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From 25 years ago, but Gore has not changed:
Source: New York Times
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Gore hates seniors? In 1993, Clinton/Gore targeted seniors for a special tax increase. Clinton/Gore raised taxes on all seniors who receive social security benefits and then they did nothing to protect social security. Gore has nothing to offer but, fear itself.
Source: Inventing Al Gore
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The Wall Street meltdown started when Clinton & Gore attacked and sued Microsoft. How much money have you lost?
Source: Wall Street Journal
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Clinton/Gore's paper peace in Ireland did not work. Clinton/Gore's paper peace in Israel did not work. Now Clinton/Gore are doing North Korea. When does the shooting start?
Source: New Republican newsgroup
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Gore has never been in charge of anything, no committee or even a sub-committee.
Source: www.cnn.com
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George W. Bush has two college degrees to Gore's one. GWB scored 100 points higher on the SAT.
Source: Newsweek, CNN, Time
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Gore keeps voting for increased taxes on energy.
Source: Citizens for lower taxes
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Gore's track record on campaign finance reform... "No governing legal authority."
Source: Quote from Al Gore
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Attention African-Americans: Clinton/Gore don't want you to have the choice to choose what's best for your kids. Vouchers work when they are tried. Free you children now!
Source: Better Education
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For 8 years... Clinton/Gore have slashed the military.
Source: Statistics from Newsweek
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The stock market plunge started when Clinton/Gore attacked Microsoft. The entire hi-tech industry is getting creamed Clinton/Gore have destroyed wealth and it has hurt everyone that owns stock.
Source: Wall Street Journal
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With Clinton/Gore seniors have gotten punished (high taxes on their Social Security Benefits in 1993).
Source: Senior's Advocate Monthly Newsletter
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As reported earlier in the NY Times (August 2000) Clinton/Gore have cut Medicare coverage for cancer patients.
Source: New York Times
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re... judgements and value? No scruples, no ethics. Gore's character was not improved by Joe Liebermann, because Gore has corrupted Joe.
Source: New York Post 10/20/00
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After 8 years, now the NY Times, Boston Globe, LA Times and other newspapers tell us that Bill Clinton and Al Gore have never liked each other. In addition, Mrs. Clinton and Tipper don't like each other. Clinton is the source of this story. WHY NOW?
Source: New York Times 10/20/00
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"Government Cheating Patients!" says that the government is who is hurting the sick with unfair rules. For years Clinton/Gore have fought medical reform.
Source: Washington Times 10/11/00
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Selling the Veto Vote! Gore from his White House office asked 6 trial lawyers for hundreds of thousands of illegal dollars to buy Clinton's veto vote. Gore is for the rich and powerful lawyers!
Source: Washington Post 9/15/00
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For years Clinton and Gore have cut funds for Forest Fires. Now the west has the worst fires in over 50 years. Governors blame Clinton & Gore's policies. Can our environment survive Gore?
Source: CNN
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With what we've already found in Alaska, America's total oil supply for the next 30 years, at the very least (and possibly up to 70 years), can come from Alaska alone. Just imagine... NO FOREIGN OIL!
Source: Democrat Representative John Trappicant from Ohio
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Al Gore and his extremist EPA have added the gas tax... now people in the mid-west are paying $2.25 ish per gallon.
Source: Citizen's Advocate Group
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Gore, in his book, writes that we should just raise taxes, limit production to reduce supplies.(about oil)
Source: Earth in the Balance; Al Gore
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Clinton/Gore will bring you higher prices for heating oil. Home heating oil in the North East will go up about 40% this winter.
Source: ABCnews
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Who profits from high oil prices? Al Gore has the biggest ties to big oil! 500,000 shares of OXY Petroleum stock. Several years ago, Gore gave the Navy's Oil Reserve fields to OXY.
Source: OXY employee newsletter, Time magazine
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The Clinton/Gore Legacy... NO Defense Shield. Somehow they always do what the Communists want. Russia & China are happy again!
Source: Senate Minority Leader, Dick Gephardt (5/20/98)
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Gore's last fund raising record...
22 Charged, 12 Convictions, 70 have plead the 5th, 15 Fled the country
Source: Congressional Records, Newsweek
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Gore wants us to think that the laws are corrupt. He also wants us to believe... "No governing legal authority".
Source: Quote from Al Gore
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Clinton/Gore are against marriage. They have recently vetoed marriage tax relieve taking $1,420 per year from working families that are married. But, couples shacking up don't get punished.
Source: Associated Press
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Unlike GWB's daughters, who have always gone to public schools; Gore's children have and go to private schools. Yet, Gore wants to keep your children in public schools, While Bush wants to give you freedom to choose.
Source: Arizona Senator John Mccaine
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Hollywood's Defender... now Gore's critical of Hollywood? As recently as 9/18/00 Gore had taken big bucks from Hollywood. A wink and a nod!
Source: Democrat Representative John Trappicant of Ohio
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A witness, Al Gore's college buddy, has come forward to state that Gore was a regular pot smoker. Also confirmed, due to bad grades Al Gore... dropped out of grad school.
Source: CNN.com
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No Social Security Proposals... For 8 years Clinton and Gore have done NOTHING to fix Social Security and Medicare.
Source: Citizens for better medicare
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For 40 years Democrats have been promising a struggle for minorities. Isn't it a little odd, that after 40 years, they still have no plan and no solution. Al Gore has been in power for 8 years... have the blacks seen any results?
Source: Ebony Magazine
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Some Flip-Flops of Al Gore's...
Did you know that Gore used to be Pro-Life. Al Gore used to say: "Gays are Abnormal" (circa 1990) Which Gore is the real Gore? His original believes OR his 180 degree Clinton flip-flops? 35,000,000 dead babies... abortion has become a big business that Al Gore and Bill Clinton love!
Source: Third Party Website, Independent Research Group
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Pot Smoking and a College Drop Out...
A witness, Gore's college buddy, has come forward to state that Gore was a regular pot smoker. Also confirmed, due to bad grades... Al Gore dropped out of grad school.
Source: Newseek
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Energy - Higher Prices.
Clinton/Gore will bring you higher prices for heating oil. Home heating oil in the North East will go up about 40% this winter. Did they botch it or plan it?
Source: Citizens for better energy.
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Gore destroying evidence?
"I'm Not an Expert on Computers" ( Al Gore on 9/14/00)
Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday he was not fully aware of the scope of the problem when e-mails went missing from backup computer tapes in his office.
Gore, in an exclusive interview with the Fox News Channel, pleaded ignorance, saying he knew he lost three days' worth of messages but that he was "not an expert on computers." (from the man who claimed to have helped invented the internet)
Source: FOX news
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Al Gore, Sr. voted against Civil Rights in 1964. Al Gore, Jr. has lied about his dad's voting record.
