| ABOUT AL: "My small problem with Al Gore is that I don't know who he really is. My larger problem with Al Gore is that he doesn't know who he is." --Brian McGrory "Despite whatever image Mr. Gore tries to project -- and he has spent a lot of time and a lot of money on consultants to shape his image -- Mr. Gore is a man of pop science, pop psychology and pop profundity. ... Do we need a sanctimonious and sophomoric president?" --Thomas Sowell "If you watched the debate the other night you saw Al Gore get real close to Bush, kind of invaded his space. I hear George W. was so nervous about this because he thought Gore was going to kiss him." --David Letterman "Al Gore has come under fire the last couple of weeks. He used to be pro-life. Now he's pro-choice. He used to be against gun control. Now he's for gun control. They say to win, Gore needs to appeal to the undecided voter. But it sounds to me like Al Gore is the undecided voter. ...." ---Jay Leno "This election is a cliff-hanger. You want to throw one guy over a cliff and hang the other guy."---Jay Leno "Al Gore. .... Joe Lieberman is running for vice president under Gore. But he is also still running for Senator in Connecticut. Isn't that embarrassing -- two weeks until the election and your number-two guy is still undecided! ...." ---Jay Leno "You think if you get elected, Gore will try to take credit for it?" -- Jay Leno, interviewing George Bush (Monday, October 30) Al, that old artificer - Tony Snow - An opponents hypocrisy FROM AL:
AlGore Said: "There has never been a time in this campaign when I've said something untrue. There has never been a time when I've said something untrue!" REALLY? Does one need to lie about the environment to protect it? At the October
11th debate, AlGore said: "There was a study just a few weeks ago suggesting
that, in summertime, the north polar ice cap will be completely gone in 50 years." Collecting cans for prescription drug
benefits!During the October 3, 2000 Presidential debate, Gore mentioned
79-year-old Winifred Skinner, who has become the campaign's mascot for his Medicare
prescription-drug program. "In order to pay for her prescription drug benefits,
she has to go out seven days a week, several hours a day, picking up cans," Gore
said. "She came all the way from Iowa in a Winnebago with her poodle in order to
attend here tonight." I was there with James Lee Witt...oh, wait.... In the Presidential debate on October 3, 2000, Governor George W. Bush gave credit to the Federal Emergency Management Service (FEMA) for their work in Texas during fires and floods in Parker County. Vice President Al Gore said he had traveled to see the damage with FEMA director James Lee Witt, "I was down there when the fires broke up." Carl Cameron, of Fox News first reported that Gore had not, in fact, been to Texas with Witt to look at the damage in Parker County. Gore WAS in Texas, not not to help FEMA -- A Federal News Service schedule showed that he was at a fundraiser. FEMA officials said Witt never went to Texas to deal with the 1998 fires."If James Lee was there before or after, then you know, I got that wrong then," Gore said on ABC's Good Morning America on October 4, 2000. (Source: New York Post, October 5, 2000 "Gore's nose is growing again") I was part of those discussions! Really! At a Sept. 22 press conference, Gore stated "I've been a part of the discussions on the strategic reserve since the days when it was first established." --AL GORE However, President Ford established the Strategic Petroleum Reserves when he signed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) on December 22, 1975 — two years before Al Gore became a congressman(Source: Washington Post, Sept. 24 2000) Dairy Farm Expert in a Day Milwaukee, WI - "I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about." --AL GORE(Sources: Sunday, June 18, Atlanta Journal Constitution and The Washington Post, June 14, 2000) Hey! I am an expert in hospital administration in NJ, and the hotel industry in several states - having spent more than one night there! Gore and the Internet "During
my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the
Internet" Gore said when asked to cite accomplishments that separate him from
another Democratic presidential hopeful, former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, during an
interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN on March 9, 1999. A spotted Zebra. "A zebra does not change its spots." - Al Gore, attacking President George Bush in 1992.(Sources: The Toronto Sun, 11/19/95; May 13th page of the "365 stupidest things ever said, 1999 Calendar." ALL quotes from this calendar are from a book called "The 700 Stupidest Things Ever Said") The book and calendar are by a brother and sister team called Ross and Kathryn Petras. The original book "The 776 Stupidest things ever said" was printed in March 1993, and the calendar was printed August 1998.) E plu...what? "We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be e pluribus unum -- out of one, many." --AL GORE E Pluribus Unum is the motto on the Great Seal of the United States of America, and is Latin for "out of many, one," not "out of one, many." (Source: January 1994. From a Milwaukee speech to the Institute of World Affairs as quoted in Investor's Business Daily, October 25, 1996.) Mary and Joseph were homeless?? "Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full." --AL GOREHello! Mary and Joseph were not homeless! (Sources: Press Conference at HUD, 12/22/97; George Will column, Sunday May 17 1998) A new type of tree! Al Gore, giving a speech for Yellowstone National Park's 125th Anniversary, Albright Visitors Center, Sunday, August 17, 1997: "When we come here, we see the longpole pine and the Douglas fir." --AL GORE Sorry Al, it's LODGEpole. There is no such thing as a LONGpole pine. Michael who? Maybe Michael Jordan hasn't made an indelible impression on everyone outside Chicago. Speaking at a D.C. function, Vice President Al Gore, wowed by the Bulls, said: "I tell you that Michael Jackson is unbelievable, isn't he. He's just unbelievable." (Source: The Chicago Tribune June 17, 1998) Special exception for Clinton. "I seek this office to restore the rule of law and respect
for common sense to the White House." ...
