-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! * Veritas Vos Liberabit * THE FEDERALIST(r) DIGEST The Conservative e-Journal of Record Date: 06 October 2000 Federalist #00-40.dgst [EDITOR'S NOTE: To retrieve today's special edition on the presidential debates as printer-friendly text or the easy-reading PDF, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/current00-10.asp] To support or sponsor The Federalist, link to: http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp CONTENTS: The Founders Federalist Perspective Insight Upright Editorial Exegesis Body Politic Dezinformatsia Sociocrats Village Idiots Short Cuts ______--------********O********--------______ THE FOUNDERS "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." --Thomas Paine ______--------********O********--------______ FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE In the news this week, the debate was no debacle for deBush! But it was chock full o' missed opportunities for George Bush to make the clear case for freedom and liberty. (Apparently, Mr. Bush's handlers did not pay attention to the Tuesday Brief's section listing the questions and zingers our readers wanted to hear George W. pin on Albert Gore.) Before commenting on Bush v. Gore -- more specifically Albert Gore's "facts" -- we should note that Dick Cheney missed few opportunities in his debate with Joe Lieberman. Unlike Mr. Bush, who repeatedly failed to challenge Gore's assertion that he invented the economy, the highlight of Cheney v. Lieberman -- the most uproarious moment of either debate -- came when Gore's veep was giving his man credit for "22 million new jobs...4 million new businesses...lower interest rates, low rate of inflation, high rate of growth." Lieberman then took a shot at Mr. Cheney: "And I'm pleased to see, Dick, from the newspapers, that you're better off than you were eight years ago, too." Without missing a beat, Cheney fired back, "I can tell you, Joe, that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it." Lieberman, befuddled by the audience laughter, interrupted moderator Bernie Shaw's next question saying, "I can see my wife, and I think she's thinking, 'Gee, I wish he would go out into the private sector'." Again, right on Lieberman's heels, Cheney responded, "Well, I'm going to try to help you do that, Joe." Mr. Cheney, who has been portrayed by Gore's media as a stuff-shirt, established himself as the major asset on this ticket The Federalist proclaimed him to be. Suffice it to say, conservatives should take some comfort in Cheney, even though his name is below Mr. Bush! Lieberman's goofiest line of the night came when Bernie Shaw apologized for asking a question out of order. Lieberman replied, "Good for you, Jim, it means you're human, like we are." Jim? Of course, Android Gore could never get away with the line, "human, like we are." The biggest lie in Cheney v. Lieberman -- and it was a whopper -- was Lieberman's claim, "I have not changed a single position on an issue since Al Gore nominated me as his vice president." Lieberman has reversed his positions on privatizing Social Security and school vouchers. He has reversed his position on moral issues, prompting Rabbi Yehuda Levin to say at the National Press Club yesterday, "We want the Christian community to know how Lieberman is viewed, and that's as a scandal and an embarrassment." Memo to Mr. Lieberman: In the future, if you are going to quote the Declaration of Independence, please quote it correctly. It is no more open for liberal interpretation than our Constitution. On to Bush v. Gore.... Mr. Bush repeatedly failed to confront Gore's erroneous mantra "spend the surplus on tax cuts." Gore must be held accountable for this insidious adulteration of the English language. Wanting to leave a little more of American's hard-earned dollars in their own pockets does not constitute "spending" government largess. It's our money! When Gore commented that he went to Vietnam because if he didn't, "Someone else from my hometown of Carthage, Tennessee, would have to go in my place," Mr. Bush should have countered this folklore spin to say, "First, your hometown is Washington, D.C. And second, only a few months into your one-year 'tour' in Vietnam as a 'visiting journalist,' you got special dispensation to come home and go to divinity school -- where you flunked out. I suppose someone else from your hometown of Carthage, Tennessee, had to finish your tour in your place." When Jim Lehrer asked, "Governor Bush, are there issues of character that distinguish you from Vice President Gore?" Bush softly made the point that Gore has repeatedly deceived the nation on a wide range of issues. "I think that people need to be held responsible for the actions they take in life. I think that that's part of the need for a cultural change. We need to say that each of us needs to be responsible for what we do. And people in the highest office of the land must be responsible for decisions they make in life." Gore, in his bid to dodge the character question and be perceived as "above" the character issue, responded, "Well, I think we ought to attack our country's