Shio- Now Gore has lied about small stuff. Gore can't stop avoiding destroying truth. (Boston Globe broke the story on 9/19/00) Gore is avoiding questions on this latest lie.
Source: Boston Globe
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Montana Governor blames administration for forest firests. (NY Times 8/12/00) Says environmental policies left forest susceptible.
Source: New York Times
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How powerful is Big Oil?
-Big Oil is so powerful, that they
CAN NOT build any refineries.
-Big Oil is so powerful that they
CAN NOT drill off the coast.
-Big Oil is so powerful that they
CAN NOT drill in Alaska.
-Big Oil is so powerful that they
CAN NOT do anything to meet
America's oil demand.
Source: OPEC, Chrysler Newsletter, Repbublican website
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For 8 years Clinton/Gore have blocked all proposals and all fixes for Social Security and Medicare. They are playing political football with these issues to scare voters.
Source: Citizens for better medicare
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Oil and Gas prices have doubled in the last 8 years.
Source: Secretary of Energy
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Going against the Supreme Court ruling, it sure seems like Clinton/Gore are attacking the Boy Scouts. Gore will force the Boy Scouts to have gay scout masters. What's next? They will change the beliefs and policies of your church.
Gore still avoids the questions.
Source: The Cleveland Advocate
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Why should we believe that Al Gore will tell the truth as President, when he doesn't tell the truth during the campaign? Bill Bradley, Democrat (January 2000)
Source: Bill Bradley Quote
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Gore Fact: Due to bad grades, Al Gore dropped out of grad school.
Source: Newsweek
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Gore has never been in charge of anything. George W. Bush has lead Texas for over 6 years. Only 2 senators have been elected president, while 19 governors have become President.
Source: C-Span
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In the last 8 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 land. 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.
Source: National Economic Commitee, NRA, Medical Care Research
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According to the Indepenant Tax Group (made up of Democrats and Republicans) Gore is planing to spend 5 times more than George W. Bush.
Gore, Surplus Buster.
Source: Independent Tax Group
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Gore wants to create 200 new government programs... and Gore "promises" that he won't hire one new government employee.
Source: Gore spending plan
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The Big Lies. The Wall Street Journal (10/9/00) points out that Gore's policy plans are a pack of lies too.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
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With Gore only the "right" people will get tax relief, where GWB believes that every American taxpayer deserves tax relief.
Source: Gore and Bush spending plans
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Gore says he's going to control and censor HOLLYWOOD. But, they own him and they are not afraid when he talks strong.
Source: Citizens For a Clean Hollywood
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In fact, Clinton/Gore have not charged any porno pusher, including kiddie porn for over 5 years; not 1.
Source: Citizens United Against Child Pornography
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Gore has written that he will attack America's Automotive business... because Gore is against SUVs and Trucks.
Source: Earth in The Balance; Al Gore
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Gore's word is "eligible". Unlike GWB Gore doesn't give a tax cut to "everybody." You are probably one of the 50 million left out.
Source: George W. Bush web site, Gore plan
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$3+ a gallon? In his book, Gore writes that he favors higher and higher taxes to discourage driving.
Source: Earth in The Balance; Al Gore
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Al Gore wants to take your car away from you... it's right there in his book.
Source: Earth in The Balance; Al Gore
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Budget Buster... Gore will spend all the surplus and more! Estimates include trillions more in spending. Watch for retroactive tax increases again! Gore will spend away your future! His proposed programs will cost 4.6 trillion, putting us way in the red.
Source: Independent Spending Research Firm
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Al Gore is going to spend more than the entire surplus. So we will have tax increases with Gore. Al Gore is proposing a tax increase. Are you ready to pay a trillions more?
Source: EIB, based on Gore plan
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Gore wants to force your children and grand children to pay for your "free" drugs.
Source: EIB, based on Gore plan
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With Gore - Big Government will become your Doctor too! With Clinton/Gore Health Care...Big Government would be making your medical decisions, not Doctors! (so do you want Clinton/Gore making your life and death decisions?) As reported in the NY TIMES on August 6th, Clinton/Gore HAVE CUT millions for anti-cancer drugs. With Gore "Big Brother" will really be playing Doctor. Ask any vet about Government Health Care...it's not a pretty picture!
Source: New York Times
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Do you like the way the DMV is ran? Clinton/Gore will make your life and death decisions!
Source: Limbaugh Letter, EIB
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Gore's big spending schemes are the largest increases in history! He wants a Bigger & Bigger Government.
Source: Independent Research Group
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Al Gore wants to take your car away from you and he wants your standard of living to be no higher than the world average.... it's right there in his book.
Source: Earth in the balance; Al Gore
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Gore wants to punish achievement by taxing you at a higher rate. Read his tax plan.
Source: Gore Website
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A massive new deficit... $900 billion, beyond the projected surplus. A reckless taxer and spender... Al Gore is the radical liberal.
Source: Independent Research Board
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Going against the Supreme Court ruling, it sure seems like Clinton/Gore are attacking the Boy Scouts. Gore will force the Boy Scouts to have gay scout masters. What's next? They will change the beliefs and policies of your church.
Source: Boy Scout website
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Gore says he's going to put I.O.U.s in a lock box to help save Social Security. But, George W. Bush puts cash into the lock box.
Source: C-Span, George W. Bush Quote
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Gore wants to keep stolen money. We've over paid billions in taxes and Gore will not return 1 cent of our money!
Source: Internet Tax Board
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Let's look at Gore's phoney College give-away. (now remember what and when IS is IS).
- His $10,000 is not cash... it's a Tax Credit.
- To get it, the family needs to be in the 28% tax bracket. Then it becomes a $2,800.
- If you are not in the 28% tax bracket you get $0. That's zip, zero!
- But, existing law is currently 20%... so Gore is upping it from $2,000 to $2,800. Nothing like he claims
- Read Gore's plan further... is it per child or only for 1 student per family?
Source: Al Gore website, Associated Press
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Attention Seniors--- Listen to Gore's speeches, he's just trying to scare you.
-Gore removed millions of seniors from Social Security when Clinton/Gore raised the age requirements from 65 to 67.
-Gore raised taxes on Social Security seniors in 1993.
-Back in 1992 Gore's vote was the tie-breaking vote to raise the taxes on the Senior Citizen benefits. As reported in the NY TIMES on August 6th, Clinton/Gore HAVE CUT millions for anti-cancer drugs.
Sources: New York Times, Citizens for Better Medicare
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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 "creator" 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 Jewish World Review: The intersection of faith, culture and politics for all the best
collumnists.
Source: Jewish World Review, Wall Street Journal
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20 million of the 30 million barrels of America's emergency oil reserves have been sold to Europe! Clinton/Gore have sent our oil reserves overseas; and Americans are left out.
