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

To: PartyTime who wrote (58888)	11/4/2000 3:26:39 PM
From: Frank Griffin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

What percentage of the vote do you believe Nader will get? That 5% figure is an important goal in order to get federal funding in 2004, isn't it?

To: PartyTime who wrote (58888)	11/4/2000 3:31:26 PM
From: swisstrader	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

PT: you got it right...if Bush was so nervous about reporting his DUI conviction and having his lovely daughters find him out, then why so open about the alcohol abuse...answer: no one gets arrested for alcohol abuse and while alcoholics are considered to have some sort of an excuseable disease, DUI and the damage they may cause can never be excused...in most worlds, we would simply call this a COVER UP...using his daughters as a smoke screen is about as lame an excuse as the man himself.

To: PartyTime who wrote (58888)	11/6/2000 12:22:05 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

If you do not understand how it is more embarrassing to be fined for a DUI than to get into a bit of trouble for a college prank, I am not sure that I can explain it. If you do not understand how a DUI would be more embarrassing than a vague admission of drinking too much, I do not know what to say. I think that he really didn't want to tell his daughters. It may be that, in addition, he was not keen to tell anyone else, but so what? I still think it is a bogus issue. I watched Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" the other night, the movie, with Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson. In that movie, in those innocent times, it was taken for granted that the Robertson character was stupid and immoral for floating a report that his opponent had had a nervous breakdown, and that the Fonda character was altogether nobler because, in the end, he could not bear to fight fire with fire, and release a report that Robertson's character had been accused of homosexual conduct in the military. I think, in fact, that the fact of a nervous breakdown should be released, and that the only thing deplorable was the timing, during balloting at a convention. Also, I do not think that the Fonda character is particularly noble for not using his report, in the end, because by that time he knew it was probably a false allegation. Still, it was refreshing to be reminded that there was a time when it was not expected that everything would be disclosed, or was fair game for the opposition. Anyway, speculate as you like about what remains to be uncovered. The bar has been so lowered by Clinton, I do not see why you would speculate that anything which would force a resignation would arise. But mostly, I think you misjudge Bush. He is not the sort of fellow who has shocking skeletons in the closet, just a handful of embarrassments........