 1 million children. If you do the math, that works out to $42,000 per child over five years -- or $700 per month per kid for insurance premiums. Most policies these days will cover one or more children for $10-20 per month. Gore has chosen to spend dozens of times that amount. (What's that about cutting government waste?)

His desire to spend $253 billion over 10 years on prescription drugs is "specific," but nuts. When is the last time the government made anything cheaper by promising to spend an extra quarter-trillion dollars on it?

And check out these nuggets from his tax plan: His much touted college-tuition tax credit applies to only one child per family, and doesn't cover room and board. It doesn't help poor people. His marriage-penalty relief doesn't apply to families who own their homes or accumulate annual earnings in excess of $60,000. Working seniors don't get a tax cut. If you're single, you're not guaranteed any tax relief, either.

The point is that "targeted" tax cuts pick out a few fortunate beneficiaries -- and leave the rest of us out in the cold. They're not designed to focus benefits on "working people." They're drawn up to appease very specific voting groups or modify behavior -- hence, tax credits to parents who send kids to day care, but not to those who stay at home with toddlers and preschoolers.

Bush, rather than stammering about budget projections, ought to take up the Gore challenge. He has published a fat book filled with "specifics," some of which may make sense, many of which may reflect the dreamy desires of policy wonks -- but all of which give a pretty good sense of where Bush would go as president.

As for Gore, here's his "specific" vision of the future: "I believe we must create more than effective government agencies -- we must create a country and economy that are strong and vibrant and equipped for the challenges of change. And at the same time we must create a new trust and faith in our people, and in each other."

Huh?

From: "Mona Losh

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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO TRUTH IN CAMPAIGNING?:

Is it just me, or does anybody else care that Al Gore appears willing to say anything - even at the habitual risk of getting caught - to win the presidential election? Mr. Gore, who I might add was to receive the endorsement of the Internet adult entertainment industry this weekend, recently launched into yet another campaign falsehood - called an "indignant tale," by the Washington Times - when he said a prescription drug cost more for his mother-in-law than for his dog. The Times reported, "Mr. Gore, who told the anecdote in Florida to illustrate the need for his $253 billion drug plan for seniors, fabricated the cost of the drug itself, the comparative doses for his pet and for Tipper's mom, and his family's bills for them."

Mr. Gore said he pays $37.80 per month for Shiloh, his Labrador retriever, to take Etogesic, an animal version of Lodine. He said his mother-in-law's monthly bill is $108. "That's pretty bad when you have got to pretend to be a dog or a cat to get a price break," he said. Mr. Gore's aides have now acknowledged that those figures are not the actual costs for Mr. Gore's family. They were borrowed instead from a House Democratic study on rising drug prices. What's more, Mr. Gore conveniently ignored the fact that human drugs undergo many more strenuous tests and trials than animal medications, which leads to obviously higher prices. This is just the latest in a long series of missteps, exaggerations and downright fabrications on the part of Mr. Gore in this campaign - and in his long political service, for that matter.

Jano Cabrera, a spokesman for Republican presidential nominee GeorgeW. Bush, said the episode was only the latest example of Mr. Gore's "troubling pattern of embellishing and exaggerating his plans and personal experiences." "This certainly underscores the fact that the vice president will say anything to get elected," added Bush spokesman Karen Hughes. Mrs. Hughes said Mr. Gore's mistake went beyond the simple mispronunciations by Mr. Bush that Mr. Gore's campaign has routinely reported to the media. "This case is a direct misstatement of fact, which I think is far more serious," she accurately said.

A HISTORY OF WHOPPERS: Mr. Gore has had a long history of dishonesty - even before he joined forces with Bill Clinton - that is truly disconcerting. In fact, Mr. Gore's own campaign manager once told the vice-president his image "may continue to suffer if you continue to go out on a limb with remarks that may be impossible to back up." In addition, his communication director later chimed in by saying, "Your main pitfall is exaggeration." His two most famous lies were: (1) claiming that Harvard professor and author Erich Segal used him and wife Tipper as models for his best-selling book, "Love Story, and (2) claiming that, as a congressman, he "took the initiative in creating the Internet." The Internet, of course, was created years before Mr. Gore even entered Congress, and Mr. Segal hasreported that he has no idea why Al Gore makes the outrageous claim to be the inspiration for his book.

However, those lies were the tip of a glaring iceberg of careless political misrepresentations that Al Gore has made through the years. They include the following: Mr. Gore told the Des Moines Register that his tenure as an investigative reporter at the Nashville Tennessean "got a bunch of people indicted and sent to jail." The paper later verified that nobody went to jail as a result of any Gore stories. But the claim sounded good ... while it lasted. Mr. Gore also has continually spoken of the danger he faced in Vietnam. In fact, it was recently reported that he actually had bodyguards assigned to protect him there and fellow soldiers have revealed that he was given priority treatment to keep him out of harms' way. He claimed to have been a co-sponsor of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform bill when Mr. Feingold was not even in the Senate during Mr. Gore's tenure there. And he told a tall tale about discovering "a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal." He added fuel to that lie by declaring he "had the first hearing on that issue ... that started it all." President Carter had actually declared the Love Canal a disaster area months before Mr. Gore's hearing.

Mr. Gore has stooped to his most amazing lows by lying about his tobacco connection in the wake of his sister's 1984 smoking-related death. During his 1996 speech at the Democratic National Convention, Mr.Gore said, "That is why until I draw my last breath I will pour my heart and soul into the cause of protecting our children from the dangers of smoking." The truth: Mr. Gore and his family grew tobacco on the family farm for years after his sister's death. In 1988, four years after her tragic death, he even bragged to North Carolina tobacco growers that he relished growing and fostering tobacco.

And, as again reported in the Washington Times, "The man who introduced 'no controlling legal authority,' into the political lexicon has not shied away from lying about his role in the 1996 campaign-finance scandal." In that scandal, as most conservatives know (and most liberals ignore), Mr. Gore, despite White House memos and a Secret Service memo to the contrary, claimed he did not know that his appearance at the Hsi Lai temple was a Democratic fund-raising event. Videotape of the event shows Mr. Gore cavorting with Democratic fundraiser Maria Hsia, who delivered illegal "conduit" payments from "straw donors" (namely impoverished Buddhist nuns) to the DNC. Maria Hsia was later convicted of five felony counts for illegal actions in the 1996 campaign-finance scandal. Despite the blatant fund-raising corruption in the Clinton White House, Mr. Gore has continually called for campaign finance reform, as if his connection to the Hsia conviction is nonexistent. (Making matters worse, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno has refused to investigate Mr. Gore's connection to this scandal.)

Lynne Cheney, wife of Republican vice presidential candidate Richard Cheney, recently spoke of the duality of Mr. Gore's values-speak. She said that Mr. Gore talks "values" by day, only to attend an evening "party with the entertainment industry, raise millions of dollars, listen to scatological jokes about people who are concerned about the entertainment industry marketing adult products to our children; sit there and listen to jokes so - how shall I say this politely - X-rated, that I can't think of anyone I could tell them to."

This is typical of Mr. Gore - saying one thing, and doing another.But his Hollywood buddies, blind apologists and loyalist Democratic voters appear content to vote for a man who may or may not tell them the truth at any given moment. This cold-blooded willingness to manufacture stories and fabricate lies has even led Mr. Gore to relinquish his one-time pro-life views in an attempt to garner votes. As hard as it may be to believe today, Mr. Gore once eloquently wrote to a Tennessee constituent about his pro-life views and maintained a solid pro-life voting record.

Recently, you will recall, he falsely stated that he has always been pro-choice. (There he goes again.) Al Gore's pro-life stance was apparently only as good as his word. Today, after years and years of Clintonizing the facts, Mr. Gore apparently cannot tell fact from fiction as he callously strives to win the ultimate political prize. Maybe this pattern of political concoctions is what it takes to win the presidency at the dawn of this new century. If it is, I truly fear for our nation as truth falls by the wayside and we, the people, become the ultimate victims of this parade of purposeful misrepresentations, blatant half-truths and categorical lies.

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idea for a tax cut ad campaign

Doing your taxes under Al Gore's new tax plan

Show a man sitting down to a desk covered with generic soda cans. The man proceeds to shuffle the cans around, stack them, unstack them and so on, all in fast motion. He then sits back, puts his feet up and opens one of the cans. The can spews in his face. Doing your taxes under George W. Bush's new tax plan

Show a close up of a form with one box next to the statement: income $35,000 or less. Show the box checked, then show a blank saying taxes due and show it being marked $0 Its funny, it makes a point, and its simple. Even a liberal can get it.

Hope you enjoyed it.

A faithful listener

Diane Faykus

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Maybe Bush's people can make a commercial that shows Gore's Coke Can standing upright and at the end of the commercial knock it over showing that the can has been open and emptied. Then say something along the line of "Bush doesn't make a bunch of EMPTY PROMISES"

JUST AN IDEA

From:
"Michael Wright

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What frightens me most is Gores style of lying. Clinton lies to get himself out of trouble, while Gore lies to get himself into trouble. "I invented the internet", "I had 3000 town hall meeting during my 16 years in Congress". etc,etc. A six year old child getting not enough attention OK, but a man running for president ? Rush , do you think he is ok upstairs? He goes with this style of lying after the voters by promising trillions of Dollars worth of free stuff, Dollars which are not even collected. I think the average voter is too ignorant to see or is a swing voter " Which candidate has the most for me" I hope George W. will win.

Keep up the excellent job you are doing.
Werner Wegener

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Anthony's Funeral Oration

Mr. Gore's promises sound like Mark Anthony's lies he used on the people of Rome in he funeral oration after Caesar's murder. "Friends, Romans, Countrymen...". Of course, I'm an old English teacher, and I taught the play by Shakespeare, but in the play, you'll remember that Anthony claimed Caesar had promised every man "land to recreate yourselves on, silver, and a place in the government." Interesting - I can't get it out of my mind - what a fake. Just to stir the people's emotions.

Beta
San Angelo, Texas

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JFK speech

John F. Kennedy won praise for his statement "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" Now, Algore asks "what else can your country do for you?" We'll do it!!!

M H Willis

MO

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Russia and China Rooting for Gore

The vice president's views on key foreign-policy issues have made Al Gore the presidential candidate of choice for Russian hard-liners and the Chinese Communists.

Vice President Al Gore welcomed President Clinton's Sept. 2 decision to postpone development of a system to defend the United States against incoming nuclear-missile attacks. So did Moscow and Beijing. Russian President Vladimir Putin called the decision "a well-thought-out and responsible step." The Chinese Foreign Ministry praised it as "rational."

The rhetoric matches a subtle but significant taking of sides by Russia and China in the U.S. presidential campaign between Gore and Republican candidate George W. Bush. While the rhetoric generally is indirect and low-key, Kremlin hard-liners, as well as China's communist leaders, have made it clear that, because of his views on missile defense and other issues, they would prefer to see Gore as the next president of the United States.

"Semi-officially they try, of course, to be reserved and distant, not to be involved in any way with the campaign," notes Victor Yasmann, a former longtime analyst at the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute in Munich who now edits the radios' new newsletter about Russia's security and intelligence services. But sometimes, says Yasmann, who monitors the Russian media, word is allowed to creep out.

Both Moscow and Beijing blasted the GOP platform issued at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia last month while offering faint praise for the convention platform of the Democrats. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao told reporters that the People's Republic of China takes a dim view of the GOP document: "We have noted that during the U.S. presidential campaign, the program proposed by a certain party contains accusations against China. We express concern and regret over this." The official news agency Xinhua, a government-controlled propaganda organ, quoted Zhu as calling on the Republican Party to "restrain itself from inserting U.S. presidential-campaign politics into Sino-U.S. relations." This came in sharp contrast to Beijing's own covert military-intelligence agency's funding of the 1996 Clinton/Gore reelection campaign.

"With Gore it will be much easier for Moscow," Yasmann says. "He is already very much involved in Rus-sian affairs. This means he is very dependable based on what he has done." Gore was an architect and advocate of multibillion-dollar cash transfers to the Russian Central Bank, U.S. taxpayer subsidies to Russian government and business entities and arms-control initiatives that prevented the United States from taking advantage of Russia's post-Soviet strategic weakness. Yasmann notes that "ORT [a Russian TV network co-owned by the state and tycoon Boris Berezovsky] yesterday said that now the Democrats are gaining the upper hand, and that's not bad for Russia."

Both countries have contingency plans for a Bush presidency as well as backdoor channels of varying kinds into the people likely to staff a Bush administration. The specter of a Bush White House, Yasmann argues, might be used for domestic Russian consumption to rejuvenate the Russian Federation's sagging arms industry and the large political constituencies around it. But Gore, from the Russian perspective, is "good on arms control, he's good on missile defense, he's good on money," according to Yasmann. "He's not going to test Russia's fragile economy with a new arms race over missile defense. He has a much greater understanding of Russia's business community and has better personal connections. He is also more amenable to rescheduling or canceling Russia's bilateral debts."

Analysts note that the Gore family's business ties to Moscow go back a half-century to when Albert Gore Sr., the vice president's father and then a Tennessee congressman, became a business partner with the late Soviet agent and money-launderer Armand Hammer , a relationship that benefits the vice president financially to this day. Leon Fuerth, Gore's national-security adviser, has taken a softer, sympathetic approach to Russia, while his counterpart on the Bush team, Condoleezza Rice, has been far more hard-nosed, calling for a termination of Western economic support to Russia's central government.

One dependable Kremlin ally, the camp of ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, is characteristically blunt. "Gore would be a better U.S. president for Russia," Zhirinovsky's son and political operative told Insight Senior Editor Jamie Dettmer last March. Zhirinovsky's National Liberal Democratic Party has a record of taking extreme positions as trial balloons or rhetorical benchmarks that provide political cover to the Kremlin. An official Russian government broadcast reflecting concerns about U.S. missile defense termed a Bush administration a "nightmare scenario."

State-run media offer Moscow and Beijing a means of conveying their views subtly and indirectly, avoiding the entanglement of government officials and institutions in the U.S. political process and affording themselves political cover. Toby Westerman, who monitors global shortwave broadcasts for the electronic magazine WorldNetDaily, has reported, "Moscow believes that the Democratic Party has a more balanced approach, in regard to relations with Russia than the GOP and that the Democratic Party platform is more open to Russia."

Russia's reform-minded social democrats and the Communist Party don't like Gore because of what they called his "chumminess" with the gangster-tycoons surrounding Russian President Putin and former president Boris Yeltsin. Yet Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov says he still prefers Gore over the Republicans, citing what he calls the GOP's "hawkish and highly negative attitude toward Russia."

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From: "Professor Jerry Mander

IT'S YOUR MONEY - Al Gore's 40% Tax Hike

The vice president's Social Security plan isn't as bad as it sounds. It's much, much worse.

BY SUSAN LEE
Monday, September 11, 2000 12:01 a.m. EDT

Last week I found myself trying to understand Al Gore's Social Security reform. (I know, it's an exciting life.) The plan comes in two parts. One does absolutely nothing about the impending boomer crunch except to make it worse, but the other made my hair frizz.

The scary part is called Retirement Savings Plus (although the money can also be used to pay for college or buy a house). It provides for individual savings accounts but--oh, mama--listen to how Mr. Gore wants to fund them.

As I read it, everybody and anybody who earns less than $100,000 a year could set aside some of their own money and then have government step in with a big fat subsidy to total $2,000 a year a person. Lower-income people could contribute up to $500 a year and have government match every dollar with $3. Middle-income people could set aside $1,000 and have government match every dollar with another dollar. And upper income people could plop down $1,500 and get 33 cents for every dollar.

Since this sounded like one gargantuan giveaway, I wondered--as you probably are--how much this would cost. Well, I phoned John Cogan, an economist at the Hoover Institution and the fastest numbers man in theWest. Mr. Cogan is also advising the Bush campaign, so I figured he would have the figures. He was ready for me.

Using Internal Revenue Service data, Mr. Cogan estimates that more than 100 million people would be eligible and, if they all maxed out on government money (which of course is money that originally belonged to you and me), the total tab would come to $160 billion. That's correct--$160 billion for one year, or roughly 16% of current federal tax revenue.

I started making shrieking-type noises, but Mr. Cogan--who is fair and calm--pointed out that not every eligible person would participate. So, assuming the same rate as the rate for people who elect to participate in private pensions (about 75%), Mr. Cogan tap-tapped on his calculator for a new number. And it wasn't all that comforting, either--$120 billion, or 12% of federal tax revenue.

Is Mr. Gore out of his mind? Maybe. At the very least, he must be mathematically challenged. He has estimated the cost of his program at $35 billion.So I asked Mr. Cogan what the deal was. Again, in his typically fair and calm fashion, he speculated that Mr. Gore, quite possibly, has not fully disclosed his restrictions on eligibility. A Gore aide did mention last week that people earning less than $5,000 a year, full-time students and retired people would be excluded. But, as Mr. Cogan noted, those exclusions aren't sufficient to even come close to $35 billion.

Instead, Mr. Cogan offered a scenario that the Gore camp may have in mind, given the fact that lower income people would have difficulty in ponying up $500 a year. Mr. Gore's $35 billion would be consistent with a plan in which only 5% of lower-income households and 50% of middle- and upper-income households participate. Simply put, no matter how one slices and dices the numbers, the only way to get the numbers down to Mr. Gore's estimate is to exclude those who really need the boost.

But there's more. Remember the other part of Mr. Gore's Social Security reform? The one that just leaves the system unreformed? This part calls for government to use the Social Security surplus to pay down the debt, thereby saving on interest costs. These savings would be used to "buy" government bonds that would be put in a "lock box" until the boomers start to retire and the system faces bankruptcy. So how much are we talking about? Mr. Cogan's lowest estimate is $34 trillion.

More shrieking from me. But, as Mr. Cogan pointed out, the exact figure really doesn't matter. This scheme is just pie-in-the-sky, since no assets are created ;(printing up bonds is just a paper transaction). So what happens when the bill for Social Security becomes due? Mr. Cogan, still remarkably fair and calm, said that there were three choices: Either taxes would have to be raised by 25%, or benefits would have to be cut by 25%, or the bonds would have to be rolled over for another generation of taxpayers to redeem by--you guessed it--paying more taxes or enjoying less benefits.