Source: Associated Press
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Today (10/12/00) oil prices are at a 10 year high.
-According to Reuter News... With Gore's leadership we have 1/3 less heating oil than we had last year.
-Al Gore does not want increased production. He wants us to be dependent on foreign dictators. Gore wants the North East to have a cold, bitter, and expensive winter!
Source: North East Energy Co-operative
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On 9/22/00 Energy Secretary Richardson says that shortage is the problem, not the oil company's greed. He said it's a simple fact of supply and demand.
Source: C-span, Wallstreet Journal
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Why doesn't America have enough oil? In the last 8 years Clinton and Gore have stopped oil exploration and they have forced them to reduce oil production by 18%. That's what has created the oil shortage mess.
Source: Wallstreet Journal
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-In a dramatic Flip-Flop, Gore has changed his mind. By giving away our national oil reserves Clinton Gore undermines our National Security. Economic experts say even if he gives away all our oil reserves--- it is not enough to lower the price.
-In an national emergency our Air Force, Army, and Navy will be short on gas!
-This dumb move proves that Gore cares more about a few votes than our National Security. It is just a trick to get Gore votes. He is pandering. The Washington Post (9/22/00) calls Gore's try a "shameless stunt".
-No exploration, No drilling... Oil Pandering.
Sources: Washington Post, CNN, Cox News Service
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Gore has no spine, no backbone (NY Times) Imagine an America without foreign oil, no high prices, n OPEC blackmail... Alaska has enough oil for 100% of our needs for the next 70 years. George W. Bush wants us to start, safely, getting this independence from the Middle-East.
Source: New York Times
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About intelligence between the two candidates
-Like George W. Bush, Gore has a degree from Harvard... but, Al Gore flunked out of Religion School and flunked out of Law School.
-By comparison... George W. Bush has a degree from both Yale and a MBA degree from Harvard!
-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. by the way, 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!
Source: Boston Globe, CNN, Washington Post
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Some Al Gore tall tales
-In February of 1988 the Washington Post quoted Al Gore that he been shot at in Vietnam. It wasn't true. That claim was shot down by Newsweek in December of 1999.
-In April 1988 Al Gore told a League of Women Voters gathering that he had written the law of Superfund. Recently he changed his story because the real author of the Superfund law was James Florio.
-On October 30, 1992, Gore denied that there was a dump on his father's farm, but national television showed the pictures.
-On January 24, 1997, regarding the Buddhist Temple event, Al Gore said on the Today Show that "I did not know it was a fundraiser."
-On December 15, 1997, Time magazine reported that Al Gore claimed that he and Tipper had served as role models for the Eric Segal novel, Love Story. That wasn't true.
-On March 9, 1999, Al Gore told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." It wasn't true. The Department of Defense got the Internet underway in 1969. Al Gore was 21 in 1969.
-On April 25, 1999, Al Gore told the Detroit chapter of the NAACP that his father was a fighter for civil rights, but he didn't tell them that his father had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
-On June 1, 1999, at a Women for Gore event, Al Gore said he'd always been pro- choice, but that wasn't true. As a Congressman he had voted pro-life on many occasions.
-On October 14, 1999, Al Gore's website proclaimed that he'd worked for the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty for 20 years, but that claim wasn't true. As late as 1992 Al Gore had opposed that Treaty on the Senate floor.
-On November 1, 1999, Time magazine reported that Al Gore had claimed to have authored the Earned Income Tax Credit. That wasn't true. The Earned Income Tax Credit was passed into law in 1975 and Al Gore didn't even enter Congress until 1977.
-On November 24, 1999, The New York Times reported that Al Gore claimed to have been a co-sponsor of the McCain Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill. But Al Gore never served in the Senate with Senator Feingold. It wasn't true.
-On December 23, 1999, ABC News reported that Al Gore flatly declared that "I live on a farm today." Al Gore lived then and he lives now at the Naval Observatory on Massachusetts Avenue in the District of Columbia. The Observatory is not a farm. Al Gore's statement wasn't true.
-On February 4, 2000, The New York Times reported that Al Gore claimed to have spoken to a crowd of 3,000 people, but the room at which he spoke at had a maximum capacity of 1,200. It wasn't true.
-On February 15, 2000, Al Gore asserted that he had never grown tobacco on the farm that he owned in Tennessee, but the Wall Street Journal in 1995 and Cox News Service in 1999 reported that tobacco had indeed been grown on that farm.
-On April 11, 2000, Al Gore was reported by the Boston Globe to be trumpeting that he had his own meeting with Gorbachev, but the Globe reported that 26 other members of Congress had been present at that mass meeting. It just wasn't true.
-In June of 2000 Al Gore said "I introduced the very first free t.v. legislation in the Senate in 1988," but more than 150 bills on that subject had been previously introduced in previous Congresses. It just wasn't true.
-In his acceptance speech at the August Democratic Convention, Al Gore said that the Bush tax cut would benefit the middle class by only $.62 per week. But that wasn't true.
-On August 28th Al Gore told a gathering of Florida seniors that his dog, Shilo, and his mother-in-law took the same arthritis drug, but that his mother-in-law paid three times as much as the dog did and that wasn't true. Al Gore won't even answer questions about whether his mother-in-law pays anything for her drugs.
-On September 22nd Al Gore told the Associated Press that he'd been part of a discussions on strategic petroleum reserve since the days it was first established. But that reserve was established in 1975 and Al Gore did not enter Congress until 1977.
-In the weekend before the first presidential debate, Al Gore complained that he had never been invited to appear on a PBS documentary about presidential debates. But PBS officials said they had indeed invited Al Gore and Al Gore's staff confirmed that he had rejected the invitation.
-At the presidential debate on October 3, 2000, Al Gore claimed that a girl had to stand in the classroom of Sarasota High School and was still standing, but it wasn't true. The principal of the high school went on national television to say so.
-In the same debate, Al Gore said that he had worked with former President Ronald Reagan on defense issues, but that wasn't true. Al Gore had opposed Ronald Reagan on defense issues.
-In the same debate, Al Gore was asked what had meant when he attacked Governor Bush as lacking the experience to be President. Al Gore told moderator Jim Lehrer he had never said such a thing, but he had. And so had his staff on many occasions. It wasn't true.
-In the same debate, Al Gore said he took a risk in asking the former Prime Minister of Russia Chernomyrdin to become involved in negotiating an end of the conflict in Kosovo. The New York Times reported that the Russian President Yeltsin had designated Mr. Chernomyrdin as special envoy to the Balkans and had done so two weeks before Chernomyrdin had met with Mr. Gore. Mr. Gore's claim simply wasn't true.
