Did you guys get this quote from the Vice Purpertrator?
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>[L.C. Evans Elementary School in Miami had to begin serving lunch to students] "in shifts, with the first shift starting at 9:30 in the morning." [/quote]
Weeelll... here's the facts:
According to Assistant Principal Geraldine Tisdol.
"The lunch period is scheduled to run between 10:00 and 12:00," Tisdol said in a telephone interview. She also said pre-kindergarten students, who get to school at 9, "have breakfast in the morning when they first get here, so therefore, they go [to lunch] about 11:30."
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Or how about his Uncle that was gassed in WWI. Note that Gore's father died a few years ago, he was in his 90's (IIRC) That would have made him much too young to fight in WWI. Do you wanna be he lied about this one to?
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http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/10/4/170456
Debate 'Misstatements' Haunt Gore
CNSNews.com
Thursday, Oct. 5, 2000
Al Gore made inaccurate statements in the presidential debate on issues including disaster relief, education and foreign policy.
At one point during Tuesday night's debate, Gore stated that L.C. Evans Elementary School in Miami had to begin serving lunch to students "in shifts, with the first shift starting at 9:30 in the morning."
But Gore's assertion did not square with the facts, according to Assistant Principal Geraldine Tisdol.
"The lunch period is scheduled to run between 10:00 and 12:00," Tisdol said in a telephone interview. She also said pre-kindergarten students, who get to school at 9, "have breakfast in the morning when they first get here, so therefore, they go [to lunch] about 11:30."
"The other children, they eat (breakfast) between 7:30 and 8:20," said Tisdol. Those students, she said, normally eat lunch between 10 and 10:30. "The children eat, two classes at a time, and every five to 10 minutes, another class comes in."
Classes are rotated in and out of the lunchroom to comply with fire regulations, she said. "Between 10 and noon, all the kids are served."
Girl 'Has to Stand During Class'
Similarly, Gore recalled during the debate a letter he received from Florida father Randy Elliss, whom Gore said wrote that his 15-year-old daughter, Kaylee, "has to stand during class" because there isn't enough room in the Sarasota school's science classroom.
But Sarasota High School Principal Daniel Kennedy said Gore was incorrect and "unfortunately, I think he was provided with some information that was a little bit misleading."
According to Kennedy, the story about the girl standing in class was the result of science equipment that was stacked up in the classroom awaiting installation in the opening days of the school year.
"It's that time of year when we're normally moving furniture, we're moving kids, said Kennedy. "If this young lady had to stand ... it may have been largely her choice because there was lots of lab stools in that classroom."
"It would have been good if the facts had been checked before he was encouraged to use that information on a national debate," said Kennedy.
Texas Fire Visit
Questions about Gore's involvement in reviewing the 1996 Parker County, Texas, fire damage were also raised. Gore said Tuesday that he "accompanied [FEMA Director] James Witt to Texas when those fires broke out" four years ago, after rival George W. Bush recounted his hugging and weeping with a family wiped out by the disaster.
However, Gore actually visited Texas two years after the Parker County blaze, during a spate of fires in Texas in 1998.
During that visit, he did not visit the disaster scene but instead held an airport briefing in Houston before visiting a school and attending a Democrat fund-raising event for Rep. Jim Turner, according to press reports at the time.
Gore: 'Maybe I Got That Wrong'
On ABC's "Good Morning America" Wednesday, Gore admitted, "I got that wrong" by using the word accompanied, UPI reported.
Bush campaign spokesman Ari Fleischer said: "The vice president under pressure embellishes and exaggerates and in the case of last night just made something up. I think it's an unsettling indication of how the vice president reacts to pressure by exaggerating personal stories that are easily verifiable."
'Diplomatic Disaster'
Gore's misstatements weren't limited to domestic policy, according to House Policy Chairman Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif., who called Gore's debate performance "a diplomatic disaster."
In a discussion about the recent elections in Yugoslavia, Gore said Tuesday that Russia did not agree with the U.S. position that Slobodan Milosevic was defeated in Yugoslavia's elections last month.
"By stating categorically that the Russians disagree with the U.S. position that [Milosevic] lost in the Sept. 24 elections in Yugoslavia, Gore went beyond public statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin," said Cox.
Cox warned that the gaffe "potentially destroyed efforts by France, Germany, the U.N. and the United States to work with Russia for a peaceful victory for democracy in Yugoslavia."
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~USP
"[Even if there would be] few tears shed if and when the Second Amendment is held to guarantee nothing more than the state National Guard, this would simply show that the Founders were right when they feared that some future generation might wish to abandon liberties that they considered essential, and so sought to protect those liberties in a Bill of Rights. We may tolerate the abridgement of property rights and the elimination of a right to bear arms; but we should not pretend that these are not reductions of rights." -- Justice Scalia 1998
