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HenchPAC NewsIt could be the strangest, most paradoxical presidential ticket in American history, pairing Al Gore, whose honesty and integrity are seriously questioned by not only opponents but also by top law enforcement officials, with Sen. Joseph Lieberman, often called the "conscience of the Senate."
It is something like pairing evangelist Billy Graham with atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair.
Aside from the fact that the two men are Democrats and agree on most environmental issues Lieberman, defined by Reuters news agency as morally impeccable, is a deeply religious orthodox Jew who observes the rigid dietary laws of Judaism.
Says Reuters: "On the Sabbath, he will not travel, write, engage in political activities or use electricity. And he says he is deeply influenced in his political life by Jewish ethics and texts."
"It's a wonderful organizing principle of my life," he explains. "It gives it order, a sense of purpose, but it also provides me, in terms of the Sabbath, with a sense of sanctuary in my week which has become more important to me as I've gone on in life and become busier," Lieberman told Reuters in an interview in 1997.
"There's no question that my religious upbringing and my religious education was a major contributor to who I am. And who I am determines how I vote on particular issues,'' he said.
His rigid morality caused him to denounce Clinton for his atrocious and immoral behavior in conducting an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Lieberman said Clinton's behavior was not just inappropriate, "It is immoral. And it is harmful, for it sends a message of what is acceptable behavior to the larger American family, particularly to our children,'' he said.
Contrast that with Gore’s craven obeisance in paying homage to the disgraced president on the day of his impeachment, when he declared the shamed Clinton to be one of America’s greatest presidents.
Lieberman brings to the ticket a reputation as a man totally and completely reliable as a truthful man, while Gore has been nailed time and again for his bald-faced lies, even to having been accused by the FBI as having given blatantly false testimony on his role in the notorious Buddhist temple campaign fund scam and other aspects of the 1996 campaign money scandals.
In a blistering column carried by NewsMax.com, Accuracy in Media’s Reed Irvine listed The Seventeen Lies of Al Gore:
(1) His use of marijuana was "rare and infrequent."
(2) He didn’t know the Buddhist temple event was a fund raiser.
(3) He didn’t know that fund-raising calls from his office were illegal.
(4) He has always been pro-choice.
(5) He has never said anything in the campaign that he knew to be untrue.
(6) He was co-sponsor of the McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform bill in the Senate.
(7) He took the initiative in creating the Internet.
(8) He and Tipper were models for "Love Story."
(9) He uncovered the pollution at Love Canal.
(10) His reporting for the Nashville Tennessean "got a bunch of people indicted and sent to jail."
(11) His views on the Vietnam War were written into Hubert Humphrey’s speech to the 1968 Democratic National Convention by a journalist who had interviewed him.
(12) His claim that, as an army reporter in Vietnam, "I pulled my turn on the perimeter at night and walked through the elephant grass and was fired upon."
(13) One reason he enlisted and went to Vietnam was to spare some other family the agony of sending a son.
(14) He had been a small businessman and a homebuilder, helping develop a subdivision on his father’s land in 1969.
(15) He is responsible for the "one click away" tool that helps parents block, filter or monitor Internet content to protect their children.
(16) He was taught how to clean out hog waste, how to clear land with a double-bladed ax and how to plow steep hillsides with a team of mules.
(17) He claimed at the Des Moines Register offices in January that he bought his own farm when he came back from Vietnam and that he has owned and operated it for 26 years. [This is the 80 acres Hammer sold to his father on which Gore has collected $20,000 a year in mining royalties since 1974.]
The dream team many observers see as a blatant attempt to win Jewish votes in New York for Gore and for Hillary Clinton could well turn out to be Gore’s worst nightmare. It emphasizes the sharp differences in the character of the two men, stressing Gore’s shady reputation compared to his running mate’s impeccable reputation and sterling character.
HENCH adds: Gore thought that making a "bold" pick would revive his campaign. One problem with that theory, only in a Mary Shelley horror novel does anyone bring a corpse back to life.
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