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

To: puborectalis who wrote (38697)	9/20/2000 10:40:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 769669

<<Great logic......pay any amount to treat an affliction....>> Great, just stop treating all pain and disease. Let the whole nation writhe in the gutters in agony. Do you charge for your services? Could you charge less?

To: puborectalis who wrote (38697)	9/21/2000 7:32:12 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

Mentally unfit for office: Why can't Gore stop making up stories about himself? Hoping to gin up an audience of senior citizens in Tallahassee, Fla., which had concerns about the cost of prescription drugs, Al Gore relayed how his mother-in-law’s prescription for arthritis medicine costs three times more than the same arthritis medicine Gore gives his dog Shiloh. What a powerful story! Too bad it’s not true. The mother-in-law and dog do exist and both have arthritis. But they take different drugs and different dosages and the dollar amounts Gore cited ($37.80 for the dog, and $108 for the mother-in-law) came nowhere close to reality. He practically pulled those numbers out of thin air, just to be dramatic and win a few senior citizens’ votes. Why would Gore make up dollar amounts and outright lie? Or rather, why can’t Gore stop lying? His problem appears congenital and that ought to disqualify him for the office of the Presidency. This isn’t the first time Gore has made up a story about his family for political gain. At the 1996 Democratic convention he talked about how his sister died from lung cancer in 1984 and how he vowed at that time to fight the tobacco companies whom he blamed for her death. Recounting their death-bed conversation made for a stirring speech, but within hours it was revealed he enjoyed a warm financial and political relationship with the tobacco industry long after his sister died. On a more humorous note, Gore claimed he and his wife Tipper were the real life characters on which the book and movie “Love Story” was based. That was quickly proven untrue. Although that particular fib of Gore’s had no bearing on public policy, it was clearly designed to make voters think of him as a flesh and blood man, rather than the wooden figure he was considered at the time. Almost everyone knows someone who compulsively makes up stories about himself or his life to inflate his own importance, or to make people think better of him. Perhaps that kind of person lives or works alongside others and is considered to be a pathetic but harmless case - someone who deserves sympathy, but not trust. That’s Al Gore. He lies about himself so often that he must have a condition that deserves voters’ sympathy. But that condition makes it impossible to trust him, and makes him mentally unfit for the office of the Presidency. -Bernadette Malone Connolly www2.theunionleader.com