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

To: mst2000 who wrote (9382)	1/17/2001 1:08:26 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

Wrong. The anti-Clinton vote of 57% was split between Perot and Bush. Revisionist historians and pollsters will be very busy with Clinton over the next few years.

To: mst2000 who wrote (9382)	1/17/2001 1:24:57 PM
From: Slugger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Text of Ashcroft's "We have no King but Jesus" speech: AUSTIN, Texas — The following is the text of Sen. John Ashcroft's May 1999 speech as he received an honorary degree at Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., as posted on the university's Web site. Thank you very much Dr. Bob [Jones III, president of Bob Jones University]. I want to thank each one of you for investing yourselves in the mission of Christ, of 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 — it 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 into the fundamental documents of this great country. You could quote the Declaration [of Independence] with me, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and 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 thousand years when Pilate stepped for ... before the people in Jerusalem and said, "Whom would you that I release unto you, Barabbas or Jesus which is called the Christ?" And when they said "Barabbas" he said, "But what about Jesus, the King of the Jews?" 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 Barabbas, criminality, destruction, thievery, the lowest and least. When you have no King but Jesus, you release the eternal, you release the highest and best. You release virtue. You release potential. It is not accidental that America has been the home of the brave and the land of the free — the place where mankind has had 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 of 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 who promised us the greatest potential as a nation and as individuals. For such we must reacquaint ourselves daily with His call upon our lives. Thank you. God bless you and thank you for honoring me by allowing me to stand with Asa, Lindsey, and a great governor. God bless you everyone. "Asa" and "Lindsey" in the last paragraph may refer to Rep. Asa Hutchinson, R-Ark., and Rep. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. FOX News is in the process of confirming their identities foxnews.com