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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (9315)	1/14/2001 6:10:55 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

I cannot support Ashcroft, and I have read many articles about him. Not all women's rights groups will support him. Just saw in NYTimes today that major women's rights group will protest peacefully on Inauguration day. Most Americans don't understand what's going on with Bush and his cabinet appointments: "A Time/CNN poll found that although most Americans were unfamiliar with shcroft, 61 percent thought the Senate should look carefully at his stance on affirmative action, 53 percent on his position on abortion and 58 percent on his opposition to an African-American nominee for a federal judgeship." dailynews.yahoo.com

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (9315)	1/14/2001 6:29:59 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

We Have No King But Jesus' Transcript of Ashcroft Speech at Bob Jones University Jan. 12 — Following is the transcript of a speech delivered May 8, 1999, at Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., by then-Sen. John Ashcroft, R-Mo. Ashcroft is President-elect George W. Bush's nominee for attorney general. Thank you very much, Dr. Bob. I want to thank each of you for investing yourselves in the mission of Christ — in redemption and forgiveness, and for preparing yourselves in the way that you have. A slogan of the American Revolution which was so distressing to the emissaries of the king that it was found in correspondence sent back to England was the line, "We have no king but Jesus." Tax collectors came, asking for that which belonged to the king, and colonists frequently said, "We have no king but Jesus." It found its way intothe fundamental documents of this great country. You could quote the Declaration with me. "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus. My mind thinking about that once raced back a couple of thousand years when Pilate stepped before the people in Jerusalem and said, "Whom would ye that I releaseunto you? Barabas? Or Jesus, which is called the Christ?" And when they said "Barabas," he said, "But what about Jesus? King of the Jews?" And the outcry was, "We have no king but Caesar." There's a difference between a culture that has no king but Caesar, no standard but the civil authority, and a culture that has no king but Jesus, no standard but the eternal authority. When you have no king but Caesar, you release Barabas — criminality, destruction, thievery, the lowest and the least. When you have no king but Jesus, you release the eternal, you release the highest and the best. It is not accidental that America has been the home of the brave and the land of the free, the place where mankind has has the greatest of all opportunities, to approach the potential that God has placed within us. It has been because we knew that we were endowed not by the king, but by the Creator, with certain inalienable rights. If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal. Endowed by the Creator with rights of life, liberty and the pursuit if happiness. I thank God for this institution and for you, who recognize and commit yourselves to the proposition that we were so created, and that to live with respect to the Creator promises us the greatest potential as a nation and as individuals. And for such we must reacquaint ourselves daily with His call upon our lives. abcnews.go.com

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (9315)	1/14/2001 6:39:21 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Security for the Inauguration to Be Tightest Ever "With thousands of demonstrators expected here next Saturday, the law enforcement authorities are planning the tightest security sever for a presidential inauguration."...... These will be the first substantial protests during an inauguration since antiwar demonstrators protested at Richard M. Nixon's, second inauguration in 1973......... "During the swearing-in ceremony, the National Organization of Women will hold a rally several blocks away at the Navy Memorial on Pennsylvnia Ave." Excerpts from The New York Times, Sunday, January 14, 2001, Page 16 GZ, the National Organization of Women will not celebrate the election of George Bush nor the appointment of Joh Ashcroft as Attorney General - Mephisto