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Scrapbook George W. Bush Ponders His No. 2 When reporters for the Washington Post interviewed George W. Bush last week, they found him untalkative about whom he might pick as his vice presidential...
...Connie Mack of Florida...
...on March 11, Officer Joseph Simonik of Nashville's Metro police department observed a car near the intersection of Charlotte Pike and Hillwood traveling 85 miles per hour in a 40 mile-per-hour zone...
...What courage: pandering to the foremost political bias of the showbiz community, and receiving an award for it...
...Teach Your Children Well Can you really negotiate peace, when you teach your children that the other side is the devil incarnate...
...First, he said, Gore must come clean on his own 1996 campaign corner-cutting by calling for a full investigation...
...The senator held a press conference with virtually the entire press corps in attendance, and he zinged Vice President Al Gore for claiming to be a campaign-finance reformer...
...Not much, if you were wondering what his answer was...
...The March 23 Daily Variety reports: "West Wing's John Spencer (chief of staff Leo McGarry) and Richard Schiff (director of communications Toby Ziegler) wing to D.C...
...Officer Simonik next administered a sobriety test...
...John McCain...
...Which liberals at least recognize, even if Sorkin does not...
...Like Kasich, Mack is retiring from Congress this year...
...I like his spirit," Bush says...
...Bush says there might be an advantage in "reaching down to the younger generation" in choosing a vice president...
...But the officer finally managed to flag her down...
...She had been speeding, 25-year-old Anupama Rangappa explained to him, while "laughing uncontrollably," because her passenger was pregnant...
...Oops...
...It was a powerful public testimony...
...Bush doesn't sound inclined to tap him...
...Any day now, The Scrapbook expects, attorney general Janet Reno will order the Department of Justice to launch a civil rights investigation of the Nashville police department...
...The Scrap-book didn't have this problem at all...
...This guy is a very good man," Bush says...
...Gore Campaign Police Blotter_ Shortly after 3 a.m...
...His only comment is that McCain has said he doesn't want to be asked to join the ticket...
...This is a question President Clinton no doubt neglected to ask Syria's president Hafez al-Assad when they met in Geneva on Sunday March 26, but it certainly would have been appropriate...
...Wrong...
...For the circle to be complete, there remains only one thing left to happen before Rangappa's scheduled April 6 appearance in Davidson County General Sessions Court...
...And as if further to prove that he was not familiar with the standard style and expectations of Goreworld, Simonik then promptly arrested the young woman...
...West Wingnuts As John Podhoretz noted in last week's cover story on The West Wing, creator Aaron Sorkin mysteriously claims his show is not liberal, even though every political debate it stages is won by liberals...
...But when the conversation turns to Colin Powell and Dick Cheney and John Kasich, Bush gets more animated...
...Remember when John McCain tossed hand grenades at George W. Bush in the Republican presidential primaries...
...What about Kasich, the House Budget Committee chairman who briefly challenged Bush for the GOP presidential nod, then dropped out and endorsed Bush...
...Finally, Bush talked about Sen...
...A 5th grade geography book calls on students to resist Israel with "all means available, including an armed struggle...
...The name for that is liberal bias...
...Specifically, Rangappa said, "I am on the Gore 2000 campaign, and I'm going to call the United States district attorney right now...
...He's an interesting cat...
...Syrian schools equate Zionism with Nazism and depict Israel as part of a Western plot to keep Arab states divided and backward...
...As for Cheney—the former defense secretary, House Republican whip, and White House chief of staff— Bush says he's gotten to know him well in recent years...
...He's a lot of fun...
...Gore campaign communications director Kathleen Begala confirmed to the Nashville Tennessean that Rangappa is a salaried employee in the candidate's scheduling office...
...And how about Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, a long-time Bush favorite...
...While its leaders talk peace with Israel, Syria's textbooks still extol the path of martyrdom...
...USA Today also devoted a paragraph...
...Cheney now runs the Halliburton Corp., an oil services company in Dallas, and has advised Bush on defense and foreign policy...
...The press jumped all over the story, right...
...Great rewards await those who follow that path, but "there is no forgiveness for whoever avoids J^ihad in the cause of Allah for the purification of Palestine from the Jews...
...Rangappa's attorney confirms that Rangappa knows what any Gorehead caught in such a legal pickle is supposed to do: She is now out of the country, he says, and unavailable for comment...
...A disturbing new monograph by Meyrav Wurmser of MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Institute), The Schools of Ba'athism, chronicles the rampant anti-Semitism peddled to Syrian schoolchildren by Assad's regime...
...The New York Times mentioned McCain's challenge in one paragraph...
...The Scrapbook takes this to mean that Bush is likely to make a serious run at Powell...
...the Los Angeles Times not a word...
...The driver was slow to respond to Simonik's flashing lights...
...The Scrapbook forgot to ask...
...Saturday to accept the Maggie award from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for Outstanding Coverage of Reproductive Rights and Health Issues in a TV Drama Series— for the courageous pilot in which the president sent a strong message to the leader of an anti-choice group...
...Officer Simonik "perceived what she had to say as a threat of intimidation," according to the police report of the incident...
...One wonders what will be the outcome of peace negotiations with a Syrian president, who is quoted in tenth grade textbooks pondering, "What is the difference between the essence of Nazism and Zionism...
...Every bit of criticism was lovingly reported, to the detriment of Bush's campaign...
...2 When reporters for the Washington Post interviewed George W. Bush last week, they found him untalkative about whom he might pick as his vice presidential running mate...
...Only the passenger did not appear pregnant to Simonik...
...To paraphrase Alice Roosevelt Longworth, if you don't have anything nice to say, e-mail it to Scrap-book@weeklystandard.com...
...I trust his judgment a lot...
...On the contrary, Bush yakked at length about a number of Republican bigwigs mentioned as possible veeps, though he insisted he hasn't really begun the selection process...
...So here's the bottom line: When McCain attacks to his right, it's news, but when he attacks to his left, it's not...
...Whereupon Rangappa "became uncooperative and somewhat belligerent...
...Now, move ahead to March 21, McCain's first day of heavy public activity on Capitol Hill after pulling out of the presidential race...
...The Washington Post dutifully ran a piece and Fox News Channel and CNN did segments, but ABC, NBC, and CBS couldn't be bothered...
...As long as Syrian schools teach hatred of and permanent war with Israel, it's hard to be optimistic about the outcome of peace negotiations...
...I was very impressed," Bush says...
...E-mail THE SCRAPBOOK THE SCRAPBOOK is now reachable 24/7...
...The McCain Blackout For the dwindling band of folks who doubt the existence of liberal bias in the media, there's fresh evidence they have their heads in the sand...
...I like his attitude...
...If Powell were available—and the former chairman of the Pentagon's joint chiefs of staff insists he's not—he would be a very "strong" candidate, Bush says...
...Bush says he doesn't know Mack well, but heard him speak at a prayer breakfast before Bush's brother Jeb was inaugurated as governor of Florida in 1999...
...Kasich is 47, Bush 53...
Vol. 5 • April 2000 • No. 28
