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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (1007)	9/29/2000 3:38:28 PM
From: Cage Rattler	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10042

Al Gore, is he America's Hans Christian Anderson? <<QUOTE>> America's Top Story-Teller September 27, 2000 Across the country, the op-ed pages are beginning to maintain scorecards of the Lies of Albert Gore as the race for the Oval Office settles into a dead heat. The latest embellishment came when Gore, attempting to justify releasing part of our Strategic Oil Reserves, claimed he was instrumental in creating them in the first place. A kind of " I gave you the Internet, I can take it away" mentality regarding our most precious reserve resource. Except it was another lie. GOP VP candidate Dick Cheney was White House Chief of Staff during the Ford administration, when the Strategic Reserve was created. He pointed out that Gore wasn't elected until two years later. The Washington Post quoted a spokesman for the Bush camp saying "To say that he was involved in the creation of the nation's oil reserve is just factually not true. He's becoming the Hans Christian Anderson of American politics." Granted, it was the GOP that pointed out the inaccuracies, but that in no way mitigates the fact they weren't true to begin with. The Gore honesty gap is beginning to make even some of the liberals nervous. Way back in April, the Boston Globe ran an interview with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications. She asked, "Is there a tendency to exaggerate? Is there a tendency to reconstruct the past? When you start counting on the fingers of both hands, you start to say maybe there's a pattern here." Maybe indeed. Especially when you run out fingers. The Wall Street Journal carried an op-ed piece Sunday in which Peggy Noonan suggested, "His [Gore's] lying looks at this point not like a foible, but a compulsion." She may be on to something, there. Down in East Texas, there's a saying to describe this kind of behavior, 'he'd lie where the truth works better'. That is the picture of a compulsive liar. Take the dog prescription story. Gore told a story where he claimed his mother-in-law takes the same prescription as her dog, and the dog's medicine was cheaper. He took the numbers from a report, and made up the rest. Clearly, the sting was in the numbers, and the truth would have been just as effective. He claimed he was rocked to sleep as a child, lulled to sleep to the strains of the union jingle, "Look for the Union Label". Except he made it up. He was 27 when the song was written. Again, referring to children who may have had the song sung to them as a lullaby would have 'worked better' - since the truth wouldn't have backfired. America suffers a credibility gap the world over, thanks to the current occupant of the Oval Office's track record. Installing a second, proven compulsive liar to represent America for the next four years will demonstrate that it wasn't a fluke, the first two times around. <<END QUOTE>>