-In the same debate, Mr. Gore said that he had accompanied Jamie Lee Witt, the head of the federal government's emergency response team, to catastrophic fires in Texas, but that wasn't true. He didn't accompany Mr. Witt and he didn't go to those fires. He made it up. It wasn't true.
Sources: NBC, CBS, PBS, ABC, Al Gore Website, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Internet News Bureau, Limbaugh Letter, Cox News Service, C-Span
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Reaction to some of Gore's lies
-Television commentator Morton Kondracke says Al Gore suffers from a Forrest Gump complex.
-The New York Times quotes a professor of psychology in saying that Al Gore's record is "like the false memory syndrome where people end up believing that they were abducted by aliens."
-The head of the California Democratic Party says that he cannot explain Al Gore's behavior because he is not a "psychiatrist."
-The Washington Post quotes a veteran democrat as saying that Al Gore's record is "dangerous because it reinforces a dangerous perception that Gore is just another arrogant politician and we have 8 more years of lies ahead of us."
-Former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley asked Al Gore at a New Hampshire debate "Why should we believe you will tell the truth as President if you don't tell the truth as a candidate?" Why indeed? In matters large and matters small, in matters three decades old and three days old, Al Gore has not told the truth as Senator, as a Vice President, as a nominee for President. Al Gore has not told the truth.
-In front of 50 million Americans in the first presidential debate on at least six separate matters, Al Gore did not tell the truth. If there is one thing certain about Campaign 2000 it's that you cannot trust Al Gore. You simply cannot trust Al Gore.
Sources: Associated Press, C-span, CNN, EIB, Internet News Bureau
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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 to 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.
Source: New York Post
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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, such as making sure all high school graduates can atleast read
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 areas 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.
Source: Herald-News, Dayton Tennessee
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Gore claims that the networks violated the debate rules by showing Al Gore on camera when he wasn't talking. Nonsense, Gore has made up another rule that DOES NOT exist.
Source: ABCnews
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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.
Source: C-span website
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A HISTORY OF WHOPPERS: Mr. Gore has had a long history of dishonesty - even before he joined forces with Bill Clinton - that is truly disconcerning. 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 has reported 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.
Source: Time Magazine
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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.
FACT: 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.
W: 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?
Source: Internet News Bureau, The Twenty-one Lies of Al Gore
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Stoned Al Gore Fantasized About Being President, Friend Says
While working as a reporter by day and attending divinity school at night, future presidential candidate Al Gore would get stoned on high-grade opium-laced marijuana with his Tennessee buddies and fantasize about running for the White House, a friend says.
"We'd get stoned and talk about what we'd do if we were president," his drug supplier John Warnecke told Newsweek's Bill Turque in 1999, in an account the magazine sat on for nearly a year.
"It would allow him to get into the fantasy world of being an elected official," Warnecke added.
arnecke went public on his own last year, telling an online journal that he and Gore used marijuana regularly together right up untill veep's 1976 run for Congress.
On Monday Warnecke told WLAC-Nashville talk radio host Phil Valentine that two trusted friends have since confided that they continued to supply Gore with drugs right up to his 1992 run for the vice presidency.
"As Warnecke tells it, he and Gore - often joined by (his wife) Nancy and Tipper - would gather to talk politics late into the night, fueled by (Grateful) Dead albums, cognac, and high-grade opium-laced marijuana Warnecke imported from the West Coast," reported Turque in his little-noticed biography "Inventing Al Gore."
"They picked apart everything from civil rights to funding for the B-1 bomber to, not surprisingly, the liberalization of drug laws." Warnecke told Turque that Gore "smoked as much as anybody I knew (in Nashville) and loved it." Once Gore even toked up while cruising the police beat as a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean.
Though Warnecke is the only Gore friend to go on the record about the veep's once heavy marijuana use, Turque says he spoke to others who back key parts of his story. Some even described Gore's behavior while under the influence.
"Al Gore stoned was a mix of expansiveness and paranoia, friends recall. He could be ironically humorous and self aware about his lot as heir apparent in a political family. But he was also worried about his bright future literally going up in smoke."
Warnecke told Turque that Gore was "paranoid about being busted."
Other Gore friends refused to go into detail but suggested that he has much to hide about this period of his life.
"I think this is one of these areas that could be damaging for Al, so I think I'm going to have to keep my comments private," Eve Ziebart said.
"That's one area that no friend of Al would ever discuss, because it's so inflammatory," Gore's Harvard roommate Bob Somerby told the Newsweek reporter.
Source: Newsweek Reports Sept. 22, 2000
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At Jefferson's home, upon seeing statues of George Washington and Ben Franklin. Al Gore is confused and asks who are these guys?
Source: Democrat Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, 10/6/91
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Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1960? There is an audio tape of Gore's speech where he claimed Lincoln was elected in 1960! Historians agree that it was 1860.
Source: Limbaugh letter, republican alliance, and NBCnews
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Gore claims that the book and movie "LOVE STORY" was written about him and Tipper. The author said this is false. (Gore is still telling this tall tale)
Source: Quote from Al Gore, and ABCnews.com
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The New York Torah Court - Beth Din announced Monday that, after careful deliberation, it has excommunicated Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential hopeful on Al Gore's ticket.
The court stated that Senator Lieberman caused grave scandal for the Jewish religion "by the fact that, while claiming to be an observant Jew, Lieberman has been misrepresenting and falsifying to the American people the teachings of the Torah against partial birth infanticide, against special privileges and preferential treatment for flaunting homosexuals, and against religious intermarriage of Jews."
Rabbi Joseph Friedman, a spokesman for the rabbinical court, said that Lieberman also has "flagrantly violated our sacred Torah by his Senate votes upholding partial birth infanticide and legitimizing homosexuality, which abnormal and unhealthy behavior the Torah strongly condemns as sinful and immoral.
"Mr. Lieberman, moreover, has, in violation of the Torah, supported harmful gender integration in the US Armed Forces - in the barracks, on naval warships, and in combat training - all of which weakens and demoralizes our Armed Forces," he added.
Rabbi Friedman also declared that, "under excommunication...the person being excommunicated still remains a Jew. We hope that the senator repents and asks (God's) forgiveness so that the excommunication may be lifted."
Rabbi Friedman stated that there are historical precedents for rabbinical excommunication of public figures as well as private individuals. However, those precedents have been few and far between. In 1945, Rabbi Mordecai M Kaplan was excommunicated for grave violations of the Torah. That excommunication was reported in the New York Times and other newspapers and publications.
The Gore-Lieberman 2000 Campaign Headquarters' press office in Nashville had no immediate response to the excommunication.
Source: cnnnews.com
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Al Gore and his campaign managers are trying to hint that Ralph Nader is gay, even though he is happily married. When will it end?
