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Al Gore is so dishonest, corrupt and cynical that his true character comes shining through a few times in the liberal media. Today in the Washington Post, Michael Kelly describes the race as being between a dummy (Bush) and a cynical fraud (Gore). The other day on Slate, Jacob Weisberg says that the Gore campaign seems to be an experiment in finding out if a presidential campaign can overpander. Numerous articles have appeared about Al Gore's tendency to tell untrue stories to support his positions and have pointed out the incredible hypocrisy of his call to unleash the United State's strategic petroleum reserve. Although generally ignored by the press, at least a few ran stories of his role as a slumlord. Now all presidential candidates are hypocrites and say things that aren't true. But Clinton and now Gore are taking their immoral cycnicism to new heights. It makes you wonder what the country can take. Other presidents were corrupt. Warren Harding was much more interested in gambling, drinking and womanizing than being president and Nixon did engage in a lot of illegal activity. However, at lest both of these presidents were followed by men whose integrity was unquestioned: Calvin Coolidge and Gerald Ford, respecitively. Imagine eight years of intensely immoral presidents. The picture isn't a pretty one. |