To: haqihana who wrote (14010 ) 3/4/2000 10:37:00 PM From: E Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
I shall not reply to you again after this. You seem not to have much "pick up," and that is frustrating. I know why Gore lies and makes deals. For money , and votes , toward getting power . I do not pretend there is no quid pro quo. I do not say, "Why, he just went to the Buddhist Temple to lay out some of his positions! Why, he has offered labor nothing-- heaven forfend!" Additionally, I have made clear that he lies because he is a liar and a fabulist. He makes up stories, like Reagan did, to make himself look and feel good. Whether he is delusional as Reagan seemed to be, or just a plain old self-serving liar, I can not say. They all promise their constituencies something, and mostly it's not to hard to figure out what, is it? But I want to know what W promised the dangerous individual who has become personally rich beyond imagining by tricking the old and sick and gullible out of their pennies and dollars and forging friendships with such sordid figures as Mobutu Sese Seko, the murdering, torturing dictator of Zaire whose people lived in desperate, desperate poverty while he became one the richest men on earth and a personal pal of Robertson, who tried hard to get the State Department to admit the sadist Butcher of Zaire into the United States. (There was this diamond mine, you see....) Oh, and there was Frederick Chiluba, another friend of Robertson. Maybe this item on Robertson's relationship with Chiluba will indicate something of why I believe Robertson is dangerous to democracy, and Bush's deal for his support of legitimate concern: "The President of Zambia since 1991, Chiluba declared that Zambia would henceforth be a Christian nation. The public school system became Christian-only, despite the existence of a sizable minority of Muslims and Hindus in the country. In response to their need for education, Chiluba simply suggested that they open up their own schools. The national TV and radio stations also turned to all Christian programming. Robertson did an interview with Chiluba on the 700 Club in 1995, telling him "Your country is not only the standard for Africa but for the rest of the world." Afterward, he asked his audience 'Wouldn't you love to have someone like that as President of the United States of America?'" This unamerican bizarro thinks Bush will make a good president. Bush and he had a nice long meeting. Bush has refused to tell anyone what happened there. Well, it was "confidential," you see. Robertson came out of the meeting satisfied. If Bush revealed what transpired that convinced Robertson to support him (big bucks, many votes there), it would cost him votes and campaign contributions, it's as simple as that. This is not brain surgery.