Gore: Known dishonesty

Generally speaking, Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore's plans,
policies, beliefs and initiatives center on a couple of main themes:

• "Ordinary" people -- like those 13 he needed to help him
  prepare for his first debate Tuesday in Boston -- cannot be trusted to
  do anything right;
• Only Washington, D.C., knows what's best for you;
• See the first two points again.

Frankly, though Gore's oratory was much "slicker" than
Republican challenger George W. Bush's, that doesn't matter to me
because I don't believe a damned thing Gore says. If that upsets him, he
has nobody to blame for my cynicism other than himself. He's a known
truth-stretcher; he has lied so often in the past it is foolish to trust
what he says now.

And he's a hypocrite.

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Consider:

Once upon a time Gore was pro-life but not now. Now he's
"pro-choice," which is code for pro-abortion, which is nothing less than
murdering the most helpless in our society -- an unborn child.

Yet Gore says he is "for the children." Guess they actually have to
be born first, huh, Mr. Vice President?

Once upon a time Gore and his family grew tobacco, but now he hates
it. He says he hates it because it killed his sister, yet Gore was still
touting tobacco to potential tobacco company donors in 1988 -- five
years after his sister, unfortunately, died from cancer.

Once upon a time, when Gore was just another congressman and senator,
he knew it was illegal to raise campaign funds using government phones,
government offices, and sitting on government (read: the
people's) property. Now when he does that, he says there's "no
controlling legal authority" to prevent him.

Gore says he is "for the poor" and "common man," yet he has no
problem taking tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds from
Buddhist temple nuns who have taken a vow of poverty.

Not that the Buddhist temple thing was a fund-raiser -- even
though Gore has referred to it as such in subpoenaed e-mails
investigators have finally caught up to.

Gore says he hates Big Oil, but owns stock in the Big Oil company
Occidental Petroleum.

Gore says he wants to distance himself from Bill Clinton and "be
considered my own man" -- in a transparent attempt to distance himself
from Clinton and eight years of scandal. Yet he called the man he
wants to "distance himself" from "the greatest president in history"
after the pervert chief executive got caught in an "oral scandal" with a
mere White House intern the age of Gore's older daughter.

Gore says he is for "the working man," but shuns Americans who are
fortunate enough to make a good living. To gore, these "wealthy
Americans" are scumbags simply because they are rich -- yet he
claims to want to be president of the entire nation, which means
everyone living in it, not just a few groups.

Gore portrays the "rich" as evil but is one of them; he doesn't worry
about where his next meal is coming from.

Gore says he supports the freedoms in the Constitution but doesn't
support a taxpayer's right to choose the school he wants to send his
kids to, the kind of retirement plan he wants (other than or in addition
to Social Security), or the choice of whether a man wants to carry a gun
or not.

Gore thinks only his choices for the Supreme Court will be the
right ones, even though Democrats have a history of appointing judges
who legislate from the bench rather than interpret what the Constitution
actually says.

Gore has pledged to rebuild the military as president, but has
supported the Clinton-Gore administration's multi-year cuts in military
spending and over-deployment.

No, there isn't much to Al Gore's shtick that we haven't heard before
and seen before. I watched the first debate -- and will watch the others
-- because I want to hear what Bush has to say.

I could care less what Gore says; he's a known factor.