For Gore, some questions of ethics

Former Vice President Al Gore has finally gotten around to questioning presidential ethics. Unfortunately, the ethics he questions are not those of former President Clinton, who had none, but of President Bush, whom polls show the public trusts.

In a New York Times column last Sunday, Mr. Gore tipped his hand on where he's headed with his first sentence: "There has always been a debate over the destiny of this nation between those who believed they were entitled to govern because of their station in life, and those who believed that the people were sovereign."

. "Before Mr. Gore starts attacking the honesty and integrity of Mr. Bush, perhaps he should be reminded of the eight years he spent defending and dissembling for Mr. Clinton,"

He's such a bore.

Sen. Evan Bayh, Indiana Democrat, quoted in the Aug. 2 Dallas Morning News, said, "I disagreed with the strategy in the last campaign. I think it was wrong, and I also think it doesn't work."

Gotta love the dims! Here Bayh sounds like even though wrong he might have gone with the "strategery" if it worked!

I've long considered Gore's most serious breach of ethics was as chairman of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety. Joseph Farah of World Net Daily reported:

"The Gore commission produced what most observers considered to be a tough preliminary report unveiled Sept. 9 of that year – one that included tough counter-terrorism procedures.
But within days, according to an insider on the commission, the airline industry jumped all over Gore. As a result, 10 days later, Gore sent a letter to airline lobbyist Carol Hallett promising that the commission's findings would not result in any loss of revenue.

In what can only be seen as a pure political payoff, the Democratic National Committee received $40,000 from TWA the next day. Within two weeks, Northwest, United and American Airlines ponied up another $55,000 for the 1996 campaign.

But the money trail didn't stop there. In the next two months leading up to the November elections, American Airlines donated $250,000 to the Democrats. United donated $100,000 to the DNC. Northwestern put $53,000 more into the kitty."

Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24638

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