If you vote based on what the candidates SAY rather than what they and their associates have DONE with their lives, then you are asking to be lied to. Bush's a

If you vote based on what the candidates SAY rather than what they and their associates have DONE with their lives, then you are asking to be lied to. Bush's adult life was: Daddy got him into a good university, which he did nothing with, went AWOL, daddy made it all good. Spent and lost lots of other people's money, went through rehab, became a religious fundamentalist, then ran Texas. Gore's adult life was: Enlisted to please his father, volunteered to go to war out of a sense of obligation, ran for elected office to do what he felt was his obligation to follow in his father's footsteps. Served as a public official his entire adult life. If you think that those two life stories are "the same" or that their campaigns can inform you more than that, I don't know what to suggest to you.