To me this election is not just a contest between my opponent and me, it's about millions of Americans whose names we may never know. Gore was formally nominated for president Wednesday night. He trails Republican nominee Texas Gov. George W. Bush by double digits in some polls, and he faces the added distraction of news out of Washington that the Office of the Independent Counsel has convened a grand jury in its ongoing investigation of the Monica Lewinsky saga. Al Gore, you could not have made a better choice for the vice presidential candidate of the United States. Warming up the crowd was a series of speakers ranging from Kweisi Mfume, chairman of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People and Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa.
Compassionate conservatism is like trying to heat up an old house with warm thoughts.
All you ever needed to know about this election, you learned from driving. If you want to go backward you put it in 'R'. If you want to go forward you put it in 'D'. Let's move this country forward, let's elect Al Gore and Joe Lieberman. As the convention was gaveled to order on Thursday, news swept the delegate floor in front of the event's main podium that the office administered by Independent Counsel Robert Ray in Washington had, some time within the last month, convened a new grand jury to further investigate President Clinton's actions involving former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, with whom he had a well-documented relationship.