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Saturday, October 28, 2000
Campaign Notebook
From Caller-Times wire services
Cosby's parents placed great weight on voting
MUNHILL, Pa. - Bill Cosby came home to Pennsylvania and warmed up Al Gore's crowd with tales about his parents and the importance they placed on voting.
The comedian said his father would take his mother to the voting booth saying "they would be right back - they had something important to do that would change the course of this nation. That's how important my father made himself sound that day."
Then they would return triumphant, even in one instance when they went to vote for a candidate who was unopposed.
"Your mother put the man in office," Cosby said, imitating his dad. "And my father would say, 'But I took him over the top.'"
He encouraged people in the crowd to vote, too, and to make their friends do the same on behalf of their favorite candidates.
"If you bring along your friends with you, you can take them over the top," he said.
Gore, Bush teams both denounce 'Daisy' TV ad
WASHINGTON - The creator of a TV ad attacking Al Gore pulled the spot modeled after the infamous 1964 "Daisy" nuclear scare commercial at the request Friday of George W. Bush's campaign and after a barrage of Democratic criticism.
"We're not pulling it because we think there's anything wrong with the ad," said Carey Cramer of The Meridian Group of McAllen, Texas, which created the ad for Aretino Industries.
The ad, based on one President Johnson used, shows a little girl plucking petals from a daisy and - like its predecessor - ends with a countdown to a nuclear blast. The current ad accuses the Clinton-Gore administration of giving away nuclear technology to China in exchange for campaign contributions. It ends with a admonition to "vote Republican."
Both the Gore and Bush campaigns criticized it before it aired.
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