I already thought that Gore was "truth challenged" as do some others.
"For years, his political opponents have groused that Vice President Al Gore has trouble with facts. They pounced on statements he made about his service in Vietnam, about his record in Congress and even about the price he has to pay for his dog's arthritis medicine. On Tuesday, they got even more ammunition: Several of Mr. Gore's comments in his debate with Gov. George W. Bush set off a fresh outcry over what even some of his supporters acknowledge is a tendency to embellish anecdotes about his roles in events." (Richard L. Berke, "Tendency To Embellish Fact Snags Gore," The New York Times, October 6, 2000)
"From tales about his relatives to claims about his own achievements, the vice president's embellishments frequently send media 'truth squads' cracking and campaign aides back-peddling." (Carter M. Yang, "Facing Facts: Gore Shows Pattern of Exaggeration," abcnews.com, October 7, 2000)
"George W. Bush's kinder, gentler campaign shrinks from any serious assault on Al Gore's most glaring character weakness -- the vice president's long history of abusing the truth. . . Gore's own staff, during his failed 1988 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination and in the current campaign, has cautioned him that his looseness with the facts risks damaging his credibility." (Robert J. Caldwell, "To Tell The Truth; Gore's Frequent Falsehoods Impeach His Own Credibility," The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 1, 2000)
"The danger to Gore is that the fibbing will blossom into a full-blown credibility crisis, giving Bush an opening to cast doubt on everything Gore says. The way around that is simple: stop doing it." (Jonathan Alter, "Al Gore And The Fib Factor," Newsweek, October 16, 2000)
"It has come to this: Al Gore says in a presidential debate that his uncle was gassed in World War I and then his campaign searches for records to back him up. The campaign knows no claim by the Democratic candidate about his family or professional resume will be taken at face value. His occasional tendency to embellish has not stopped, even now when scrutiny of the candidates' every word is so intense." (Calvin Woodward, "Gore's Embellishments Persist, Even In The Spotlight," The Associated Press, October 6, 2000)
"The Boston Globe disclosed Friday that during Gore's stuttering presidential campaign in 1988, his press secretary, Arlie Schardt, warned the candidate in a memo, 'Your main pitfall is exaggeration.' That character flaw, this relentless willingness to prevaricate and demonize his opponents, might have been barely excusable in a young senator making a premature run for the White House. But it is deeply troubling in a senior statesman who has served two terms as vice president." (Walter Shapiro, "To Tell The Truth, Al Gore Is Having Trouble Out There," USA Today, January 31, 2000)