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To: stockman_scott who wrote (55188)	1/18/2006 4:37:57 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 363081

Mention Al Gore, and the next thing you hear is: I invented the Internet. Which, of course, he NEVER said. The rightwing is outstanding at inventing lies and making them stick. We have the true evidence of treasonous acts committed by Bush, and yet it continues to float away like so much smoke. Just last night, Leno made fun of Gore. How will he overcome the negative public perception?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (55188)	1/18/2006 4:55:20 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 363081

Perhaps the WH is afraid Gore could score - they're attacking him WITH THEIR USUAL LIES: The White House yesterday responded sharply to an attack by Democrats by accusing former Vice President Al Gore of hypocrisy that "knows no bounds." Two of the nation's most high-profile Democrats, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Mr. Gore, made speeches Monday criticizing the Bush administration in the start of a congressional election year in which one-third of the seats in the Senate and all of them in the House are at stake. On the occasion of the national commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Ms. Clinton spoke on the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network, saying, "When you look at how the House of Representatives [controlled by Republicans] has been run, it's been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about." She then said, "I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country." White House spokesman Scott McClellan called her remarks "out of bounds." Mr. Gore, in a speech Monday at Washington's Constitution Hall, accused President Bush of breaking the law by authorizing wiretaps on U.S. citizens without court warrants. "The president of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and insistently. A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government," Mr. Gore said. He then demanded that a special counsel be appointed to investigate the domestic surveillance program and said Congress should "start acting like the independent and co-equal branch of government [it's] supposed to be." Asked at the daily White House briefing about Mr. Gore's remarks, Mr. McClellan made no effort to hide his disdain. He said that Jamie Gorelick, a deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration who later was named to the bipartisan panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, had testified before Congress that presidential power extended to physical searches without warrants. post-gazette.com