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The Internet's Inventor Speaks to the VFW Gore's claim to have rebuilt the military is an outrageous lie. BY MARK HELPRIN Tuesday, August 29, 2000 12:01 a.m. EDT Last week, Al Gore went before the Veterans of Foreign Wars and delivered a speech in which he claimed, in regard to his service in Vietnam, that "I didn't do the most or run the gravest danger." How modest of him to admit that of the millions of American soldiers in that war, he was not the one who did the most. Nor was he, by his own self-deprecating admission, the bravest ...

CLINTON IS RAISING Pentagon spending as Bush attacks military preparedness.The administration's draft 2002 budget, which went to the Defense Department last week, proposes an increase of $16 billion through 2007, mostly to improve readiness and the quality of military life. That may help blunt a key line of attack by the GOP nominee, who told the VFW the military is "in decline." Bush vowed to raise pay and review Bosnia and Kosovo deployments, and told Lithuanian-American leaders he wants NATO to expand.

BUSH AS BIG SPENDER Gore also painted Bush as irresponsibly seeking to spend all of the surplus on politically popular but economically risky appeals to voters. For example, Gore’s call to “reform the estate tax, so people can pass on a small business or a family farm,” falls short of Bush’s proposal to eliminate it. And he promised: “I will not go along with a huge tax cut for the wealthy at the expense of everyone else and wreck our good economy in the process.” He said he would “invest far more in our schools,” but he also promised that ...

Al Gore's speech last night was like a meal you expected to be awful that turned out to only taste bland. It exceeded expectations but it's quality fades quickly in memory. Throughout the speech there were two hissing noises. The first was the unfortunate lisp the vice president has acquired with his new lower teeth. "Thiths election isth abouths the future…" The second seeping sound was the steady leak of his hopes for victory. Gore has said for some time now that he should get the credit or the blame for his speech, since he wrote it. Fair enough. Again, ...

Yesterday on the way home, I heard a clip of Tipper Gore talking about how her husband is "so sexy." [Excuse me while I go barf ..... Uggghhh, now I feel better.] Oops, it gets worse. She went on to comment that it wasn't so much "that you'd see him walking down the street and think he's so sexy. It's his views that are sexy. For example, his views on abortion .... I think that makes him sexy." I believe a statement like this is so stunningly moronic --- well, it just takes your breath away. I think this qualifies ...

Why They Hate Clinton By Michael Kelly Wednesday, April 12, 2000; Page A27 In a recent review of a newly published book by two come-what-may Clinton apologists, Joe Conason and Gene Lyons, about the prosecution of Bill Clinton, New York Times reporter Neil Lewis raises a question that is, in the end, the question about Clinton. Conason and Lyons argue, as Lewis notes, that the essential story of Clinton's impeachment is of a "ten-year campaign to destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton." In this construct, Clinton is not so much a powerful and bad man brought low by his low acts ...