Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for September 23, 2000

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Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling Presents: News of the Times Campaign 2000: Wrap-Up of the Issues The race for the White House has heated up, with Dick Cheney throwing down the gauntlet by starting to use HAND GESTURES when speaking. Dick Cheney: Fortune 500 CEOs will have line-item veto power over all federal legislation in our... Meanwhile, Gore made headlines by boldly switching from polo shirts to BUTTON-DOWN OXFORDS, and gained THREE POINTS in the polls. Al Gore: a program to arrest artists guilty of Thought Crimes... But Joe Lieberman received mixed reviews when he used the word "God" 22 times in a half-hour interview. Sunday Joe Lieberman: there will be a supplemental tax on the income of those who don't believe in God, and I... Bush suffered a major setback when he committed another VERBAL GAFFE while unveiling a new policy proposal... George W. Bush: will make any crime committed by a minority a capital offensive, punishable by death. We ...Causing a flurry of humorously derisive mass e-mails and late-night talk show jokes. And Gore scored even more points when he brought the nation's attention to the fact that Bush BROKE HIS VOW not to go NEGATIVE. Al Gore: I am outraged that Bush reneged his promise! Do we really want a President who performs grotesque medical experiments on kittens for Bush Cheney However, Bush bounced back to a statistical dead heat when he attacked Gore for using F.B.I. connections to uncover negative Bush photos. George W. Bush: The American people will not stand for the manner in which Gore obtained photos of me committing ritualistic murders.