In other words--and I was really squeaking here--Mr. Gore's retirement plan will generate a total tax increase of 37% to 41%? "Call it 40%," said Mr. Cogan.

I was speechless at this point, so Mr. Cogan added that he thought the whole thing was a liberal fantasy, and there was no way that Mr. Gore could enact such an enormous entitlement program. Well, I think Mr.Cogan is being just a little too fair and a little too calm. The inventor of the Internet has had one fantasy too many for my taste.

Ms. Lee, an economist, is a member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board. For the latest, as well as archived, common sense commentary, be sure to visit http://www.JewishWorldReview.com for all the best collumnists.

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Former Gore tenants moving to Lima

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By ROBERT ZIEGLER, The Lima News
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A Tennessee family that has had some very public disputes with Vice President Al Gore about a rental property he owns, has decided to move to Lima.

Charles and Tracy Mayberry are expected to arrive today, along with five children, at their new home on Lima's south side. Tracy Mayberry said Friday night from Carthage, Tenn., that she had lived in Lima "a few years ago."

"The people there were always friendly to us and we have some dear friends there, so we're really very excited to be moving there,"
Mayberry told The Lima News. "The Gore administration here has just been so tough on us and we want to get out of her! e and get away from him, so we're moving to Lima."

The couple recently entered the spotlight when their unhappiness with Gore's management of the home was aired in the national media. Problems included a damaged kitchen floor, shoddy plumbing and wiring. Friends of Gore who manage the property say the problems were due to negligence on the part of the Mayberrys.

Gore, who is the presumptive Democratic nominee for President, called Mayberry last month and promised to fix the problems. Gore has said through spokesmen that all of the Mayberrys' concerns have been met through $5,000 of repair work, but Mayberry said problems remain and that a recent eviction notice, which was later rescinded, convinced the couple to move.

"The Elrods (Audrey and Charles, the property managers) kept picking at us so we decided to get out of here," Mayberry said. "They keep going back and forth on the road and looking at us. He'! s called me names."

She said two family pets have turned up dead under mysterious circumstances since the dispute became public.

Employees of the Tennessee Republican Party were on hand at the Mayberry home Friday, helping to load a moving van. The GOP kicked in approximately $1,000 to pay for the move. Tracy Mayberry acknowledged the political aspect of the dispute.

"I'm sure they are using it politically," Mayberry said. "When this first happened they offered to put us in a hotel and I told them no thank you because Gore was going to do that. Well his friend put us up and just for one night. After the things weren't fixed I called the Republicans back."

Mayberry said Gore's aides have "lied" about the cause of the damage in the home and whether it had been properly fixed.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Reporter Robert Ziegler can be reached by phone at 993-2094 or e-mail! at rziegler(at)limanews.com.

© 2000 The Lima News

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RNC Breaking News
*News Flash: Lieberman Tries To Evict Injured Immigrant Tenant

Gore/Lieberman - The Slumlord Ticket

· Tracy Mayberry II? Is it Tracy Mayberry Part II? Just when the Gore/Lieberman campaign thought the saga of "Al Gore - Tennessee Slumlord" was over, the story of "Joe Lieberman - Landlord from Hell is now inching its way into the news. The Associated Press reports this morning that in 1995, Lieberman's rich uncle died and left him executor of his $48 million estate.

Living in one of the uncle's properties was Monica Beach (that's her real name - we did not make it up), then a 55-year-old Jamaican mother of five children, who worked at the Stamford Marriott as a linen room attendant. In March of 1996, Mrs. Beach slipped on the ice-covered back stairs of the same house, injuring her back and neck and leaving her unable to work. Mrs. Beach said that besides the ice, the handrail had been broken for some time - despite repeated requests for it to be fixed. Said Mrs. Beach to the Hartford Courant in 1997: "This is the worst time of my life" I cannot sleep at night. I don't know what I'm going to do."

· Get outta town. Injured, in pain day and night and unable to work, Mrs. Beach fell behind in her $865-a-month rent to Lieberman. Lieberman responded to Mrs. Beach's dilemma with Gore-like compassion: He filed a lawsuit demanding her eviction. When the eviction went through and the press caught wind of the story, Lieberman had a great alibi for the reporters, saying Mrs. Beach's future was up to the estates' lawyer, even though his uncle's will clearly stated that Lieberman has "full responsibility for the management" of the estate. In any event, Lieberman's lawyer revealed the truth: "I asked him point blank," said the lawyer representing Mrs. Beach. "Had the executors [Lieberman] approved of the eviction proceedings? He said "Yes, they had." Said Mrs. Beach to the Hartford Courant in 1997: "[Lieberman] is so unkind. I thought he would treat people with a little more respect."

· Not over yet. On April 3, 1997, Mrs. Beach was forced to counter-sue Lieberman and the estate to recover for her personal injuries from the accident. Her case is still pending and will not come to trial until February 5, 2001. Stunningly, this is the same Joe Lieberman who, while serving as his state's attorney general in 1984, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times on how to manage landlord/tenant disputes - so they don't end up in harmful, protracted court battles! And in 1973, then-State Senator Lieberman introduced a bill to "provide a remedy to tenants who cannot motivate their landlord to make repairs, and deduct the cost of such repairs from the rent." Can you spell "chutzpah," Joe?! GUESTS: Call the RNC Radio Hotline.

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Military vs Gore - The Hard Numbers and Facts: The Death Spiral of Our National Defense

From: "Illinois4Bush Moderator

"I've presided over the so-called reinventing government program to down size our federal bureaucracy, including, more than any other, the Pentagon and the Defense Department.", said Al Gore

"We are trapped in a `death spiral.'", Under Secretaryof Defense for Acquisition and Technology Jacques S. Gansler, speaking on the impact of years of underfunding of the military during the Clinton/Gore Administration

STARVING THE MILITARY

Presiding Over Decline. The Clinton/Gore Administration has presided over a precipitous reduction in defense spending even as it has pushed the military into a greatly increased tempo of operations. This has resulted in a large and growing gap between resources and mission requirements, including an alarming decline in mission readiness, weapons procurement, training levels, and troop morale, along with rapidly increasing maintenance and operations costs due to aging and over-used equipment.

[1] Al Gore, Democratic Presidential Primary Debate, Johnstown, Iowa, January 8, 2000 (emphasis added).
[1] Daniel Goure and Jeffrey M. Ranney, Averting the Defense Train Wreck in the New Millennium, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1999 (emphasis added).

U.S. Forces Strained to the Limit. The decline in American military strength under the Clinton/Gore Administration has been such that, if Saddam Hussein were once again to attempt to occupy Kuwait or threaten Saudi Arabia, it would require 90 percent of our active Army, two-thirds of our fighter wings and aircraft carriers, and every Marine in uniform to assemble the force President Bush used to expel Iraqi forces the first time.

Gore Concedes Danger. Despite growing warnings from independent experts , and even from Administration officials, such as Undersecretary of Defense Jacques Gansler, who termed the situation a "death spiral" Gore has steadfastly ignored the problem for the past eight years and has even boasted of his efforts to reduce the Department of Defense. But faced with growing evidence of an approaching crisis, Gore has been forced to reverse course and admit that military readiness has been undermined after 8 years of underfunding by the Clinton/Gore Administration. In recent remarks, Gore conceded that new weapons "are vitally needed to replace equipment that has been in service for far too long."

The Defense Free-Fall:

Army Ranks Slashed: The Army's ranks have been reduced by more than 630,000 soldiers and civilians since the end of the Gulf War, with the number of Army divisions shrinking from 18 in 1992 to 10 today; Navy Cut in Half: The Navy is down to 324 ships from 586, with the Clinton/Gore Administration proposing to reduce the number further to 305; Navy Short of Billets: Even with its greatly reduced size, the Navy is short 22,000 billets;

Aging B-52s: The average age of the B-52H bombers, used extensively in the Balkans, is 37 years old; Aging Assault Vehicles: The average age of the Marine Corps' Amphibious Assault Vehicles is 26 years old;Aging Marine Helicopters: The CH-46 helicopter, a Marine Corps mainstay, is 40 years old; Air Force Squeezed: Since 1990, the Air Force has shrunk from 36 fighter wings (active and reserve) to 20; B1-Bs Grounded: More than half the B1-Bs at Ellsworth Air Force Base are not mission capable because they lack critical spare parts;

[1] John Hillen, "Military Blues; America's Shrinking Armed Forces Face Even Larger Challenges in the Post-Cold War Era," The San Diego Union-Tribune, April 26, 1998.
[1] Remarks by Al Gore at the International Press Institute, Boston, April 30, 2000.
[1] House Republican Conference, "U.S. Military Resources Have Been Depleted by Years of Clinton/Gore Neglect," Press Release, April 22, 1999.

Army Helicopters Unsafe: More than 40 percent of the Army's helicopter fleet cannot safely perform its wartime mission; and Army Divisions Not Combat-Ready: Two of the ten remaining Army divisions are sufficiently below strength to be rated as not combat-ready. Due to deployments of troops to the Balkans and elsewhere, the 10th Mountain Division based at Fort Drum, NY, and the 1st Infantry Division headquartered in Germany recently received a "C-4" rating: not ready for use in a major regional war. THE CLINTON/GORE "TRAIN WRECK"

Squandering U.S. Strength. The U.S. armed forces bequeathed by Presidents Reagan and Bush to the Clinton/Gore Administration were the world's best equipped, best trained, and best prepared fighting force. Over the past seven years, however, these forces have been
progressively weakened by severe underfunding, overdeployment, and increasing morale problems.

Shortfall Measured in American Lives. According to a recent study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the U.S. is facing a "train wreck" regarding its armed forces, one that is "principally the result of a failure by the [Clinton/Gore] administration to provide the funds necessary to pay for the kinds of military force and tempo of operations dictated by its foreign policy."

The military has been so starved of resources by the Clinton/Gore Administration that increasing shortfalls have already begun to significantly erode the military's ability to carry out its missions, shortfalls that "could well be measured in American lives." If the inadequate Clinton/Gore funding levels continue, the U.S. will soon confront one or more of several disturbing possibilities, including:a significantly reduced military force, possibly only 1/3 its present size;a largely obsolescent inventory of weapons and equipment; and a general U.S. retreat from the world.

Defense Budget "Death Spiral." The Clinton/Gore reductions in the defense budget have reached such dangerous levels that officials still serving in the Administration have begun to sound the alarm. Commenting on the impact of years of underfunding, rapidly aging equipment, and the increased tempo of operations, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology Jacques S. Gansler stated,"We are trapped in a `death spiral.'"

[1] Sean D. Naylor, "Army Aviation `Headed In The Wrong Direction' / Composite Squadrons, More Cockpit Time Part of Planned Fixes," Army Times, April 17, 2000.
[1] Bradley Graham, "Two Army Divisions Unfit for Major War; Both Flunk Ratings of Preparedness," The Washington Post, November 10, 1999.
[1] Daniel Goure and Jeffrey M. Ranney, Averting the Defense Train Wreck in the New Millennium, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1999, pp. xii, xv, 5. CSIS is headed by John J. Hamre, formerly the Clinton/Gore Administration's Deputy Secretary of Defense.

GORE'S RECORD IN CONGRESS: WEAK ON DEFENSE

Frequent Opposition to Defense Spending. The Clinton/Gore Administration's abysmal record on the military followed directly from Gore's record as a Senator and Congressman. Although Gore often depicted himself as a pro-defense conservative Democrat, especially in the 1988 presidential primaries, his voting record in Congress was one of frequent opposition to defense spending: No to Carter. In 1977, Gore opposed even President Carter's half-hearted efforts to increase defense spending.

No to Reagan and Bush. Gore continued his opposition throughout the administrations of Presidents Reagan and Bush. For example he voted: to cut the defense budget by 1 percent; to cut funding for weapons procurement and for research and development by 2 percent; to cut $850 million from the defense budget; to reduce the defense budget authority by $7.6 billion in FY93 and over $70 billion through FY97; to cut the FY 93 defense budget by $6 billion; and to reduce by $27.9 billion the budget authority through FY 97.

Continued Opposition to Needed Defense Buildup. Throughout the 1980s Gore repeatedly attacked President Reagan's efforts to rebuild U.S. military strength, criticizing that Administration as "the most irresponsible in managing the defense budget. . . of any administration in the history of this country." Al Gore's Votes Against Weapons Systems. In addition to his general opposition to increases in defense spending, Al Gore supported eliminating or reducing several major weapons programs, many of which were later to perform crucial missions in the Gulf War and in the Balkans:

[1] CQ Vote #138: Adopted 225-184: R 119-20; D 106-164, April 27, 1977; CQ Vote #177: Rejected 176-233: R 115-22; D 61-211, May 5. 1977; CQ Vote #178: Rejected 184-223: R 119-17; D 65-206; May 5, 1977; CQ Vote #179: Rejected 190-214: R 118-16; D 72-198, May 5, 1977; CQ Vote #190: Rejected 164-246: R 115-34; D 49-212, May 1, 1980.
[1] CQ Vote #219: Passed 238-136: R 90-75; D 148-61, July 29, 1982.[1] CQ Vote #301: Rejected 140-256: R 20-158; D 120-98, November 18, 1981.[1] CQ Vote #302: Rejected 197-202: R 65-114; D 132-88, November 18, 1981.[1] S. 2, CQ Vote #8: Rejected 45-53: R 0-43; D 45-10, January 28, 1992.
[1] S. Con. Res. 106, CQ Vote #69: Rejected: 45-50, R 4-37, D 41-13, April 9, 1992.
[1] S. Con. Res. 106, CQ Vote #73: Motion agreed to 53-40, R 38-1, D 15-39, April 9, 1992.
[1] "Democrats Take Shots at Bush in Debate Before Key N.Y.Vote," The Toronto Star, April 17, 1988.

B-1 Bomber. From his first year in Congress in 1977, Gore repeatedly voted to kill the B-1 bomber program and, failing that, to stop or reduce additional production. The B-1 was used extensively, and with outstanding results, in the Kosovo campaign.

F/A-18 Fighter Aircraft. In 1981, Gore voted to cut $3.1 billion in funding from the F/A-18 fighter aircraft program. The F/A-18 played a key role in the Gulf War.

A-6 Attack Aircraft. In a Democrat debate on December 2, 1987, Gore pledged that, if elected President, he would eliminate "the A-6 attack aircraft." The A-6 played an essential role in the GulfWar.

Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. Gore opposed the Bradley Infantry Fighting vehicle and voted to defer its procurement. In a Democrat presidential primary debate on December 2, 1987, Gore highlighted the Bradley as one the weapons systems he would eliminate. The Bradley was used extensively in the Gulf War.

Battleship Reactivation. Gore voted to eliminate funds for the reactivation of the battleship Wisconsin and to prohibit future spending to reactive battleships and increase funds for naval munitions. Had it been adopted, this measure would have halted the reactivation of the Missouri, which was recommissioned in 1986. In the Gulf War, the Missouri and Wisconsin both were used to launch highly accurate Tomahawk missiles at Iraqi targets.

Trident Nuclear Attack Submarines. Gore voted to eliminate the $699 million earmarked for an additional Trident submarine, thereby reducing the U.S. nuclear deterrent.

Flip-Flop on Aircraft Carriers. While in the House and Senate, Gore demonstrated a particularly negative attitude toward aircraft carriers, which are the core of the modern American Navy and serve as the key instrument of U.S. power projection around the world. His first votes in Congress included an effort to eliminate funding for a fourth Nimitz-class nuclear aircraft carrier.

Long-Term Opposition. Gore's opposition continued into the next decade when he voted against a proposal to fund construction of two Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. In a December 1, 1987, Democratic debate, Gore reiterated this position, stating that, if elected President, he would eliminate "two additional aircraft carriers."

[1] H.R. 7933, CQ Vote #484: Adopted 202-199: R 33-103; D 169-96,
September 8, 1977; H.R. 9375, CQ Vote #627: Rejected 194-204: R 114-21; D 80-183, October 20, 1977; H.R. 9375, CQ Vote #692: Rejected 166-191: R 16-103; D 150-88, December 6, 1977; H.R. 7933, CQ Vote #361: Rejected 178-243: R 25-116; D 153-127, June 28, 1977; H.R. 9375, CQ Vote #58: Passed 234-182: R 30-106; D 204-76, February 22, 1978; H.R. 3519, CQ Vote #111: Rejected 153-254: R 25-155; D 128-99, July 9, 1981; H.R. 4995, CQ Vote #298: Rejected 99-307: R 9-169; D 90-138, November 18, 1981; H.R. 6030, CQ Vote #196: Rejected 142-257: R 24-153; D 118-104, July 22, 1982.
[1] H.R. 3519, CQ Vote #128: Rejected 101-316: R 13-172; D 88-144, July 16, 1981.
[1] "America's Future" A Presidential Debate, NBC,December 1, 1987.
[1] H.R. 2969, CQ Vote #182: Motion rejected 124-283: R 9-151; D 115-132, June 14,1983.
[1] S. 1160, CQ Vote #89: Rejected: 30-68: R 2-49, D 28-19, May22, 1985.
[1] H.R. 6030, CQ Vote #183: Adopted 344-65: R 154-31; D 190-34,
July 20, 1982.
[1] H.R. 3839, CQ Vote #33: Rejected 161-252: R 88-51; D 73-201,
March 3, 1977.
[1] Muralee Schwartz, Tom Sherwood, "Gore Ignites Naval Battle," The Washington Post, February 24, 1988.

A Political Opportunist. However, three months later, campaigning in Newport News, Virginia, Gore attacked his Democrat primary opponents for not supporting aircraft carrier construction:

"All the other candidates for the Democratic nomination have said they would cancel existing contracts under way here in the Tidewater area on aircraft carriers." "I would stand for a strong America."

A spokesman for Dick Gephardt (D-MO) denounced these remarks as "pandering" and "an unbelievable distortion." Despite this public statement of support, once off the campaign trail Gore returned to his original position and voted in favor of a proposal to force the Navy to decommission two aircraft carriers. Gore continued to oppose aircraft carriers during his time in the Senate, voting to force the Navy to retire two ships.

