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

To: Ish who wrote (43448)	10/6/2000 11:53:37 AM
From: Frank Griffin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Simply amazing. If we elect Gore I believe (1) He won't have a decent cabinet, (2) He will become a real cause of concern domestically and internationally because of his nearly childish imagination and the stories he tells, (3) He will continue and accelerate the growth of government, programs and the need for ever higher taxes to fund his follies, (4) He will probably have a nervous breakdown because he is not a natural leader, he is a BS'er. He cannot lead and, even though he would like it, he cannot drive. At one point he said he thought the government should have an 85% tax rate. He probably wasn't kidding. We would all become children again with a modest allowance and government taking care of our needs according to their determination of what is best for us. Sickeningly scary. He could become our King Ludwig.

To: Ish who wrote (43448)	10/6/2000 12:02:11 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I notice Gore is polling above 50% today. usatoday.com TP

To: Ish who wrote (43448)	10/6/2000 12:06:28 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The story might best be described as metaphorical parable. Those grain silos also load up with weird gases, do they not?

To: Ish who wrote (43448)	10/6/2000 12:14:29 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Robert S. Feldman, a social psychologist at the University of Massachusetts who researches lies, is not sure Gore's misstatements add up to much. The misfires are so easily verified that they don't seem like purposeful distortion, he said. ``Really good liars don't get caught,'' he said. ``Part of this phenomenon may just be a simple failure of memory. We remember things the way we want to remember them.'' In the case of Gore's uncle, the campaign relied on a newspaper obituary published in '59 that said the uncle was treated for an illness caused being gassed in France. If you can't believe what you read in the papers, what can you believe?