Source: Green Party newsletter
Source: New York Times
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Gore hates seniors? In 1993, Clinton/Gore targeted seniors for a special tax increase. Clinton/Gore raised taxes on all seniors who receive social security benefits and then they did nothing to protect social security. Gore has nothing to offer but, fear itself.
Source: Inventing Al Gore
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The Wall Street meltdown started when Clinton & Gore attacked and sued Microsoft. How much money have you lost?
Source: Wall Street Journal
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Clinton/Gore's paper peace in Ireland did not work. Clinton/Gore's paper peace in Israel did not work. Now Clinton/Gore are doing North Korea. When does the shooting start?
Source: New Republican newsgroup
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Gore has never been in charge of anything, no committee or even a sub-committee.
Source: www.cnn.com
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George W. Bush has two college degrees to Gore's one. GWB scored 100 points higher on the SAT.
Source: Newsweek, CNN, Time
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Gore keeps voting for increased taxes on energy.
Source: Citizens for lower taxes
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Gore's track record on campaign finance reform... "No governing legal authority."
Source: Quote from Al Gore
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Attention African-Americans: Clinton/Gore don't want you to have the choice to choose what's best for your kids. Vouchers work when they are tried. Free you children now!
Source: Better Education
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For 8 years... Clinton/Gore have slashed the military.
Source: Statistics from Newsweek
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The stock market plunge started when Clinton/Gore attacked Microsoft. The entire hi-tech industry is getting creamed Clinton/Gore have destroyed wealth and it has hurt everyone that owns stock.
Source: Wall Street Journal
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With Clinton/Gore seniors have gotten punished (high taxes on their Social Security Benefits in 1993).
Source: Senior's Advocate Monthly Newsletter
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As reported earlier in the NY Times (August 2000) Clinton/Gore have cut Medicare coverage for cancer patients.
Source: New York Times
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re... judgements and value? No scruples, no ethics. Gore's character was not improved by Joe Liebermann, because Gore has corrupted Joe.
Source: New York Post 10/20/00
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After 8 years, now the NY Times, Boston Globe, LA Times and other newspapers tell us that Bill Clinton and Al Gore have never liked each other. In addition, Mrs. Clinton and Tipper don't like each other. Clinton is the source of this story. WHY NOW?
Source: New York Times 10/20/00
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"Government Cheating Patients!" says that the government is who is hurting the sick with unfair rules. For years Clinton/Gore have fought medical reform.
Source: Washington Times 10/11/00
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Selling the Veto Vote! Gore from his White House office asked 6 trial lawyers for hundreds of thousands of illegal dollars to buy Clinton's veto vote. Gore is for the rich and powerful lawyers!
Source: Washington Post 9/15/00
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For years Clinton and Gore have cut funds for Forest Fires. Now the west has the worst fires in over 50 years. Governors blame Clinton & Gore's policies. Can our environment survive Gore?
Source: CNN
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With what we've already found in Alaska, America's total oil supply for the next 30 years, at the very least (and possibly up to 70 years), can come from Alaska alone. Just imagine... NO FOREIGN OIL!
Source: Democrat Representative John Trappicant from Ohio
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Al Gore and his extremist EPA have added the gas tax... now people in the mid-west are paying $2.25 ish per gallon.
Source: Citizen's Advocate Group
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Gore, in his book, writes that we should just raise taxes, limit production to reduce supplies.(about oil)
Source: Earth in the Balance; Al Gore
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Clinton/Gore will bring you higher prices for heating oil. Home heating oil in the North East will go up about 40% this winter.
Source: ABCnews
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Who profits from high oil prices? Al Gore has the biggest ties to big oil! 500,000 shares of OXY Petroleum stock. Several years ago, Gore gave the Navy's Oil Reserve fields to OXY.
Source: OXY employee newsletter, Time magazine
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The Clinton/Gore Legacy... NO Defense Shield. Somehow they always do what the Communists want. Russia & China are happy again!
Source: Senate Minority Leader, Dick Gephardt (5/20/98)
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Gore's last fund raising record...
22 Charged, 12 Convictions, 70 have plead the 5th, 15 Fled the country
Source: Congressional Records, Newsweek
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Gore wants us to think that the laws are corrupt. He also wants us to believe... "No governing legal authority".
Source: Quote from Al Gore
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Clinton/Gore are against marriage. They have recently vetoed marriage tax relieve taking $1,420 per year from working families that are married. But, couples shacking up don't get punished.
Source: Associated Press
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Unlike GWB's daughters, who have always gone to public schools; Gore's children have and go to private schools. Yet, Gore wants to keep your children in public schools, While Bush wants to give you freedom to choose.
Source: Arizona Senator John Mccaine
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Hollywood's Defender... now Gore's critical of Hollywood? As recently as 9/18/00 Gore had taken big bucks from Hollywood. A wink and a nod!
Source: Democrat Representative John Trappicant of Ohio
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A witness, Al Gore's college buddy, has come forward to state that Gore was a regular pot smoker. Also confirmed, due to bad grades Al Gore... dropped out of grad school.
Source: CNN.com
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No Social Security Proposals... For 8 years Clinton and Gore have done NOTHING to fix Social Security and Medicare.
Source: Citizens for better medicare
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For 40 years Democrats have been promising a struggle for minorities. Isn't it a little odd, that after 40 years, they still have no plan and no solution. Al Gore has been in power for 8 years... have the blacks seen any results?
Source: Ebony Magazine
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Some Flip-Flops of Al Gore's...
Did you know that Gore used to be Pro-Life. Al Gore used to say: "Gays are Abnormal" (circa 1990) Which Gore is the real Gore? His original believes OR his 180 degree Clinton flip-flops? 35,000,000 dead babies... abortion has become a big business that Al Gore and Bill Clinton love!
Source: Third Party Website, Independent Research Group
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Pot Smoking and a College Drop Out...
A witness, Gore's college buddy, has come forward to state that Gore was a regular pot smoker. Also confirmed, due to bad grades... Al Gore dropped out of grad school.
Source: Newseek
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Energy - Higher Prices.
Clinton/Gore will bring you higher prices for heating oil. Home heating oil in the North East will go up about 40% this winter. Did they botch it or plan it?
Source: Citizens for better energy.
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Gore destroying evidence?
"I'm Not an Expert on Computers" ( Al Gore on 9/14/00)
Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday he was not fully aware of the scope of the problem when e-mails went missing from backup computer tapes in his office.
Gore, in an exclusive interview with the Fox News Channel, pleaded ignorance, saying he knew he lost three days' worth of messages but that he was "not an expert on computers." (from the man who claimed to have helped invented the internet)
Source: FOX news
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Al Gore, Sr. voted against Civil Rights in 1964. Al Gore, Jr. has lied about his dad's voting record.