[1] "America's Future" A Presidential Debate, NBC,December 1, 1987.
[1] Pat Scales, "Gore Stresses Need for Strong Defense, UnitedPress International, February 23, 1988.
[1] Maralee Schwartz, Tom Sherwood, "Gore Ignites NavalBattle," The Washington Post, February 24, 1988.
[1] Maralee Schwartz, Tom Sherwood, "Gore Ignites Naval Battle," The Washington Post, February 24, 1988.
[1] S. 2355, CQ Vote #135: Motion agreed to 56-37: R 40-3, D 16-34, May 13/m1988.

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From: "Mona Losh - Gore Cares about People...HA!

Read 'Em & Weep: The Edmond Pope Family and Their Letters to and from Al Gore!
9/8/00 - By J. Michael Waller

Insight reported Sept. 18 on its Web site (www.insightmag.com) that the sister of a retired U.S. Navy intelligence officer imprisoned in Russia pleaded with Vice President Al Gore to intercede with the Kremlin to secure his release only to be rebuffed in writing by Gore's office.

Now, we can provide readers with the actual documents.

Brenda Pope Linstrom is the sister of Edmond Pope, age 54, whom the Russian secret police arrested April 3. Pope has been held in the notorious Lefortovo Prison since then, and the family is concerned that he may die in captivity because of neglect and abuse. Linstrom wrote Gore on May 9, pleading:"I am writing to seek your help in the release of Captain Edmond Pope, USN (Ret.), the American currently under arrest and charged with espionage in Russia. Ed Pope is my brother. I had been advised not to make public comments on my brother's arrest and detention due to the pending, dubious legal proceedings; however, I can no longer remain silent in this matter."

She explained why her brother, now a businessman, was in Russia and what he was doing there. She informed Gore of her brother's dangerous medical condition, the neglect at the hands of his captors, and that the former KGB was "interrogating" him. "My brother needs your help NOW!" she wrote, pleading, "Please help in bringing my brother home."

Gore's office verbally rebuffed Pope's wife, Cheri Pope, three times, and ignored calls for help from Pope's congressman, Rep. John Peterson, and Rep. Curt Weldon, both Pennsylvania Republicans. The vice president's office did not respond to Linstrom until August 1 , the day a U.S. consular official visited Pope in prison and warned that his health was deteriorating rapidly.

Gore's response, signed by his director of correspondence, Eric Anderson, failed even to acknowledge the issue and urged Linstrom and the family to continue working with their congressmen.

Read Brenda Linstrom's letter to Al Gore here. http://www.insightmag.com/archive/Linstromletter1.shtml

Read Gore's Reply to Linstrom here. http://www.insightmag.com/archive/Goreletter.shtml

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Military Readiness is Not A Political Game!
Col. David Hackworth
September 5, 2000

Justin P.D. Wilcox resigned last week over the plague that's destroying our Army. He was a future George Marshall or Dwight Eisenhower. This nation's armed forces cannot continue to lose such dedicated patriots.

Here, in his own words, is why he quit in disgust:

"Listening to the secretary of defense and top brass dispute the Bush/Cheney readiness claims has reaffirmed my decision to leave the Army as a captain this month. I served for the past five years in a declining institution which needs urgent help from its top leadership. My decision to leave the Army stems from my refusal to live the 'readiness lie' portrayed by the nation's top leaders.

"In the age of 'do more with less,' the most frequent topic of discussion for today's Army junior officer is the decision to leave the military. Accordingly, the top brass express their concern with the large numbers of captains departing the Army between four and six years of service. Their concern is so great that they surveyed majors with at least 10 years of service to discover why captains were leaving. It is hard to find out what is wrong when you really do not want to know.

"I was excited to begin my Army career after graduating from West Point in June of 1995, but over the next five years my zeal diminished. I realized that the brass and political leaders expected 110 percent capability but resourced for 50 percent. I received soldiers from Basic Training who could not pass fitness tests, qualify with their weapons, or uphold basic discipline standards.

"At Fort Bragg (N.C.), as a combat engineer in the XVIII Airborne Corps, my unit shot its weapons with live rounds only once a year for qualification and once a year for a live-fire exercise, due to ammunition constraints. Vehicles and equipment were rarely used during the months of August and September due to budgetary constraints at the end of the fiscal year. Newly fielded equipment did not meet the specifications of the equipment it replaced and only became reliable after at least two years of retrofits and recalls.(It is probably not known that from December 1998 until this summer, every new 2.5- and 5-ton vehicle on Fort Bragg, as well as the Army, could not be driven over 35 mph until retrofitted to prevent the drive shaft from dropping duringmovement and causing the vehicle to flip.) On a weekly basis,> I saw more attention placed on landscaping and details in the unit area than on training soldiers in the field.

"For those who claim these statements are merely subjective, I can offer further proof of the poor unit readiness I witnessed. For two years I participated in the unit readiness report for my battalion, as the project officer for the report and the head of battalion maintenance. Throughout the past year, maintenance or personnel issues have prevented achievement of top readiness ratings.

"Excellence is no longer the standard. The pursuit of mediocrity has become the norm. When will a general officer finally lay his stars on the table and stand up to the current administration for his soldiers?

"Junior officers stand where the 'rubber meets the road.'They have the responsibilities of preparing their soldiers for battle and ultimately to prepare them in such manner as to prevent casualties due to inexperience or lack of training. When the brass decide their objectives, the lieutenants and captains bear the responsibility of taking these objectives. "Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf stated in his autobiography that a commander can delegate authority, but never responsibility. I realized that in the future I could be responsible for the deaths of too many men who could have been saved by proper training.

"I was not prepared to sacrifice good men, knowing that their deaths could have been avoided. I could not in good conscience continue to live the lie of our current readiness.

"When the next round of bloodshed by U.S. servicemen happens due to lack of preparation, the current brass and civilian/political leaders should be responsible for signing the following casualty notification letters: "Dear Mrs. Smith, I regret to inform you of the death of your son. His death is my fault, for I did not properly train him."

Thank you for your rare courage, Captain Wilcox. Col. David Hackworth is co-author of the 1989 international best seller, About Face, and the subsequent Brave Men. He also co-authored the Vietnam Primer, the fighting man's bible for guerrilla warfare in Vietnam. His personal mission is to "ensure that American troops are never put in harm's way without the right training, the right equipment, the right leadership, and the right mission." You can visit his website at Hackworth.com

 

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Lawmaker questions Gore's racial tolerance
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES Full story at www.washtimes.com

A Georgia congresswoman says the U.S. Secret Service engaged in "Jim Crow" practices in limiting the number of black agents assigned to guard Al Gore and accused the vice president of having a low "Negro tolerance level."

Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney, four-term Georgia Democrat, said she was saddened but not shocked by revelations last week by black Secret Service agents involved in a discrimination lawsuit who said a limit had been placed on the number who could serve on Mr. Gore's security detail.

"Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high," she said in a news brief on her congressional Web site. "I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time. I'm not shocked, but I am certainly saddened by this revelation."

Tomb notes:
This congressional web site had the news brief removed and Fox news was questioning how or why it was removed. It is amazing how a color blind Governor Bush gets no respect from the Black community and the Al Gore racist brigade gets their vote. Maybe the majority of blacks are brainwashed.

From: legiontomb

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Security for Gore linked to race quota
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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A ceiling has been placed on the number of black U.S. Secret Service agents who can serve on Al Gore's security detail , a decision the vice president's campaign staff failed to address even after complaints by the agents, according to a Washington attorney.

Attorney Ron Schmidt said the accusation will be among several outlined during a press conference this morning involving 10 current and former black Secret Service agents, who will accuse the Clinton administration and the agency of racial hostility. "There has been a pervasive failure to address these things, and it has been quite shocking to us. The indifference shown by the Clinton administration has been palpable," said Mr. Schmidt, adding that both President Clinton and Mr. Gore were "copied on complaints" concerning the limitation of black agents on Mr. Gore's detail "and we've heard nothing from them."

"The vice president's staff was specifically told of the racial quota for the security detail, but has been silent," he said. Mr. Schmidt said the agents were unsure who established a limit for the number of blacks who can be assigned to the detail, but that they were threatened by the agency with retaliation when they complained.

He said that as a result of the complaints, one black agent was promoted as a supervisor on the detail, although the ceiling remained in effect. He said the promotion was based solely on race. Mr. Gore's office did not return calls for comment. Secret Service spokesman Jim Mackin said the "appropriate venue to address these issues" is a court of law, noting that the agency faces a pending discrimination lawsuit filed in February by 50 black agents."We intend to address these matters and others in court, but the agency is proud of its record on diversity," he said, adding that the Secret Service has "actively engaged in ensuring a diverse work environment and affording equal opportunity to each of our employees."

Mr. Mackin noted that of the seven officials assigned as the top assistants to Secret Service Director Brian L. Stafford, two are black; that seven of the agency's 11 largest field offices are headed by minority agents, including four blacks; and that of the Secret Service's Senior Executive Service, those agents considered the agency's top management, 17 percent are black. The February lawsuit, filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, was modeled after similar and successful challenges during the 1990s by black agents with the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

The suit accuses the Secret Service of failing to promote black agents to management positions despite job performance ratings showing they were qualified for the posts. It also said black agents, some of whom were assigned to protect Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore, were subjected to a pervasive pattern of discrimination involving performance reviewuations, transfers, assignments and training. It also said the agency engaged in a pattern of racial prejudice and that promotions were based on friendships rather than job qualification.

The 10 black agents, according to Mr. Schmidt and attorney David J. Shaffer, who also is handling the case, said that concerns regarding the Gore security detail were a reflection of problems throughout the Secret Service. They said the agency had allowed a "racially hostile work environment" to exist, noting that Secret Service officials in Washington had failed to punish white agents who attended an annual whites-only "Good O' Boys Round up" in the Tennessee hills. Mr. Shaffer said the widespread racism, including the attendance of white agents at the Tennessee roundup, was documented in a report by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General, although he said "it was buried in the footnotes."

"The report contains numerous references to Secret Service agents, including a notation that one of them was named 'redneck of the year,' " Mr. Shaffer said. "We also plan to present a tape of a death threat and will document numerous incidents showing a racially hostile work environment."

In 1996, a Justice Department probe into an annual roundup near the Ocoee River east of Chattanooga found ample evidence of rampant racism, public drunkenness and nudity, but concluded that local police, not federal agents , were to blame.

A separate Treasury Department investigation identified only 14 Secret Service agents who attended 11 roundups that were held, none of whom engaged in racist activities. Every Secret Service agent was questioned about the roundup and two were suspended for improper conduct, although their activities were not racially motivated. The Justice Department report found that the atmosphere at the event, organized by ATF agents, was hostile to women and to blacks and other minorities. "Our investigation revealed ample evidence of shocking, racist, licentious and puerile behavior," according to the report, which also described rampant alcohol abuse, widespread lewd performances, public nudity by participants and strippers hired for the event, crude skits, musical renditions with racist lyrics, jokes aimed at blacks and other minorities, and sales of T-shirts bearing racist comments.

The report said 44 current or former Justice Department employees in seven agencies attended the event, but that only one of them ,an FBI agent, engaged in improper conduct. The unidentified agent was suspended by FBI Director Louis J. Freeh for five days without pay and placed on probation for six months for repeatedly attending the roundups and for making a racist remark at one of them. He also was given a letter of reprimand and ordered to take sensitivity training.

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How To Destroy a Democracy (or ruin a republic):

Destroy confidence in any old laws, judicial systems, constitutions, and citizen rights, by trivializing them and consistently ignoring them. It will also help if the leaders break oaths, dodge the draft, or just generally are unethical.

Prove to the countries citizens that their leaders are not to be expected to obey laws like they are. That their leaders are above the law. This will instill in their minds the fact that government is all-powerful and that it can rightfully get away with anything. It will also discourage any resistance to the government's pollicies.

Deny any personal wrong doings over and over despite proof to the contrary. Say anything, promise anything, and do anything. Remember that leaders can do no wrong and it is best to instill this in the minds of the people as soon as possible.

Diminish the value of life itself by encouraging abortion. Especially at the last minute of birth. Disguise the brutality of this by calling it "PARTIAL" birth abortion.

Destroy the concept of voting. Implement a substitute that can be manipulated and is open to interpretation. Something like "polls" or "citizen roundtables" should work fine.

Insure that the federal government receives high visibility when giving away tax money for social programs. This will achieve two purposes. It will make the people totally dependent on the government and give the appearance that their leaders are charitable. This will in turn help the federal government look good, allow it to raise taxes, and will undoubtedly improve poll results. Never let the people realize that to give it to them you first had to take it away from them.

Pick some popular topics like cigarette smoking, gun control, safety restraints, and environmental conservation that sound good, play them up, and use them to slowly pass restrictive laws and tax codes. Each of these laws and codes should take away just a few small freedoms. People will eventually become accustom to loosing a little freedom "for their own good" and the federal government can then parley this into eventual total freedom elimination.

Obtain the names and addresses of everybody who owns a firearm. This can be accomplished through such scams as gun registration, and gun purchasing checks. When the gun purchasing checks fail, blame it on "intermediary purchasing" and pass additional restrictive, freedom removing laws.

Slowly remove all firearms from the populace. Best to claim this is for their own good because they do not know how to control their usage. Without weapons their alternatives will be limited and they will be forced to accept the federal government's will.

Insure that all education facilities become dependent on the federal government. Provide funding for programs and then use threats of fund withdrawal to achieve the government's goals despite local resistance. This will insure total compliance with federal directives and allow the government's socialistic policies to be forced into the schools.

Slowly buy into the countries business through the stock market with the intent to eventually have the government own and control all the countries industries. Best to do this under the guise of saving some popular public benefit program like health care or social pension plans.

Never acknowledge that the local government has done anything on their own. Insure that the federal government receives the bulk of the credit for anything good that happens.

Be sure to insert the federal government into major debates and arguments between unions and business. Force their compliance with the federal government's ideas and policies under the pretence of helping out. This influence can also be extended to sport activities, air travel and eventually to almost anything.

Be sure to use the federal government's military authority to demonstrate its power and to distract the citizenry from any federal government mistakes. The target is unimportant and consideration for the lose of life or military hardship is unnecessary. Just go bomb somebody!

Do not let the local government tax the people to heavily. This can be accomplished by over taxing the people with the federal government's tax. To placate the people institute small subsidies that can be given back to the people in the local government, but only if the local government spends it as the federal government says.

Should the government end up with an excess of funds be sure to immediately institute a propaganda campaign to name the excesses as "surpluses" and never let the citizens know that it is really over taxation. That way the government can claim credit instead of being blamed for unsound taxing policies.

If it becomes necessary to really cut spending, cut benefits to specific minority groups such as the military. The military after all can not criticize the government and are bound to strict obedience. Essential military projects are also good targets. The cuts can always be attributed to your opponents and later you can claim a defense crisis and look like a hero by reinstating the programs.

Subsidize local police forces with the intent of achieving federal influence at the local law enforcement level. This procedure will make it possible for the federal government to use the local police to enforce federal laws without remuneration. This added financial burden would provide the added benefit of making local authorities dependent on the federal government.

Demonize a particular group of citizens and place all blame for the nation's ills upon their shoulders. You should pick some group like the "Religious Right" or "Christian Conservatives". This procedure worked well for the Nazi's with the Jews and the tactic undoubtedly will work well again.

Ron Bill

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Wake up America - Nov 7th will impact all of us in a very bad way if we don't!

Folks,

For those convinced that our favorite Treeman is the second coming of Einstein (at least compared to GWB), an interesting revelation can be found in the Sep 7 issue of the Boston Globe.

Jennifer C. Braceras, an attorney and research fellow at Harvard Law School unearthed these little gems (and how often have we heard them in the mainstream press, btw?):

*Al Gore's Harvard undergraduate transcript is riddled with C's, including a C- in introductory economics, a D in one science course and a C+ in another.f

*In his sophomore year Gore's grades were lower than on ANY semester recorded on GWB's Yale transcript.

*In 1971 Gore enrolled at Vanderbilt Divinity School as a graduate student and received 5 F's out of 8 courses during 3 semesters. BTW, Gore did not receive a degree from the school.

*Al Gore did not graduate from Vanderbilt Law School where he enrolled for a brief time and again received his fairshare of C's. (Yet when introduced by PBS news anchor Gwen Ifill as a "graduate of Vanderbilt Law School" Mr.Gore failed to point this out.

Of course with such sterling qualifications one can excuse Mr. Gore for not wanting to inject a little honesty into his campaign. And all across America if you listen carefully you'll hear the lowing of a lot of duped sheep. Wake up America-Nov 7th will impact all of us in a very bad way if we don't!

Mike

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Now jack valenti joins the list. Valenti, the leader of the motion picture industry, thinks gore and lieberman are just pandering to the voters, when they call for the industry to clean up their act, and reduce violence.

Valenti, said, even he would campaign on the issue, and then just let it die, after the election. this is concerning, because this is the same stance Sweeney and the unions had on gore and free trade with china. the labor unions feel gore will support the unions, AFTER he gets elected. What Gore says to get elected, doesn't seem to bother the labor unions either. What next? Will gore be supporting student vouchers and certain restrictions on abortion? If the polls tell him he needs more votes, dont be supprised if teachers and feminist still support gore. They know what gore is all about. A wink and a nod.
jay payne

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Subject:
Al Gore v George Bush

I am a 63 year old grandmother of 5, and a mother of 2.Our family will all be voting for George W Bush as we did for his Father.

We want honesty and up front truth's not lies and Communism. I maynot no the right way to go for health care but I do know it's not universal coverage.

Al Gore just sounds so much like Hillary Clinton's goals 2000 .Which if this book is read would spell out a blue print plan of all that has happened and still forth coming from the Clinton's but people just don't read like they use to.

I myself have lost my health insurance and do not have private coverage. So, God willing and the creek don't rise I will remain healthy till something affordable comes along.
So for Me it's Go Bush And hope he keeps his kiss's private.

Eleanor Braun

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Does the Democratic Party support the rights of taxpayers to choose the school that is best suited for their own child?

