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Gore bashes Bush's record Possible prelude to candidacy
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11/21/02 | Marc Sandalow, (D-Chronicle)

Posted on 11/21/2002 2:34:07 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:26 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Brandishing the new "let-it-rip" philosophy that he said would be the foundation of any political comeback, Al Gore offered a blistering assessment Wednesday of President Bush's performance, accusing the commander in chief of having become so obsessed with Iraq that he has "lost his focus on the war against terrorism."


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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: algore; stupidity
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
"Every single environmental position in the government has been filled by President Bush with a lobbyist for the polluters or an active spokesperson for polluters," Gore said. "It is a shameful display of special-interest-payback politics."

Asked about EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman, the former New Jersey governor who is widely regarded as an environmental moderate, Gore said "she would be an exception."

Every one (except for those that aren't). Sheesh

21 posted on 11/21/2002 4:37:14 PM PST by fhayek
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To: fhayek
Who's Al Gore?????
22 posted on 11/21/2002 4:40:29 PM PST by Alberta Pride
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To: Alberta Pride
Sure, you know Al Gore. He a member of a very exclusive club that includes Michael Dukakis, George McGovern, Adlai Stevenson, Wendell Wilke et al. The Presidential Losers Club
23 posted on 11/21/2002 4:56:25 PM PST by fhayek
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
might do better to post this at DU. The universe of Freepers who are on the fence regarding Al Gore is extremely limited, IMO.

LOL.
This would last only 10 seconds at DU before being deleted.
Still, the folks here need to be well-armed.
24 posted on 11/21/2002 5:09:22 PM PST by polemikos
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
"His economic policy is a catastrophe for the country, and having won control of Congress there is very little chance he will change it," Gore said. "The economy will not improve until we have change."

Does anyone know exazctly WHAT the Klintoon-Bore economic policy was?
I mean, besides raising taxes to the hilt, starving our military and intelligence community, attempting to sue the (arguably) most successful company in the history of the United States into oblivion, and fraudently overstating the GDP by 30% or so to cover the collapsing economic figures the last 2 years of their administration.

I tried to tell anyone who would listen that the economy of the late '90s was a Potemkin facade.

25 posted on 11/21/2002 6:01:41 PM PST by Morgan's Raider
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Gore bashes Bush's record Possible prelude to candidacy

Sounds more like a preview of Reagan vs. Mondale Pt.II

26 posted on 11/21/2002 6:45:54 PM PST by uglybiker
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To: Northern Yankee
Gore is a stupid SOB that shouldn't be allowed to run for president of the PTA.

He should run for President in '04, he'll get slaughtered.

27 posted on 11/21/2002 7:26:48 PM PST by altair
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To: the_doc
Talk about screaming, Carville was off the charts spewing venom tonight on Crossfire..perfect timing with Dashle's comments, lol. They are all self-destructing...well maybe with a little help from above.
28 posted on 11/21/2002 8:15:18 PM PST by omegab
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To: My2Cents
Then she said, "well, there's one more chance that a woman will win a governorship, in Hawaii." What she failed to see was that BOTH major candidates for governor were women -- the Republican and the Democrat

Yeah, Woodruff does seem slow, but I wonder if she's on medication, tranqulizers maybe because she even talks like she's barely awake..or maybe she's just layed back. I prefer that to the hyper screeching of some the young ones over there.

29 posted on 11/21/2002 8:21:53 PM PST by omegab
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To: omegab; Matchett-PI; RnMomof7
Talk about screaming, Carville was off the charts spewing venom tonight on Crossfire..perfect timing with Dashle's comments, lol. They are all self-destructing...well maybe with a little help from above.

Well, let's hope you're right. Let's hope they have badly miscalculated.

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What you have to realize is that the Dems really think their screaming diatribes will work--or at least some of them still seem to think so.

Actually, Daschle does not seem to be as committed to the strategy as Carville is, and in the matter of Rush Limbaugh and the alleged death threats, he sometimes chickens out--which is probably the worst thing he can do for his team, since it tends to leave people like Carville hanging out!

(Daschle gave his team his very best effort when he histrionically demanded an apology from President Bush. But he couldn't carry the role very convincingly in that episode--and he wound up looking pretty bad. So, maybe he is getting cold feet about the Dems' vicious propaganda program. I think he is afraid that it is going to blow up in their faces. [Carville, on the other hand, is fully committed to the vicious approach. He doesn't seem to worry that it might turn into a failed kamikaze effort. Ah, but Carville is not an elected official.])

My point is that they really do orchestrate these attacks. Most people don't realize the degree to which they work together. And I honestly think they are taking a lot of their directions from Hillary. After all, the strategy of incessant and vicious accusations worked for the Clintons during the Lewinsky mess. Every time some new revelation about Clinton came out, his popularity numbers went up in the polls. (The stupid electrate had been duped into believing that there was a VRWC out to ruin their POTUS. Hillary and Bill had told them so over and over and over and over. This tended to warp the public's sense of the heinousness of perjury and obstruction of justice!!)

I now notice that Hillary told Chris Mathews yesterday on Hardball that the Bush administration is trying to silence all disagreement and is specifically trying to intimidate those who disagree.

This weirdly hypocritical accusation is Hillary's contribution to the dirty work of the larger stratagem. But I think she will be a minor player in the accusations in the early going.

Anyway, this vicious stuff is what Hillary personally introduced onto the American political scene a decade ago. The people who know her say that she is a screaming bully.

The actual rule which they are following is this: Whatever vile thing you are doing, accuse your enemies of same. Accuse them long and loud and incessantly--and when you think that people are not believing you, escalate the accusations even more. And above all else, lie, lie, lie.

It's just one form of the politics of personal destruction which she and Bill personally ushered in a decade ago.

She got all of this from Saul Alinsky. It's the radical socialists' way of stealing power. It's in their books on social change theory. No kidding. We are dealing with people we used to regard as Communist subversives.

30 posted on 11/21/2002 9:07:50 PM PST by the_doc
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To: the_doc
Many years ago our local RC Church had Saul Alinsky action classes and "actions" I was young and had no clue who he was.I went on a couple. One of the profitible things I picked up is a bit of assertivness when dealing with business..need a refund or exchange send me. I never raise my voice or act nasty..but those classes taught me how to use body language and a firm tone of voice to impress them with the fact I am not going anywhere untill they take care of my problem..you would not believe the refunds and substitutes I have been given over the years..Saul taught me I am not helpless ...He is surely a socialist , but sometimes we learn good lessons from our enemies:>)
31 posted on 11/21/2002 9:44:32 PM PST by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
Yeah, I had to read Saul Alinsky's stuff in grad school. He's all the rage with libs.

But when you read some of his really hardcore stuff, you discover that he advocated the nastiest tricks under the sun. As one fellow has commented, Alinksy wanted results "now." He was mapping out ways to achieve political power in a relative short time frame, to achieve essentially total control of society by radical socialists. He regarded ethics as something to be worried about later.

32 posted on 11/21/2002 9:54:52 PM PST by the_doc
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To: the_doc
And he failed..as was predestined
33 posted on 11/21/2002 10:00:42 PM PST by RnMomof7
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