problems, not attack each other." Of course, that was Gorespeak code for "My character is so full o' holes that I dare not say a word about my opponent's character." Indeed, Gore is hoping that Americans have been so demoralized after eight years of Clinton-Gore antics that they are suffering "character fatigue." Gore continued, "I am asking you, again, to see me for who I really am." Bush missed a grand opportunity to say, "Your Democrat colleague, Bill Bradley, sees you for who you really are. He asked you, 'Why should we believe you will tell the truth as President if you don't tell the truth as a candidate?' Albert, I didn't hear your answer." Of course, Gore's pattern of deceit is nothing new. In 1988, his primary opponent Michael Dukakis asked him, "If you want to be president of the United States, you better start by being accurate." Apparently, Gore and Clinton were evenly matched on the dissembling scale. Gore just lacks Clinton's libidinous instincts. Mr. Bush declared, "I am pro-life." But he fumbled the RU-486 question and did not challenge Gore's assertion that he would sign a partial-birth abortion bill "if it allows for the life and health of the woman." There are no medical grounds for killing a partially born child "for the life and health" of a woman. The gruesome procedure creates more risks for the mother of the child being killed. Gore called Mr. Bush "anti-choice," adding that he was the "pro-choice" candidate who would support a "woman's right to choose." As always, Gore never actually said what choice he was talking about. Perhaps he has enough residual character to still be sufficiently repulsed by killing unborn children that he can't bring himself to say the word. On the important issue of Supreme Court appointments, Bush stated he favors the appointment of "strict constructionists" of the letter of our Constitution, while Gore promised judicial activists who thumb their noses at original intent and favor the "living document" ruse for rewriting our founding document. Gore said, "Governor Bush has declared to the anti-choice groups that he will appoint justices in the mold of Scalia and Clarence Thomas, who are known for being the most vigorous opponents of a woman's right to choose. ... And when the phrase that strict constructionist is used, and when the names of Scalia and Thomas are used as benchmarks for who would be appointed, those are code words and nobody should mistake this, for saying that the governor would appoint people who would overturn Roe v. Wade. I mean ,just -- it's very clear to me." Gore did not mention that he supported the nomination of Justice Antonin Scalia in 1986. Of course, Bush did not say, "Albert, a few years ago you stated that abortion was 'arguably the taking of a human life.' What new information changed your opinion?" Bush stumbled on a few other questions -- of course, as Ronald Reagan amply demonstrated, that is what good advisors are for. And when it comes to any issue, whose advisors are likely to provide direction that is more in line with conservatives? Overall, despite the fact that Bush has poor elocution, he came across as genuine and affable -- not just a politico -- who, in contrast with Al Gore, does not seem to need the presidency to fill some personality deficit. Bush touched on the need for limited government and a renewed national character. Gore, on the other hand, seemed programmed, arrogant and petulant in his promotion of the central government. The cadence of his delivery was android-like, and, as National Review Online noted, "He kept...ex-AG-ger-a-ting his...in-TO-nations in that weird way of his." In our assessment, the debate was a draw, which favors Bush because he did not perform as poorly as expected. But Gore was the uncontested victor in the distortion, fabrication, and falsehood division. For more on the Vice Prevaricator's undefeatable mendacity, see this week's Body Politic feature, "THERE HE GOES AGAIN...." It is worth noting that before Mr. Bush left Boston Wednesday morning, he received the endorsement of the State Police Association of Massachusetts, representing 1,900 Massachusetts troopers and sergeants. "The governor has earned our respect through his tough, fair and effective policies on law and order. We support his leadership in ending parole for repeat offenders, for passing some of the toughest sex offender laws in the country, and for taking a stand against juvenile crime," said John Cofleski, Massachusetts SPA president. Mr. Bush also was endorsed by Massachusetts State Rep. Brian Golden, a prominent Democrat hailing from Boston, who serves on the state's education committee. Mr. Golden said, "[Bush's education plan] is a model of what works in turning around troubled school systems. There is no place for partisanship if we are truly committed to the success of our nation's children." Quote of the week... "I thought Jim Lehrer did a great job. But...the questions did not include a lot of the subjects that African-Americans would have wanted to see added to the discussion." --Albert Gore's assessment of debate moderator Jim Lehrer. Wrapped up in that line is Gore's strategy to divide