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...sponsored by a mysterious outfit called Aretino Industries, tells us that the Clinton-Gore Administration has traded national security for campaign contributions and that China has "the ability to threaten our homes with long-range nuclear warheads." The video shows a girl plucking petals from a daisy, a takeoff on the infamous 1964 "Daisy" ad that suggested nuclear annihilation would result if Barry Goldwater won. Bush campaign officials called for the Daisy remake to be pulled (and some stations have done...
Take, for example, Al Gore's nonsense about how he will "keep the prosperity going." This is akin to the airline passenger's illusion that by gripping the armrests tightly, he is keeping the 747 aloft. No. The Clinton-Gore administration had the luck to be born at the takeoff of an immense technological revolution. The idea that Clinton-Gore created the fruits and abundance thereof is magic thinking of a childish kind. It seems especially silly considering the billions and billions in All-Daddy, big-state promises that Gore has made - the chicken in every pot, the government...
...find senior security officers, but finally they let me through. This was 4 a.m. I felt tired. For some hours, I felt very bad and very tired. But I overcame it. The result was that when we flew back in the afternoon, I don't remember even the takeoff. I fell asleep immediately on the plane, and they could barely wake me up when we landed at Ben Gurion [airport near Tel Aviv]. But it was only one hour...
...find senior security officers, but finally they let me through. This was 4 a.m. I felt tired. For some hours, I felt very bad and very tired. But I overcame it. The result was that when we flew back in the afternoon, I don't remember even the takeoff. I fell asleep immediately on the plane, and they could barely wake me up when we landed at Ben Gurion [airport, near Tel Aviv]. But it was only one hour...
...plane to speak with the traveling press corps in a month - a result of his unwillingness to be on the record during such encounters and the press corps' resistance to allowing him to speak off the record. But Wednesday morning, he addressed us on the PA system before takeoff. "Attention, please. Attention, please," Bush said. "This is your captain. I want to make sure all journalists [are] on board. After all, we do not want to forget any journalists...