Tuesday, March 16, 2004
SNARED BY LARGE BOASTS
President Clinton, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr, and
John Kerry was Snared by Large Boast.
President Clinton once described how a wave of fires at black churches rekindled "vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child." Arkansas newspapers reported that there was no record of any black churches being burned in their state in Mr. Clinton's lifetime, if ever.
Al Gore said that he had "played the lead role" in creating the Internet. On another occasion he described how his father, the late Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee, "taught me to clean out hog waste with a shovel and how to clear land with a two-bladed ax. He taught me how to plow a steep hillside with a team of mules. He taught me how to take up hay all day long in the hot sun."
Mr. Gore grew up in Washington, where the family lived in the Fairfax Hotel on Embassy Row, and attended exclusive private schools and Harvard University.
In his 1976 campaign, Jimmy Carter, who ran on the slogan "I will never lie to you," described himself as a "nuclear physicist" He later conceded that he actually was trained as a nuclear engineer for duty on nuclear submarines.
Now Kerry is in the Snare with: "I've met with foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly, You've got to beat this guy."
In a Senate speech in 1986, he spoke of himself as among "those ... fortunate to share an Irish ancestry," and in a later undelivered speech, written by Mr. Kerry, he talked about "my English ancestors." The Boston Globe later reported that Mr. Kerry is the grandson of Czech immigrants of Jewish ancestry and said it could find no Irish ancestry.
President Clinton, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr, and
John Kerry was Snared by Large Boast.
President Clinton once described how a wave of fires at black churches rekindled "vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child." Arkansas newspapers reported that there was no record of any black churches being burned in their state in Mr. Clinton's lifetime, if ever.
Al Gore said that he had "played the lead role" in creating the Internet. On another occasion he described how his father, the late Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee, "taught me to clean out hog waste with a shovel and how to clear land with a two-bladed ax. He taught me how to plow a steep hillside with a team of mules. He taught me how to take up hay all day long in the hot sun."
Mr. Gore grew up in Washington, where the family lived in the Fairfax Hotel on Embassy Row, and attended exclusive private schools and Harvard University.
In his 1976 campaign, Jimmy Carter, who ran on the slogan "I will never lie to you," described himself as a "nuclear physicist" He later conceded that he actually was trained as a nuclear engineer for duty on nuclear submarines.
Now Kerry is in the Snare with: "I've met with foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly, You've got to beat this guy."
In a Senate speech in 1986, he spoke of himself as among "those ... fortunate to share an Irish ancestry," and in a later undelivered speech, written by Mr. Kerry, he talked about "my English ancestors." The Boston Globe later reported that Mr. Kerry is the grandson of Czech immigrants of Jewish ancestry and said it could find no Irish ancestry.