and conquer. The questions posed by Mr. Lehrer were of importance to all Americans, not just hyphenated-Americans. Gore, of course, wants to divide America into special interest sectors -- all at government's feet for the distribution of largess. On cross-examination... "Guess who does have power to force people to act against their will? If you said politicians and government bureaucrats, go to the head of the class. That's why liberals curse free markets and bless government. They want power over people. Free markets and limited government restrict the power that one person can have over another." --Walter Williams Exposing the BIG lie... "At a union conference, Algore told the Teamsters that 'Remember the Union Label' was 'one of the lullabies' his parents sang to him as a child. In fact, the song was not written until 1975 -- when little Algore was 27 years old. ... Algore claimed that he invented the Internet, that he and Tipper were the models for Erich Segal's novel, 'Love Story,' that as an investigative reporter he 'got a bunch of people indicted and sent to jail,' that he was a cosponsor of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform bill, that he was always pro-choice on abortion, that in Vietnam he spent most of his time in the field and was fired upon by the enemy, that he had a private meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s, that he negotiated Internet protection for children, that he had a major impact on Hubert Humphrey's 1968 presidential acceptance speech, that half of his 1988 presidential campaign staff were women, that he totally renounced his connections to tobacco after the death of his sister from lung cancer, that his sister was the very first volunteer for the Peace Corps, that his father was a leader in the civil rights movement, that he did not know he was in the middle of a fund raiser at the California Buddhist Temple in 1996, that he did not know his fund-raising phone calls from his government office were illegal, and that he did not know anything about the millions of dollars illegally funneled into the Democrat Party by agents of communist China. ... All of these claims and boasts are documentably false, and some of them are arguably delusional. ... Algore's propensity to mangle the truth appears compulsive in that, although warned about it by his advisers, he apparently cannot stop himself. Is this a man we can trust to keep his word, honor his promises, and restore our faith in government?" --Linda Bowles >From the "Trickle-Down Ethics" Files... We are shocked -- SHOCKED! -- to report that Attorney General Janet Reno announced the Justice Department found no basis for investigating Al Gore's quid pro quo campaign donations from trial lawyers interested in a presidential veto. >From the swamp... The Senate deleted one of Clinton-Gore's most cherished legislation objectives, so called "hate crimes" language, from its defense appropriations bill. The contentious -- not to mention unconstitutional -- provision stalled passage of the defense bill, prompting Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John Warner to declare, "I had to make the decision that in the interest of national defense, this bill must be acted upon by the Senate, hopefully favorably, and not be subject to filibuster and therefore I recommended to the Senate conferees and the House that this language in the Senate had to be dropped." The "hate crimes" tag was added to the defense appropriations bill as a ploy to force Republicans to accept it. Now that Gore-Lieberman are on the defensive about the state of our military readiness, that ploy backfired and it will be difficult for Demos to filibuster without further eroding Gore-Lieberman's credibility on military readiness. Regarding your IRS overpayment... With congressional auditors hot on their trail, the International Planned Parenthood Federation returned $700,000 of your taxes it had used illegally to fund abortions and abortion advocacy overseas. >From the states... "He will not breathe our air anymore. My daughter can rest in peace." --Janet Roberts, ex-wife of Ricky McGinn, and the mother of his victim, after she witnessed his execution. McGinn, who was found guilty of raping and murdering his stepdaughter, won national media attention when he was granted a stay by Governor George Bush so that DNA evidence could be tested. It tested positive! The "Dumb and Dumber" Department... >From the "Not Quite Ready for Prime Time" file: "BOSTON -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Bush clashed repeatedly over tax cuts, prescription drugs, Social Security and the projected budget surpluses." --First line in the Washington Post's top of the fold lead story on this week's debates. This is the same rag, which regularly notes George Bush's gaffes. Around the world... >From the "Clinton Legacy" files, Israelis and Palestinians are killing each other. It's like d�j� vu all over again.... Meanwhile in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Slobo Milosevic's "constitutional" court annulled the recent presidential election, and declared that Slobo could remain in power until his term