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

To: PartyTime who wrote (55205)	10/31/2000 11:15:45 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Gee, all I can say is Go Bush!

To: PartyTime who wrote (55205)	10/31/2000 11:18:24 AM
From: FastC6	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<If he can't speak using his heart and mind, after all the campaigning he has done, maybe he's the type of thinker whose not worthy of being in the White House. >> I'd rather have a president who uses a teleprompter and tells the truth than one who speaks from his heart and mind with lies....GO BUSH!!!!!!!! . .

To: PartyTime who wrote (55205)	10/31/2000 11:18:58 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

October 31, 2000 Presidential Tracking Poll With one week remaining in the campaign we find George W. Bush leads by seven points, 47% to 40%. One surprising bit of demographic data shows Bush doing best among 30 to 39 year olds with 57% of this age group supporting the Texas Governor. The question now is whether Al Gore can find a way to make one last surge and make the race competitive on Election Day. Rasmussen Research will begin tracking the approval rating and key political issues of the new administration as soon as the elections are over. The next President will be the first in history to have his policies and popularity polled every day he is in office. For political junkies we will begin tracking the public’s opinion of the new President and his transition team on November 8, 2000. The telephone survey of 3,000 likely voters was conducted on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, October 28, 29, and 30. The survey’s margin of sampling error is +/- 1.8 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. portraitofamerica.com

To: PartyTime who wrote (55205)	10/31/2000 11:32:26 AM
From: Frank Griffin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The sad thing is we know who Gore is and we don't like it. We also know who GWB is and we like what he has done in Texas. We love his family. They are a credit to the American people. His younger brother, Jeb, is our governor and is held in very high esteem and he is very effective and caring about building a better Florida as GWB has been about building a better Texas and soon, a better America. the only thing that amazes me is that this race is even competitive. GWB is head and shoulders above Gore. Bush will lead. Gore can't lead. Gore will be unable to build any consensus and America will linger, unled for four years excepting for the messes Gore's lies get us in to. Bush has a record of reaching across the aisle and building consensus and unity for the good of all the people. Why would any thinking person not want a leader who can do that? Why would they choose one held in disrepute by even his fellow democrats? Viva Bush!

To: PartyTime who wrote (55205)	10/31/2000 12:03:40 PM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Gore Smoked Pot as Senator, Friend Charges A once close friend of Vice President Al Gore has added to charges that he and Gore regularly smoked marijuana until 1976, and now suggests that Gore used the illegal drug right up until he ran for vice president in 1992. John C. Warnecke Jr. told Newsweek and DRCnet's This Week Online earlier this year that he supplied Gore with marijuana until the vice president began his 1976 campaign for Congress and that they smoked together three or four times a week. "We smoked more than once, more than a few times, we smoked a lot," Warnecke said. "We smoked in his car, in his house, we smoked in his parents' house, in my house ... we smoked on weekends. We smoked a lot." But, said Warnecke, he stopped supplying the drug to Gore after 1976. During this period Gore worked with Warnecke at Nashville's Tennessean newspaper and attended Tennessee's Vanderbilt Divinty School, where he flunked out. Gore then enrolled in Vanderbilt Law School and dropped out after a middling academic career to seek public office. In 1987 Gore told reporters that his use of the drug had been rare and had ended after he came home from Vietnam in 1971. But in an interview Monday with WLAC-Nashville talk radio host Phil Valentine, Warnecke said that two old friends have called him since his accounts to Newsweek and DRCnet became public and said that they continued to supply Gore with marijuana during his 16-year congressional career: WARNECKE: I smoked with him one time while he was actually campaigning. VALENTINE: For Congress. That would be in '76. WARNECKE: That's correct. Now, when I first came out with this story of covering up for Al just last year, I got two calls from two different people in Nashville who are old friends of mine and they told me after I left they became Al's source for marijuana. This continued while he was in Congress and while he was a senator. VALENTINE: So, as recently as the early '90s he may have been using marijuana as well? WARNECKE: Yes. As far as I know from these two people, and I consider them reliable sources, I really think Al was committing a crime while he was in office. Warnecke declined to identify his two sources, telling Valentine only that they worked in the music industry and would deliver drugs to Gore at his Carthage, Tenn., farm. When Gore joined the 1992 presidential ticket, the contacts stopped abruptly. Warnecke told Newsweek last year that Gore pressured him to lie about their drug use when he decided to seek the White House in 1988. He confirmed for reporters that Gore had used marijuana but did not go into detail. The confession ended their friendship. Warnecke told Valentine that his account of Gore pressuring him to lie would be part of an upcoming edition of PBS's Frontline, scheduled for broadcast in October. In his comments Monday, the former Gore friend added yet another new dimension to the vice president's past drug use: VALENTINE: Was he (Gore) doing more than marijuana when you were with him or was it just pot? WARNECKE: Well, we smoked hashish together and we smoked a type of marijuana called Thai sticks. It's a special high-grade marijuana that comes wrapped in a special stick from Thailand. And what they do is, after they wrap it around a stick, they dip it in opium. Warnecke told Valentine he has been "clean" for twenty years. Attempts by NewsMax.com to reach John Warnecke Tuesday were unsuccessful. newsmax.com