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To: GST who wrote (59729)	10/12/2000 6:29:34 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116762

But there will be concern over "experience" and this will favor Gore ...>>> No it won't...This time it will favor Richard/Colin (Powell) combo...also Bush helped himself greatly last night....<g>

To: GST who wrote (59729)	10/12/2000 7:42:33 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116762

Who wants to get into the pool? Which country will be the next to "sell gold"? How much? When?

To: GST who wrote (59729)	10/15/2000 12:43:22 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

Bush on a roll after TV duel victory Matthew Campbell, Austin Lots of new friends: Bush's 'compassionate conservatism' message is winning votes FOR decades George W Bush, once the self-styled "black sheep" of his illustrious family, has made a habit of surprising his parents. Last week he did it again. The Republican presidential candidate's family, friends and advisers had been agonising over how he would fare in a serious discussion on foreign affairs with Al Gore, the Democratic candidate, whose knowledge of the world is far greater than his rival's after an apprenticeship as vice-president to the globe-trotting Bill Clinton. An hour after the debate ended, however, an exultant chief adviser was overheard relaying a message to Bush, son of the last Republican president, that is no doubt ringing exhilaratingly in his ears just three weeks before the election. "Tell him," said Karen Hughes on the telephone to another aide, "that he just became president of the United States." While jubilation grows in the Bush camp, Gore's woes are multiplying - and not only because the Republican passed his foreign policy exam. A carefully rehearsed effort by the Democrats last week to savage Bush on his home turf by questioning his record as governor of Texas, a tactic used by Bush's father to destroy Michael Dukakis, the Democratic governor of Massachusetts, in 1988, fell pitifully short of inflicting similar damage. More ominously for Gore, controversy was brewing yesterday over allegedly dubious dealings with Russia. It emerged that the vice-president had signed a secret agreement with Viktor Chernomyrdin, the former Russian prime minister, in 1995, under which Washington would allow Moscow to fulfil its arms contracts with Iran, including the shipment of sophisticated submarines, provided the Kremlin halted sales by December 1999. While America kept its side of the bargain, Russia has violated the agreement by continuing weapon sales to Iran since the December deadline expired. Gore, who has often pointed to his dealings with Chernomyrdin as an example of the high responsibilities he held as vice-president, is certain to be savaged for doing backroom deals. An increasingly confident Bush called for an explanation from Gore, a demand he may repeat in the third and final debate with him on Wednesday. Having been fearful of such encounters, the Bush camp is now savouring them. Just as Bush's parents reacted with happy amazement when informed that "little George", as they called a boy known more for his love of baseball than learning, had won a place at Harvard Business School, the former first couple were said to be thrilled over his unexpected capacity to go "toe to toe" with Gore on foreign affairs. The Bush parents, according to friends, had always believed that George would be far less likely to avenge his father's humiliating electoral loss to Bill Clinton in 1992 than his younger brother Jeb, the governor of Florida. Not any more. It was a painful development for Gore, who rushed to the White House to be seen helping at the helm of American power as the Middle East erupted in violence. This only prompted charges of playing politics with a global crisis, however. Joe Lieberman, Gore's vice-presidential running mate, was faring little better after being dispatched to Texas to try to portray the state as a polluted backwater of poverty. On a dusty street in Odessa, Bush's former home town in the desert, the senator entered a humble bungalow to hear complaints from four Hispanic women who linked various ailments to toxic fumes from a plastic pellets factory. He told the women he had read that the sky there sometimes turned dark and the ground shook as the factory pumped out its fumes. The women stared back at him blankly over a plate of untouched biscuits. "Must be an exaggeration," said Lieberman - not a welcome conclusion for Gore, who has been stung by Bush's attacks on him as a "serial exaggerator". It seems that for Gore, the problem may be more fundamental than how to score points off his rival. An internal Democratic survey recently asked voters what car the candidates reminded them of. Gore was equated to a Ford Taurus, "safe and kind of boxy", according to one of the pollsters. This spells trouble for him in the race to the finish: Bush was seen as a Maserati. Next page: Gore does too little, too late sunday-times.co.uk