I think my point was that politicians shouldn't be using the 9-11 response appropriation bill to advance some other agenda. Perhaps my point was too subtle.
I wasn't trying to be exactly factually accurate in which agenda was being pushed, only used examples of typical conservative and liberal causes associated with the people in question to illustrate my point that BOTH would probably do the same sort of thing just from their particular perspective. Since this was a what-if scenario (we could never know how Gore would've handled it) I think I had some license to generalize.
Since this was a what-if scenario (we could never know how Gore would've handled it) I think I had some license to generalize. I will grant you that license, but if you can not see the character differences between President Bush and Gore then I would recommend you get a new set of glasses.
If nothing else, I doubt that President Bush would ever have defended a man against a charge of rape by saying, effectively, "It doesn't really matter if he did rape her. He's done so much other good and he should be judged by that, not some 20 year old rape."
Shalom.