This is by no means an attack on Richard, I just need to get a few opinions off my chest and this seemed a good forum in which to do so.

Now I'm not an enormous Gore fan, but there are certain things I can't help but discuss. In regards to Lewinsky and Paula Jones, why on earth do you have a lower opinion of how Gore does his job based on the fact that his boss cheated on his wife? My boss at work might have messed around with a few employees in his day, does that make me a bad worker?

As for "The Impeachment," I'd call that a shenanigan of Congress, not Clinton, and certainly not Gore. A guy cheats on his wife (and they probably just have a marriage of convenience anyway, but I digress), and that's reason to try and fire him from his job? Hoo boy, I'd hate to see the unemployment lines if we did the same anywhere else.

As for the lies and exaggerations, ALL politicians who have any chance of winning are stuffed to the gills with lies and exaggerations... is George W. Bush truthful??? Fat chance of that! Neither is Gore, neither is Clinton, neither was Bush senior, Reagan, or anyone else who's made it anywhere in politics in the last century at least. They don't get elected if they don't lie; sad but true.

All that said, I don't particularly like Gore. His book on the environment proposed some fabulously radical plans (eliminating the internal combustion engine by 2025, for example), and now he's scared to death to discuss them, not to mention putting them into action. He's so afraid to do something that someone out there will dislike that he won't do much at all. Great idea, but no balls to carry them out.

Bush seems to have a bit more conviction in his own ideas. But when his own ideas include making Christian prayer in schools mandatory, weakening our already failing medical system, overturning Roe v. Wade, requiring so many standardized tests to make schools "accountable" that teachers are stuck teaching students how to pass tests, and other similar options... Well, I'd rather have someone wishy-washy than someone with such incredibly harmful convictions.

Anyway, that's my stance on the whole thing. I'm also incredibly fed up with our two-party system, but as I'm in a state where the race is very close, I'll stick with Gore. Otherwise, it would be (for me) between Nader and our very own Dr. Wahoo Capybara. Ah well, thanks for letting me vent....

-Scott