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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: one_less who wrote (39059)3/17/1999 11:50:00 AM
From: John Hensley  Read Replies (3) of 67261
 
More from Algore (via CNN.com):

Gore laid it on thick in Iowa, contending in a round
of appearances and interviews that he was a
small-business person and a homebuilder --
experiences for which he has not been known. "I
lived on a farm," he went on, and learned how to
plow a "steep hillside" with mules, hose out the hog
waste and "take up hay all day long in the hot sun."


Gore's claim to have coined the phrase "information
superhighway" has not been seriously challenged, and
he was an early and enthusiastic supporter in
Congress of communications technology. But a father
of the Internet? Histories of cyberspace barely
mention him, if at all.

Back in his 1988 campaign for the presidential
nomination, Gore defended his use of a brochure
with a picture of him carrying an M-16 rifle in
Vietnam, denying he was trying to make people think
he served in combat. He had also appeared in TV
ads wearing an olive-green field jacket and saying:
"I'm a Vietnam veteran -- one of the lucky ones."

Gore spent five months in Vietnam as a military
information officer, a noncombat role that he says
included brushes with enemy fire.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe Algore originally brought up Willie Horton in the 1988 democratic presidential nomination process against Michael Dukakis. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.

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