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

To: American Spirit who wrote (2698)	10/16/2000 2:05:53 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 10042

<<Alan Simpson article? How un-biased. He's Cheney's best friend.>> Can you quote a single source for proof of this "information"(cough cough gag gag) bring forward or is it simply an inference because they both represented WY as Republicans?

To: American Spirit who wrote (2698)	10/17/2000 7:03:19 AM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

<<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001016/el/presidential_polls_58.html>> Did you find any source of proof for this statement? I found another which supports the view Gore is just a "camera wh*re": Senator stands by Gore Gulf War vote charge Simpson: 'I tell the story because it galls me, and it will always gall me' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Jon E. Dougherty © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com A former U.S. senator stands by his earlier charges that Vice President Al Gore, while a senator from Tennessee, made his decision to support sending 500,000 American troops to the Persian Gulf to oppose Saddam Hussein based solely on the amount of speaking time he would receive on national TV. In an interview with WorldNetDaily, former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming brushed aside denials from the Gore campaign and repeated charges that the vice president bargained his vote in support of the Gulf War to the political party that would give him the most time to speak during "prime-time" television news coverage. "[Former GOP Senate Majority Leader] Bob Dole and I have been telling this story for eight years," Simpson said. "There isn't anything new about it. We tell it because it's true. [The Gore campaign] is handling this just like Bill Clinton handled ... the Gennifer Flowers thing. His staff would just say that's old stuff, or it's just a lie." Regarding Gore's denial of the incident, Simpson said, "It doesn't bother me at all, doesn't bother Dole. ... I give the name of Howard Greene [the GOP Senate Secretary] and Elizabeth Greene -- they were in the Republican cloak room" when Gore came there to bargain for more time from the GOP's Senate leadership. "I tell the story because it galls me, and it will always gall me," he said, adding that the Boston Globe, New York Times and the Washington Post have also reported the story. During the first presidential debate in Boston, Gore said: "When I was in the United States Congress, I worked with former President Reagan to modernize our strategic weaponry and to pursue arms control in a responsible way. When I was in the United States Senate," Gore said to his Republican opponent and the nation, "I worked with former President Bush, your father, and was one of only a few Democrats in the Senate to support the Persian Gulf War." WorldNetDaily attempted several times over the course of two weeks to obtain a response from the Gore campaign, but no one would discuss Simpson's charges. However, Gore campaign spokesman Doug Hattaway refuted Simpson's claims in an Associated Press story last week. "Al Gore voted to support the use of force in the Persian Gulf because it was the right thing to do. Alan Simpson's ludicrous charge has been thoroughly debunked. It's absolutely not true," Hattaway said. "I don't know how he can say that," Simpson said. "We used to call him 'prime time Al' in our cloakroom, because he would never come [to the Senate floor to speak] at one o'clock or two o'clock -- he'd always come over about seven or eight at night and do his stuff." Simpson said he and Dole, along with senior Democratic leaders Sen. George Mitchell and Sen. Sam Nunn, met the night before the scheduled Senate debate on the Gulf War to work out details and schedule speaking time. As Republicans, Simpson and Dole were responsible for scheduling speaking time for those supportive of President George Bush's decision to eject Iraqi forces from Kuwait, while Mitchell and Nunn, as Democrats, were responsible for scheduling time for those opposed to the effort. As the nation was "on the verge of sending" young Americans to war, Simpson said, and "our national credibility was on the line," he and Dole got a late-night visit from Gore in the Republican Senate Cloakroom the evening before the debate was to begin. Simpson said Gore came "right to the point" of his visit: "How much time will you give me if I support the president?" Gore asked. "In layman's terms, Gore was asking how much debate time we would be willing to give him to speak on the floor if he voted with us," Simpson said. After learning that Democrats were prepared to give Gore just seven minutes to speak, Dole offered him 15 minutes and Simpson said he would give Gore five minutes of his own time, totaling 20 minutes. The next day, Simpson said, "Mitchell and Nunn looked at [Gore] when he came to the floor and you could just see they were perplexed because they knew he was going to go our way because they couldn't give him that much time" to speak. "They didn't have it to give; there were too many others who wanted to speak. "This was not a Democrat or Republican issue," Simpson said, noting that "Sen. [Joseph] Lieberman (Gore's running mate) was part of our war room. He, along with [Democratic Sen. Chuck] Robb and about six other Democrats were helping us get the votes. They were loyalists of the first order. Gore was never in that room; he was always listed as a big 'U' for 'undecided,' so he went out and found out which side would give him the most time." (cont) worldnetdaily.com