A reply to Kimit Muston's 'Debates 3 - Public 0' column

.....by Richard Koss

C'mon Kimit. I'm sorry, but I can't let you editorialize the debates by telling us what we saw and heard. First of all, G.W. can't help but look good after each debate when the media experts predict before every debate, that Al Gore is going to clean Bush's clock. Of course when he doesn't, and comes off like some arrogant, rude, plastic, phony that he actually is, he's going to be a loser.

As for the facts about his exaggerations (they're actually lies), he said he went to Texas right after the fires and observed, which was a bold face lie. He went to Texas quite a few days or weeks after the fires and he went on a campaign or fund raising tour, not to observe the damage.

What about his other "exaggerations" like the student who supposedly had to stand up in class because they didn't have enough seats or the little old lady who had to sell cans to pay for her prescriptions or the cost of his mother's dog's prescriptions vs. his mother's or how about when he sang the union label commercial as a boy even though it wasn't written until he was 27. This guy is a jerk - period. Even the so-called details you say he has a handle on, are impossible to verify, not that Jim Lehrer or any left-leaning journalist would even attempt to challenge him. I'm not crazy about G.W. but I sure as hell don't want a continuum of this administration.

If I knew nothing about the issues and I heard Gore talking about the problems with healthcare insurance, social security, the deterioration of public education, gas prices, partially due to dependence on foreign sources of oil, prescription drug costs, deterioration of national security, and a bunch of other crises situations, I'd have to ask one simple question. What the hell has your administration been doing about these problems for the last eight years? And don't tell me that the mean, do nothing Republican congress wouldn't pass any legislation. There was none of any significance proposed by the white house or house democrats, and any serious legislation produced was vetoed by Clinton.

I have no probelm with people who don't like Republicans providing they support a worthwhile, classy, quailified, honest, individual. Al Gore is none of those. At least Bush hasn't done anything to prove that he's not. Perhaps it is voting for the lesser of two evils. But I'd rather vote against someone who's been part a corrupt administration, with established policies I not only disaprove of, but also fear. And there's only about another hundred and fifty reasons I could give you. But I'm out of breath.

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