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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (35672)	9/8/2000 10:55:59 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 769667

I posted a story a few days ago that talked about Trumka's indictment, his taking the 5th, and the swapping of union funds with the Clinton/Gore campaign. You didn't engage the issue at all, instead you accused me of trying to confuse people. This is a discussion board. So I was just asking you a question about an issue that I'm sure you are familiar with. Do you think he'll do time?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (35672)	9/8/2000 11:06:23 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"...and then present a thoughtful analysis. That works better ..." Or like you, just busy yourself with exploiting the personal tragedies in honorable men's lives...how are your dopey lists coming, hypocrit?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (35672)	9/8/2000 11:16:44 AM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Flapjack, you notice that once the argument turns against their ideals, their only recourse is to use 4-letter words and LOL.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (35672)	9/8/2000 11:18:10 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

You assume that the positions of the leadership are good for the working men and women of America. That is understandable, but also contestable. Further, you presume that what is good for those in unions is good for all wage earners. That is also contestable. Finally, you presume that what is good for "workers" is good for the country. That is very contestable. Just as the current civil rights leadership is mostly counterproductive for black progress, the union leadership is so interested in protecting its membership that it promotes economically unsound policies, often in collusion with management, as when it opposes free trade under the cover of "fair trade". In the end, even the membership suffers, as it did in the auto industry by helping to render Detroit uncompetitive........

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (35672)	9/8/2000 11:37:36 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

flapjack, here's a picture of the chronic liar and delusional stoner Al Gore. The man who traded America's nuclear secrets to the Chinese communists for a few hundred grand, is now being exposed for the fraud he is. He won't release his college transcripts because he practically got all F's in college. I guess daddy Gore couldn't get his good marxist friend Armand Hammer to buy his grades off while his son was getting stoned. _______________________________________________________- Thursday September 7, 2000; 11:35 PM EDT Dope-Smoking Al Gore Flunked Out of Grad School newsmax.com Vice President Al Gore flunked out of a leading Tennessee graduate school at a time when he was a heavy marijuana user, according to academic records and the account of a former friend whom the Gore campaign tried to surpress. "In 1971, Gore enrolled in Vanderbilt Divinity School where, according to Bill Turque, author of 'Inventing Al Gore,' he received F's in five of the eight classes he took over the course of three semesters. Not surprisingly, Gore did not receive a degree from the divinity school," reported the Boston Globe Thursday. The vice president next enrolled in Vanderbilt Law School, where his mother was the first woman to earn a law degree. But after a brief and lackluster law school career, young Gore dropped out. Though the vice president has publicly admitted to only rare and intermittent drug use during the time he flunked out of one school and dropped out of another, at least one former friend challenges that version of events. In January, family friend John C. Warnecke went public with his account of what he says was the vice president's far more substantial drug habit during the five years between Gore's 1971 return from Vietnam and his decision to enter politics in 1976: "Al Gore and I smoked regularly, as buddies," Warnecke told DRCnet's The Week Online. "Marijuana, hash. I was his regular supplier. I didn't deal dope, I just gave it to him." Warnecke says they got high together regularly during the years when Gore's poor academic performance turned him into a dropout: "We smoked more than once, more than a few times, we smoked a lot. We smoked in his car, in his house, we smoked in his parents' house, in my house ... we smoked on weekends. We smoked a lot." Last fall, NewsMax.com contacted Vanderbilt University and requested information about Gore's academic record. The school said the material could not be released without Gore's permission. In 1988 - as Gore prepared for his first run for the White House - Warnecke says he got a call from the then-Tennessee senator, who tried to pressure him into falsely denying the drug story. Warnecke acquiesced at the time but decided to come clean last year when Turque interviewed him for his book. The media has all but ignored Warnecke's account, despite its relevance to Gore's short-circuited academic career.