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Subject: Al Gore speaks to students on National Student Day
Keywords: Al Gore, University of MD
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Date: 19 Sep 92 00:13:31 GMT
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Senator and the next Vice President (we can all hope!) Al Gore spoke today  
on National Student Day at the University of MD, College Park.  Students  
from all major area schools including Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, George  
Washington, Trinity, UDC, and Howard were also present to show solidarity.   
Police estimated the crowd at almost 12,000 who had to put up with hot  
weather and Mr. Gore showing up an hour and fifteen minutes late.  However  
when he showed up, he had an excellent speech.

First, Maryland is a secure state for Clinton/Gore, Bush won in 88 by a  
small margin only because the "gun ban" on the ballot that year brought  
out a huge amount of the "redneck" vote, which typically goes Republican.   
Gore was introduced by a super senior at the University(fifth year student  
who couldn't graduate because of lack of classes) who told the Bush/Quayle  
hecklers that they were at the wrong rally and this was the wrong year,  
and they stayed pretty quiet after that.  Even the ACT UP jokers were  
there, but the campus police kept them in check, plus Gore mentioned AIDs  
in his speech.

Anyway Gore had some good jokes, including noting that unlike Bush he  
wasn't going to tell the hecklers to "sit down and shut up", and noted  
when Bush was asked to produce more jobs he told the jobless "sit down and  
shut up", and when environmentalist urged him help save the planet, he  
told them to "sit down and shut up."  He also noted that if Bush wanted to  
go into movies like his Reagan he could star in "Honey I Shrunk the  
Economy" and the sequel could be "Honey I Blew Up the Deficit".  The crowd  
itself was boisterous, with one sign giving Bush a report card of all "F"s  
and "D"s on important issues like Pell Grants, Dan Quayle, Student Loans,  
Education, the Environment, and Head Start (he got a "D" for that his only  
non "F" he got).  Gore BLASTED the Bush administration for proposing to  
cut federal student loan support by $10 billion to support tax increases  
for the rich, he lambasted Bush for creating the worst economic situation  
in decades, he criticized the Bush administration for clinging to old  
ideals in a new era.  He even boasted on how Clinton/Gore would win Orange  
County, California for the first time in over 40 years.  He noted how Bush  
was a pander bear to the Republican Right and how the Republican party was  
being taken over by the ultra-right wing fundementalist like Jerry  
Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Pat Buchanan.

Overall it was an excellent speech, I'd like to see him debate Quayle and  
show Quayle to be the true fool he is.