No! The Democrats support the Union's need for power rather than empowerment of parents and their children. Yet both Clinton and Gore chose private schools for their own childrenThere is nothing wrong with that , except that they are against giving poorer Americans the same options.

I agree with Vice President Gore that his children deserve a 1st class education, but Mr. Gore, so do all of America's children. And I am going to make sure that all of America's children have the same opportunities that your children had!

Are the Democrats and their Union fighting to make the school better? Do they want to give children and the families more choices? On the contrary, they are using their funding to keep choices form those who have none.

The rhetoric is that Democrats care more for the poor. Then why --are they keeping educational opportunities from those of lower income? The rhetoric and reality to do not match.

The reality: The Democrats are fighting to keep their power! * It is time that we hold the Clinton/Gore Administration accountable for over 700 million dollars that were"lost"--or unaccounted for-- in the education budget. How can we give them more of our hard earned tax dollars, when they squander the money we give them? We don't have time to get to the other Clinton/Gore mismanaged government departments.

I am proud to say I will fight for the children , and I will fight for competition and choices in education, *dignity to the military, strength to keep the peace- especially since so many of our military secrets have disappeared under the Clinton/Gore watch.. I will give the American people more of their own money to invest in their futures, to give younger Americans more choices for investing a small portion of their social security taxes, so they will be less dependent on the Government in their golden years. Seniors, remember--that it is the Clinton /Gore adminstration that taxed your Social Security. Iwon't alllow that.

The Democratic philosophy is based on dependency... because it creates built in votes. Our party wants to give minorities real independence, we want them to also know the joys of The American Dream-- so they are dependent on no one.... The dream is alive and real in our party-- it is still alive and well and there is room for all --- all who believe that our children deserve better than to place on the bottom of the world in education....who believe they know what is better for their families than the government. -- and for those who want to restore dignity and decency-- in the White House.

** The Clinton/Gore administration plays the race card, chants the risksy scheme mantra, creates class envy-- to keep the people down -to make them take their eyes off the American dream-- They have convinced you that opportunity is not possible for you -- without their help. They have more confidence in Government than faith in you. If you just give them more money, they will solve all of your problems... We know that you are able to succeed without being a slave to Government. Taxes on everything---especially on the middle class---- close to 50 percent of what we make--is nothing more than a form of slavery. The founding fathers -- that rose up to risk they lives against such taxation... did not intend this.

We want to lift you up with optimism and pride, not hold you down with envy and despair.

.I am proud to be a Republican! The party of Lincoln that freed the slaves in the 19th century. The party that balanced the budget in the 20th century and the party that will give equal opportunities in education in the 21st century. (LONG PAUSE FOR CLAPPING)

Permission granted to beused -- all or in part.

From:
"Dan Lewis

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MEMPHIS
<http://www.FreeRepublic.com/perl/profile?opshow&userGailA>
The local USDA inspector has been busy here in Memphis.
In a first ever visit to the Memphis Union Mission. The inspector (un-named) asked the Mission what was required of the people who received the free meals, and the answer was to attend a 40 minute service and a prayer. USDA inspector on the spot has cut off the 10-12 tons of USDA donated surplus food to the Memphis Union Mission which serves 170,000 meals a year to the homeless in Memphis, because the Mission requires the recipients to sit through a sermon and prayer. BTW: These folks enter the Mission of their own freewill.

This issue was the subject of discussion on our local talk radio WREC 600 with Mike Fleming our local talk host yesterday and today. Also News Channel 13 reported it last night. NOT one word in The Commercial Appeal (clinton/gore boot lickers).

Has something similar happened elsewhere? The pastor says he will not knuckle under to the government and stop requiring the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus to the homeless. The Memphis Union Mission also has a successful drug program with about a 50% success rate.

Memphis Union Mission
383 Popular Ave
Memphis, TN
901-526-8403

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Dope-Smoking Al Gore Flunked Out of Grad School

IT IS TIME FOR THEM TO GO VOTE FOR GEORGE W. BUSH
Dope-Smoking Al Gore Flunked Out of Grad School
Vice President Al Gore flunked out of a leading Tennessee graduate school at a time when he was a heavy marijuana user, according to academic records and the account of a former friend whom the Gore campaign tried to surpress. "In 1971, Gore enrolled in Vanderbilt Divinity School where, according to Bill Turque, author of 'Inventing Al Gore,' he received F's in five of the eight classes he took over the course of three semesters. Not surprisingly, Gore did not receive a degree from the divinity school," reported the Boston Globe Thursday.

The vice president next enrolled in Vanderbilt Law School, where his mother was the first woman to earn a law degree. But after a brief and lackluster law school career, young Gore dropped out. Though the vice president has publicly admitted to only rare and intermittent drug use during the time he flunked out of one school and dropped out of another, at least one former friend challenges that version of events.

In January, family friend John C. Warnecke went public with his account of what he says was the vice president's far more substantial drug habit during the five years between Gore's 1971 return from Vietnam and his decision to enter politics in 1976: "Al Gore and I smoked regularly, as buddies," Warnecke told DRCnet's The Week Online. "Marijuana, hash. I was his regular supplier. I didn't deal dope, I just gave it to him."

Warnecke says they got high together regularly during the years when Gore's poor academic performance turned him into a dropout: "We smoked more than once, more than a few times, we smoked a lot. We smoked in his car, in his house, we smoked in his parents' house, in my house ... we smoked on weekends. We smoked a lot."

Last fall, NewsMax.com contacted Vanderbilt University and requested information about Gore's academic record. The school said the material could not be released without Gore's permission.

In 1988 - as Gore prepared for his first run for the White House - Warnecke says he got a call from the then- Tennessee senator, who tried to pressure him into falsely denying the drug story.Warnecke acquiesced at the time but decided to come clean last year when Turque interviewed him for his book. The media has all but ignored Warnecke's account, despite its relevance to Gore's short-circuited academic career.
From: "Nicole Penson

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Gore has adult-entertainment support
By Jennifer Harper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Several thousand members of the Internet adult entertainment industry are expected to endorse Al Gore for president during "IA2000," an upcoming trade show in New Orleans.

The ranks of the 4,000 attendees include publishers, technical service providers, performers and other on-line purveyors of X-rated content. Sponsors for the show include Cybererotica and RJB Telecom, two companies that operate such Web sites as"XXX Password" and "Kara's Adult Playground,"respectively.

Mr. Gore and the Democratic Party are the first order of business when the convention opens Friday morning. A forum called "Adult Community Meeting: Vote Democratic!" is planned to address the group's political concerns, particularly the November elections. "Al Gore and Joe Lieberman are about to get a fervent endorsement they probably would just as soon not have," said an IA2000 spokesman, who thinks the session will be "one of the best attended." Though most participants are expected to support Mr. Gore, "their endorsement will not be welcome," the spokesman added.

But the Democrats seem to be the party of choice."Don't underestimate the ramifications of right-wing government on E-commerce," said Paul Cambria, a Los Angles-based First Amendment lawyer who will moderate the session. "We're going to encourage attendees to encourage their various audiences to vote for Gore and Lieberman," he said. "This is a get-out-the-vote effort. No one should underestimate the power of adult industry consumers."

Mr. Cambria, who has represented Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt and musician Marilyn Manson in the past, also hopes to raise political awareness."The ticket means more than just Gore and Lieberman. There are judges, prosecutors ? we have tothink of that too," he said. "But in the long run, theDemocrats may just prove to be the lesser of two evils."

In the past, Democrats have been associated with"free expression," Mr. Cambria added, "despite personal attitudes and behaviors of the politicians. And right now they're on their best behavior." Mr. Cambria cited Mr. Gore's decision to move a fund-raiser from the Playboy Mansion during the Democratic convention, Mr. Lieberman's religious conservatism and Tipper Gore's past objections to dubious rock music lyrics.

Others have pondered Mr. Gore's actions as he attempts to add centrist values to his party while not alienating the oft-left-leaning entertainment world. During an appearance on CNN Sunday, Lynne Cheney, wife of Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard B. Cheney, took Mr. Gore to task. He talked "values" by day, Mrs. Cheney said, only to attend an evening "party with the entertainment industry, raise millions of dollars, listen to scatological jokes about people who are concerned about the entertainment industry marketing adult products to our children; sit there and listen to jokes so ? how shall I say this politely ?X-rated, that I can't think of anyone I could tell them to."

In the meantime, convention organizers note they do not produce child pornography and will offer a seminar on child protection. "Child pornographers and those who consume child porn are, as a group, some of the most reviled persons on the planet," said show manager Renee Johnson. "Responsible people in the legitimate adult industry want to eradicate child porn and we are in a unique position to do something about it."

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TN Herald-News: Gore

THE HERALD-NEWS, DAYTON, TENNESSEE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,
2000, P. A-4 (reprinted by permission)

Tennessee hasn't had a native son in the White House in more than a century. Certainly most Tennesseans would agree it would be good to have one of our own as president. The question is whether Al Gore is still a Tennessean and whether we can afford for him to be president.

Al Gore is not the man Tennesseans sent to Washington as vice president in 1992. He's certainly not the same man Fourth District voters made the youngest Congressman in decades at the tender age of 28, nor is he the same man Tennessee sent to the U.S. Senate by huge margins in 1984 and 1990.

He has abandoned the conservative, Southern values for which we once elected him.

Let's look at some of the changes.

Al Gore once told The Herald-News he was "personally opposed"? to abortion. He also said he was against federal funding of abortions. Now Gore has positioned himself as the great champion of abortion rights and even defends the barbaric practice of partial-birth abortions. America's youngest and most defenseless citizens would receive no protection under a Gore presidency.

Ten years ago when Gore last ran for the Senate, The Herald-News supported him, in part because he portrayed himself as a defender of the Second Amendment. Gore was a friend to hunters and sportsmen and considered himself one.

Since then he has changed directions 180 degrees. He now supports national registration and licensure of all guns and all gun owners. He is solidly in the gun control camp that wants to eliminate all private ownership of handguns, semiautomatic rifles and pump shotguns. Of course, the private security forces for the elite would still have easy access to these weapons. Oh, and of course, so would the criminals.

On environmental issues Gore was once essentially mainstream. He believed in common sense EPA regulations and continued private use of public lands by permit. Now when it comes to environmental issues, Gore is on the fringe. He is more closely aligned with Katuah Earth First!, that radical environmentalist, tree-worshiping group that chained themselves to concreted barrels to block access to Watts Bar Nuclear Plat three years ago, than with the average Tennessean.

Gore writes in his book "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit,"? "we must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization."? Surely we face greater issues than protecting the environment.

Once Gore told The Herald-News he believed it was an admirable thing for committed parents to educate their children at home for religious or personal reasons. Now Gore supports a National Education Association policy that would make it illegal for most families to home school. It calls for all teachers, regardless of the type of school they teach in--public, private, religious or home--to be licensed by the federal government and to only teach"state-approved"? curriculum.

Tennesseans have historically valued their independence very highly, perhaps it is a remnant of the pioneer spirit that built this great state. Unfortunately, Gore now supports increasing control by the federal government in most area of our lives.

The bottom line is, Gore doesn't hold to the same conservative Southern values that led Tennesseans to elect him six times to Congress. During his time in Washington, D.C., he has forgotten his roots.

Al Gore may claim Tennessee. The question is, can Tennessee still claim Al Gore?

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AL GORE IN VIET NAM

Having posted a little tickler in last week's Digest about Al Gore's "141 days in Vietnam," The Federalist Editorial Board was inundated with inquiries from Vietnam vets. Most went something like this: "Gore claimed in his convention speech: 'I enlisted in the Army because I knew if I didn't go, someone else in the small town of Carthage, Tennessee would have to go in my place.' Since he wasn't KIA or wounded, how was it that his Army tour was far shorter than all therest of us?"

Our astute veteran readers took the bait!

Gore's campaign launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign this week to tell his "life story." The ads will include references to his "service" in Vietnam-however brief. Gore spent less than five months of a typical twelve-month tour in Vietnam. He spent every minute of his "tour" as a "rear-echelon...." (call any combat veteran and they can complete that phrase for you). He was classified as a military journalist after telling recruiters he was a "newspaper trainee" (read "copy boy") for the New York Times while a student at Harvard. He was assigned as a noncombatant "information specialist" to the Army's 20th Engineers Brigade headquarters at Bien Hoa military base near Saigon.

Gore's immediate supervisor in Vietnam has confirmed that his posting there came with explicit instructions to baby-sit him and make sure he was never in any danger. That fact notwithstanding, Gore has claimed to the Washington Post that he was "shot at" and "spent most of my time in the field." He later told the Baltimore Sun that "[I] pulled my turn on the perimeter at night and walked through the elephant grass and I was fired upon." He has since backed off these exaggerated claims.

On May 22, 1971, not five months into his "tour of duty," Gore was given special dispensation and a one-way ticket home to attend divinity school in Nashville. He dropped out of Vanderbilt shortly thereafter.

As for the seven months cut from Gore's tour of duty in Vietnam, we suppose "someone else in the small townof Carthage, Tennessee" had to finish his tour "in hisplace."

In other words, this guy served in Viet Nam about the same as he's from a farm family in Tennessee! The guywas raised in a hotel room in Washington DC, educated in the DC area and went down to Carthage, TN whenever his Dad had to run for reelection. He served in Viet Nam with about the same frequency and reasoning.

I hope you all see thru this "Clinton Clone".

Larry Blanks

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Al Gore

I was a U.S. Navy Corpsman (Marine Medic) on active duty from 1966-1968. I spent a great deal of time "patching up" Viet Nam Vets and I resent Al Gore using his Viet Nam Vet statement as if he really did something over there. The only reason he was over there was that his father knew it would look good on a political resume. It makes me sick to hear him talk as if he was in any risk. Everyone knows that he was in a safe area and that his father "arranged" for Al to be protected in a manner equal to having personal body guards.

His Viet Nam experience was a BIG JOKE and I (along with others) resent it that he is using it for nothing but political reasons. To me, he is no better than his boss, Bill Cinton who doesn't have any shame either.

From Dusty

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DO WE REALLY NEED ANOTHER PATHOLOGICAL LIAR FOR PRESIDENT?

 

FICTION: Al Gore recently claimed that his mother-in-law pays more than $100.00 for the arthritis medicine Lodine; and he claims that his dog takes the same medicine for $37.00, claiming "This is wrong!"
FACT: Gore's aides were quick to apologize for Gore's lie, sayingthe information was from a Democratic study. Washington newspapers also reported that Al Gore wasn't even sure his mother-in-law was taking any medication and wasn't even sure she had arthritis. And, he doesn't know anything about his dog's "arthritis".

FICTION: Al Gore said his father, a senator, was a champion of civil rights during the 1960's.
FACT: Gore's father voted against the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and was a racist who was fond of using the "N" word.

FICTION: Al Gore said that his sister was the very first person to join the Peace Corps.
FACT: By the time Gore's sister joined the Peace Corps, there were already over 100 members.

FICTION: The same sister died of lung cancer years later and Gore vowed to never accept tobacco money as campaign contributions.
FACT: Just four years later, while campaigning for office, Gore spoke to the tobacco industry and said he was one of them because "I've planted it, raised it, cut it, and dried it." He raised over $100,000 in "reported" contributions.

FICTION: While running for office, Gore's campaign literature claimed he was a "Brilliant Student".
FACT: Washington newspapers said he barely passed Harvard and consistently earned D's and C's.

FICTION: Gore claims an extensive knowledge of law as a result of his extensive study at law school.
FACT: Al Gore dropped out of law school.

FICTION: Gore claimed that his knowledge of God and spirituality came to complete fruition while "finishing" divinity school.
FACT: Al Gore dropped out of divinity school.

FICTION: Al Gore claimed responsibility for inventing the Internet in the 1990's.
FACT : Shocked scientists were quick to speak out, explaining that the Internet had been in widespread use by government and educational institutions since the early 1970's.

FICTION: Al Gore claimed the book "Love Story" was based on his life and Tipper's.
FACT: Author Erich Segal called a press conference to deny his claim. (Couldn't he at least lie about a love story where his sweetheart doesn't die?")

FICTION : Gore claimed that as a reporter for a Nashville newspaper, his stories led to the arrests of numerous corrupt criminals.
FACT: He later apologized for his claim and actually said it was untrue (Also known as lying).

FICTION: Gore claims to increase diversity in the staff that follows him daily, especially among blacks.
FACT: Black members of the Secret Service are suing because they claim they are not being promoted to positions guarding the Vice-President.

FICTION: Al Gore said he was the first to discover the Love Canal nuclear accident.
FACT: The incident was already discovered, being investigated, and covered widely in the press for many months before Gore was aware of it.

FICTION: Gore said just recently that if elected president, he would put harsh sanctions on the sleazy producers of Hollywood's extreme sex and violence.
FACT: Just six days later, Gore attended a fundraiser by Hollywood producers and radical gay activists where he told them that he would only pretend to "nudge them" if elected. He raised over $4 million.

FICTION: Al Gore said he built his Tennessee home with his bare hands.
FACT : Totally false! (Who does he think he is.... Daniel Boone?)

FICTION: Al Gore says parents should not have a choice between private and public schools because public schools are far better.
TRUTH : Al Gore attended private school and he has sent his children to private schools.

FICTION: Al Gore remembers his mother lulling him to sleep as a baby by singing the popular ditty, "Wear The Union Label".
FACT: The popular ditty was created by the unions when Gore was 27 years old.

FICTION: Al Gore claimed to co-sponsor the McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act.
FACT: The Act was not sponsored until he had been out of office for over a year.

FICTION: Al Gore claims to be instrumental in keeping gas prices low.
FACT: Gore has voted on numerous occasions to raise the tax on gasoline. In his book "Earth In The Balance" Gore claims that the nation's Number One enemy is the internal combustion engine. (That's the motor in your vehicle that gets you to work and takes your kids to school)

FICTION: Gore pretends to champion the rights of poor women to be tested regularly for breast cancer with the most modern technology.
FACT: While giving a speech on the subject in September, Gore didn't know what a mammogram was.

FICTION: AL Gore promised Florida's senior citizens that they would finally have low-cost drugs with no interference from government.
FACT: Gore's plan calls for the creation of a huge federal agency that would tell you which doctor you are allowed to see in order to get
the "special rates".

