Other people's money
Behold the modern liberal. No mission of mercy is too small for other people's money:
"The last two Democratic Party nominees for President have come up short on the charity scale. Al Gore has been famously stingy when it comes to actually giving his own money to charities. In 1998 he was embarrassed when his tax returns revealed that he gave just $353 to charity.
Gore's office initially defended the action, claiming that the Gores had often given 'food and clothing to the homeless.' But when no one showed up in cast-off clothes, Gore's spokesman Chris Lehane offered a typical "friend of Goodness" response saying that you could only 'truly judge a person's commitment to helping others' you needed to see "what they have done with their lives." In other words, politics was charity work."
The story is at The American Spectator.
"The last two Democratic Party nominees for President have come up short on the charity scale. Al Gore has been famously stingy when it comes to actually giving his own money to charities. In 1998 he was embarrassed when his tax returns revealed that he gave just $353 to charity.
Gore's office initially defended the action, claiming that the Gores had often given 'food and clothing to the homeless.' But when no one showed up in cast-off clothes, Gore's spokesman Chris Lehane offered a typical "friend of Goodness" response saying that you could only 'truly judge a person's commitment to helping others' you needed to see "what they have done with their lives." In other words, politics was charity work."
The story is at The American Spectator.
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