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

To: ColtonGang who wrote (35712)	9/8/2000 12:51:40 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

If I am out of date, I will emend the statement, but I will first check it out......

To: ColtonGang who wrote (35712)	9/8/2000 1:19:47 PM
From: kvkkc1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Yes, I think I'd put credence in the opinion of a former Mario Cuomo flunkie. Russert is a die-hard liberal.knc

To: ColtonGang who wrote (35712)	9/8/2000 1:20:13 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 769667

The reason chicken Gore is scared to death of Russert: But what has frozen and hardened in these debates could be broken up and made fluid again by the presence of a seasoned interviewer. Mr. Bush thinks Mr. Russert is tough but fair; Mr. Gore thinks Mr. Russert is--well, he thinks he's the man who put him through this: Mr. Russert: "I want to ask you a very simple question. Do you believe that life begins at conception?" Mr. Gore: "No. I believe there is a difference. You know, I believe that the Roe v. Wade decision wisely embodies the kind of common-sense judgment that most Americans share." Mr. Russert then showed a letter Mr. Gore had written in 1987, in which he said he consistently opposed federal funding of abortions because government shouldn't take part in "the taking of what is arguably a human life." Mr. Gore answered that he had changed his mind on that "10, 15 years ago." Mr. Russert: "But you did vote to define a person as including an unborn child." Mr. Gore said it was a "procedural vote." Mr. Russert: "When do you think life begins?" Mr. Gore: "I favor the Roe v. Wade approach, but let me just say, Tim, I did--" Mr. Russert: "Which is what? When does life begin?" Mr. Gore did not answer, but referred instead to changing his position on federal funding of abortions. The interviewer pressed again. Mr. Russert: "But you were calling fetuses innocent human life, and now you don't believe life begins at conception. I'm just trying to find out, when do you believe life begins?" Mr. Gore replied that Roe v. Wade "proposes an answer to that question." Asked what it is, he replied that there is "a developmental process during which the burden kind of shifts over time." He vowed to protect "a woman's right to choose." Then Mr. Russert changed approach. Mr. Russert: "Should there be a restriction on minors getting abortions without parental consent?" Mr. Gore: "Difficult question, because there are all kind of circumstances where you have some children kind of raising themselves in situations where their families are fractured . . ." He added that the decision needs to "be worked out in the context of a woman's right to choose." Mr. Russert: "But a child needs permission to have her ears pieced." Mr. Gore: "I understand." Mr. Russert: "You don't want parental permission for an abortion." Mr. Gore said some proposals on this "have been a backdoor effort to eliminate a woman's right to choose." Mr. Russert asked why not support parental notification in which a judge could intervene in the kind of cases he refers to. Mr. Gore said, "Well, I'd want to look at that." So Mr. Russert changed approach again. Mr. Russert: "Right now there's legislation which says that a woman on death row--if she's pregnant, she should not be executed. Do you support that?" Mr. Gore: "I don't know what you're talking about." Mr. Russert: "It's a federal statute . . . that if a woman is pregnant and she's on death row, she should not be executed." Mr. Gore: "Well, I don't know what the circumstances would be in that situation. I would--you know, it's an interesting fact situation. I'd want to think about it." It was stupendous, an hour of relentless and informed questioning on Social Security, the surplus, tax policy, and whether the Boy Scouts should be allowed to exclude gay members(Mr. Gore couldn't say). It was the most revealing presidential interview since Roger Mudd met Ted Kennedy in 1980 and showed us Mr. Kennedy's utter inability to make a case for his own candidacy. opinionjournal.com