Posted on 3/11/2003, 11:30:12 PM by Peach
Vanity request: I'm looking for some mis-statements by Clinton and Gore. There was a list somewhere and I've lost it. A liberal just sent me a list of President Bush mis-statements (along the lines of: "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century" - Governor George W. Bush, 9/15/95).
I don't even believe this one but would greatly appreciate a few of Clinton's or Gore's gaffs. Thanks all.
No, you received a hoax email claiming that to be the case. That is one of the false quotes debunked at the website I cited in post #2.
[b]"During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet."[/b]
...is totally ludicrous, at best. If Al Gore had never existed, the internet would not be the slightest bit different from it's current state. [/B][/QUOTE]
The truth is the Internet got its start as a Defense Department program in 1969, when Gore was but a wee lad on the knee of his Harvard prof Marty Peretz.
This is of course just one of countless documented lies and absurd exagerations made by Al Gore.
Consider these facts;
2 - Number of White House Coffees Al Gore said he attended.
37 - White House Coffees Gore actually attended.
1999 - Year Gore said he co-sponsored the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill.
1993 - Year Russell Feingold went to the US Senate.
1992 - Year Al Gore was elected Vice President.
0 - Years Gore and Feingold served together in the Senate.
1975 - Year Strategic Petroleum Reserve was established.
2 - Years later Gore entered the United States Congress.
1 - Claim by Al Gore he was involved in discussions about establishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
At a Teamsters conference he recalled "the lullabies I heard as child" and sings, "Look for the union label."
The tune and lyrics were written for a 1975 ad campaign for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Gore was 27 then. Al Gore said his mother-in-law pays three times more for her arthritis medicine than he pays for the same medicine for his dog. Turned out the dog and mother-in-law story was made up, which even Al Gore's aids admitted.
He says his father was voted out of office for his courageous stand on Civil Rights, when his father voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Regarding his Vietnam experience. He told Vanity Fair magazine: "I took my turn regularly on the perimeter in these little firebases out in the boonies. Something would move, we'd fire first and ask questions later." He informed The Washington Post: "I was shot at. I spent most of my time in the field." He told The Baltimore Sun: "I carried an M-16" and "I was fired upon."
In point of fact, Gore was never shot at, and according to his own body guard who accompanied him everywhere, his job was the equivalent of a crossing-guard, a duty so far from the "perimiters" that many soldiers didn't even bother carrying their rifles.
In the Taking Credit for Everything That's Ever Happened category, Gore said of the federal government's response to fires and floods in Texas: "I accompanied (FEMA Director) James Lee Witt down to Texas when those fires broke out." But then it turned out that never happened. Gore did not go to Texas with James Lee Witt.
Of course in the Democratic primary debates the pro-choice Al Gore denied that he had ever flipped his position on abortion when challenged on the issue by Bill Bradley. However in a letter to his constituents in TN Senator Al Gore said that he "opposed Federal funding of abortions" said it was "arguably the taking of human life" and that it was his "deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong".
This is only one example of Al Gore's lying in public debates with Bill Bradley.
When Bill Bradley grew tired of Al Gore's persistent misrepresentations in a primary debate, he asked Algore: "When you don't tell the truth as a candidate, how can people trust you to tell the truth when you are president?"
Gore misstates facts in drug-cost pitch
By Walter V. Robinson, Globe Staff, 9/18/2000
Vice President Al Gore, reaching for a personal example to illustrate the breathtaking costs of some prescription drugs, told senior s in Florida last month that his mother-in-law pays nearly three times as much for the same arthritis medicine used for his ailing dog, Shiloh.
But Gore, the master of many policy details, mangled the facts, and late last week his aides could not say with certainty that Shiloh or Margaret Ann Aitcheson actually takes the brand-name drug, Lodine, that Gore said they do. Even if they take the drug, Gore's assertion that his black Labrador retriever's monthly bill is $37.80 and Aitcheson's is $108 is wrong.
The Gore campaign admitted that it lifted those costs not from his family's bills, but from a House Democratic study, and that Gore misused even those numbers: They represent the manufacturer's price to wholesalers, not the retail price of the brand-name product.
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