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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (26610)7/30/2000 6:13:37 PM
From: Frank Griffin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
What I believe about Gore is that you are not seeing a leader. His positions have no sound foundation. He will try to be whatever he perceives, by poll or direction from handlers, the public wants to hear. You have seen him waffle and stutter on things like Elian Gonzalez, etc.. You have seen him plead ignorance on being able to identify a fundraiser. You have seen him say his illegal fundraising had "no controlling legal authority." You have seen him brag about how he hoed, stripped and prepared tobacco and was "one of you." Then you have seen him talk about the tragic death of his sister (that happened before the speech of being a "tobacco man) and being against the tobacco people. I think most Americans would consider Gore a "fair weather" friend who could not be counted on.



To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (26610)7/30/2000 8:10:02 PM
From: Tom Clarke  Respond to of 769667
 
Cheney's votes on apartheid are a little more nuanced than the press is letting on. That vote would have officially recognized the ANC. We were still in the Cold War and the ANC was a Marxist organization run by Joe Slobo, who was a real gangster. The leader of the Zulus, Chief Buthuleizi, was an ally, and he opposed the ANC. So you could say Cheney's vote was pro-Zulu.