Bob Herbert says it for me - a mistake

[MISSDem]

"I hate war,” said Dwight Eisenhower, “as only a soldier who has lived it can, as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/opinion/01herbert.html?_r=1&em

[Captain Hilts]

1. Too bad Herbert skewered Gore and gave us GWBush. nt

[snagglepuss]

2. +1

[Myrina]

3. Herbert, by himself? Gave us Bush? He was the only voter in 2000?

Seriously?

:wtf:

[rurallib]

4. I was always told it was Nader.

[Myrina]

5. ... or Michael Moore ...

n/t

[Captain Hilts]

6. He flogged the 'Gore as liar' routine. The op-ed page of the NYT is a big pulpit. nt

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Gore ran the third worst presidential campaign of my lifetime

(after Mondale and Dukakis), and I had serious doubts about him anyway, with his being a founding member of the DLC and a supporter of the Contras. A founding member of the DLC is suddenly a big-time liberal? I don't buy that.

Bob Herbert, on the other hand, has been consistent in his promotion of the interests of the poor and disenfranchised and a sane foreign policy.

[Demeter]

11. And Gore Was a Liar--If Only to Himself. He Reallyu Didn't WANT to Be President

After the failed election, he decided to find another way around the obstacles to get what he wanted.

[StarfarerBill]

8. Nope: Emmanuel Goldstein.

[glitch]

9. All of the above plus Diebold, ES&S, USSC, Jeb, well the list goes on and on. nt

[RufusTFirefly]

10. Yeah, it was Herbert's fault

Not the stolen election in Florida

Not the fact that corporate TV turned Gore into a caricature

Not the fact that he ran a lackluster campaign

Not the fact that he failed to let Clinton campaign for him

Not the fact that he was remarkably quiet on his most powerful issue: global warming

Not the fact that he was actually calling for a bigger increase in the defense budget than Bush was

Nope. It was Herbert's fault.

Phew. Life is so simple.