FACT: Al Gore told NBC's Lisa Meyers that he had never told a lie. When Meyers pressed harder, "You've never told a lie?!" Gore said, "Not
that I know of." SOUND FAMILIAR?

Election Day is ticking away. E-mail this to as many people as possible or we will be living in an Al Gore fantasyland!

DON'T LET THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES GORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!(Any bull-fighter will tell you being GORED is not good) LET's STOP THIS NOW! Register and VOTE RESPONSIBLY!

 

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IS THERE ANYWAY THAT THE RNC OR OTHERS COULD RUN A POLITICAL AD OF GORE AS THE ENERGIZER BUNNY...JUST PICTURE GORE'S FACE ON THE BUNNY GOINGON AND ON AND ON IN CIRCLES ....THROWING OUR $'S ALL OVER THE PLACE.....I THINK ITWOULD BE A GREAT AD.

THANKS
JACKIE TASCHLER, BAY VILLAGE, OHIO

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1. WAKE UP, WOMEN OF AMERICA! YOU ARE SACRIFICING ALL THE GOOD THINGS A WOMAN STANDS FOR BY SUPPORTING GORE AND HIS LIBERAL FRIENDS. THINK ABOUT IT! HERE ARE SOME THOUGHTS:

- IF YOU ARE A MOTHER, YOU CHOSE LIFE - BUT YOU NOW CHOOSE ABORTION. IT'S OKAY TO TAKE A LIFE NOW THAT YOU HAVE YOURS. IT'S OKAY NOW TO SUPPORT CHOICE BECAUSE IT SHOWS YOU ARE "WITH IT" WITH TODAY'S YOUNG GENERATION. HOW VERY SAD! YOU HAVE LOST YOUR IDENTITY, YOUR SENSITIVITY, YOUR "FEMININITY", YOUR ADVANCEMENTS TOWARD BECOMING AN INTELLECTUAL, THINKING, VOTING, RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUAL. DO YOU HAVE TO TRASH ALL VALUES JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A DEMOCRAT! P L E A S E! P L E A S E CONSIDER WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

- IN THIS MORNING'S C-SPAN BROADCAST DISCUSSION ABOUT RU486, WOMEN ARE 100% IN FAVOR. WHY? WHAT ARE THEY SO PROUD ABOUT? I AM APALLED AS A WOMAN TO KNOW THAT MY GENDER'S INTELLIGENCE AND MORAL FIBER HAS BEEN SO POLLUTED BY THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT THAT THEY CAN NO LONGER THINK INDEPENDENTLY ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE DOING. WHAT ARE THEY THINKING WHEN THEY SUPPORT THEIR DAUGHTERS' DECISIONS ON ABORTION? WHERE IS THE HUMAN RESPECT FOR ONE ANOTHER, ESPECIALLY FOR THE UNBORN WHO ARE INCAPABLE OF CASTING THEIR VOTE? WOMEN WHO SUPPORT THIS CAUSE ARE NO LONGER NURTURERS, BUT MURDERERS.

- ALSO CONCERNING THIS MORNING'S C-SPAN BROADCAST, I FOUND THE MEN TO BE MUCH MORE INTELLIGENT, COMPASSIONATE, CARING, AND CONCERNED ABOUT THE MORAL ISSUES OF THIS COUNTRY. THEY ARE AGAINST RU486 FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS, AND THEY ABSOLUTELY HAVE A RIGHT TO VOICE THEIR OPINION. AS PROSPECTIVE FATHERS, THEY HAD A PART IN A PREGNANCY. LADIES, REMEMBER THAT IT TAKES 2 TO TANGO! (OR PERHAPS THAT IS OLD-FASHIONED PHILOSOPHY NOW THAT YOU CAN GET PREGNANT FROM A TEST-TUBE - HOW ROMANTIC IS THAT!?)

- THINK ABOUT ALL THE LIES AND ILLUSIONS OF GRANDEUR SUBMITTED BY SIR AL:

O HE SLAMS BUSH ABOUT HIS TIES TO BIG OIL, YET HE HAS SOME OF HIS OWN. TAKE A LOOK AT TODAY'S WASH. TIMES EDITORIAL ENTITLED "AL GORE IS BIG OIL". IT'S JUST THE FACTS, MAM!

O IF GORE IS SO PRO-EDUCATION, WHY DOESN'T HE SUPPORT SCHOOL VOUCHERS. HIS OWN KIDS WENT TO PRIVATE SCHOOL. LADIES, WHAT DOES THIS TELL YOU? A BIT OF A DOUBLE STANDARD HERE, HUM???

O IF GORE IS SO RELIGIOUS, AS IS HIS RUNNING MATE, WHY DO HE AND LIEBERMAN SUPPORT RU486? DIDN'T HE AND TIPPER CHOOSE LIFE VICE "CHOICE" WHEN THEY DECIDED TO HAVE THEIR CHILDREN? WHY IS "CHOICE" A GOOD THING WHEN IT IS DESTROYING A LIFE? AS A JEW, WHOSE RELIGION ABHORS ABORTION, HOW CAN LIEBERMAN STAND NEXT TO GORE AND SUPPORT HIS ISSUES?

O "THE KISS!!!" PLEASE LADIES - IS YOUR OWN PERSONAL LOVE LIFE SO DEPRESSING THAT THIS BUMBLING DISPLAY OF EMOTION LEFT YOU BREATHLESS? I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IT! YOU AGAIN ARE DISPLAYING THE LEVEL OF YOUR INTELLIGENCE AND INDEPENDENCE IF THIS MADE SUCH AN IMPACT. HOW SAD FOR YOU!

O TAXES: NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD SAY " I DON'T WANT TAX RELIEF!" YOU MUST BE ONE OF "THOSE RICH PEOPLE" WHO DON'T NEED IT! ALSO, GORE'S "TARGETTED TAX CUT!" WHO IS THAT FOR? ALSO, WHEN DID A POOR GUY EVER GIVE YOU A JOB ANYWAY! BUSH IS GOING TO GIVE EVERYONE A TAX CUT, AND YES THAT DOES INCLUDE THOSE WHO ARE CONSIDERED RICH. THEY PAY TAXES, TOO. THINK ABOUT IT!

O OIL SURPLUS RESERVE TAP: JUST ANOTHER POLITICAL MOVE BY MR. BILL FOR HIS BUDDY.

O "IT'S HOWDY DOODY TIME, BOYS AND GIRLS!" IT'S GORE TIME! WITH HIS BLOND BIMBETTE, TIPPER, FOR ENTERTAINMENT.

O THINK ABOUT IT:
GORE'S CABINET: JESSE JACKSON, LOUIS FARAKHAN, AL SHARPTON, MAXINE WATERS, HOLLYWOOD FEMINISTS/GAYS/LIBERALS
BUSH'S CABINET: COLIN POWELL, JESSE WATTS, CONDALEEZA RICE (SP?) A MAN FOR "ALL" PEOPLE, NOT JUST A FEW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

JANE (MANASSAS, VIRGINIA)

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Heard Gore this morning trying to justify his energy policies. He got right back into the "Sing-Sing" mode that makes people feel like Kindergartners. Aside from his devastating policies, his double-speak, his lack of integrity, and the clear and present danger that his potential presidency would bring to our great country----How on earth could we stand to listen to that pedantic speaking for a term?

The best thing the networks can do to help Bush win is to let Gore droll on and on and on. On stump speeches he has been coached to get "enthusiasm"in his words. This will not be the case if he was elected.

With great appreciation to you for being so gifted and being so modest about it ----Just kidding about the modesty!! It has made you famous and you deserve all our gratitude and all the praise you can get.

A real fan.
Marj

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An Open Letter to Open-Minded Cynics
David Limbaugh

I know there are many of you who disagree with our Founding Fathers that when it comes to electing the president, character is vitally important.

Is it because you've allowed yourselves to become so cynical that you believe all politicians are equally corrupt? Or could it be that you think character matters somewhat, but not nearly as much as the candidate's policy proposals?

Assuming your preferred candidate is truly committed to his ideology, I want to suggest toyou that certain men will sacrifice their principles remorselessly to promote their self-interests.

In the process, lives can be greatly affected and, in some cases, lost. You may discount much of the abundant evidence pointing toward Al Gore's integrity deficiencies, such as his politically expedient reversals on many issues of importance, including abortion, gun control and tobacco ? and his denials of those flip-flops.

Or you may think Bill Bradley's depiction of him as a person who would say anything to get elected can be written off to the excesses of a spirited primary campaign. Gore's embellishments, exaggerations and fantasies may not bother you, either. Let me alert you, then, to two incidents that ought to shake you to your core.

Former Republican Senator Alan Simpson was so disturbed by Gore's campaign ad distorting his Gulf War vote that he wrote an article to correct the record.

Incidentally, if you are unfamiliar with Senator Simpson, he is universally considered to be a plainspoken person. Even those who disagree with him know he tells the truth, which means you can rely on his version of this event. Simpson said that the congressional vote to approve then-President Bush's decision to send half a million American soldiers to fight against Iraq's Saddam Hussein was of sobering importance.

Experts were predicting heavy American casualties. "I can't think of anyone who didn't have a lump in his or her throat as they weighed the situation." The night before the debate, said Simpson, Al Gore stepped in to the Republican cloakroom where Simpson and Senator Dole were discussing the upcoming Gulf War vote. Gore got right to the point. He offered to sell his vote ? to support President Bush ? if the Republicans could guarantee him a prime-time speaking slot that would ensure him plenty of coverage in the news cycle.

Simpson said that while in his ad Gore says he "broke with his own party to support the Gulf War," it's much closer to the truth to say he broke for the cameras to support the Gulf War. While Gore insists that he is "fighting for us," said Simpson, his Gulf War vote shows he is "usually fighting for Al."

There's another story just as chilling. This one is from a Democrat: Chief Investigative Counsel for the Clinton Impeachment, David Schippers. Even if you are tired of the impeachment saga ,you owe it to yourself to buy Schippers' book, "Sellout," for Chapter Four alone.

In it, Schippers tells another revealing story about the person many of you intend to vote for in the presidential election. He relates the inside story of how Al Gore and his top aides pressured the Immigration and Naturalization Service to shortcut and ignore its procedures and hurriedly naturalize one million immigrants before the 1996 presidential election because they were likely Democratic voters.

Many of these quickly naturalized citizens had criminal records that were ignored by INS officials ? "on orders from above." It was not a casual oversight. According to the FBI, said Schippers, many of these same criminals committed crimes in the United States after becoming citizens. In Schippers' inimitable words, "thousands of criminals are now citizens of the United States because it was assumed they would vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore."

Do these stories trouble you at all? Al Gore's dominant campaign theme is that he is fighting for the little person against the interests of the powerful.

For those of you who receive such promises with approval, are you going to take his word for it? Which little people was he fighting for in the Gulf War? In the INS scandal? At the Buddhist temple? By opposing school choice for inner-city children? Do you want to entrust the presidency to someone like this for another eight years?


COPYRIGHT 2000 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.

David Limbaugh graduated cum laude with a political science degree from the University of Missouri. He received his law degree from the UM Law School in 1978 and was on the Missouri Law Review. After finishing school, Limbaugh taught business law at Southeast Missouri State from 1977 to 1978. He was admitted to the bar in 1978 and has practiced law for 20 years. He is a partner in the firm of Limbaugh, Russell, Payne and Howard. He has been a syndicated columnist since 1998.

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THE TENNESSEAN
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To the Editor:

I don't understand why Al Gore went to all of the trouble of trying to distance himself from Bill Clinton's problems, even choosing a running mate, who doesn't agree with him on many issues, to add integrity to the ticket. He then turns around and shows us what he has learned at the feet of "Bubba" the Jedi master liar. Unfortunately for our "native son" he does not have the skills required to keep the wool pulled ever everyone's eyes. Most people understood, whether they agreed or not, that the President was lying to protect himself. However, Prince Albert suffers from an extreme lack of self confidence or is just totally delusional. He doesn't seem able to stop himself. Therefore it is left to the voters of America to stop him before he lies again. Perhaps after a few years in the Hillary Clinton clinic for chronic liars, Mr. Gore could again be a productive member of society.

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Press Ignores Gore Scandal

Source: Washington Times
Published: 9/6/00 Author: Tony Blankley

Al Gore is about to have woman troubles: No, not that kind. Her name is Victoria Cummock. She alleges that Mr. Gore was in bed, not with a woman, but with the airline industry he was entrusted to investigate when TWA Flight 800 went down. In June last year she won a little-noted decision in the D.C. Court of Appeals that keeps her search for truth alive. The search continues, and Mr. Gore is about to learn that Mrs. Cummock is not a woman with whom to be trifled.

What brings her case to mind is the maxim of Washington journalism that if a politician champions a particular value, he deserves to be measured by that standard himself. So, when I see Mr. Gore repeatedly assume the heroic pose on behalf of the little guy against the powerful special interests, my thoughts turn to Victoria Cummock. Here's why.

In 1996, in the aftermath of the crash of TWA Flight 800, President Clinton personally called Mrs. Cummock to ask her to serve as a commissioner on The White House Commission on Aviation Safety, created to investigate the crash. He also appointed Mr. Gore to be its chairman. She was chosen because her husband had been killed in the Pan Am 103/Lockerbie crash. Since then, she had become a leading passenger-rights advocate, and Mr. Clinton had assured her he sincerely wanted to develop new, tough counter-terrorism procedures. He instructed Mr. Gore to make recommendations within 45 days.

The Gore Commission produced a tough preliminary report, and at a Sept. 9, 1996, press conference Mr. Gore publicly asserted the need for those changes. And then, all hell broke loose - but for Mr. Gore, not for the terrorists. "Within ten days, the whole [airline] industry jumped all over Al Gore," Mrs. Cummock reported. On Sept. 19, Mr. Gore sent a letter to airline lobbyist Carol Hallett, promising that the commission's findings would not cause the airlines any loss of revenue. The next day the Democratic National Committee received a $40,000 contribution from TWA. In the next two weeks Northwest, United and American Airlines donated $55,000 more.

In the following two months (leading up to the November 1996 presidential elections) American Airlines donated a quarter of a million dollars to the Democrats. United Airlines donated $100,000 to the DNC. Northwestern upped its anty to $53,000. In all, Mr. Gore and the Democrats collected almost half a million dollars between the election and the day - two months before - that Mr. Gore assured the airlines his commission wouldn't cost them any money.

At the time, White House spokesperson Ginny Terzano refused either to confirm or deny that Mr. Gore personally solicited the airline contributions. But that is not what got Victoria Cummock's dander up.

In January 1997, Mr. Gore's staff circulated a draft final report that eliminated all security measures from their findings. Not only Mrs. Cummock, but CIA Director and fellow Commissioner John Deutch complained. So Mr. Gore pulled back the draft. In February Mr. Gore finally came up with the classic Washington ploy. The final report called for sensible new procedures that would cost the airlines millions of dollars: 450 high tech bomb detectors, more training for airport security, criminal background checks for security personnel, increased canine patrols. But Victoria Cummock noticed one thing was missing - there was no timetable to accomplish these requirements. She informed the vice president that without timetables, the report was "toothless" and she couldn't support it, but instead would file a dissent.

It was a classic Washington victory. The policy wonks got their proposals noticed, the airlines got their bottom line protected and Mr. Gore got his party the money. The only losers were the passengers, who got no increased security from terrorism. So, when Mr. Gore actually had a chance to fight, rather than talk about, the powerful special interests on behalf of the little guy, he turned his money-stuffed coat and protected the interests that bought him.

In an open meeting on Feb. 12, Mr. Gore stated that he would leave room in the final report for Victoria Cummock's dissent. A few minutes later at the White House, as Mr. Gore presented the final report to President Clinton, the vice president announced that the report was unanimous. Both of those Gore lies are on video tape. NBC's Dateline has the tapes.

And so Mrs. Cummock went to court. Not on behalf of some conspiracy theory, but on the right to see commission files that were denied her and the right to file a dissent. She only wanted the commission's own findings to be enforced. After winning in the D.C. Court of Appeals last year, she is slowly gaining discovery of the commission's secret files.

She has already found one interesting document in the secret commission files: A letter to Mr. Gore from his now famous convicted felon fund-raiser Maria Hsia. In that note she talks about the successful fund-raiser at the Buddhist Temple and asks the vice president for help in getting government funding for her to be part of the Project Citizenship initiative. Now, however did that note end up in the secret Gore Commission files? More to come.

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Gore is now claiming that he gets details wrong. If he cannot keep details straight, he is not capable of running the country. If he is lying, he should not be given a platform to disgrace the U.S. and his mentor did.

Win Grand Stand

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I am 22 years of age in California. I am self employed, work 40+ hours a week, and carry 13 units in school. I am employed as a life insurance agent. I am a little confused about why their is such a huge crises regarding Medicare. In California, we have Medicare supplements for the elderly that carry the same drug program as offered to anyone else. In addition, most programs have a small co-pay or no co-pay. I think seniors that don't take advantage of this have no one to blame but themselves for not having prescription drugs.

Also, the contiuation of Al Gore's programs if elected will continue the increase of taxation.What future do I have if after I obtain my degree and am in the work force, if I have to pay 50% of my hard earned money back to the government?; for programs that I will never use. Social Security will be gone or be so insugnificant that it will seem like pocket change. Welfare people, who don't work and are supported by the governement. I would do much better investing the 3% Medicare tax in the market than to let the government invest my money.

One other issue I want to address. Democrats seem to be moving more towards socialism. In other countries, socialism works in the sense that people are not hungry and have medical care. When I have worked extremely hard for my education that will hopefully in the future bring in a decent income, why do I have to support someone who has not taken the initiative to earn an education.

I am voting no for AL Gore and yes to Governor Bush because I believe in paying less taxes and investing in my own future.

