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

To: lightwave51 who wrote (172627)	8/19/2001 2:46:29 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769670

Gore has never lied about anything The allegations of untruths by Gore were another series of lies by Bush. They have all been retracted now, very quietly. TP

To: lightwave51 who wrote (172627)	8/19/2001 5:41:43 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush campaign trail lies: (paraphrased) "I am for patient's bill of rights" (truth - only if it's very watered down and favors HMO's) "I will support treaties on global environment" - (total lie) "I care about the environment" - every environmental regulatory post has been filled with an industry crony who's job it has been to fight any kind of regulation. Lax pollution standards, gutting Clean Air and CLean Water bills. Handing over management of environment to the pollution lobby. "My expertise is needed to fix the energy crisis" - (prices soared after Bush took office and he and Cheney supported higher prices, did nothing to bring them down) "My tax cuts will spur the economy" - we can't afford them and the first one was more than stolen by energy gouging. Now any tax cut is deficit spending. "I am a compassionate conservative" - (compassionate to corporate special interests maybe, every policy is anti-consumer and anti government assistance) "We need 1900 new power plants" - (California now has an energy glut with only 1 new power plant on-line) "Clinton had no energy policy" - (more oil was drilled during Clinton's years than reagan and Bush Sr. combined.) "I will reach out to Democrats and moderates" - (secret hard-line dealings have alienated moderates and infuriated liberals) "My emphasis is education" - (insists on standardized tests he refuses to pay for, in Texas they teach to the test for phony positive results, real plan to drain public schools and re-distribute money into private schools most cannot afford) "My tax cut helps the average American" - (helps mainly the richest Americans. 400 richest got as much as 40,000,000 poorest) "Two divisions of our military aren't ready for action" (sharply refuted by even pro-Bush generals) "I will improve the military" - (Star Wars sucks funds out of vital military programs which benefit actual military personnel, and we can't afford Star Wars anyway and it doesn't work) "I disagree with our presence in the Balkans and we should get out" (has dropped that entirely) I'm sure there are more but these come to mind. In actulaity of course Bush didn't so too much of substance on the campaign trail, mainly slogans and buzz words. But whre there was substance there were lies.