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...about Gore was not about lies, deceits, exaggerations and embellishments. It was how wooden he was. Robo-Veep. Gore even made fun of it, often making a self-deprecating quip that he was so boring that his Secret Service code name was Al Gore. Yes, there had been the Buddhist temple incident and the White House fund-raising phone calls, but those seemed to be viewed as technical breaches of obscure laws rather than examples of outright mendacity. His overall image was of a boringly earnest Boy Scout. His Rose Garden defense of a just-impeached Clinton...
...everything from tainted baby formula to toxic-waste dumps to influence peddling in the contact-lens-solution business. He was a tireless, exhaustively prepared prosecutor, but he was not ideologically predictable. He supported serious campaign-finance reform before McCain made it cool - and before his own travails at the Buddhist temple demanded some public penance...
...political campaign." Bush believes that campaign finance reform is vital to maintaining the integrity of the political process. While Gore claims to be the candidate of campaign finance reform, it seems unwise to trust the man who claimed that "no controlling legal authority" had jurisdiction over his 1996 Buddhist monastery fundraiser. Bush will restore integrity to campaign funding and protect the rights of the individual to control the political nominating process...
Bush has been most effective, he further noted, in addressing the issue of Gore's character. An ad that features women expressing disdain while viewing clips of the vice president at the famed Buddhist temple fundraiser and making his claim that he had invented the Internet incited the most reaction from the members of the audience, who cheered when the ad was aired at the forum...
When Bush made a reference to Gore's infamous Buddhist fundraiser in 1996, implying that the vice president was irresponsible, Gore countered that he wanted to focus on results, not scandals...