Marty

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Al Gore is friends with Al Sharptin and was introduced by Sharptin. Gore is associated with a known racist. Sharptin is good friends with Caleb Mohammed who gave a speech at San Francisco State U about how white men are @@@ and all jews are**** and the holocast never happened, etc. How can Al Gore associate with Sharptin when Sharptin has friends like Caleb. That story is bigger than Bush speaking at Jones U. Why doesn't it make a story in the press. Janet San Diego

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I am a Teamster member. I and along with others in my local think that the endorsment of Gore is absolutely sickening. These people running our union are at best very narrow minded, They are willing to sell out our country under the guise of preserving jobs. They will sell out the Bill of Rights under the same pretext. I wonder if they (Teamsters) want their jobs bad enough to be forced to work as slave laborers as they claim happens in countries where American jobs went. I wonder if the officials of the Teamsters think they can collect dues money in these countries, let alone conduct a strike. The officials of our union would been better off if they'd just not endorsed anyone rather than endorse a
dillusional liar like Gore.

Al Gore's record should be enough to scare the working man into wondering whether or not he'll have a job, let alone what the quality of working conditions will be in the future. The Teamsters in my opinion are trading their future away by continuing to endorse the likes of Gore. I will be voting for George Bush at least I'll be able to say I knew who I voted for.

Dale

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Gore even miss-quoted scripture when he said, that according to my faiths tradition found in Matthew "where your heart is your treasure follows." The Bible says the opposite. "Your heart follows your treasure." Poor Gore he can't even get his faith straight.

Richard

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why are all of the liberal newspapers reporting that al gore has "misstated" the cost of the drug his mother-in-law is taking. the real story, is the lies he committed while "misstating" the cost. gore said his wife tipper brought the cost issues to his attention. THAT IS A LIE. his wife would have no knowlege of the congressional cost study. He stated the pharmaceutical companies were charging 3 times more for the human prescription than the one made for his dog. THAT IS A LIE. gore was aware that the pharmaceutical companies responce to the allegations, and that dosage made up most of the descrepancies. gore said senior citizens shouldn't have to resort to taking a prescription that was intended for a pet to get the lower cost. THAT IS A LIE. it isn't cheaper. gore has practically invented generic drugs, (HA HA) and the generic version is much cheaper than either of the name brand prescriptions. gore maliciously made up a story
about his wife and her mother that was false, with the intention of scaring old people, and villifying the pharmaceutical companies. when someone
knowingly does this kind of thing, it is not a misstatement, it is a lie. it is a lie with the intent of gaining favorable results that would not have
occurred if he had told the accurate truth. why is everyone afraid to say gore is a liar? the facts are so clear.

j jay payne

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Clinton/Gore Campaign Rhetoric

The main objective of Hillary and Clinton Vice President Gore's campaigns is to energize the people that depend on the government to get out and vote themselves a pay raise! Regarding Clinton Vice President Gore's campaign rhetoric: my family is "better off" today because my wife now works full time to pay our taxes and the children's college expenses.

With her "graveyard" shift nurse's salary, we may even be able to cover the $3 to $6 a gallon gas and heating oil prices "Environment Al" and those energy policy wizards will soon have gotten for us. (The Sierra Club must be ecstatic!) Otherwise, we would be in significant financial distress. The most disturbing aspect of my family finances is that taxes add up to more than we spend on mortgage, utilities, food, clothing, and car expenses combined. Serfs in the Dark Ages got to keep more of their product thancontemporary American families. Our tax burden is way too high.

I, too, have observed Clinton/Gore full employment. I know one couple that works five of the jobs Clinton/Gore created. The administration and its cadres of crypto-socialists, income redistribution theorists, and class warfare guerrillas are as responsible for American prosperity as a rooster is for the sunrise! Regarding the "Social Security Surplus": it is one, huge IOU that the American taxpayer will have to pay from future earned income. What Social security lock box? In business you putcash, not IOU's, in a lock box. There is so much propaganda and rhetoric, and so little leadership.

T. Shaw
NYC, NY

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GORE CONCEDES DEBATE STORY FALSE
Dave Boyer and Bill Sammon
THE WASHINGTON T
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Vice President Al Gore yesterday conceded that a dramatic anecdote he told in Tuesday night's debate was not exactly true - and the accuracy of one or two others was questioned as well.

Mr. Gore - who said he traveled to Texas with the Federal Emergency Management Agency Director James Lee Witt to inspect wildfire damage - acknowledged yesterday he did not. "I was there in Texas. I think James Lee went to the same fires. I've made so many trips with James to these disaster sites. I got that wrong," the vice president said on "Good Morning America."

The Gore campaign spent much of yesterday putting out other fires concerning other anecdotes, including one by Mr. Gore that a Florida school forced a female student to stand in an overcrowded classroom.

"Her science class was supposed to be for 24 students," the vice president said during the debate. "She is the 36th student in that classroom. . . . They can't squeeze another desk in for her, so she has to stand during class."

Sarasota High School Principal Daniel Kennedy, however, said that isn't true. The class was short a desk for just one day.

"That was probably one of the first days of school when we were in the process of leveling classes. And, she did have an opportunity to use a lab stool," he said on radio station WFLA in Sarasota.

"We don't really have any students standing in class and we have more than enough desks for all of our students," said Mr. Kennedy.

The Bush campaign yesterday criticized Mr. Gore as reporters scurried to check the veracity of anecdotes the vice president told during the debate. "It's a troubling pattern of ongoing embellishments and exaggerations from the vice president under pressure," said Bush senior adviser Ari Fleischer. "It's an unsettling indication of how the vice president reacts to pressure by exaggerating personal stories that are easily verifiable."

Mr. Gore's latest gaffes follow the concocted story two weeks ago about how prescription drugs for his mother-in-law cost more than arthritis drugs for his dog. Aides later said the story was a "composite" using numbers from a congressional report. That was followed by Mr. Gore's claim that he was involved with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve "since the days it was first established." In fact, he entered the House two years
after the reserve was created in 1975.

Then he told a labor group that his mother had sung one of their union songs to him as a lullaby, but the song wasn't written until Mr. Gore was 27. He later said he had been kidding.

During the debate, Mr. Bush responded to a question from moderator Jim Lehrer about how he handled the unexpected by recalling his actions during wildfires in Parker County, Texas, in 1996. "I have to pay the administration a compliment," said Mr. Bush. "FEMA has done a good job of working with governors during times of crisis."

Mr. Gore, in a rebuttal, sought to do the governor one better. "I want to compliment the governor on his response to those fires and floods in Texas," Mr. Gore said unasked. "I, I accompanied James Lee Witt down to Texas when those fires broke out."

A quizzical statement crossed Mr. Bush's face as the vice president spoke. "I thought for a moment I was going to call him on it," Mr.
Bush told Fox News Channel yesterday. "I don't remember him being in Parker County. But I took the man at his word."This is a man - he's got a record, you know, of sometimes exaggerating to make a point."

Mr. Gore acknowledged yesterday he had been in a Houston hotel - possibly for a fund-raiser - at the time and had not traveled to Texas with Mr. Witt to survey the fire damage. He said yesterday he had been briefed by FEMA officials."I was there in Texas in Houston with the head of the Texas emergency management folks and with all the federal emergency management folks. If James Lee was there before or after, then, you know, I got that wrong then."

The Bush campaign said Mr. Gore visited Houston on June 25, 1998, not during the 1996 fires to which Mr. Bush was referring. They said Mr. Gore attended a hastily arranged airport briefing on the fires before he drove off to a political fund-raiser. Mr. Witt was not with Mr. Gore during the briefing.

Gore spokesman Chris Lehane explained that the vice president had confused Mr. Witt with his underling, Buddy Young, a regional FEMA director who was actually the official who met with Mr. Gore on the occasion in question. "The vice president traveled down to Texas in June of '98, flew over the fires and then did an event with Buddy Young," Mr. Lehane told The Washington Times. "He was not with Witt. We've been with Witt in the past in other disaster areas and emergency zone. He was just mistaken.

"The point was he saw the fires and held a meeting on them - he was complimenting the governor," said Mr. Lehane. "I think it shows how touchy the Bush campaign is - you can't even give them a compliment these days. I think those guysare getting a little stressed out down there."

Reporters also examined Mr. Gore's claim that a Florida schoolgirl, Kailey Ellis, had to stand in her classroom."I want the federal government . . . to make improvement of our schools the number-one priority so Kailey Ellis willhave a desk and can sit down in a classroom where she can learn," Mr. Gore said in the debate.

School officials in Florida acknowledged yesterday that the 15-year-old girl did indeed go without a desk in scienceclass - for a day. They said she was late for school and ittook officials a few hours to find a desk for her."We were refurbishing that classroom and in the back of that picture, if you look carefully, you can see probably about $100,000 worth of new lab equipment that was waiting to beunpacked, which is one of the reasons the room looked as crowded as it did," Mr. Kennedy, the school principal, saidin the radio interview.

This exchange between the talk-show host and Mr. Kennedy followed:

Host: "The way that it was framed last night was that they couldn't fit another desk in there because there were so many students in the classroom."

Mr. Kennedy: "Right I think that's a little bit misleadingto tell you the truth, because I've been in the classroom many times."

Host: "Ah-ha. A little twisting of the truth."

Mr. Kennedy: "Yes, I think so."

The Gore campaign refused to backtrack on the anecdote. Aides made copies of a Sarasota newspaper article on the girl and passed them out to reporters traveling with the vice president. Mr. Lehane said his boss was merely referring to the newspaper article, which had been sent to him with a handwritten note from the girl's father. The principal, however, was disappointed. "I think it'sunfortunate the vice president didn't call the school to check," said Mr. Kennedy.

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Even more Gore lies- Do we want a blatant liar in the highest office?

GORE'S NOSE IS GROWING AGAIN
Thursday,October 5,2000
By BRIAN BLOMQUIST and RITA DELFINER

Al Gore's tale of the little old lady who "has to go out seven days a week" to pick up cans to buy medicine unraveled yesterday, as she admitted she has repeatedly refused her well-to-do son's offer to care for her. Gore's stretch about 79-year-old Winifred Skinner, along with other little white lies he told during his first presidential debate against GOP rival George W. Bush, have renewed questions about his truthfulness.

The Democratic nominee wove a sob story about a Florida high school so overcrowded that one student had to stand in science class because she didn't have a desk. But the school's principal yesterday described the building as state-of-the-art and called Gore's claim bogus.

The story of Skinner, who has become the campaign's mascot for his Medicare prescription-drug program, was retold by Gore during the debate: "She came all the way from Iowa in a Winnebago with her poodle in order to attend here tonight," he said. In fact, the Winnebago was paid for by the Gore campaign, along with the gas. Five campaign workers accompanied Skinner, a longtime Democrat and former union organizer.

Republicans said she doesn't need to collect cans, because her son, Earl King, who formerly owned his own business and now lives on an 80-acre ranch and describes his lifestyle as "comfortable," has offered repeatedly to help her make ends meet. "This is a tale of a rather eccentric woman, not a tale of somebody who needs prescription drugs and can't afford them despite a life of hard work," said Republican National Committee spokesman Cliff May.

"I don't take charity," Mrs. Skinner told The Post yesterday as she traveled toward Youngstown, Ohio. "I don't take food stamps or nothing like that. I either earn
it or do without. I know my son would willingly help me at any time. "I want them do something about prescription drugs. I'm not on this tour just for myself. There are a lot of senior citizens who are worse off than I am because they are not capable of walking and picking up cans."

Her son said she's taken money from him only once despite repeated offers. He said he paid $360 toward a $720 property-tax bill.
Mrs. Skinner said she gets a nickel a can and earns about $3 to $5 collecting cans each day. She said she uses the money to supplement the $250 to $350 she pays each month for pills for her heart condition and high blood pressure. She owns her house, gets $700 per month in Social Security and a $70 monthly pension.

Also, Gore was forced to admit he erred in the debate by claiming that he accompanied FEMA Director James Lee Witt on a 1998 trip to Texas to view damage from fires there. A Federal News Service schedule showed Gore attended a fund-raiser on that Texas trip, but paused to meet at the airport with emergency
management officials. FEMA officials said Witt never went to Texas to deal with the 1998 fires. "If James Lee was there before or after, then you know, I got that wrong then," Gore said yesterday on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Also during the debate, Gore appeared to take liberty with an old family story about his Uncle Reginald, a soldier hit by poison gas. Gore said, "Look, that'swhere World War I started. In the Balkans. My uncle was a victim of poison gas there." Several news accounts say that Reginald Gore was gassed in France.


Gore's truthfulness has come under question before - specifically his claims that he invented the Internet, that he and Tipper were the model couple for "Love Story," that his mother-in-law pays more than his dog for the same prescription drugs, and that he helped establish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

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Gore deceptions

Wednesday October 4 4:55 PM ET
Bush Camp Accuses Gore on Trip


By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer


WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) - George W. Bush (news - web sites) seized on statements made by Al Gore (news - web sites) in their first debate to ratchet up his attacks on Gore's credibility on Wednesday, suggesting Gore exaggerated his account of a disaster-relief visit to Texas. Gore scolded Bush for trying to paint him as ``a bad person.''

A day after the first of their three nationally televised debates, both the Texas governor and the vice president spoke in battleground states before large, supportive crowds. ``America got to see a difference in philosophy,'' Bush told several thousands supporters at a noisy rally in a college gymnasium in this Philadelpia suburb. Members of the audience chanted back ``no fuzzy math, no fuzzy math,'' reprising a debate line Bush used to characterize Gore's criticism of GOP tax-cut plans.

While both candidates followed through on issues raised at Tuesday night's debate in Boston, Bush hardened his stance while Gore sounded a more conciliatory note.``Even though Governor Bush and I have a lot of differences personally, I think it's better to spend time attacking America's problems than attacking people personally,'' Gore told about 5,000 supporters at a rally in Warren, Ohio.

Bush campaign officials challenged several debate statements made by Gore, calling them fresh signs of what they called ``embellishments and exaggerations.'' One involved Gore's remarks during the debate on his role in the federal response to floods and fires in Texas. Bush had praised James Lee Witt, Clinton's director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Gore echoed that praise. ``I accompanied James Lee Witt down to Texas when those fires broke out. And FEMA has been a major flagship of our reinventing government efforts,'' Gore said.

The Bush campaign said such a trip never took place, and Gore himself conceded that he might have misstated his role - although he said he had been in Texas and had been briefed on the disaster response by associates of Witt. ``I traveled with James Lee Witt and so did the governor. And the vice president was nowhere to be seen,'' said Bush's communications director, Karen Hughes.


Bush campaign officials also challenged Gore's story about a 15-year-old girl in Sarasota, Fla., Kailey Ellis. Gore said she ``has to stand'' in science class because it was so overcrowded there weren't enough seats. Sarasota High School principal Dan Kennedy said the student whose father wrote Gore about her crowded science class was without a desk only one day and could have sat on a lab stool. ``It's another in a disturbing pattern of the vice president simply making things up,'' said Bush spokeswoman Hughes.

Gore has recently found himself challenged on the numbers he used on the relative costs of arthritis medicine for his mother-in-law and his dog and on his claiming a union song was a childhood lullaby when it wasn't written until he was 27.

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Remember, Gore said that Clinton was a good President and he minimized Clinton's act of breaking the laws.

I didn't think he had a lot to say until he started campaigning for the Presidential office...and therefore I thought he was a puppet. I now think he is as bad a lier and criminal as Clinton. Every time he opens
his mouth on TV, there's at least one more lie.

The schools are doing badly because the Democrats want subjects, not citizens. They don't care about the people. Schools are feeding so much propaganda to our children that government will take care of them and it is signalling children that that is the role of government. What ever happened to the spirit of John F. Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"?

My son and dau-in-law will not send my grandchildren to public schools just anywhere. They did live in Texas, are now in England, and plan to return to Texas. The public schools are doing well there. My
granddaughter, Elizabeth, is 8 and in the second grade reading at the 5th grade level and her math skills are at the 4th grade level. They keep her in the second grade because of her maturity level. She performs well because of parent involvement coupled with a good school system.

I saw a recent PBS report on a Baltimore school located in a poor neighborhood that was trying to implement the Direct Instruction (DI) techniques that someTexas schools have implemented. This principal believed that because the children were from poor families is no reason that they cannot learn to read starting in kindergarden. They still have a way to go, but they now know from their visit to Texas, that it does work. Teachers went back to Baltimore with a renewed effort. Children DID leave kindergarden reading in Baltimore.

This kind of freedom in schools will only come with a people who think citizens have a brain and should be free. Our country is going down the tubes with the Democrats. I will be out walking the neigborhood on week-ends.

After the debates last night at midnight, I was able to access TV channel 2 on the web....53.3% voted that Bush won, 43.3@ voted that Gore won the debate with about 3.4% were undecided in Central Florida.

God bless Rush,
Carol

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gore's desire to circumvent the constitution

Rush wanted to know if you realized the fact that gore not only has a litmus test to appoint supreme court justices for their stance on roe vs wade, but he said he would want to see appointees who would support interpreting the constitution as a living document. This would allow him to circumvent the amendment process, which if I'm not mistaken say that to amend the constitution you must have 2/3 majority votes in the house and senate, then it must be signed by the president, then it must be sent to the states to ratify with 2/3majority support again. then the ratified amendment must be passed again by 2/3 majority of the house & senate, and then it can be signed by the president as an amendment to the constitution.

This is one of the hidden adgendas of the liberal gore team. They know that the citizens of this republic would not support or stand for such bull. Hope you will bring this to light to the american public on your show.

Thanks for your endevours on our behalf.
Sincerely, j.burrell

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Bill Gates of Ma and Pa Kettle?

Rush, when will Democrats and the non-reasoning liberals understand that Bill Gates is just as entitled to a tax cut as Ma and Pa Kettle?

I watched the debates last night and was so mad listening to Gore talk about the wealthy like they should be second class citizens and ashamed that they have more than most other Americans.

These voting citizens, of this free America, should wake up and realize that Bill Gates will do more to grow the economy of this country and encourage prosperity for all of us, than giving a tax break only to Ma and Pa Kettle.

I am not a rich, white guy or a soccer mom. I am a thinking, middle-class, white woman who will never vote Democrat after voting for Ronald Reagan, he is my HERO!