runs out next June. The court's action implied that opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica did, indeed, defeat Milosevic, and prompted sufficient civil unrest to send Slobo packing. Memo to Al Gore: Here is a great idea for your "October surprise." After the next futile "gun buyback" in Los Angeles, or some other progressive American metropolis, airdrop those arms to the Yugoslav peasants disarmed by Slobo, so they can enforce democracy. Tyrants don't rule for long when the oppressed gain the right to keep and bear arms. Give war a chance! (Of course, few of the guns retrieved in those symbolic "buyback" exercises actually work.) Speaking of Yugoslavia, Gore created "a diplomatic disaster" in the debate with Mr. Bush. Rep. Christopher Cox notes, "By stating categorically that the Russians disagree with the U.S. position that (Milosevic) lost in the September 24 elections in Yugoslavia, Gore went beyond public statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin. ... [That] potentially destroyed efforts by France, Germany, the UN and the United States to work with Russia for a peaceful victory for democracy in Yugoslavia." Faith Matters... Elsewhere around the world, Pope John Paul II named Bishops and martyrs of faith in the nation of our PNTR trading partner, Red China. "The church only intends to recognize that those martyrs are an example of courage and coherence for all of us, and give honor to the noble Chinese people. I wish to assure you once more that I pray for you every day," the pope declared to faithful Catholics underground in China. Responding to the pope's actions, the Reds launched a fierce dezinformatsia campaign against Catholics and other "unauthorized Christians." Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reports, "Beijing's reaction to the canonizations reflects its fear that it is losing its grip on the mainland's religious groups. Chinese authorities object to the Pope naming bishops without the approval of the government. ... The government is aware that it is losing control and has decided to use the canonizations as an opportunity to paint the Vatican as the enemy of the nation." And last, closer to home, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) will feature NEA President Bob Chase as the keynote speaker for its annual conference this weekend. Titled "Teaching Respect for All 2000: Ending Hate, Beginning in School," the conference will advance GLSEN's efforts to normalize homosexuality, bisexuality and "transgenderism" through propaganda disseminated through government schools. Workshops for teachers, school administrators and students include: "Appreciating a Broader Canvas: Elementary Social Studies as a Vehicle for Gay and Lesbian Content Integration"; "Literary Lifelines: Lesbian and Gay Voices in Literature for Children and Young Adults"; and "Girls Will be Boys, and Boys Will be Girls: Creating a Safe, Supportive School Environment for Trans, Intersex, Gener-Variant, and Gender-Questioning Youth." ______--------********O********--------______ INSIGHT "It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it." --Napoleon {} "Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts...and strives without fear of man to do justice to them. --B. Auerbach {} "...[T]here is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back." --Robert E. Lee {} "If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable." --John F. Kennedy {} "If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." --Anatole France {} "It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly." --H. L. Mencken {} "The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing." --Herbert Spencer {} "It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder." --Frederic Bastiat {} "Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?" --Ronald Reagan {} "See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace." --John Owen ______--------********O********--------______ UPRIGHT "Everyone knows that Al Gore's biggest problem is a tendency to lie, which is why his resort to lies in the first debate is almost creepy." --Mona Charen {} "History teaches us that traditions, values and freedom itself are lost incrementally in a thousand careless little steps." --William J. Moloney {} "The pursuit of social justice probably accounts for most human misery." --Walter E. Williams {} "We have to keep our guard up at all times against political language, especially in seemingly bland journalism, that is subtly infected with propagandistic purposes." --Joseph Sobran {} "Sound bites are usually very unsound." --Thomas Sowell {} "Never before has the FDA approved a drug intended to kill people." --Rep. Tom Coburn ++ "Abortion trivializes life, and mifepristone deepens and intensifies the consequent trivialization." --Bill Murchison ++ "...RU-486 will not end the debate, nor will it make the issue simply go underground, as many seem to hope. The moral question will stay with us and continue to divide us." --Mona Charen {} "The truth is that polls aren't at all an objective measure of public attitudes. 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