Reply #6: This paragraph tells me all I need to know about the author's so called heart. [View All]

"Let me start by saying that I never really knew what to make of Al Gore. The vice president is by definition something of an afterthought, but VP to Bill Clinton? You may as well be the wallpaper. And then there was the 2000 election, which was punctuated with Gore's strange claims to have invented the Internet, a painfully bad makeup job during at least one debate, and an awkward attempt at a passionate kiss with Tipper. Even so, I voted for him. I threw my fists in the air when the White House was handed over to a dimwit in his place. I’ve imagined -- innumerable times -- what this country might have been under his leadership. But seeing Al Gore take the microphone seven years later confirmed that he has hit his stride outside of politics, and that’s no mistake."

I just wonder if Rachel Dowd is related to Maureen Dowd; who did nothing but trash and slander Al Gore as well.

Someone should give Rachel a clue in to the fact that Al Gore never claimed to have invented the Internet and if you graduated from Junior High and had a grain of common sense, or integrity you would know it. Of course these "concerned journalists" don't give a rat's ass about the truth.

My observations of the 2000 race goes like this.

1. Ralph Nader attacked Al Gore from the left, often with untruth, but he had a legal right to run.

2. George Bush attacked Al Gore from the right, but so long as he didn't kill a puppy or drool on the podium, he was given a free pass by the "inbred journalists" that covered him, in spite of his obvious mistakes, lies and shortcomings as Presidential material.

3. The Clinton's shived Al Gore in the back, even though Al stood up for Bill when Bill needed him the most. Either the Clintons didn't believe in global warming or they didn't care as they would never have done this otherwise.

4. The corporate media slandered Al Gore relentlessly with the lies such as the one Miss Dowd repeats here precisely because he was the primary political champion of the Internet and who the hell likes competition when they have the whole market to themselves? They also magnified Nader's impact, and largely ignored Buchanan because they knew Nader would draw more votes from the Democratic Party and Buchanan would primarily draw from the Republicans, they were intent on enabling Bush to power by all means necessary.

P.S. Actually the kiss was a big hit and Al Gore's approval rating shot up after the Convention.