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

To: lorrie coey who wrote (27847)	8/4/2000 5:58:24 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 769667

Al Gore's response: Although Gore never mentioned the Republican presidential ticket by name, he did refer to a repeated line during Cheney's Wednesday night acceptance speech, when Cheney said it was "time" for President Clinton and Gore to "go." "Well, let me tell you what time it's not," Gore told the firefighters. "It's not time to give in to the big drug companies. It is not time to give in to the big insurance companies ... it is not recession time in America like it was back in 1992," said Gore, referring to the administration of Bush's father, George Bush. "I'll fight for a real prescription drug benefit, for all seniors under Medicare, not our opponent's plan, which give the money to insurance companies, excludes millions of seniors and tells the others to go and beg the insurance companies for help," Gore said. "And even the insurance companies have said that plan wouldn't work."

To: lorrie coey who wrote (27847)	8/5/2000 10:56:41 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Well, you are very suspicious, but I am not. It is true that I agree on some issues, and think that others are overblown, so that limits my sense of threat. But I also know some of these people, and my perception is that if we could return to roughly the status quo ante of about 1970, many of them would lose interest in politics. Already, there have been grumblings among some of them about an excessive preoccupation with politics being corrupting........