Left-wing idiot. Back in 1994, Al Gore called Oliver
North "the colonel of untruth" and said Mr. North was counting on political
contributions from "the extra-chromosome right wing." Where am I again? Al Gore visited Minneapolis Minnesota on October 12, 1998 and raised several hundred thousand dollars for DFL gubernatorial nominee Hubert Humphrey III and two Democratic congressmen. Too bad he forgot which state he was in. Gore misspoke when he tried to summarize their commitment to education. "They will be the education team that Missouri needs to move into the 21st century," he said.(Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 13, 1998) Does this mean he'd fire Clinton? "My first pledge will be to restore integrity to the White House. And I'll fire anyone who has lied to the American people or the United States Congress." (Source: Al Gore, in a February 2, 1988 presidential debate) The earth is upside down! In the spring 1998 - Gore called The Washington Post's executive editor to tip him off on an ''error'' in the paper. ''I decided I just had to call because you've printed a picture of the Earth upside down on the front page of the paper,'' Gore said. (Source: Florida Times Union 4/3/98) Whoops - sorry Al. There is no ''up'' in space; only on maps that orient the Earth's surface north and south. For more examples of Al Gore's vast knowledge of space, take a look at the Florida Times Union article Gore loves tobacco. "Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've dug in it. I've sprayed it, I've chopped it, I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it.(Source: [New York] Newsday, 2/26/88 Oh wait.. I didn't mean that..."Sometimes, you never fully face up to things that you ought to face up to." -- Al Gore, discussing why he accepted checks from his family tobacco farm and contributions from tobacco companies for years after the tragic death of his sister that he spoke about so emotionally at the 1996 Democratic convention. (Source: "'Numbness' Let Gore Accept Tobacco Help," San Francisco Chronicle, August 30, 1996) A straight answer? "The theories - the ideas she expressed about equality of results within legislative bodies and with - by outcome, by decisions made by legislative bodies, ideas related to proportional voting as a general remedy, not in particular cases where the circumstances make that a feasible idea... " (Source: Vice President Al Gore, on ABC's Nightline, asked about President Clinton's withdrawal of Lani Guinier's nomination to the EEOC) Is it a train? An eagle? In a letter, an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Delgadillo explained to Al Gore how much they rely on the government-owned Amtrak trains to visit their children and grandchildren in Chicago and on each coast. The couple reminded the vice president that President Clinton relied on train travel to reach the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. "The train has been our main-stay," the couple states. "Yet your administration is killing our Texas Eagle. This makes us sick."The Texas Eagle is the Amtrak train that for years has operated between Chicago, St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio. But facing a $243 million shortfall in 1997, Amtrak President Thomas Downs recently targeted four Amtrak routes for elimination, including the Texas Eagle service between St. Louis and San Antonio. "What can you do to save our Eagle?" the couple pleaded to the vice president. Gore responded with: It was a Buddhist Temple? Al Gore, when asked about his illegal fundraising activities that took place in a Buddhist temple: "I didn't realize I was in a Buddhist temple."Yeah...I know a lot of places where bald men run around in orange robes with incense burning. (A Senate committee investigating campaign finance voted to issue 43 new subpoenas, including 23 connected to a Democratic fund-raising event at the Hsi Lai Buddhist temple in California that was attended by Vice President Al Gore. Participants paid $2,500 each to attend, in apparent violation of the temple's tax-free status as a non-political religious group (5/23/1997) Wait though... he may have not realized it was a fundraiser because he was in the bathroom! But Mr. Gore said he was sometimes inattentive and missed parts of fund-raising meetings. He told the F.B.I., according to notes of a 1998 interview, that "he drank a lot of iced tea during meetings, which could have necessitated a restroom break." New York Times, 3/11/00 The above quotes compiled by Carolyn. A true statement from Al Gore: "You ain't seen nothing yet!" You're right, Al. We ain't seen nothing resembling integrity, judgment or character befitting the presidency. --Steve Scroggins
Alice Gore, in touch with his blonde self before he (she?) dyed it black. This is the 'person' who hired Naomi Wolf as a "manhood consultant." Gore claimed in his convention speech: 'I enlisted in the Army because I knew if I didn't go, someone else in the small town of Carthage, Tennessee would have to go in my place.' Gore's campaign launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign this week (21Aug2000) to tell his "life story." The ads will include references to his "service" in Vietnam -- however brief. Gore spent less than five months of a typical twelve-month tour in Vietnam. He spent every minute of his "tour" as a "rear-echelon...." (call any combat veteran and they can complete that phrase for you [REMF]). He was classified as a military journalist after telling recruiters he was a "newspaper trainee" (read "copy boy") for the New York Times while a student at Harvard. He was assigned as a noncombatant "information specialist" to the Army's 20th Engineers Brigade headquarters at Bien Hoa military base near Saigon. Gore's immediate supervisor in Vietnam has confirmed that his posting there came with explicit instructions to baby-sit him and make sure he was never in any danger. That fact notwithstanding, Gore has claimed to the Washington Post that he was "shot at" and "spent most of my time in the field." He later told the Baltimore Sun that "[I] pulled my turn on the perimeter at night and walked through the elephant grass and I was fired upon." He has since backed off these exaggerated claims. On May 22, 1971, not five months into his "tour of duty," Gore was given special dispensation and a one-way ticket home to attend divinity school in Nashville. He dropped out of Vanderbilt shortly thereafter. As for the seven months cut from Gore's tour of duty in Vietnam, we suppose "someone else in the small town of Carthage, Tennessee" had to finish his tour "in his place." - from The Federalist. [ http://www.thefed.com ] |
