...When All is Said and Dunn

Well the time has finally come and it’s all over but the shouting, and soon the shouting will be nothing more than a whisper. I am of course talking about the Presidential Campaign 2000. The mud has been slung, the fingers have been pointed, and the knives have been placed firmly in the backs of both candidates
The one topic that is agreed upon by most political analysts is that there are a lot of undecided voters still waiting for a sign from God before they can make a decision. You know these people, the ones who let the talking heads like Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather make up their minds for them, instead of listening to what the candidates are actually saying.

So as a public service and for the good of the country, I am going to help out those undecided voters with my “Readers Digest” version of what the two major candidates have been saying. The following are verbatim quotes by both candidates. Read them carefully. You may have to read some of them more than once. And no, those are not typos, this is exactly what they said. After reading this, if you were undecided before, I believe you should be able to come to a decision.

We all know one of these two guys are going to become our new President. So while my hat is off to Buchanan and Nader for at least trying, I believe a vote for either one is a “wasted” vote. So, off to the um, races . . .

What Al Gore Has Been Saying:

“We’ve made some progress during the last eight years. We have seen the strongest economy in the history of the United States, lower crime rates for eight years in a row, highest private home ownership ever. But I’ll make you one promise here: You ain’t seen nothing yet. And I will keep that promise.” - St. Louis, Oct. 17, 2000

“The biggest threat to the economy & the continued prosperity would be a giant tax cut mainly for the wealthy that would put us back into deficits again.” - N.Y. Times, Sep. 28, 2000

“I support a woman’s right to choose; my opponent does not.” - Boston MA, Oct. 3, 2000

“I’m running for president to fight for the people -- all the people.” – Press Release July 25, 2000

“We can create a future where new Americans and all Americans can swing open the gates to education and opportunity and live out their lives in peace and plenty.” N.Y. Times, July 1, 2000

“He (Bush) trusts the government to order a woman to do what he thinks she ought to do. I trust women to make the decisions that affect their lives, their destinies and their bodies.” - Boston MA, Oct. 3, 2000

“My education plan begins with a 50% increase in our national commitment to education.” - Dallas TX, Apr. 28, 2000

“I support the death penalty.” - St. Louis, Oct. 17, 2000

“I see a day where there are no failing schools . . .” - St. Louis, Oct. 17, 2000

What George Bush Has Been Saying:

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." - LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

"It's your money. You paid for it." - LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

"I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace." - Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 23, 2000
"One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." - Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2000

"Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is - I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president." - St. Louis, Mo., Oct.18, 2000

"Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about." - St. Louis, Mo., Oct.18, 2000

"If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it." - St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 18, 2000
"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas." - Beaverton, Ore., Sep. 25, 2000

“The woman who knew that I had dyslexia—I never interviewed her." - Orange, CA, Sept. 15, 2000

"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case." - Pella, Iowa, San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 30, 2000

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." - Greater Nashua, N.H., Jan. 27, 2000

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" - Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." - Reuters, May 5, 2000

No matter what you think about the way the way they look or the impressions that they give personality wise, every vote counts! So stiff or stupid make your vote count. On November 7th, please vote. The next 4 years of you life could depend on it!