How many here volunteered for Gore? Do you wish you had? WIsh others had too?

[mahina]

It's not that I don't think it's ok to criticize the President; it's how and then what. Just bitching and thinking that lets you off the hook is too easy and too lazy in the intense urgency of this moment.

I think this is the perfect time to make your feelings known to the campaign directly via their website. What is bullshit is trashing him to others nonconstructively, and not bothering to tell the campaign how you feel or what you care about. It's not like they aren't asking.

You have leverage now. This is the critical moment.

How many here really busted their asses for Gore in 2000? I didn't. I was busy. He spoke strangely. I thought he seemed kind of stiff and awkward. There were some legislative issues I disagreed with him on which I can't even remember now. I just didn't love him. Then there was all the oil shares, or did I find out about that later?

Anyway I didn't do squat for him, didn't give him one dime, not even knock on doors in my neighborhood or phone bank. Nothing.


No more. I don't need to love everything about the man. How many hearts would still be beating in Iraq and Afghanistan, how many military families lives would be unbroken, if we had helped the Gore campaign? Whatever headway could have been started against the devastation of climate change, we can not know. Who could have imagined how selfish and corrupt those guys could be, to literally bankrupt and destroy countries for their private gain? Who imagines that the puppetmasters behind those two sock puppets are any different, if they aren't actually the same people?

You can't tell me that our help wouldn't have mattered. The Republicans won because they were organized. (They didn't rightly win, and DU was just born, I know. )

I think about my kid and his future, and what we risk by handing this country over to President Perry and Vice President Bachman. This country can't take it. If we think we're unrecognizable now, think again.


There's plenty I don't like in this administration- mainly corporate lobbyists in positions of power. I do not want those guys there. Period.

I'm heading to bed for a much needed rest. Wishing you and all DU'ers peace and fortitude in this journey. Everyone will find their own answer. I know what I have to do.

[WinkyDink]

1. "Do [I] wish I had" what?

[mahina]

2. Thanks, fixed, crosseyed tired.

Good night.

[Syrinx]

3. The country would definitely be better off without two Bushes as president

And that includes having Gore elected in 2000.

Yes, he would have been better that Bush. By a ton.

But I'm not a big fan of the man really.

He seems to me like a self-entitled, elitist walking caricature. And a hypocrite.

Not one of my favorite people. But definitely he would have made a better president than the Bush idiot thug.

[MADem]

4. I work for every Democratic nominee in some way or another.

My schtick is voter turnout, mostly. I deliver 'em to the polls by the dozens. I did some smiling and dialing for Gore (others as well) but my state was pretty much a foregone conclusion for him.

[NYC_SKP]

5. I don't have any children.

But for yours and for others', I'm going to work my ass off to see that Obama gets a second term.

And, like you, I didn't work my ass off for Gore and wish I had.

:patriot:

[marions ghost]

6. Election reform

it was stolen.

[MineralMan]

7. K&R. I did work for Gore, but not in Florida.

I lived in California at the time. What I did not do, and will never do, is work for a third-party candidate who will take votes from the Democrat. Far too many people did that in 2000. In Florida, that left the vote count close enough for the Republicans to steal the election. And so, we got 8 years of Bush. We must never let such a thing happen again.

[scheming daemons]

8. They were too busy making "Gore=Bush" bumper stickers and voting for Nader

[Romulox]

11. Gore and Bush agree more than disagree w/r/t economics and trade.

:shrug:

[frylock]

12. can you back that up or are you just talking out your ass again?

[Romulox]

9. Between his support for job-obliterating NAFTA and his personal eco-hypocrisy,

I would NEVER work for Al Gore.

Perhaps it's the PARTY'S fault for putting forward such a weak candidate? Perhaps it's AL GORE'S fault for not caring about working people, and not being able to practice what he preaches? Or you can just blame all of Al Gore's failures on me. :shrug:

[HughBeaumont]

13. That and "Republindependent" Lieberturd didn't exactly help matters.

President "Americans don't have ENOUGH religion in their lives" Lieberman. Eccccccccccccch.

[treestar]

10. I didn't do much

Not that I didn't like him. I think I assumed he would win too much. The economy was good and Clinton was popular. I was shocked that the Chimp was installed. Won't make that mistake again.

[mahina]

15. Me too.

In my defense, it seemed impossible that W could get more than 20%, and those would be frothing at the mouth too badly to actually get to a polling place.

My bad.

Yes, they stole it but we let it be close enough to steal.

Never again.

[tabbycat31]

14. Do I wish I had?

In retrospect, yes. But I was an apathetic college student then and politics was the last thing on my mind. I barely knew to vote then.

But my state at the time would have voted for Gore regardless as it's a blue state.

[Blue_Tires]

16. Gore was never gonna win the state I was living in then (KS)

[bemildred]

17. Gore won, why should we be sorry? nt

[mahina]

19. Because it was close enough to steal, so they stole it.

If the gap was big, they could not have done it.

[AndrewP]

18. I did volunteer and drove voters to the polls

But the Supreme Court made sure that was rendered pointless.