How Low Can He Go:
Is Gore continuing the Clinton administration’s game of lying limbo?
by Jeremiah T.

      Al Gore has been known for many things- gun control, extreme environmentalism, abortion, and now, mangling the truth. The networks, liberal press, and Democrats are all trying their best to bleach out this latest character stain by focusing on the "babbling" George "dubya" Bush, but the fact is, Al Gore has been documented lying and flipping on issues nearly as frequently as he brushes his teeth.
      Once upon a time, there was a man named Al Gore. Born in Washington D.C., Mr. Gore attended a fine private school and took a stand against abortion and gun control. As his policies progressed he ceased to be a friend of the unborn, and advocate of the sportsman. He changed his life story of a big city man to being from a farm in Tennessee.
     About Bush’s Social Security plan, Al Gore once said,"You shouldn’t be asked to play stock-market roulette with your investment income in the Social Security program." Now that Bush’s plan has gained favor with voters, Mr. Gore has changed his mind.
     In 1988 Mr. Gore bragged about his tobacco expertise, claiming he once farmed the leaf. Eight years later he condemned tobacco and its producers while talking about the death of his sister from lung cancer.
      Mr. Gore first called his controversial Buddhist Temple fundraiser a "community outreach," then he labeled it as a "finance-related" event, and later "a donor-maintenance meeting." Most recently, he says he never knew it was a fundraiser at all. In regards to another questionable fundraising scheme, he claims that a White House bathroom break must have prevented him from learning what kind of fundraising calls he was making from his office. The questions did not stop after that, and the soft money keeps rolling in. On September 6, The Washington Times reported: "A top Democratic fundraiser targeted by the Justice Department’s campaign-finance task force on possible criminal charges in the sale of missile-related expertise to China has donated $734,500 to Democrats for the 2000 campaign." With integrity-questioning issues at hand, Al Gore rises to the occasion yet again by 'promising' that should he become President, he will make "campaign finance reform" his Number One priority.
     In addition to changing his mind, Mr. Gore enjoys embellishing the facts and exaggerating the circumstances. In his first debate with George W. Bush, Mr. Gore told moving stories of a girl who had to stand in chemistry class as a result of government underfunding, and of observing Texas' forest fire damage with FEMA head James Witt in 1996. As the truth is revealed, we find that Kailey Ellis has had a desk for weeks and stood in the first few days of chemistry class because of the $100,000 dollars worth of laboratory equipment stacked alongside of the wall of her classroom. As to the forest fires, Mr. Gore didn’t observe forest fires in Texas in 1996, or any other year for that matter.
     In the second debate Mr. Gore remarked: "There was a study a few weeks ago suggesting that in summertime, the polar ice cap will be completely gone in 50 years." He was referring to bizarre suggestions made by a single article from the Aug. 19th edition of the New York Times-a single article that was retracted ten days later because: "Although striking and unusual, those reports are not as surprising as suggested in a news article on Aug. 19." (New York Times retraction)
     Among some of the favorites of Mr Gore’s disturbing exaggerations are: Tipper and I inspired "Love Story"; I swore on my sister’s death bed to fight tobacco forever; I was fired upon in Vietnam; I put city officials in jail as a newspaper reporter; I was sung to sleep with union commercial jingles (ironically, he was 27 when the union jingles were written); I "took the initiative to create the Internet"; I co-sponsored the McCain-Feingold bill; I was present at the creation of the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (two years before he was ever on the congressional scene); my mother-in-law pays three times as much for arthritis medicine as we do for our elderly dog Shiloh (Boston Globe responded: "The Gore campaign admitted that he lifted those costs not from his family’s bills, but from a House Democratic study, and that Gore misused even those numbers.").
     These questions raised regarding Al Gore’s veracity are not saying his Republican candidate is a saint. However, thanks to the mainstream media, almost all of George W. Bush’s problems have been made known to the public down to the minutest 1/30 of a second of a commercial, while Al Gore’s slip-ups have been widely, biasedly, and inexcusably ignored. While Bush has stretched the facts, a Bozell News Column states, "nothing Bush has said is more dishonest than this Gore sentence late in the second debate: 'I'd like to see eventually in this country some form of universal health care, but I'm not for a government-run system.'"
     While you may want to think highly of Al Gore, there stands irrefutable proof that he is blatantly dishonest. As Bill Bradley asked Al Gore: "Why should we believe you will tell the truth as president if you don’t tell the truth as a candidate?" I'd rather not have the next president lie to my face, and I don’t think that’s what you want either. This is why I propose you elect someone noble, someone honest, someone that restores dignity to the White House, someone like me. Don’t be sorry. Vote Jeremiah.

~Jeremiah for President
Why vote for them, when there's me?

Sources include but are not limited to:
World news magazine
Boston Globe
LA Times Syndicate
mediaresearch.org
New York Times