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To: chalu2 who wrote (12196)	2/23/2000 7:07:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Interesting news from FoxNews: Fred Barnes reported: 1) The McCain campaign requested an invitation for McCain to speak at Bob Jones. They were refused. 2) McCain's SC campaign manager graduated from Bob Jones. 3) Lindsey Graham, McCain's most prominent SC elected supporter, was awarded an honorary degree from Bob Jones last year. Further, Brit Hume reported that McCain's campaign was behind the negative phone campaign that smeared Bush by association with Bob Jones. They targeted Catholics. McCain had denied that. They report that his campaign confirms that McCain was behind the calls. His people were running the smear campaign at the same time that McCain denied it and while he was attacking Bush for such efforts.

To: chalu2 who wrote (12196)	2/23/2000 7:18:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

McCain's economics advisor admits that McCain knows little about tax policy, that McCain never paid attention: ...The Republican primaries have shown McCain as a hard political battler as he racks up key wins against Bush, who began the race as firm favorite. But behind the scenes the Arizona senator has been cramming up on taxes and other issues because, when it comes to economics, McCain is a novice. "John McCain needed someone to teach him what was going on in the tax literature because as (chairman) of the (Senate) Commerce Committee he had never really paid much attention to it, he admitted it," McCain economic adviser Kevin Hassett told a group of business economists on Wednesday of his first meeting with the candidate last year. "At the end of the meeting John said, 'I never paid attention much to taxes, but if I'm going to be president I need to learn that stuff and I want you to teach me,"' he said....http://foxnews.com/elections/022300/mccain_economy.sml