OpinionOctober 10, 2000
SPEAK OUT
THE MORE people see of George W. Bush on TV, the less likely he is to get elected president. You can tell just by looking at the man and watching him talk he's a crook. He's got the same hawkish, mean, greedy look as David Limbaugh and Gary Rust and Peter Kinder and some of those people up there at the newspaper. ...
Bush hurts himself
THE MORE people see of George W. Bush on TV, the less likely he is to get elected president. You can tell just by looking at the man and watching him talk he's a crook. He's got the same hawkish, mean, greedy look as David Limbaugh and Gary Rust and Peter Kinder and some of those people up there at the newspaper. It's a favor to the country and to Al Gore that Bush agreed to hold these debates because he's stupid, he's inaccurate on a lot of things he says and, on top of that, he just looks plain greedy and dirty.
Gore hogged debate
MY COMMENT on the first presidential debate is that Gore was rude, talked too much, ran over the allotted time and didn't want to give Bush his turn to answer the questions. It seemed to me like the moderator gave Gore more time each question.
Not a good liar
I WANT to say one thing that Al Gore did not invent. He did not invent a good lie. He can't tell a good lie. He gets caught in every one of them. He is going to have to go back to Clinton and take lying lessons from the master. I'll tell you one thing. I know Slick Willie. I have watched him. I have observed him. Al, you ain't no Slick Willie when it comes to lying.
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A prayer to remember
IMAGINE IF a U.S. senator took to the podium before some important debate, cleared his throat, raised his eyebrows and called out to heaven: "Be thou present, oh God of wisdom, and direct the counsels of this honorable assembly. Enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation. Preserve the health of their bodies and the vigor of their minds. Shower down on them and the millions they represent such temporal blessings as you see fit for them in this world. And crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come. All this we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, your son and our savior. Amen." You know what would happen Democrats in both houses of Congress would denounce the senator for his bigotry toward non-Christians and breaching the law between church and state. Presidential candidates would issue statements distancing themselves from the senator's insensitivity. The ACLU would threaten legal action. Newspaper editorials would thunder that the senator failed to appreciate the principles on which our government are based and that his prayer was an offense against everything for which our Founding Fathers stood. And they all would be wrong, because that prayer, the first prayer ever offered in Congress, is much more than a magnificent office adornment. It is a proud statement that America was built on a faith-based foundation.
Defending Jackson
I JUST wanted to say I am from Jackson, and I don't have a single cow, pig, goat, chicken or any other farm animal in my back yard. In fact, when I look out my window I see a golf course and a lot of beautiful homes and not a single farm animal. At least I don't have to look out and see a ghetto like Cape people do. So next time you want to go picking on what Jackson looks like or what the people do, think about what is in your own back yard. I would rather grow up in Jackson, a nice clean community, than someplace that looks like dirt. There is lots of trash and gang members running around in the street. I would rather go to school in Jackson and live in Jackson any day.
Not enough trees
AT THE end of a mega-length column, verbose Jack Stapleton vented further by writing that he wished he had more space to expand on campaign reform, term limits and lotteries. I kind of wish he had the space too, but I am a little torn on the subject. I am an environmentalist, and I am somewhat concerned that if Jack got the green light to expand on every issue he wanted, the pulp needed for the paper would necessitate the destruction of all of planet Earth's trees.
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