 

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I wanted to bring to your attention a wonderful page by a very fair Conservative woman named Carolyn Gargaro. She has a wonderful Al Gore blooper section with sources:) You may want to get in touch with her. Along with Stephanie Herman of The American Partisan, she created Rightgrrl (which I have written for.) Just some ideas; her points are sharp and really expose Gore for who he is.

Maureen
Carolyn's Politics page: http://www.gargaro.com/political.html
Carolyn's Al Gore page:http://www.gargaro.com/algore.html

Rightgrrl:http://www.rightgrrl.com

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Gore tax cuts:
1. Be a targeted group member with not $1 more income than specified.

2. Save all your child care, tuition bills etc.

3. Borrow the money to pay the bills - Pay non tax deductible interest.

4. File your tax return:
a. Read two pages that describe how your government is trying to reduce paper.
b. Read and fill out forms
c. Check for exclusions.
d Become confused with the verbiage and calculations.
e. Pay $100 to tax accountant to tell you that you are not qualified for most of the deductions you thought you had because you worked 4 hours overtime to buy better Xmas gifts for the kids.
f. Search for lost receipts.
g. Visit day care provider etc to get duplicate receipts.
h. Complete forms.
i. File forms
j. Archive receipts for 7 years in case of an IRS audit
5. Receive tax refund in 3 to 4 weeks.
6. Go to bank to cash check

Bush Tax Cut

1. Make sure your withholding form is correct.

2. Get money in paycheck.

Average family gets about $1,500 ?{Check this#}

And you have the right to choose how to spend it!

Pay for daycare, College Tuition, pay for Rx and health care Ins., save for retirement, connect to the internet ,buy new tires for your pickup, take avacation, buy a washing machine for your wife so she doesn't have to use the scrub-board down at the creek anymore.(Scrub board users are not part of the targeted group because they have a subsistence farm and use the long formand are thus not targeted even though they earn only $22,000 per year.)

Targeted or across the board tax overpayment refunds you choose.

Dick

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THE HERALD-NEWS, DAYTON, TENNESSEE, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,
2000, P. A-4 (reprinted by permission)

Tennessee hasn't had a native son in the White House in more than a century. Certainly most Tennesseans would agree it would be good to have one of our own as president. The question is whether Al Gore is still a Tennessean and whether we can afford for him to be president.

Al Gore is not the man Tennesseans sent to Washington as vice president in 1992. He's certainly not the same man Fourth District voters made the youngest Congressman in decades at the tender age of 28, nor is he the same man Tennessee sent to the U.S. Senate by huge margins in 1984 and 1990. He has abandoned the conservative, Southern values for which we once elected him.

Let's look at some of the changes.

Al Gore once told The Herald-News he was "personally opposed"? to abortion. He also said he was against federal funding of abortions. Now Gore has positioned himself as the great champion of abortion rights and even defends the barbaric practice of partial-birth abortions. America's youngest and most defenseless citizens would receive no protection under a Gore presidency.

Ten years ago when Gore last ran for the Senate, The Herald-News supported him, in part because he portrayed himself as a defender of the Second Amendment. Gore was a friend to hunters and sportsmen and considered himself one.

Since then he has changed directions 180 degrees. He now supports national registration and licensure of all guns and all gun owners. He is solidly in the gun control camp that wants to eliminate all private ownership of handguns, semiautomatic rifles and pump shotguns. Of course, the private security forces for the elite would still have easy access to these weapons. Oh, and of course, so would the criminals.

On environmental issues Gore was once essentially mainstream. He believed in common sense EPA regulations and continued private use of public lands by permit. Now when it comes to environmental issues, Gore is on the fringe. He is more closely aligned with Katuah Earth First!, that radical environmentalist, tree-worshiping group that chained themselves to concreted barrels to block access to Watts Bar Nuclear Plat three years ago, than with the average Tennessean.

Gore writes in his book "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit,"? "we must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization."? Surely we face greater issues than protecting the environment.

Once Gore told The Herald-News he believed it was an admirable thing for committed parents to educate their children at home for religious or personal reasons. Now Gore supports a National Education Association policy that would make it illegal for most families to home school. It calls for all teachers, regardless of the type of school they teach in--public, private, religious or home--to be licensed by the federal government and to only teach"state-approved"? curriculum.

Tennesseans have historically valued their independence very highly, perhaps it is a remnant of the pioneer spirit that built this great state. Unfortunately, Gore now supports increasing control by the federal government in most area of our lives.

The bottom line is, Gore doesn't hold to the same conservative Southern values that led Tennesseans to elect him six times to Congress. During his time in Washington, D.C., he has forgotten his roots. Al Gore may claim Tennessee. The question is, can Tennessee still claim Al Gore?

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Al Gore's vote in favor of Desert Storm

Tuesday, September 5, 2000
Al Gore's Gulf War vote put politics over principle - By Alan Simpson

Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore1s new campaign ad is running in your state and says he is fighting for us. But the true story of his Gulf War vote says he is usually fighting for Al. Here is the inside story of what happened.

The Gulf War vote was pretty serious business. I can1t think of anyone who didn1t have a lump in his or her throat as they weighed the situation: 500,000 American troops already deployed; Iraq1s Saddam Hussein promising the "mother of all battles"; most "experts" predicting heavy American losses.

The choice was not easy. Senators with combat experience on both sides of the aisle were on both sides of the issue. Some Democrats openly supported the measure; some Republicans openly opposed it. And vice versa.

The seriousness of the situation called for open, honest debate. No deal-making. No politics. Just an honest discussion, followed by an honest vote of conscience by each senator. As Republican whip, I worked with the Republican leader Bob Dole and the Democratic leaders, George Mitchell and Sam Nunn, to schedule the debate. As Republicans, Sen. Dole and I were responsible for scheduling time to speak for senators who supported the war. As Democrats, Sens. Mitchell and Nunn were responsible for scheduling time to speak for those who opposed the war.

The night before this monumental debate, I sat in the Republican cloakroom with Sen. Dole discussing the debate schedule for the next day. Then a senator walked in and asked to speak to us. It surprised Bob and me because he was a Democrat coming to ask for a favor.

He was Tennessee Sen. Al Gore Jr. Sen. Gore got right to the point: "How much time will you give me if I support the president?" In layman's terms, Gore was asking how much debate time we would be willing to give him to speak on the floor if he voted with us.

"How much time will the Democrats give you?" Sen. Dole asked.

"Seven minutes," came the droning response.

"I'll give you 15 minutes," Dole said."And I'll give you five of mine, so you can have 20 minutes," I offered. Gore seemed pleased, but made no final commitment, promising only to think it over.

Gore played hard to get. He had received his time. But now he wanted prime time. And Dole and I knew it. After Gore left, Dole asked Republican Senate Secretary Howard Greene to call Gore1s office and promise that he would try to schedule Gore's 20 minutes during prime time, thus ensuring plenty of coverage in the news cycle. Later that night, Gore called Greene and asked if Dole had him in a prime-time speaking slot.

When Green said nothing had been finalized yet, Gore erupted: "Damn it, Howard! If I don1t get 20 minutes tomorrow, I1m going to vote the other way."

The following day, Gore arrived on the Senate floor, still waiting to see which side Republicans or Democrats would offer him the most and the best speaking time. Sen. Dole immediately asked the Senate to increase the amount of speaking time for both sides. I believe only then, after Gore realized we were asking for more time to make room for him on our side, that he finally decided to support the resolution authorizing the use of force to drive Hussein out of Kuwait.

It brings me no joy to recount the events leading up to the Gulf War vote. It isn1t something I wanted to do. But it is something I have to do.

I was there. I have to set the record straightbecause the Gore campaign is now running an ad proclaiming that Al Gore "broke with his own party to support the Gulf War." In reality, it's much closer to the truth to say he broke for the cameras to support the Gulf War.

And I have to set the record straight because the Gulf War vote was far too important an issue to fall victim to politics and repulsive revising. It was a moment of challenge. Sadly, Al Gore was not up to it. In January of 1991, Al Gore put politics over principle.

Alan Simpson is a former Republican senator from Wyoming. Write letters to 615 W. Lafayette, Detroit, MI 48226, or fax them to (313) 222-6417 or send e-mail messages to letters@detnews.com

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Gore, MTV, New York, and the Boy Scouts

From: Gary Bauer <garybauer@mail.cwfpac.com>

Gore's MTV Confession
Al Gore's effort to remake himself as a moderate fell apart during his MTV interview this week. He must have thought no one was watching, but we were. He told the audience that homosexual foreigners who enter a civic union" with U.S. citizens should have the same immigration rights as heterosexual married couples. Gore explained by saying, "I favor legally recognized civic unions that have the legal protection of marriage."

The public overwhelmingly opposes gay marriage and has voted it down every chance they could, even in the generally more liberal state of California.

You can bet Gore's judicial appointments would try to force gay marriage on the country. This is worth discussing Tuesday in thepresidential debate, because not one American in 100,000 knows Gore's view.If it doesn't come up in the questions from the moderator, Governor Bush should raise it as an example of how Gore's values are out of step with the American people.

Bashing The Scouts Continues
The Chancellor of New York's public schools has instructed the school system's lawyers to review the relationship of the Board of Education to the Boy Scouts. "We want to make sure it complies with our anti-discrimination policy," he said. Well, we all know what that means.

The gay rights movement is brow beating yet another cowardly public official to bend to their demands. Right now the Greater New York Council of the Boy Scouts runs an in-school program called "Learning for Life" that helps 100,000 children in New York - most of them minority and poor. It would be a tragedy, but not a surprise, if those kids were sacrificed so that homosexual demands are met.

Campaign for Working Families / 2800 Shirlington Road / Suite 605 / Arlington, VA 22206
Phone:703-671-8800 / Fax: 703-671-8899 / Web: www.cwfpac.com

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Al Gore wants campaign finance reform, saying that is the first bill he will sign. He couldn't follow the campaign rules now in place, i.e. the Buddhist Temple, fund raising calls from the White House, etc. Nor could he even follow the rules of the debates, which he himself agreed to. How in the world can anyone expect that he would follow the rules if campaign finance is reformed. Al Gore will exaggerate, lie, make up stories, or say and do anything to get himself elected. THIS CLINTON/GORE ADMINISTRATION MUST GO. VOTE REPUBLICAN - ELECT GEORGE W. BUSH!!!

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Who Loses if US/NY elects Gore/Hillary/McCarthy?

Taxpayers lose! Clinton Vice President Gore, Hillary "I'm-Ashamed-to Use-my-Husband's-Name", and Carolyn McCarthy will spend the Federal surplus paying for votes of their two special interest voting blocs: the people who believe it is the government's duty is to support them and the hordes of
taxpayer funded 'fatcats' getting rich off billions of your tax dollars. The thrust of their campaigns is: get out and vote yourselves a pay raise! Then, they will have to enact huge tax hikes. Who will pay for all this tax taking?

Working families lose! Choice: eating or heating! Gasoline and heating oil prices will rise: brought to you by tree huggers and other environmental extremists. Read his book: Gore wants to outlaw your car! Caribou and timber wolves are more important than millions of working families! Economic depression follows. Who is left to pay the taxes to provide for the Democrat special interest groups?

School children lose! The bankrupt, public education monopoly will be held in an even tighter strangle hold by leftist teachers' union leaders. Standardized test scores will continue to fall! From their track record, it seems these people want to institutionalize illiteracy. Their priorities do not appear to be educating public school children. Did Gore or Hillary's children attend public schools? I think not!

Our children lose! More pornography and violence will be marketed to your children.

Boy Scouts lose! The destruction of the Boy Scouts will be complete as the last troop is evicted from its school meeting place because the scouts resist using pederasts as scoutmasters as demanded by gay privilege fanatics. WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!

Christian people lose! More taxpayer-funded, so-called art will insult your religious beliefs.

Majority Americans lose! More affirmative action, racial preferences and quotas. Less opportunity for whites.

Sportsmen lose! Ultimately, fishing and hunting will be banned. PeTA and Sierra Club endorsements signal these goals. Before that, all law-abiding citizens' firearms will be confiscated.

New York loses! NY will have one US senator. Arkansas and the vast left wing conspiracy will have three.

Democrat "Stupor Mundi" (none of these "wundrekind" will understand Latin)

When hypocritical Democrats insult George W. Bush's intellect they remind one of the proverbial people in glass houses: Al Gore flunked out of law school and Carolyn McCarthy can't read and has no higher education, at all! If Hillary is so smart, will Newsday print her college and law school transcripts? I think not! Carolyn McCarthy can't read and never saw the inside of a college classroom.Democrat Special Interest Groups

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Maybe Al Gore is not lying. Maybe the "American People" just don't what his definition of "is" is,... of "is" was,... of "was" is,... of "was" was,... of "did" is,... of "did" was,... of "done" is,... of "done" was,... of "will do" was,... of "will do" is,... of "will do" will be,... ,..., ..., ... (and on, and on, and on,... for four more years?)

(JIM)

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Why should character & leadership be linked in the debates and the point constantly hammered.

1. leadership starts at the top
2. examples set & messages sent either prevent or promote social decay
a. with all forms of government / fed, state, county & city
b. with our military
c. with the private sector & public at large including the children
3. three areas of particular concern
a. truthfulness
b. acceptance of personal responsibility
c. moral leadership
Al Gore has been in the top echelon of power for the past eight years. Why did he sit idly by and go along with the way the affairs of the white house were conducted ? Does he actually support the examples that have been set and the messages that have been sent?. " no controlling legal authority "
Does Al Gore condone the double standard for the politically powerful & the common man that has been demonstrated by his administration ? Wasn't he invited and didn't he attend the whitehouse coffee klatches with many guests of questionable character ?

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If Gore can't follow the rules HE agreed to in a simple debate, can he follow the rules of campaign financing? Can we believe someone who said he would follow the rules and break them as he sighs and rolls his eyes? If he can bully and invade the space of an opponent, will he bully nations, (mine included) and invade their space?

I am a 44 year old who has raised 5 wonderful conservative Americans who love God and their country. Four are old enough to vote for Bush. When asked my occupation on endless forms, I always avoided the word "housewife" and wrote instead my most important job, "raising future citizens of the United States of America" and then went on to list all the other duties. (Sometimes taking up half the page).

Sincerely,
Mrs. Judy Baldauff

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RUSH, I CHECKED TODAY AND GORE'S STATEMENTS ABOUT CLOSING SCHOOLS IN NORTH CAROLINA FOR POOR PERFORMANCE WERE ANOTHER "MISSTATEMENT". IN FACT THE NC DEPT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION HAS NEVER CLOSED A SCHOOL AND HAS NO TEAM OF SPECIALISTS WHO DO THIS TYPE OF THING-THE PHONE # FOR THAT AGENCY IS 919-715-1246 IN RALEIGH, NC- THE FACT THAT THAT HE IS TOUTING GOV. JIM HUNT FOR EDUCATION SECRETARY IS A REAL JOKE SINCE WE ARE 47TH IN THE NATION IN EDUCATION-LOVE YOUR SHOW-TELL IT LIKE IT IS................DWIGHT MURRAY

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Dear Rush, people going for important positions, (judges etc.) are denied the job frequently when there are questions about their character. If these questions can't be answered, there are alternate candidates to fill the position. It's the people's common sense way of avoiding possible future corruption in that position. Al Gore, has too many questions about character he can't answer! It is our responsibility as a nation to apply this 'moral judgement' in his case also. The world won't respect us as the 'leader' if our public shows a lack of moral caution. We need to say to the world, " Hey, this is one of the guys a political party presented to us for president. We looked at him, saw that there were questions about honestly in his character, he failed to resolve it satisfactorily, so we elected another guy.".

Sheree

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I am very sad to say I am 13 years old and even I know who the right person to vote for is! I can't believe some people are going to vote for Gore even though he flunked out of divinity school and dropped out of law school because he was too high on drugs to know any better.I don't think those drugs have worn off! Bush on the other hand graduated from Harvard and Yale!! At the debate, he was rolling his eyes, shaking his head, looking so smug, and those facial expressions, well they say something by themselves! I know I and lots of others don't want a president doing that while he is negotiating peace talks with Suddam Hussein! We all need to pull togetherand win this race! Help is on the Way as they said when Cheney came to speak
in Cape Girardeau!

Leslie

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As gas crisis looms, Gore targets NASCAR


WASHINGTON---Vice President Al Gore is set to unveil his newly formulated engergy policy, and at its heart is an effort to reform the wildly popular NASCAR racing series. Gore blamed motor sports and NASCAR in particular for a "full throated assault on the environment."

"NASCAR racing is repugnant to the environment in so many ways," Gore said. "They use specially formulated fuel that causes 3 times as much pollution as a normal automobile. With a fuel economy of 4.5 miles per gallon they are wasting precious fossil fuels which drives up the price of gas at the pump. And perhaps worst of all they are noisy, and since most race tracks are located in rural areas, the noise generated from these cars greatly disturbs local wildlife."

Gore's plan calls for the phasing of newly designed hybrid electric engines, mandating that all teams competing in the NASCAR Winston Cup, Busch, and Craftsman Truck series be equipped with the environmentally friendly engines by 2005. But Gore's concerns don't end with the race cars themselves.

"With over 100,000 fans routinely attending each race, the environmental waste of a single NASCAR event is staggering," Gore continued. "They all wast fuel driving to the race, they wast water flushing their Budweiser down the toilet, and perhaps worst of all they pollute the air with their cigarette smoke. Do you have any idea what 100,000 people smoking in one place is like?"

To combat this problem, Gore has proposed imposing a federal tax on all NASCAR event tickets, hoping to reduce the attendance to the more "acceptable" levels of the Indy Racing Leauge. IRL races draw an average of 500 people per event.

NASCAR officials are skeptical of the plan to introduce the electric hybrid engine into racing, but Gore mantains that the new engine is the wave of the future and will make auto racing an environmentally friendly sport.

"Just think how much nicer it would be to come to a race and not have to smell the fumes of the fuel and hear the roar of the engines" Gore said.

When asked whether they were concerned that Gore's attack on NASCAR would cost him votes, a Gore spokesman told BSNN.net, "None of these people would vote for him anyway, so it's a pretty safe move. Now if he were to try and ban wheelchair racing, then we'd be in trouble."

