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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 (2107)	10/11/2000 12:17:32 AM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 10042

We can all have as many of those as we want. No limits. No ARMs control in that sense.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2107)	10/11/2000 12:25:25 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Just want to post this before the Gore campaign pulls it off their website. Seems that Al Gore is claiming that his campaign has not attacked Bush on his mispronunciations. This is clearly contradictory to what we see Mark Fabani has stated in Gore press releases: algore.com Statement By Mark Fabiani Gore/Lieberman Deputy Campaign Manager for Communications October 8, 2000 Nashville - "Governor Bush seems incapable of talking about the important issues in this campaign in a coherent way. The American people deserve to hear him explain his policies and address the issues without bumbling and babbling. They expect someone running for president to be held to presidential standards, and that includes talking clearly about the important policy matters that impact people's lives." BUMBLING BUSH BABBLINGS ON PUBLIC POLICY New York Times: Bush Like a Computer Gone Haywire Then trying again, Mr. Bush began spitting out numbers like a computer gone haywire, saying, "15.3 percent, 12.4 and 2.9.". [New York Times, 10/8/00] Washington Post: Bush Gets Fuzzy From there, it got "fuzzy." "For the first time she's in the 15 percent tax bracket," he said. "When you add another 15 percent pay, or 16.2 percent payroll tax on top of that plus the 2.9. . . . I mean the payroll tax and the Medicare tax, 16.4 percent, you end up with a high marginal rate. That's not right and that's not fair. And we're going to do something about it. We're going to drop the rate and lower the . . ." At that point, he dropped the microphone to his side, turned to his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), and asked in a low voice that was picked up by some tape recorders, "What is the rate of the payroll tax?" The Florida governor shrugged. [Washington Post, 10/8/00] Miami Herald: Bush Having Difficulty With His Own Arithmetic Bush's pointed populist appeal is a calculated response to the first presidential debate last week in which Gore characterized Bush's tax plans as mainly a benefit for the rich. Yet, in challenging the "fuzzy math" of Gore's proposals -- Bush joked that Gore invented the calculator in their debate last week -- the GOP candidate was having difficulty Saturday balancing some of his own arithmetic. [Miami Herald, 10/8/00]