Thank GOD, I'm a "country boy"!!!
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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON OCT 09, 2000 12:09:43 ET XXXXX
GORE CLAIMS HE RAISED 10,000 CHICKENS?
New questions were being raised this week about Al Gore’s claim that he once raised 10,000 chickens on a farm in Tennessee!
FLASHBACK:
REP. AL GORE (D-TN): "I can certainly sympathize with the loss that these businesspeople have suffered. I have raised chickens myself; 10,000 at one time, 5,000 in each of two houses, and I know what it would be like to have to destroy that many chickens for a business."
[Hearing Report, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce House of Representatives, September 28, 1979]
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"No one can find any evidence of Mr. Gore raising that many chickens," one Washington insider said on Monday. "Was he stretching the truth as far back as 1979? When did he do this, when he was journalist? While he was away at school? Exactly when was he a farmer?"
GORE'S 1988 CAMPAIGN STAFF WARNED HIM NOT TO EXAGGERATE ROLE AS A FARMER
"Your staff has never exaggerated your role as a farmer. The campaign bio we distribute everywhere says only `He owns a small livestock farm near Carthage where he and his family reside when Congress is not in session," Gore’s own campaign press secretary warned in a memo in 1988.
"No one except you can really establish how much you've worked as a farmer, or how much you can be described as a farmer in terms of income or time spent. You did say near the end of the Iowa race . . . something like `I'm the only farmer in this race.' . . . . [Y]our main pitfall is exaggeration. Be careful not to overstate your accomplishments . . . ."
[Memo from Arlie Schardt, Gore's 1988 Campaign Press Secretary, to Sen. Al Gore, February 15, 1988]
A Gore 2000 campaign spokesman refused to comment on Gore’s chicken claim.
Gore was asked about his country roots last year on ABC's GOOD MORNING AMERICA
DIANE SAWYER: (voice-over) This is the place he and Tipper Gore called home when he came back from Vietnam to be a journalist, law student, divinity student, and then head into politics. But skeptics have always questioned whether Gore is a country boy.
(on camera) Here we are in Carthage. Are you really a country boy?
Vice Pres. AL GORE: I grew up in two places. I grew up in Washington, D.C., and I grew up here. My happiest, most vivid memories were here.
TIPPER GORE: When we first met, and before we married, he said to me, "I want you to come to my home," and he showed me all over his farm and told me about growing up here.
DIANE SAWYER: You mucked pigpens?
Vice Pres. AL GORE: I cleaned out pigpens, yes, I did, and raised cattle and showed them in the fairs around here.
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I'm sure we all know of people who constantly exaggerate their accomplishments, right?
They are usually the ones who are most insecure about themselves.
Are we willing to entrust the presidency to a man with a inferiority complex? |
