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

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (45813)	10/13/2000 10:38:14 AM
From: kvkkc1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Art, Bend down with your head between your legs, look up, and you'll see a mirror image of yourself. Go whine on the gore thread.knc

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (45813)	10/13/2000 10:55:59 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Too much isolation among the rich and privileged throughout his life is a hard habit to break. THis is a meaningless attack on Bush--Gore pretends he is a good ol Tenn boy, but he attended the prestigious St Albans School in DC, and graduated from Harvard. He went on to Vanderbilt Law, but dropped out. St. Albans embarrasses Gore and his party. Gore never mentions that he went there. All the St. Albans pols skip the school in their official biographies. When he was being considered for running mate, Kerry went so far as calling a reporter (still another Albanian, Brit Hume) to emphasize that he had left St. Albans and graduated from a different high school. The bashfulness is understandable. St. Albans is a snooty, elitist, inside-the-Beltway institution. The people's party fears association with an all-boys private school that costs nearly $20,000 per year, has a "refectory" instead of a "cafeteria," and prides itself on its noblesse oblige. (Gore is, however, inoculated from St. Albans attacks by the Bush campaign: George W. Bush's younger brothers Neil and Marvin are graduates.)

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (45813)	10/13/2000 8:19:04 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

What a bunch of malarky! How do targeted vouchers, which go to underprivileged children who are trapped in lousy (mostly inner city) schools benefit the rich and wealthy? If wealthy parents are sending their kids to lousy schools. They simply pull them out and select another school. They have "choice" because they're wealthy. e.g. Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (Son of the Senator) However, if parents cannot afford to send their kids to a private school. And the school they're attending is ripping them off of a decent education. Then vouchers might help them. It might provide just enough money for poor parents to struggle by and send their kids to a private school nearby, or pay for a tutor. This is Bush's plan. It's not the same as the initiative up for a vote in California. And it's not the same as the initiative up for a vote in Michigan. Bush's targeted voucher concept is so far from a give-away to the rich it's pathetic! Reading is a civil right And we should empower our poorest of poor parents with vouchers when government schools are failing to provide a decent education to their children.