Goreism - RushOnline.com (pg 2)
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 733 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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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.
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."
* * *
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
* * *
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
* * *
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!
* * *
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:
* 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!
* 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???
* 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?
* "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!
* 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!
* 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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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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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
* * *
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 TIMES
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.
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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
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
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.
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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 ?
* * *
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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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
* * *
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 thought. 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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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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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."
* * *
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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