President "Spoons" Butler?
Posted on 09/10/2004 1:35:51 PM PDT by RWR8189
Along with Al, where has Tom Daschle been? Haven't seen nor heard from him since the Pink Tie-rade.
Daschle is starring in a tv commercial with Pres Bush. He thinks Bush's good poll numbers will rub off on him....LOL.
The problem with the "get another career" idea is that Gore does not work well with others.
At some point, a person has to take responsibility for the life decisions he has made and has to decide what to fix and what to live with. He can't because he is addicted to mysery.
...and every time he opens his mouth he confirms it.
> The tragedy of Al Gore isn't that he lost the presidency
> in a fluke--but that he was never really suited for the
> job in the first place.
Al Gore and John Kerry share this trait.
Both thought that being POTUS was their Destiny.
Gore, because daddy raised him with that goal.
Kerry, because it was revealed to him that he was JFK-2.
Some other might-have-beens: Spiro Agnew would have been President if he hadn't taken bribes as governor of Maryland. Hiram Johnson would have been President if he had accepted the VP slot on the Republican ticket in 1920.
> Mario Cuomo, who might have been president if he had run in 1992
Unlike Clinton, Cuomo was unpopular in his own state in 1992. He was too liberal and had no chance of winning the election.
> Spiro Agnew would have been President
Also, the Democrats were reluctant to impeach Nixon until Agnew resigned and was replaced by Ford.
He seems born for the world of think tanks and schoolrooms, of dissertations and seminars, of endless digressions about this and that.I disagree. Yes, Gore can cite authors and string together references. Only he does so with no discipline or sense of direction; he does so associatively, almost randomnly. In other words, he seems to like to read and listen, but he has no idea how to apply or process what knowledge he consumes: he thinks-acts-writes-speaks like an undergraduate trying to impress a professor with how much he knows.
We all know what happened in April 1865...
(That would have been an odd-looking pair. Had BB accepted, he and Lincoln would have had a 13" difference in height between them. Lincoln was 6' 4", and Butler claimed to be 5' 3" , so if he was like most men , he was probably even shorter. Even in those less looks-conscious years, they would have looked a bit strange stumping together.)
BB never quite recovered from that one, either. He ran unsuccessfully for the presidency as a third party candidate IIRC, and I believe he did get elected as a senator, but I'm not 100% sure of that.
Oh, nonsense. Gore would have been equally bad as an intellectual or a teacher. "Earth in the Balance" is a severe embarrassment. He is full of flaky ideas, but his thinking goes about 2" deep.
President "Spoons" Butler?
CUOMO was too liberal for NY?Then how in God's name did The Witch win in 2000?
Riverman
Don't professors have to deal with people quite a lot? What Gore and Kerry both lack are a moral compass, leadership skills, and a vision for America.
The New Yorker article points out that Gore drives a 2004 Cadillac and Tipper drives (if you can believe it) a 1965 Mustang. In his book "Earth in the Balance" he decries the evil of the internal combustion engine. The guy is a joke.
Actually, you are describing in perfect detail all of my humanities professors in college. They would just ramble on from one idea to another, and apparently we were supposed to see the grand connection between them, but to this day I suspect that it's just the way Ph.D.s love to convince themselves of how smart they are. And that's most of the reason why I so despised my humanities courses.
I think Gore would have been very happy as a college professor. He could ramble on all day about how brilliant he is, never having to make any sense, and he'd have hordes of liberal college kid groupies.
Only in the humanities, as you said. In the hard sciences, math, or engineering he'd be expected to produce objectively verifiable results.
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