Y’know…
I am beginning to wonder of Al Gore hasn’t REALLY figured the whole thing out.
The political system is broken, and both parties are so beholden to Corp money that there is only ONE THING more important to them than what their owners want.
And what is that?
Votes.
And the popular opinion that drives them.
The reason they need Corp money in the first place is to buy the media clout to produce votes. To win. To be there at the finish line first.
The race broadcast follows.
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OK.
Here we are at the most recent running of the President’s Cup. The weather is stormy and the track is REALLY sloppy, but it looks as if they are going to run the race anyway.
AND THEY’RE OFF AND RUNNING HERE AT ELECTORAL PARK!!!
The horses all bunch up at the beginning of the race. A couple sprint out to an early lead.
But…WHAT’S THIS!!!???
ONE of the horses isn’t running!!!
He’s…he’s sitting down by the side of the track with what looks like…yes, it’s a computer and a cell phone!!!
Let’s send our trackside correspondent down to see what this totally unprecedented incident is all about.
Hopalong…are you there?
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Yes Brad, I’m here. This horse seems to have thrown off its jockey and it bridle and saddle and will not let its previous trainers within 40 feet of him. He is on the phone with…yes, it appears that he is on the phone with the BETTORS!!! UNHEARD OF!!! Let me see if I can get closer to him.
Al!!! Oh…AL!!!
Yes. He seems ready to make a statement.
Here it is.
Who wants to win races anyway? I have all the oats I need now. On the evidence, maybe even a few too many.
If approached about the idea of a draft by the Democratic powers-that-be, my simple answer will be…
NEIGHHHHHHH!!
Thank you ladies and bettors.
Could be…
He’s certainly been ACTING that way, ever since he started his TV network.
Could be…
One smart racehorse, if that IS what’s happening.
INFORM THE PEOPLE, AND LET THEM DECIDE.
Revolutionary.
As in 1776.
Maybe he DID invent the internet.
Gore for the most important cabinet post of the next administration!!!
Secretary of Energy.
Later…
AG
Please.
AG
Tipped and recommended, with pleasure.
Do you think he’ll “allow himself to be persuaded to run?”
He’s either incredibly clever, got incredible integrity, or may not yet know himself what to think in that regard.
I sure can’t tell. But I’d vote for him in a heartbeat.
Even if my neighbors will rip out my Gore yard signs again (not that they need to, after Diebold…).
We shall see.
Gore’s recent approving comments towards Hillary Clinton make me think not. I think the HE thinks she needs to be driven left. At least publicly. I really have no idea where she stands within her own mind, but my guess is that it is FAR left of her public stance.
We shall see…
AG
Could be. Maybe he’s providing political cover on her left flank so she (or any other candidate) feels comfortable tacking that way.
You’re an identified Gore-basher.
These are your words from that diary, along with my new responses:
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1. “WORKING FOR GORE OR KERRY OR HILLARY OR WHICHEVER OTHER LATEST HOTTEST-THING-EVER CENTRIST WARMONGERING ECONOMIC IMPERIALIST SON OR DAUGHTER OF A BITCH THEY RUN UP THE MIDDLE FLAGPOLE.”
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Gore was the first prominent Democrat to come swinging against the Iraq War, hard. A full 10 days before the vote on the Iraq war. Consequently, your statement is a blatant lie as it pertains to Gore.
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2. Gore was fought to a draw by one of the least likable personalities ever to foul a debate stage. He lacks the common touch.
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BS. It is precisely this kind of bullshit spins and smears of Al Gore, that gave us Cheney/Bush in the first place. He made a few style point flaws in his 2000 debates, but he did sufficiently well, until Rove and the likes of your started respinning his debate performance.
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3. Gore is not an asshole. But he IS a loser.
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Gore is not a loser, but you’re bordering on being asshole, with lies as in (1) above.
Right now, Gore is focussed on averting/ameliorating global warming. If he wants to run for President at a later point, he’ll run. And he doesn’t need generous cabinet offerings from a foul-mouthed (see (1) above) Gore-basher, thank you.
Wow!!!
You’re really mad, huh?
