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

To: PROLIFE who wrote (52601)	10/26/2000 12:13:25 PM
From: Scarecrow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Cantcha just FEEL the love and tolerance and diversity in the democRAT party? Thursday October 26, 2000; 10:55 AM EDT Hillary, Gore Stonewalling on Sharpton's 'No Haddassah' Pledge Nearly a week after a key New York Democrat was quoted saying there was "no way" he could back a presidential ticket with a Jew on it, both Vice President Al Gore and New York senate hopeful Hillary Clinton have declined to condemn the statement. "There is no way there is going to be a Haddassah in the White House," Rev. Al Sharpton reportedly announced to a crowd at the opening of a new Manhattan night spot last week, invoking the unmistakably Jewish first name of Sen. Joe Lieberman's wife to make his point. After Vice President Gore picked Lieberman to be his running mate in August, Sharpton complained to USA Today that no blacks had been considered for the number two spot and called Lieberman's selection "political racial profiling." Except for a single mention in Friday's New York Post, the press has ignored Sharpton's explosive "no Haddassah in the White House" remark. Repeated calls by NewsMax.com seeking reaction from the Gore and Clinton campaigns have gone unreturned. Last year both the vice president and the first lady made pilgrimages to Sharpton's Harlem headquarters to shore up support among New York's black voters. Gore would only meet privately with Sharpton, apparently out of concern that photos with the controversial reverend would turn off parts of the national electorate. But Mrs. Clinton, running in a state where Sharpton is an acknowledged political force within the Democratic Party, was unabashed in seeking his support. Last spring she traveled to Sharpton's National Action Alliance headquarters to address its membership. In her speech, Mrs. Clinton condemned four New York City policemen who had mistakenly shot African immigrant Amadou Diallo as "murderers" and hinted she might support federal intervention in the case. The four officers were later acquitted of all charges by a mixed race jury. Prior to her address, Rev. Charles Norris regaled Sharpton's group with a bizarre anecdote about being fired by one Jew after another before he took up the cloth. The first lady claimed later that she did not hear Rev. Norris' speech and distanced herself from his anti-Semitic remarks. Mrs. Clinton's refusal to condemn Sharpton's "no Haddassah" pledge comes during a week where she is also under fire for accepting $50,000 at a June fund-raiser sponsored by the American Muslim Alliance. The group has called for violence against Israel and its members have defended the notorious terrorist group Hamas. Mrs. Clinton claimed Wednesday that she did not realize the event was sponsored by the anti-Israel group, though photos show her accepting a plaque clearly labeled "American Muslim Alliance." Like Sharpton, the first lady has also been accused of using anti-Semitic language. Last September, a former Clinton bodyguard told NewsMax.com that she regularly used the slur "Jew bastard" when she got angry. Ten months later, three former campaign aides alleged that she used the same slur during an emotional meeting after her husband's failed 1974 congressional bid. The first lady said she couldn't remember the meeting, but denied using an ethnic slur. Last year, one-time White House insider Dick Morris, who is Jewish, told Fox News Channel that the first lady once angrily rebuffed his request for a pay raise by invoking an anti-Semitic stereotype. "That's all you people care about is money," Morris said Mrs. Clinton shouted at him. The first lady has never denied Morris' account.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (52601)	10/26/2000 1:22:50 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Prolife: No one is scaring senior citizens. Senior citizens are well-informed on the issues; they have time to read newspapers and join discussion groups and dissect complicated issues. See my post previous to this one about the Secretary of the Treasury saying Bush is greatly misguided about Social Security. It's one thing if Clinton or Gore says Bush's SS plan is risky, that's politics; but it's quite another thing when the Secretary of the Treasury says: "Beware!"