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Before the voters go to the polls,there are a
few more things about the candidates that they should consider before they cast their ballots.
The Republican candidate for President, Gov. George W. Bush seems to be awfully fond of using slogans to describe his campaign. So far he has used "Compassionate Conservative" and Reformer with Results," along with "Uniter, not a Divider." They all sound very sincere and appealing, but the proof is in the details and in that effort. Gov. Bush comes up pretty short.
For example: he refuses to explain how he will take a trillion dollars out of the Social Security trust fund and give it to young working adults to invest, while promising senior citizens that same trillion to guarantee that their benefits will not be cut. At the same time he wants to give everybody a big income tax cut.
The Presidency is a powerful office, but there is no way that he can repeal the laws of mathematics. It seems that Gov. Bush cannot tell the difference between salesmanship and leadership.
When it comes to a matter of trust, 1 don’t believe that a man who refused to give an unequivocal answer, yes or no, to the question of whether he has ever snorted cocaine has the right to throw stones at anyone else, much less talk about hypocrisy. Gov. Bush is hardly the man on horseback his supporters claim him to be.
In contrast, all the Democratic candidate, Vice President A1 Gore, has going for him is eight years of unbroken economic growth, record job growth, full employment, rising wages, low inflation and dropping crime rates. If you want to bring up the subject of trust, then you can trust A1 Gore to keep up the good work, I don't
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