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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 (2966)	10/18/2000 1:48:49 AM
From: D_I_R_T	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Come on, you can do it, just say 'I occasionally fabricate facts to make my points.' I learned a long time ago that admitting a mistake is the quickest way to get it behind me rather than to just keep piling on the spin. A saying of Emerson that I hold dearly: "The force of character is cumulative." Michael

To: American Spirit who wrote (2966)	10/18/2000 1:39:54 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Bush is BS when he talks about non-partisanship. He's totally partisan in Texas. Has a very rightwing anti-social record which dumps on the needy, kids health and education, teachers, environment and minorities. Bush doesn't have a very right wing record but even if he did and you think right wing ideas are wrong the most you can properly accuse him of would be a lack of compassion. You can argue (although I might disagree) that not supporting the start of or expantion of social programs is not acting with compassion, but whether or not that is true it is not dumping on or attacking everyone. If you meet a person who is poor and desperate, and you don't give him or her a penny it is not dumping on them. Helping them out may be a good thing, but a lack of charity is not an attack. And this whole argument assumes 2 things which are not true. Bush is not right wing, and opposeing social programs doesn't make you a person that lack compassion. But even if you did assume those things, it would still be inaccurate to say that Bush "dumps on the needy". Tim