Shio- Now Gore has lied about small stuff. Gore can't stop avoiding destroying truth. (Boston Globe broke the story on 9/19/00) Gore is avoiding questions on this latest lie.
Source: Boston Globe
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Montana Governor blames administration for forest firests. (NY Times 8/12/00) Says environmental policies left forest susceptible.
Source: New York Times
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How powerful is Big Oil?
-Big Oil is so powerful, that they
CAN NOT build any refineries.
-Big Oil is so powerful that they
CAN NOT drill off the coast.
-Big Oil is so powerful that they
CAN NOT drill in Alaska.
-Big Oil is so powerful that they
CAN NOT do anything to meet
America's oil demand.
Source: OPEC, Chrysler Newsletter, Repbublican website
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For 8 years Clinton/Gore have blocked all proposals and all fixes for Social Security and Medicare. They are playing political football with these issues to scare voters.
Source: Citizens for better medicare
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Oil and Gas prices have doubled in the last 8 years.
Source: Secretary of Energy
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Going against the Supreme Court ruling, it sure seems like Clinton/Gore are attacking the Boy Scouts. Gore will force the Boy Scouts to have gay scout masters. What's next? They will change the beliefs and policies of your church.
Gore still avoids the questions.
Source: The Cleveland Advocate
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Why should we believe that Al Gore will tell the truth as President, when he doesn't tell the truth during the campaign? Bill Bradley, Democrat (January 2000)
Source: Bill Bradley Quote
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Gore Fact: Due to bad grades, Al Gore dropped out of grad school.
Source: Newsweek
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Gore has never been in charge of anything. George W. Bush has lead Texas for over 6 years. Only 2 senators have been elected president, while 19 governors have become President.
Source: C-Span
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In the last 8 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 land. 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.
Source: National Economic Commitee, NRA, Medical Care Research
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According to the Indepenant Tax Group (made up of Democrats and Republicans) Gore is planing to spend 5 times more than George W. Bush.
Gore, Surplus Buster.
Source: Independent Tax Group
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Gore wants to create 200 new government programs... and Gore "promises" that he won't hire one new government employee.
Source: Gore spending plan
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The Big Lies. The Wall Street Journal (10/9/00) points out that Gore's policy plans are a pack of lies too.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
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With Gore only the "right" people will get tax relief, where GWB believes that every American taxpayer deserves tax relief.
Source: Gore and Bush spending plans
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Gore says he's going to control and censor HOLLYWOOD. But, they own him and they are not afraid when he talks strong.
Source: Citizens For a Clean Hollywood
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In fact, Clinton/Gore have not charged any porno pusher, including kiddie porn for over 5 years; not 1.
Source: Citizens United Against Child Pornography
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Gore has written that he will attack America's Automotive business... because Gore is against SUVs and Trucks.
Source: Earth in The Balance; Al Gore
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Gore's word is "eligible". Unlike GWB Gore doesn't give a tax cut to "everybody." You are probably one of the 50 million left out.
Source: George W. Bush web site, Gore plan
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$3+ a gallon? In his book, Gore writes that he favors higher and higher taxes to discourage driving.
Source: Earth in The Balance; Al Gore
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Al Gore wants to take your car away from you... it's right there in his book.
Source: Earth in The Balance; Al Gore
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Budget Buster... Gore will spend all the surplus and more! Estimates include trillions more in spending. Watch for retroactive tax increases again! Gore will spend away your future! His proposed programs will cost 4.6 trillion, putting us way in the red.
Source: Independent Spending Research Firm
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Al Gore is going to spend more than the entire surplus. So we will have tax increases with Gore. Al Gore is proposing a tax increase. Are you ready to pay a trillions more?
Source: EIB, based on Gore plan
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Gore wants to force your children and grand children to pay for your "free" drugs.
Source: EIB, based on Gore plan
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With Gore - Big Government will become your Doctor too! With Clinton/Gore Health Care...Big Government would be making your medical decisions, not Doctors! (so do you want Clinton/Gore making your life and death decisions?) As reported in the NY TIMES on August 6th, Clinton/Gore HAVE CUT millions for anti-cancer drugs. With Gore "Big Brother" will really be playing Doctor. Ask any vet about Government Health Care...it's not a pretty picture!
Source: New York Times
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Do you like the way the DMV is ran? Clinton/Gore will make your life and death decisions!
Source: Limbaugh Letter, EIB
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Gore's big spending schemes are the largest increases in history! He wants a Bigger & Bigger Government.
Source: Independent Research Group
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Al Gore wants to take your car away from you and he wants your standard of living to be no higher than the world average.... it's right there in his book.
Source: Earth in the balance; Al Gore
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Gore wants to punish achievement by taxing you at a higher rate. Read his tax plan.
Source: Gore Website
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A massive new deficit... $900 billion, beyond the projected surplus. A reckless taxer and spender... Al Gore is the radical liberal.
Source: Independent Research Board
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Going against the Supreme Court ruling, it sure seems like Clinton/Gore are attacking the Boy Scouts. Gore will force the Boy Scouts to have gay scout masters. What's next? They will change the beliefs and policies of your church.
Source: Boy Scout website
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Gore says he's going to put I.O.U.s in a lock box to help save Social Security. But, George W. Bush puts cash into the lock box.
Source: C-Span, George W. Bush Quote
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Gore wants to keep stolen money. We've over paid billions in taxes and Gore will not return 1 cent of our money!
Source: Internet Tax Board
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Let's look at Gore's phoney College give-away. (now remember what and when IS is IS).
- His $10,000 is not cash... it's a Tax Credit.
- To get it, the family needs to be in the 28% tax bracket. Then it becomes a $2,800.
- If you are not in the 28% tax bracket you get $0. That's zip, zero!
- But, existing law is currently 20%... so Gore is upping it from $2,000 to $2,800. Nothing like he claims
- Read Gore's plan further... is it per child or only for 1 student per family?
Source: Al Gore website, Associated Press
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Attention Seniors--- Listen to Gore's speeches, he's just trying to scare you.
-Gore removed millions of seniors from Social Security when Clinton/Gore raised the age requirements from 65 to 67.
-Gore raised taxes on Social Security seniors in 1993.
-Back in 1992 Gore's vote was the tie-breaking vote to raise the taxes on the Senior Citizen benefits. As reported in the NY TIMES on August 6th, Clinton/Gore HAVE CUT millions for anti-cancer drugs.
Sources: New York Times, Citizens for Better Medicare
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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 "creator" 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 Jewish World Review: The intersection of faith, culture and politics for all the best
collumnists.
Source: Jewish World Review, Wall Street Journal
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20 million of the 30 million barrels of America's emergency oil reserves have been sold to Europe! Clinton/Gore have sent our oil reserves overseas; and Americans are left out.
