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

To: PartyTime who wrote (57825)	11/3/2000 9:48:17 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Shouldn't you be out signing up more felons to vote Dem?

To: PartyTime who wrote (57825)	11/3/2000 9:51:49 AM
From: U Up U Down	Respond to of 769667

We'd get stoned Newsweek finally published its delayed second excerpt of its own reporter Bill Turque’s book, including Al Gore’s high times. Turque reported: "As [John] Warnecke tells it, he and Gore would gather to talk politics late into the night, fueled by Grateful Dead albums and the high-grade marijuana that Warnecke imported from the West Coast. ‘We'd get stoned and talk about what we'd do if we were president,’ he says. Warnecke and two other close friends from Gore's Nashville days say Gore was an enthusiastic recreational user, smoking sometimes as often as three or four times a week: afterhours at Warnecke's house, on weekends at the Gore farm or canoeing on the Caney Fork River. Andy Schlesinger, a former Tennessean reporter who remains close to the Gores (he celebrated with them last week in New Hampshire), says that in the first few months after Gore returned from South Vietnam in 1971, he smoked with him ‘at least a dozen times’ at the Warneckes'. The partying continued, according to Warnecke and a Gore friend who declined to be named, until Gore ran his first House race in 1976." He continued: "Al Gore stoned was a mix of expansiveness, melancholy and paranoia, friends recall. ‘These were low times,’ Schlesinger says. ‘Al was upset and disgusted by Vietnam and what it was doing to America.’ He could also be reflective about his lot as heir apparent in a political family. Listening one evening to Gore discuss the novel ‘The Godfather,’ which he touted as ‘the true American story,’ Schlesinger said he couldn't help but think that the saga of a son having to take over the family business had struck an intimate chord with Gore. But young Al also worried about a drug bust sending his future up in smoke. ‘He'd go around the room and close all the curtains and turn the lights out so no one could see,’ says Warnecke." mediaresearch.org