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

To: fuzzymath who wrote (3434)	10/23/2000 12:31:46 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 10042

NAFTA and the China trade agreement will be with us long after Monica has faded from memory, and will likely be remembered as the most significant events of Clinton's administration. Another trend that I think will be positively remembered is the move toward multilateralism in foreign policy. Many may rave about the UN, the IMF, NATO, etc., and many get irritated at the limitations placed on us by allies that often seem to contribute very little to the picture. I really believe, though, that the single worst thing the country could do now is listen to isolationists. Fortunately for those who are spared my rants on the subject, this doesn't seem a real issue in this election. Both candidates openly espouse internationalism, though I'm not comfortable with Bush's lack of foreign policy experience, or with the presence of people like Cheney and Wolfowitz in the foreign policy inner circle. The internationalist trend we see today was in many ways started by Bush's father, assembling the coalition against Saddam; I hope Junior would have the balls to say "no" if people in the inner circle started urging him to go it alone.

To: fuzzymath who wrote (3434)	10/23/2000 12:49:01 AM
From: Slugger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Newsweek: Gore-Clinton Ties Strained After Clinton Attacks Bush Without Warning Veep of Comments Clinton Aides Say It Was a 'Mistake,' 'Wouldn't Happen Again;' President to Lay Low for Rest of Campaign NEW YORK, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Vice President Al Gore was furious last week at President Bill Clinton for launching a headline-grabbing attack on Texas Gov. George W. Bush in a speech to Democrats on Capitol Hill that stole the thunder from Gore's own successful campaign stops in New York, Newsweek has learned. Gore hadn't been warned of what the president would say and he thought he had made it clear -- in public and private -- that Clinton should not interfere with his campaign. (Photo: newscom.com newscom.com ) Gore aides burned up the wires to the White House to find out what happened and were told that Clinton had departed from the prepared text after concern over seeing Gore as unable to make his own case, writes Chief Political Correspondent Howard Fineman in the October 30 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, October 23). "They said it was a 'mistake,' and that it wouldn't happen again," one insider tells Newsweek. The aides agreed that Clinton would remain far below the radar for the most part, appearing only at private fund-raisers, recording messages for phone banks, and doing radio spots. "We'll see if the guy can follow the script he's given," said one aide about Clinton, who is only expected to make one high-profile trip for the entire ticket: California. But Fineman reports that Bush is raising the stakes as well. He'll be campaigning in California next week too -- perhaps simultaneously with Clinton. With only a few weeks to the election, both adversaries are fine-tuning their final messages, and Fineman writes that Clinton is in one way or another the force behind both of them: "Gore isn't just distancing himself from Clinton. He's abandoned Clinton's run-to-the-middle strategy and is focusing on firing up his own rank and file. It's Bush, a New South governor like Clinton, who has the savvy -- or the luck -- to follow Clinton's theory that victory lies in blurring partisan lines." prnewswire.com