Source: Associated Press
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Today (10/12/00) oil prices are at a 10 year high.
-According to Reuter News... With Gore's leadership we have 1/3 less heating oil than we had last year.
-Al Gore does not want increased production. He wants us to be dependent on foreign dictators. Gore wants the North East to have a cold, bitter, and expensive winter!
Source: North East Energy Co-operative
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On 9/22/00 Energy Secretary Richardson says that shortage is the problem, not the oil company's greed. He said it's a simple fact of supply and demand.
Source: C-span, Wallstreet Journal
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Why doesn't America have enough oil? In the last 8 years Clinton and Gore have stopped oil exploration and they have forced them to reduce oil production by 18%. That's what has created the oil shortage mess.
Source: Wallstreet Journal
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-In a dramatic Flip-Flop, Gore has changed his mind. By giving away our national oil reserves Clinton Gore undermines our National Security. Economic experts say even if he gives away all our oil reserves--- it is not enough to lower the price.
-In an national emergency our Air Force, Army, and Navy will be short on gas!
-This dumb move proves that Gore cares more about a few votes than our National Security. It is just a trick to get Gore votes. He is pandering. The Washington Post (9/22/00) calls Gore's try a "shameless stunt".
-No exploration, No drilling... Oil Pandering.
Sources: Washington Post, CNN, Cox News Service
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Gore has no spine, no backbone (NY Times) Imagine an America without foreign oil, no high prices, n OPEC blackmail... Alaska has enough oil for 100% of our needs for the next 70 years. George W. Bush wants us to start, safely, getting this independence from the Middle-East.
Source: New York Times
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About intelligence between the two candidates
-Like George W. Bush, Gore has a degree from Harvard... but, Al Gore flunked out of Religion School and flunked out of Law School.
-By comparison... George W. Bush has a degree from both Yale and a MBA degree from Harvard!
-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. by the way, 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!
Source: Boston Globe, CNN, Washington Post
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Some Al Gore tall tales
-In February of 1988 the Washington Post quoted Al Gore that he been shot at in Vietnam. It wasn't true. That claim was shot down by Newsweek in December of 1999.
-In April 1988 Al Gore told a League of Women Voters gathering that he had written the law of Superfund. Recently he changed his story because the real author of the Superfund law was James Florio.
-On October 30, 1992, Gore denied that there was a dump on his father's farm, but national television showed the pictures.
-On January 24, 1997, regarding the Buddhist Temple event, Al Gore said on the Today Show that "I did not know it was a fundraiser."
-On December 15, 1997, Time magazine reported that Al Gore claimed that he and Tipper had served as role models for the Eric Segal novel, Love Story. That wasn't true.
-On March 9, 1999, Al Gore told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that "I took the initiative in creating the Internet." It wasn't true. The Department of Defense got the Internet underway in 1969. Al Gore was 21 in 1969.
-On April 25, 1999, Al Gore told the Detroit chapter of the NAACP that his father was a fighter for civil rights, but he didn't tell them that his father had voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
-On June 1, 1999, at a Women for Gore event, Al Gore said he'd always been pro- choice, but that wasn't true. As a Congressman he had voted pro-life on many occasions.
-On October 14, 1999, Al Gore's website proclaimed that he'd worked for the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty for 20 years, but that claim wasn't true. As late as 1992 Al Gore had opposed that Treaty on the Senate floor.
-On November 1, 1999, Time magazine reported that Al Gore had claimed to have authored the Earned Income Tax Credit. That wasn't true. The Earned Income Tax Credit was passed into law in 1975 and Al Gore didn't even enter Congress until 1977.
-On November 24, 1999, The New York Times reported that Al Gore claimed to have been a co-sponsor of the McCain Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill. But Al Gore never served in the Senate with Senator Feingold. It wasn't true.
-On December 23, 1999, ABC News reported that Al Gore flatly declared that "I live on a farm today." Al Gore lived then and he lives now at the Naval Observatory on Massachusetts Avenue in the District of Columbia. The Observatory is not a farm. Al Gore's statement wasn't true.
-On February 4, 2000, The New York Times reported that Al Gore claimed to have spoken to a crowd of 3,000 people, but the room at which he spoke at had a maximum capacity of 1,200. It wasn't true.
-On February 15, 2000, Al Gore asserted that he had never grown tobacco on the farm that he owned in Tennessee, but the Wall Street Journal in 1995 and Cox News Service in 1999 reported that tobacco had indeed been grown on that farm.
-On April 11, 2000, Al Gore was reported by the Boston Globe to be trumpeting that he had his own meeting with Gorbachev, but the Globe reported that 26 other members of Congress had been present at that mass meeting. It just wasn't true.
-In June of 2000 Al Gore said "I introduced the very first free t.v. legislation in the Senate in 1988," but more than 150 bills on that subject had been previously introduced in previous Congresses. It just wasn't true.
-In his acceptance speech at the August Democratic Convention, Al Gore said that the Bush tax cut would benefit the middle class by only $.62 per week. But that wasn't true.
-On August 28th Al Gore told a gathering of Florida seniors that his dog, Shilo, and his mother-in-law took the same arthritis drug, but that his mother-in-law paid three times as much as the dog did and that wasn't true. Al Gore won't even answer questions about whether his mother-in-law pays anything for her drugs.
-On September 22nd Al Gore told the Associated Press that he'd been part of a discussions on strategic petroleum reserve since the days it was first established. But that reserve was established in 1975 and Al Gore did not enter Congress until 1977.
-In the weekend before the first presidential debate, Al Gore complained that he had never been invited to appear on a PBS documentary about presidential debates. But PBS officials said they had indeed invited Al Gore and Al Gore's staff confirmed that he had rejected the invitation.
-At the presidential debate on October 3, 2000, Al Gore claimed that a girl had to stand in the classroom of Sarasota High School and was still standing, but it wasn't true. The principal of the high school went on national television to say so.
-In the same debate, Al Gore said that he had worked with former President Ronald Reagan on defense issues, but that wasn't true. Al Gore had opposed Ronald Reagan on defense issues.
-In the same debate, Al Gore was asked what had meant when he attacked Governor Bush as lacking the experience to be President. Al Gore told moderator Jim Lehrer he had never said such a thing, but he had. And so had his staff on many occasions. It wasn't true.
-In the same debate, Al Gore said he took a risk in asking the former Prime Minister of Russia Chernomyrdin to become involved in negotiating an end of the conflict in Kosovo. The New York Times reported that the Russian President Yeltsin had designated Mr. Chernomyrdin as special envoy to the Balkans and had done so two weeks before Chernomyrdin had met with Mr. Gore. Mr. Gore's claim simply wasn't true.
