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

To: Ish who wrote (29362)	8/15/2000 9:54:38 AM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

That don't surprise me a bit. They used to call Willie Nelson, Wayland Jennings, and Kris Kristoferson, the outlaws, but ole slick Willie from Arkansas has been the biggest thief of all. ~;=;o --haqi

To: Ish who wrote (29362)	8/15/2000 10:55:32 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Frm USA Today: Playboy Flap, Activists Working Against Gore USA Today August 15, 2000 LOS ANGELES -- As Democrat Al Gore and running mate Joe Lieberman hooked up in St. Louis to celebrate the start of the Democratic convention on Monday, signs of political trouble were emerging. Gore, who will arrive Wednesday, told about 1,000 supporters at an outdoor rally that the election offers voters a chance to decide their economic future. ''This election is a choice between two very clear alternatives,'' said Gore, who claimed his GOP rivals would ''go back to the ways of the 1980s'' with policies that produced ''record deficits and repeat recessions.'' A USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll out Monday showed him trailing Bush by 16 percentage points. His trailing status appeared to be on Gore's mind earlier in the day in Independence, Mo., the home of Harry Truman. There, Gore cast himself as fighting for the same principles as the former president, whose upset win in 1948 has inspired underdog politicians since. In Los Angeles, the 4,338 convention delegates arrived for the opening session of the convention at the downtown Staples Center after passing through an armed encampment of security. Even the opening prayer signaled that the convention that will nominate Gore will likely be a far different event than the tightly choreographed convention Republicans had in Philadelphia two weeks ago. Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Catholic archdiocese of Los Angeles prayed ''to protect the life (of) . . . unborn children,'' an anti-abortion message at odds with the party's abortion-rights platform. In addition: California Rep. Loretta Sanchez, one of the party's rising Hispanic stars, withdrew early Monday from a planned afternoon appearance at the podium after having clashed with party leaders over wanting to have a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion. Sanchez had moved last weekend's event to another location after party leaders revoked her speaking slot at the convention. They then restored her speaking role. Just hours before President Clinton strode to the podium to claim credit for the most sustained prosperity in U.S. history, delegates to a ''Shadow Convention'' gathered five blocks away to remind the nation of the plight of those whom the economy has passed by. As she did for the Republican convention in Philadelphia, columnist Arianna Huffington organized the gathering, saying the parties were ignoring the issues of campaign-finance reform, the ''failed drug war'' and bridging the poverty and wealth gap. However, unlike in Philadelphia, where few elected Republican officials appeared, more than a half-dozen Democratic members of Congress addressed the gathering. Factions of a group that was supposed to be firmly in his political corner - environmentalists - issued a statement accusing Gore of betraying the environment and urging Americans to ''vote for anyone'' but him. The group, which calls itself ''Environmentalists Against Gore,'' argued that even a Bush presidency would be preferred. Among the statement signers was Paul Watson, founder of the radical group Greenpeace, and David Brower, who resigned from the board of the Sierra Club, saying it was not doing enough to stem immigration, which he termed one of the biggest problems facing the environment. The statement baffled other environmentalists, and Gore spokesman Douglas Hattaway called the group ''terribly misguided.''