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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (20482)	6/8/2000 3:25:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Rosie scenario Everything's coming up Rosie for Al Gore. The vice president visited Tuesday with TV talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell to promote "quality" child care at the upscale Children's All Day School in Manhattan, where tuition is $15,200 a year for tykes up to age 3, the New York Times reports. "We should place a much higher value on child care," Mr. Gore told millions of viewers of ABC's "Good Morning America." Mr. Gore praised the U.S. military because "they give training to the child care workers and compensate them adequately." Mr. Gore promised that, if elected president, he would spend $38 billion of taxpayers' money to expand the federal role in child care. Miss O'Donnell happily endorsed what Mr. Gore called his "family agenda." The vice president said, "Working parents have a hard time balancing work and family." But Miss O'Donnell admits she's no ordinary mother. "I'm very fortunate that I am very, very rich," the film and TV star said, explaining that taking care of her children is easy "because I'm a multimillionaire. I do it just about trouble-free." Not everybody was as impressed with Mr. Gore as multimillionaire Rosie. "Governor Bush is pleased that the 'new Al Gore' is talking about important issues of substance like child care rather than engaging negative political attacks," said Ari Fleischer, a spokesman for Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. George W. Bush. "Governor Bush worked in a bipartisan manner to double low-income child care funding in Texas and strengthen standards and training requirements for child care facilities in Texas." washtimes.com