Damn...After Seeing Al Gore on 60 Minutes, I have tears in my eyes that this....

...fine, intelligent, caring Man isn't our President....Sigh..

I wish he did not say he will never see himself as a Presidential Candidate. I wish he would have just avoided the question. He sounded SO Presidential!!!

Damn you Karl Rove and Katherine Harris.

SHAME ON AMERICA for not knowing a FOOL PRESIDENT when it sees one....

The results speak for themselves...

Truly the Land of the Dufus....

We are Fucked...We have a Conservative Cancer on our NECK...

And there was no bitterness there...just matter of factly saying that you have to make a choice to pick yourself up and go on. He seems happier not having the burden of running for president on him, he seems free and happy.

Oh my.

Al is a WINNER.

that the supreme court changed the course of human history.

George Bush and the Republican party,
changed for the worse, the future of life on planet earth.

Al Gore is a brilliant man, he is an eloquent and intelligent and caring human being.
The U.S.A. and the world would be very different if he would have
been allowed to serve as President.

I hope they lie awake, going over and over that obviously political decision, knowing that they've f'd up history and their legacies.

Kennedy or O'Connor could have easily changed the course of history by deciding against Bush.

and that Jeb Bush walked away unscathed through the whole catastrophe

will probably be vice president jeb.

Maybe that was the deal with McAsshat and *

I saw him talking about how he was taking the profits from his book and movie and spending them on the environment. He wanted universal preschool, he opposed the war in Iraq, he wanted a strong patients bill of rights. None of it happened.

Al is just as guilty though, he told the dem senators not to contest Bush's election despite about 50,000 black people having their registration pulled so they couldn't vote.

And I remember Obama's 2004 speech when he says 'as we emerge from the political darkness'. Well its still dark, and if we don't fight back hard this year against another fraudulent election, it'll be dark for 4 more years.

I came to the conclusion that this is what we deserve. Until we know more about politics than celebrity gossip, we deserve to be led by corrupt, criminal leaders. Most of us can't name the people who represent us, and we need to do better as a nation before we deserve better.

DU does not take this sort of statement lightly. If the Senators had contested the votes from Florida, the situation would've wound up where? The Supreme Court. Who was Chief Justice? Rehnquist. As a young man, Rehnquist proudly participated in disenfranchising African Americans. If Al had allowed those votes to be contested the whole thing would've wound up stalled at SCOTUS and they would've given the race to Bush - a second time. The American Public wasn't paying enough attention to demand a different resolution. The Democratic Party had abandoned Al. He was just as guilty? I don't think so. There was nothing else the man could've done. Nothing. He fought alone and he fought hard and he fought for a long time. If there is guilt it is on my shoulders and on the shoulders of American citizens and Democratic Party leadership that should've been standing with Al.

:(

...to confront the bullies myself.

Hindsight is twenty/twenty. Regrets linger for a lifetime.:(

:patriot:

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All may not be lost.

the media decided were our front-runners. And from the nasty assholes who are their supporters. I think I am writing in Gore's name in November. Fuck Obama and Clinton. They can go to hell.

of our country.

That whole "that which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" thing does apply to Gore. If he actually did take office in 2000, he certainly wouldn't have started a war and created all the other damage that Bush has done. But I don't think he would have been all that effective as president back then. He was too shackled by politics as usual.

Today, however, he'd be a revolutionary president, on the order of Jefferson, FDR, or Lincoln. I don't think he's going to run, but it would be wonderful if he did.

...about that. "He was too shackled by politics as usual." It would be so different now...America has grown up (a little bit) since 2000. :)