why isn't this man our President? Why aren't we doing more to prevent that kind of cheating again?
both of them should have been president at some point in the last 7.5 years, Al had they counted all the votes, or Nancy when they impeached both the scumnozzles
Why isn't Gore president?
Call it a hunch, but his sobbing cowardice in the face of the 2000 election being out-and-out stolen by thugs might have something to do with it.
Gore was under the misapprehension that the Constitution was still in effect and that having their elections stolen by our home-grown Oil Princes was something most Americans gave a shit about.
Then, somewhere, a blond chick went missing and we moved on to more important things...
driftglass for the win
drifty we really missed you!
Yep, Drifty... all over it.
Sorry, Drifty, I love your writing, and agree with you on many (if not most) issues, but I call bullshit here.
Gore's complete lack of fighting, IMO, had to do with the fact that his real base - the Ruling Class, the Oligarchy, the Top 1%, whatever you want to call them - were so obviously in favor of Bush. You surely didn't expect someone like Al Gore to fight on behalf of the rest of us grubby peasants? I daresay it was a demoralizing experience watching his "people", whom he'd served with such boot-licking deference during his years as Vice President, go overwhelmingly for a simpleton like George W. Bush...but there you have it.
That's the only theory that adequately explains Gore's idea of "campaigning", which was rolling around in a puddle of his own piss, sobbing and boo hooing (with shit in his pants and snot on his face) that he didn't dare fight back, he didn't dare, oh, he just didn't dare...because if he did that? Then the bad men would be mean to him!!! Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo!
I am sick to death of American liberals' never-ending excuses for back stabbers like Gore, who is no more on our side than out-and-out scum like Rush Limbaugh or his own VP choice, Holy Joe Liarman. Yes, Gore was treated abominably by the so-called "Liberal Media", I don't deny that for a second. That doesn't invalidate my opinion on his real Vichy Dem allingences at all. Or of his licking the underside of Bush's cowboys boots during the entirety of 2000 while Bush stomped on his face non-stop. Fuck him.
Oops. "Alligences", not "allingences." Heh, heh.
John D, I hear your frustration. One of the things I took away from Van Jones' speech is the idea of finding ways to go beyond our much-needed opposition stance when we win, and move to the next step, which is...what? Dismissing VP Gore, despite his efforts to grow as a person and as a politician?
It's not that I'm a Gore apologist: I'm African American, and the reality that led to that scene in Fahrenheit 911 cut me to the quick. I just wonder where the balance is, between righteous anger and reaching out...
just a thought.
>ad to do with the fact that his real base - the Ruling Class, the Oligarchy, the Top 1%
Are you joking? Al Gores base is the villagers?
you are fucking kidding right?
HS, who was Gore's choice as Vice President? What was his stand on "obscene" music and AIPAC and Welfare "Reform"? How many times did he agree with Bush in that one "debate" of theirs'? 33 times, or something to that effect? What efforts did he make to resist pushing the 'respectable' political world ever further and further to the right during his years in the White House?
Just because the Villagers hated him doesn't make him any less their creature. Look at the Clintons, for Christ's sake.
The villagers hated Gore just as much as they hated the Clintons.
Well, of course they do! Who's denying that? For matters of self-promotion and self-aggrandizement alone, the Villagers will always attack the Democrat, no matter how demonstrably corpratist he is, or undeniably culturally conservative or even out-and-out reactionary. You have to get to the level of a Zell Miller or Joe Lieberman before you're accepted as one of the Kewl Kidz Krowd. With the likes of Gore and the Clintons, the Village can have their cake and eat it too: They can relentlessly dish out petty high-school cruelty and sheer meanness to the "Unworthy Ones" - always a cheap & easy way of gaining attention in the media and promoting oneself - while never having to worry about them retaliating in any meaningful way that will upset the Top 1%ers' oh-so-comfortable applecart.
Bullies get nothing but joy from watching their targets' pathetic attempts at "reaching out", and the Democrats' "Aw, Gee Whiz, Fellas, Can't We Just All Be Friends?" schtick has long since gotten old. And I'm not inclined towards being sympathetic towards the politicians ostensibly on "our side" who pull that shit again and again. Sorry if that makes me an unreasoning hard liner.
Didn't they conclude from scientific study, back in the sixties, that the best way to deal with stuff is to start out being nice and fair and honest -- until the other side cheats you, then getting tough is the correct thing to do? I seem to remember that from a psychology class or a sociology class or something. Maybe we need to give the Dems a seminar in that stuff.....
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