TALES... U.S. CAMPAIGN Y2K EVENT UPDATE


TALES FROM THE WEST TEXAS DUST

U.S. CAMPAIGN Y2K EVENT UPDATE

And now--another grand installment from the campaign trail!! WHO'S HOT AND WHO'S NOT?? STAY TUNED!!

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(1.) BITS AND PIECES--And here's some of the news in brief thanks to the folks at Backwire.com:

GORE'S VIETNAM STRATEGY: Most people want to forget Vietnam ever happened, especially people who were there. Not Al Gore. He wants people to remember he volunteered...TWO STEP: Needless to say, Lieberman and Cheney are very different VP candidates and both tickets have very different ideas on what their roles are...DISSENSION AMONGST THE RANKS--Republicans face internal strife over the issue of what to do next. While some suggest hammering Gore on integrity, others say it's time for a new tack...GORE NOW COUNTS CLINTON AS AN ASSET--Locked in a solid two-man horse race, Gore feels he can embrace the Clinton legacy without getting burned. He's even adopted the accent. No word on if he's begun to feel people's pain...REIGNING IN RELIGION: Joe Lieberman acknowledges concern over his emphasis on religion and clarifies his point saying, "faith can be a source--but certainly not the only source--of sound values."...CLINTON: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS-- By definition, he's a once-disgraced president who still continues to wield immense and unparalleled political power. Here's a look at his twilight...FRIENDLY FOES--The China debate has resulted in some of the oddest political pairings we've ever seen. But the union of Democrat Paul Wellstone and Republican Jesse Helms just takes the cake...TAKING PENNSYLVANIA BY STORM--The Keystone State may be the key to this election for George W. or Al Gore, and they know it. The two candidates have made this swing state their home away from home...GOTTA DO WHAT'CHA GOTTA DO--And the powers that be inside the Bush camp have all but decided it's time to go on the attack. Warm up the planes, the air war is about to get nasty...THE TWO FACES OF AL--During the day, Gore wears the white hat crisscrossing the country collecting votes. At night, he holds that hat out and collects money...PRESIDENTIAL PRIORITIES--Sources say the President is most deeply troubled by the possibility of losing his law license. Hello? Have ya heard of impeachment?...HILLARY LEARNS FROM HISTORY--And in NY she hopes to repeat it. Much of her campaign is shaped by what Bobby Kennedy did and did not do there in his 1964 bid for Senate...PHASE TWO IS NOT KINDER AND CERTAINLY NOT GENTLER-- George W.'s plan to derail Gore will involve direct challenges to the VP's integrity and truthfulness. Ouch...BY THE NUMBERS

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