-In the same debate, Mr. Gore said that he had accompanied Jamie Lee Witt, the head of the federal government's emergency response team, to catastrophic fires in Texas, but that wasn't true. He didn't accompany Mr. Witt and he didn't go to those fires. He made it up. It wasn't true.
Sources: NBC, CBS, PBS, ABC, Al Gore Website, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Internet News Bureau, Limbaugh Letter, Cox News Service, C-Span
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Reaction to some of Gore's lies
-Television commentator Morton Kondracke says Al Gore suffers from a Forrest Gump complex.
-The New York Times quotes a professor of psychology in saying that Al Gore's record is "like the false memory syndrome where people end up believing that they were abducted by aliens."
-The head of the California Democratic Party says that he cannot explain Al Gore's behavior because he is not a "psychiatrist."
-The Washington Post quotes a veteran democrat as saying that Al Gore's record is "dangerous because it reinforces a dangerous perception that Gore is just another arrogant politician and we have 8 more years of lies ahead of us."
-Former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley asked Al Gore at a New Hampshire debate "Why should we believe you will tell the truth as President if you don't tell the truth as a candidate?" Why indeed? In matters large and matters small, in matters three decades old and three days old, Al Gore has not told the truth as Senator, as a Vice President, as a nominee for President. Al Gore has not told the truth.
-In front of 50 million Americans in the first presidential debate on at least six separate matters, Al Gore did not tell the truth. If there is one thing certain about Campaign 2000 it's that you cannot trust Al Gore. You simply cannot trust Al Gore.
Sources: Associated Press, C-span, CNN, EIB, Internet News Bureau
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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 to 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.
Source: New York Post
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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, such as making sure all high school graduates can atleast read
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 areas 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.
Source: Herald-News, Dayton Tennessee
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Gore claims that the networks violated the debate rules by showing Al Gore on camera when he wasn't talking. Nonsense, Gore has made up another rule that DOES NOT exist.
Source: ABCnews
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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.
Source: C-span website
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A HISTORY OF WHOPPERS: Mr. Gore has had a long history of dishonesty - even before he joined forces with Bill Clinton - that is truly disconcerning. 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 has reported 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.
Source: Time Magazine
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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.
FACT: 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.
W: 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?
Source: Internet News Bureau, The Twenty-one Lies of Al Gore
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Stoned Al Gore Fantasized About Being President, Friend Says
While working as a reporter by day and attending divinity school at night, future presidential candidate Al Gore would get stoned on high-grade opium-laced marijuana with his Tennessee buddies and fantasize about running for the White House, a friend says.
"We'd get stoned and talk about what we'd do if we were president," his drug supplier John Warnecke told Newsweek's Bill Turque in 1999, in an account the magazine sat on for nearly a year.
"It would allow him to get into the fantasy world of being an elected official," Warnecke added.
arnecke went public on his own last year, telling an online journal that he and Gore used marijuana regularly together right up untill veep's 1976 run for Congress.
On Monday Warnecke told WLAC-Nashville talk radio host Phil Valentine that two trusted friends have since confided that they continued to supply Gore with drugs right up to his 1992 run for the vice presidency.
"As Warnecke tells it, he and Gore - often joined by (his wife) Nancy and Tipper - would gather to talk politics late into the night, fueled by (Grateful) Dead albums, cognac, and high-grade opium-laced marijuana Warnecke imported from the West Coast," reported Turque in his little-noticed biography "Inventing Al Gore."
"They picked apart everything from civil rights to funding for the B-1 bomber to, not surprisingly, the liberalization of drug laws." Warnecke told Turque that Gore "smoked as much as anybody I knew (in Nashville) and loved it." Once Gore even toked up while cruising the police beat as a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean.
Though Warnecke is the only Gore friend to go on the record about the veep's once heavy marijuana use, Turque says he spoke to others who back key parts of his story. Some even described Gore's behavior while under the influence.
"Al Gore stoned was a mix of expansiveness and paranoia, friends recall. He could be ironically humorous and self aware about his lot as heir apparent in a political family. But he was also worried about his bright future literally going up in smoke."
Warnecke told Turque that Gore was "paranoid about being busted."
Other Gore friends refused to go into detail but suggested that he has much to hide about this period of his life.
"I think this is one of these areas that could be damaging for Al, so I think I'm going to have to keep my comments private," Eve Ziebart said.
"That's one area that no friend of Al would ever discuss, because it's so inflammatory," Gore's Harvard roommate Bob Somerby told the Newsweek reporter.
Source: Newsweek Reports Sept. 22, 2000
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At Jefferson's home, upon seeing statues of George Washington and Ben Franklin. Al Gore is confused and asks who are these guys?
Source: Democrat Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, 10/6/91
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Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1960? There is an audio tape of Gore's speech where he claimed Lincoln was elected in 1960! Historians agree that it was 1860.
Source: Limbaugh letter, republican alliance, and NBCnews
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Gore claims that the book and movie "LOVE STORY" was written about him and Tipper. The author said this is false. (Gore is still telling this tall tale)
Source: Quote from Al Gore, and ABCnews.com
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The New York Torah Court - Beth Din announced Monday that, after careful deliberation, it has excommunicated Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential hopeful on Al Gore's ticket.
The court stated that Senator Lieberman caused grave scandal for the Jewish religion "by the fact that, while claiming to be an observant Jew, Lieberman has been misrepresenting and falsifying to the American people the teachings of the Torah against partial birth infanticide, against special privileges and preferential treatment for flaunting homosexuals, and against religious intermarriage of Jews."
Rabbi Joseph Friedman, a spokesman for the rabbinical court, said that Lieberman also has "flagrantly violated our sacred Torah by his Senate votes upholding partial birth infanticide and legitimizing homosexuality, which abnormal and unhealthy behavior the Torah strongly condemns as sinful and immoral.
"Mr. Lieberman, moreover, has, in violation of the Torah, supported harmful gender integration in the US Armed Forces - in the barracks, on naval warships, and in combat training - all of which weakens and demoralizes our Armed Forces," he added.
Rabbi Friedman also declared that, "under excommunication...the person being excommunicated still remains a Jew. We hope that the senator repents and asks (God's) forgiveness so that the excommunication may be lifted."
Rabbi Friedman stated that there are historical precedents for rabbinical excommunication of public figures as well as private individuals. However, those precedents have been few and far between. In 1945, Rabbi Mordecai M Kaplan was excommunicated for grave violations of the Torah. That excommunication was reported in the New York Times and other newspapers and publications.
The Gore-Lieberman 2000 Campaign Headquarters' press office in Nashville had no immediate response to the excommunication.
Source: cnnnews.com
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Al Gore and his campaign managers are trying to hint that Ralph Nader is gay, even though he is happily married. When will it end?
Source: Green Party newsletter