I stand by every word of that diary except possibly the one that included Gore in the war-mongering son of a bitch group. And I await convincing on THAT part. If he runs…will he be strong enough this time to resist the blandishments of centrists like Donna Brazile? Or will he fold? Talk is cheap when you are on the outside looking in, and I have seen too many politicians pull 180 degree turns once the pressure comes down.
The other quotes are NOT from that diary but from later comments on it, but I stand by them as well. Gore would have to prove to me that he has changed his style of communication before I supported him, because it was his STYLE that lost to Bush.
And of course the Florida vote theft. And once again it was his style that did not allow him to effectively challenge that theft.
Had he (OR Small K kerry, for that matter) come out fighting mad after the theft…headlines in major papers like Democrat Refuses To Accept Vote Counts. “I Will Contest This Election To The Last Hanging Chad” States Gore. “They Are Trying To Steal our Democracy From Us” he would have risked political ruin. Or he would have prevented the takeover of our government by BushCo, saved hundreds of thousands of lives and been in a position to DO something about global warning other than make movies about it.
I am not a Gore “basher”, but I am indeed unconvinced. His TV network was as lame…no, LAMER…than his campaign. He lacks oomph, somehow. Power. Baraka. Call it whatever you want. A good man, an intelligent man, but not necessarily a WINNING man on the Presidential level.
If you wish to call that bashing…so be it.
I prefer to think of it as a pragmatic look at how our system works today.
So it goes.
AG
P. S. And Nuevo, ol’ pal…
Don’t lump me in with Rove.
The man should have won going away. But he didn’t have the shine. Maybe he has it now. I’d be HAPPY to be convinced.
And as far as being “foul-mouthed”?
I’m all KINDS of mouthed.
Grow up.
In a world where “fuck” can be used as a noun…anything goes.
that Gore should have won easily was a DLC bit of smear taht the Nader forces seem to have picked up.
There is no reason to think that Gore should have won easily. But it sure does make a nifty defense for both the DLC coverup for how Clinton’s behavior really did wound the party. It’s also a convenient cover for people who voted Nader. Strange bedfellows.
On further consideration…
Here I write an appreciation of what Gore has done, and this $%&&^%%$$#@!$%& (Redacted because Neuvo will read it and I do not want to challenge his delicate sensibilities.) comes in and bashes me?
Please…
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Kosmas, eeeeeverywhere I write…
(You know that tune, don’tcha, folks?)
AG
Good one AG
I think you’re right…Gore has finally come to grips w/ the realities of the situation and, IMO, is testing his own theories.
If he were to become an ‘announced’ contender, he would have to expend a great deal of energy contending w/ the BS that would be thrown at him; by refusing to be drawn into that morass, he is free to do and say what he chooses w/out any overt damage, nor any need to even respond should he choose…very smart move IMO…very smart move w/ the film and attendant appearances…and a very interesting move w/ MySpace…
Marshall McLuhan said it long ago…the medium is the message…I believe Gore gets it.
As an aside, for your readers, as I’m confident you’ve seen it, The Rude Pundit has a good riff up today re: Gore.
Peace
Thank you for the link, dada. i have not been following the Rude One, rcently…too fierce for me. I don’t need no more steenking ferocity. What I’ve GOT is enouygh to roil my blood 100+ times a day as it is.
But that was a very level post he made.
And right on the money, too.
Later…
AG
I made the mistake, or hilarious discovery of some cuts from the RP’s CD. Something about a squirrel monkey :oP
Quite a piece. THanks for the link. Perhaps what we need even more than a President Gore is Gore as the Martin Luther King of global warming. Maybe that’s how he sees his role. God knows we need one of those too.
Yes we do.
May he…AND his cause…have a better fate.
AG
AG and KP – you have just made my day today with these thoughts. I do think our national political process is broken in many ways and those that try to gain influence through that process are going to be compromised.
I’ve felt for a while now that we need an awakening outside the political process that can take it by the neck and drag it back to a truly democratic process again. I would LOVE it if that’s what Gore has decided to do!!! As much as I’d love to vote for him – what I want more is my country back.
He is pretty much owed the opportunity at least. He has a pretty good trainwreck he can point at and say, I was the alternative to all that followed Clinton.
Plus they tell me he even loves his wife.