I take it Al Gore has never been to a NASCAR race. Otherwise, he would surely understand that the "roar of the engines" is what the fans are there for. There are also MANY of us who do not drink alcoholic beverages or smoke ( I, however, am one of those 100,000 smoking fans).
I am just appauled at the fact that he would even think to blame these high gas prices on NASCAR. If that was the case, wouldn't these have prices of fuel gone up LONG ago. It's not like NASCAR is a new sport.
If he intendeds to tax NASCAR event tickets, shouldn't he also tax tickets to Major League sporting events such as Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Football, etc.? These events also have drinking and smoking involved as well! And many of these events have attendances of equal or greater numbers.


Thank You

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I watched the debate last night & here's what hit me like a ton of bricks:

1. Gore reminded me of a DESPERATE salesman, trying way too hard to sell something that he subconsciously must have thought. wouldn't sell. example: He always had to have the LAST WORD on every question. ( Obviously he thoughtt. he had to defend his positions over & over, I don't think he believes his own SPIN anymore! }

2. He must have watched tapes of President Reagan for hours on end. You could see that he has practiced the mannerisms until it's comical.Rush, you surely noticed this. If you didn't, watch the recording again,you'll fall out of your chair laughing!

3. If elections are " all about the pocketbook", then Gov. Bush will surely win. Why? Because the "Me generation" is going to go for the 1/6 private investment of their MediCare taxes.

4. Immediately the media ( networks ) started to sell the SPIN that Gore hadregurgitated. I'm sure that the radio stations and newspapers will follow suit.

Thanks Rush for doing what you can to balance the scales !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kurt Ratliff

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Abortion....
I really have to question the moral integrity of any politician who changes his pro-life stance to a pro-choice stance for the sake of political expediency.

Mark /Upstate NY.

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I found this page last night. This proves how intelligent Al Gore REALLY is.

<A HREF"http://www.gargaro.com/algore.htm">Stupidity</A>

Don

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I fought the Chinese Communists in Korea. Now, they buy the White House and our nuclear secrets through Clinton/Gore.

Gene The Marine,
Indiana

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If I talked to any of my teachers like AlGore talked to both the commentator and Mr. Bush, I would be sent to in-school suspension (ISS) and if I made faces and sighed and acted anyways near the way Mr. Gore did during the debate... I'd be in after-school suspension (A.S.S.) In other words, he looked very immature and not very presidential. I liked Mr. Bush's ideas and he seemed very polite and followed the rules of debate. He has a good mom who taught him well! Also, that lady that has to spend seven days a week picking up aluminum cans to pay for her medicine....how does she afford a Winnebago and dog food, shots, etc. for her poodle? Or does she take the poodle's medicine when aluminum
prices are low?

From 14 yr. old Jonathan Fisher

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'Gore's Astonishing Hypocrisy'
(http://money.crosswalk.com/articles/item/1,1237,7655,00.htm?taf=)

Simply put, it,s incomprehensible hypocrisy. On one side of his mouth, Al Gore threatened new federal legislation or rules against the entertainment industry within six months if it doesn't stop marketing violent and sexual products to young people.

One day later, as Thursday,s Washington Post reports, Al Gore is scheduled to attend a fund-raiser at New York's Radio City Music Hall that Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein has organized.

Harvey Weinstein is the poster child of Hollywood trash and cultural pollution. Harvey Weinstein has proven over and over his specific intent to create films that promote casual sex, drug use, homosexuality, blatant anti-Christian themes and pedophilia.

Allow me to review the resume of the one that Mr. Gore is courting for millions of dollars in campaign contributions:

Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob were owners of Miramax film studios. They were nearly $12 million in debt and were begging Chase Manhattan Bank for money when they got a call from the Walt Disney Company in the spring of 1992. Miramax, under Weinstein's control, had made its name as the studio that had produced such films as 'Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down' (which was given an X rating), 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover' (which included a brutal sex scene, mutilation, and graphic violence), and 'Working Girls' (a movie about ten prostitutes that glamorized and romanticized brothels).

In the call, Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg offered to buy Miramax from the Weinsteins for $60 million in cash and stock options. Miramax under Weinstein,s direction, as a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, has continued to create films that glorify violence, drug use, promiscuous heterosexual and homosexual sex, random murder, and rape while simultaneously mocking people of faith. Their portfolio of films under Disney includes the graphically violent and vulgar 'Pulp Fiction', the blasphemous anti-Catholic film 'Priest', and others such as 'Trainspotting' about a group of HIV positive heroin addicts.

In 1994, Harvey Weinstein used the Disney subsidiary Miramax Films to release the film 'Kids'. Kids was given an NC-17 rating. Because of parent company Disney's policy not to release NC-17 films, Miramax, under Weinstein,s direction, had to set up a separate distribution to release the movie about adolescents using drugs and engaging in sex. Variety magazine called it 'one of the most controversial American movies ever made.' The movie was disguised as an artful commentary on the pressures facing urban youth while glorifying free sex, vulgarities, and drug abuse among pre-teens. Newsweek magazine said 'the film follows a number of barely pubescent-looking boys and girls around New York City as they smoke pot, bait gays, beat a black man and engage in graphic sex.' This movie clearly crossed the line of soft porn more commonly found in movie theatres and instead qualified as pure pornography.

The Weinstein's were recently back in the news with the release of their film "Dogma. They purchased the rights to the movie from 28-year-old director Kevin Smith (whose credits include 'Chasing Amy' - a movie about a man in love with a lesbian). 'Dogma' is a 'religious satire' about two renegade angels banished from heaven, played by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The two believe that the laws of the Catholic church contain fallacies and loopholes which they exploit in order to return to heaven. The plot includes a foul-mouthed '13th Apostle' named Rufus, Mary's daughter as a lapsed Catholic (played by Linda Fiorentino) who works at an Illinois abortion clinic, and a Skeeball-obsessed God played by Alannis Morrissette.

In a thinly veiled attempt to spare Disney any embarrassment over the film, the Weinstein's created a public relations loophole as they have done before. They took it upon themselves to create a 'new company' specifically to purchase the rights to 'Dogma' so that Miramax wouldn,t have to. Harvey Weinstein told the Los Angeles Times that Disney (through its Miramax subsidiary) is 'too vulnerable' to be involved in making films like 'Dogma.'
The Weinstein's used this same technique by forming a company called 'Shining Excalibur' to attempt to shield Disney shame over its release of the movie 'Kids'.

It is outrageous that Al Gore and Joe Lieberman could speak on behalf of families on Wednesday, the day of the Congressional hearing on Hollywood filth and violence, and then take money from the same pornographers at the Radio City Music Hall.

Mr. Gore and Mr. Lieberman, your words are hollow. Your actions speak very loudly. Your actions are putting the children and families of this country at risk. Shame on you.

<i>(An editorial commentary by Scott Fehrenbacher, Editor-in-Chief and head of values-based investing research at Crosswalk.com)</i>Copyright 2000 Crosswalk.com Inc.

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Gore's Business Strategy

Phase I: criticize Phase II: demonize Phase III: victimize.

Tobacco is in phase III, pharmaceuticals are in Phase I, and oil is in Phase II. What's next?

Doug - From Indonesia

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AL GORE --- *MIA IN VIET NAM

*Al Gore was missing in action for 7 months of his 12-month tour in Viet Nam. Those who are real Viet Nam vets, know it was a 12-month tour. Our Vice President only served 5 months of his 12 month tour. He wimped out (Senator Daddy pulled some strings) and he was admitted into divinity school from which he then dropped out. This is how our Vice President faced the Viet Nam duty and now he wants to be Commander in Chief. The story follows, worth a read to get into the thinking of this American.

The following is an editorial from the Federalist Digest:

Having posted a little tickler in last week's Federalist Digest about Al Gore's "141 days in Vietnam," The Federalist Editorial Board was inundated with inquiries from Vietnam vets. Most went something like this: "Gore claimed in his convention speech: " I enlisted in the Army because I knew if I didn't go, someone else in the small town of Carthage, Tennessee would have to go in my place." Since he wasn't KIA or wounded, how was it that his Army tour was far shorter than all the rest of us?" Our astute veteran readers took the bait! Gore's campaign launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign this week to tell his "life story." The ads will include references to his "service" in Vietnam-however brief. Gore spent less than five months of a typical twelve-month tour in Vietnam. He spent every minute of his "tour" as a "rear-echelon ...." (call any combat veteran and they can complete that phrase for you). He was classified as a military journalist after telling recruiters he was a "newspaper trainee" (read "copy boy") for the New York Times while a student at Harvard. He was assigned as a noncombatant "information specialist" to the Army's 20th Engineers Brigade headquarters at Bien Hoa military base near Saigon.

Gore's immediate supervisor in Vietnam has confirmed that his posting there came with explicit instructions to baby-sit him and make sure he was never in any danger. That fact notwithstanding, Gore has claimed to the Washington Post that he was "shot at" and "spent most of my time in the field." He later told the Baltimore Sun that "I pulled my turn on the perimeter at night and walked through the elephant grass and I was fired upon." He has since backed off these exaggerated claims. On May 22, 1971, not five months into his "tour of duty", Gore was given special dispensation and a one-way ticket home to attend divinity school in Nashville. He dropped out of Vanderbilt University shortly thereafter. As for the seven months cut from Gore's tour of duty in Vietnam, we suppose "someone else in the small town of Carthage, Tennessee" had to finish his tour "in his place."

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I haven't heard you talk about Al Gore being against the Combustion Engine. He talks to the unions, that build these engines, (Ford, GMC etc.) Most of these people are in favor of Al Gore. Do these people just not realize that he is against the very thing they build? That heis also against big factories and there pollution. Do they not realize he is against their jobs?

Thanks,

Bev

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Hello,

I wanted to bring to your attention a wonderful page by a very fair Conservative woman named Carolyn Gargaro. She has a wonderful Al Gore blooper section with sources:) You may want to get in touch with her. Along with Stephanie Herman of The American Partisan, she created Rightgrrl (which I have written for.) Just some ideas; her points are sharp and really expose Gore for who he is.

Maureen
Carolyn's Politics page: http://www.gargaro.com/political.html
Carolyn's Al Gore page:http://www.gargaro.com/algore.html

Rightgrrl:http://www.rightgrrl.com

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Rush, I'm a disgruntled 69-year-old retired school teacher who cannot believe how ignorant the masses are. Selfish concerns such as social security, medicare, prescription drugs and the like should be set aside. Citizens should look at the bigger picture. Our country is being sold out by "scared-off" politicians, republicans as well as democrats.

When socialism comes into power in full swing--and it will if Gore is elected--they the citizenry will really have something to cry about. Our American sovereignty is at stake. Our Constitution as well. Did I not hear Gore say during the debate that the Constitution should change with the times?

How stupid! Even the Bible says "There is nothing new under the sun." Why should the Constitution change? Men have not changed, neither have their self-centered desires. The Constitution fully allowed for mean's self-destructive nature. Long live our Constitution.
Sincerely,

Janis Fedor

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GORE APPEAL FOR CAMPAIGN SUPPORT FROM CHURCHES CHALLENGED BY WATCHDOG GROUP

Churches Can't Support Candidates, Says Americans United

Presidential candidate Al Gore's recent appeal for campaign support from pastors could get churches in legal trouble, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

In a letter to Gore today, Americans United Executive Director Barry W. Lynn noted that federal tax law bars churches from involvement in partisan politics and asked the candidate to clarify his views on the subject.

According to an Oct. 15 report in The New York Times, Gore participated in a conference call with African-American ministers Oct. 14 during which he discussed the need for their support of your campaign. The Times story states, "With the presidential election in a dead heat, Vice President Al Gore sought to mobilize his campaign's 'get out the vote' drive today by imploring black preachers to push for his election from their pulpits."

The Times says Gore told pastors, "I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow."

AU's Lynn found the newspaper report troubling."If the Times report is accurate," Lynn wrote Gore, "you appear to be asking religious leaders to endorse your candidacy from the pulpit. This is highly inappropriate, since it could put the tax-exempt status of those churches at risk. While church leaders may, acting as private citizens, endorse you or any other candidate, they may not do so in their official capacity as pastors.

"As I'm sure you know," Lynn continued, "federal tax law states that churches and other non-profit organizations may not endorse or oppose candidates for political office. While churches are free to register voters, encourage voter turnout and take other nonpartisan political actions, they may not endorse candidates."

Concluded Lynn, "I believe it is imperative that your campaign issue a statement clarifying this matter and explain what your specific intentions were. Churches should never be encouraged to do anything that may be illegal or that may put their tax exemptions at risk. To avoid further confusion, you ought to state that publicly."

Americans United has waged a nationwide campaign in recent years to educate churches about the parameters of federal tax law regarding nonprofit organizations and politics. The group recently sent an advisory to 285,000 churches across the country offering detailed legal information on the subject.

Based in Washington, D.C., Americans United is a church-state watchdog group that educates Americans about the First Amendment's religious liberty provisions. Founded in 1947, AU represents some 60,000 individual members, as well as houses of worship, in all 50 states.

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DO WE REALLY NEED ANOTHER PATHOLOGICAL LIAR FOR PRESIDENT?

FICTION: Al Gore recently claimed that his mother-in-law pays more than $100.00 for the arthritis medicine Lodine; and he claims that his dog takes the same medicine for $37.00, claiming "This is wrong!"
FACT: Gore's aides were quick to apologize for Gore's lie, saying the information was from a Democratic study. Washington newspapers also reported that Al Gore wasn't even sure his mother-in-law was taking any medication and wasn't even sure she had arthritis. And, he doesn't know anything about his dog's "arthritis".

FICTION: Al Gore said his father, a senator, was a champion of civil rights during the 1960's.
FACT: Gore's father voted against the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and was a racist who was fond of using the "N" word.

FICTION: Al Gore said that his sister was the very first person to join the Peace Corps.
FACT: By the time Gore's sister joined the Peace Corps, there were already over 100 members.

FICTION: The same sister died of lung cancer years later and Gore vowed to never accept tobacco money as campaign contributions.
FACT: Just four years later, while campaigning for office, Gore spoke to the tobacco industry and said he was one of them because "I've planted it, raised it, cut it, and dried it." He raised over $100,000 in "reported"
contributions.

FICTION: While running for office, Gore's campaign literature claimed he was a "Brilliant Student".
FACT: Washington newspapers said he barely passed Harvard and consistently earned D's and C's.

FICTION: Gore claims an extensive knowledge of law as a result of his extensive study at law school.
FACT: Al Gore dropped out of law school.

FICTION: Gore claimed that his knowledge of God and spirituality came to complete fruition while "finishing" divinity school.
FACT: Al Gore dropped out of divinity school.

FICTION: Al Gore claimed responsibility for inventing the Internet in the 1990's.
FACT : Shocked scientists were quick to speak out, explaining that the Internet had been in widespread use by government and educational institutions since the early 1970's.

FICTION: Al Gore claimed the book "Love Story" was based on his life and Tipper's.
FACT: Author Erich Segal called a press conference to deny his claim.(Couldn't he at least lie about a love story where his sweetheart doesn't die?"

FICTION : Gore claimed that as a reporter for a Nashville newspaper, his stories led to the arrests of numerous corrupt criminals.
FACT: He later apologized for his claim and actually said it was untrue (Also known as lying).

FICTION: Gore claims to increase diversity in the staff that follows him daily, especially among blacks.
FACT: Black members of the Secret Service are suing because they claim they are not being promoted to positions guarding the Vice-President.

FICTION: Al Gore said he was the first to discover the Love Canal nuclear accident.
FACT: The incident was already discovered, being investigated, and covered widely in the press for many months before Gore was aware of it.

FICTION: Gore said just recently that if elected president, he would put harsh sanctions on the sleazy producers of Hollywood's extreme sex and violence.
FACT: Just six days later, Gore attended a fundraiser by Hollywood producers and radical gay activists where he told them that he would only pretend to "nudge them" if elected. He raised over $4million.

FICTION: Al Gore said he built his Tennessee home with his bare hands.
FACT : Totally false!

FICTION: Al Gore says parents should not have a choice between private and public schools because public schools are far better.
TRUTH : Al Gore attended private school and he has sent his children to private schools.

FICTION: Al Gore remembers his mother lulling him to sleep as a baby by singing the popular ditty, "Look For The Union Label".
FACT: The popular ditty was created by the unions when Gore was 27 years old.

FICTION: Al Gore claimed to co-sponsor the McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act. He also said it would the first bill he signs as President.
FACT: The Act was not sponsored until he had been out of office for over a year. It's also the fourth bill he said would be the "first" one he'd sign.

FICTION: Al Gore claims to be instrumental in keeping gas prices low.
FACT: Gore has voted on numerous occasions to raise the tax on gasoline. In his book "Earth In The Balance" Gore claims that the nation's Number One enemy is the internal combustion engine. (That's the motor in your vehicle that gets you to work and takes your kids to school)

FICTION: Gore pretends to champion the rights of poor women to be tested regularly for breast cancer with the most modern technology.
FACT: While giving a speech on the subject in September, Gore didn't know what a mammogram was.

FICTION: AL Gore promised Florida's senior citizens that they would finally have low-cost drugs with no interference from government.
FACT: Gore's plan calls for the creation of a huge federal agency that would tell you which doctor you are allowed to see in order to get the "special rates".

FACT: Al Gore told NBC's Lisa Meyers that he had never told a lie. When Meyers pressed harder, "You've never told a lie?!" Gore said, "Not that I know of." SOUND FAMILIAR? Election Day is ticking away. E-mail this to as many people as possible or we will be living in an Al Gore fantasy land.

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Today on CNN they have been playing Al Gore's diatribe against President

Bush's Administration for not having "captured" Bin Laden. I am fed up with his lip service and his continuous attempts to keep the people of this country divided and sidetracked from the real issues at hand, making us continually vulnerable to another attack.(If your not focused on the predator, the hunter becomes the hunted)

Attached you will find a copy of a portion of the Ollie North hearings that is afloat here in cyberspace, making me wonder, Does Gore think everyone has a short memory, or that everyone automatically believes what spews out of his mouth? And what would/is his response to this fact, which under his liberal logic would make him responsible in whole or in part for what has transpired since?

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