Posted on 02/27/2007 10:56:40 AM PST by Pokey78
Make no mistake: Former Vice President Al Gore will be our next president.
I am as confident about that assertion as I am that George W. Bush will go down in history as America's worst president ever. Gore is the right man at the right time, for many reasons. And it's clear that the momentum and buzz is shifting his way big time.
At Sunday's Oscar ceremony, Gore took home the coveted prize for best feature documentary for "An Inconvenient Truth," his scorching red-flag raiser on global warming.
On stage he was graceful, poised and presidential. And it didn't hurt his hipness quotient any to be getting a little Leo DiCaprio love either. That's right, Al Gore is suddenly cool.
It gets even better. In October, Gore will also likely be the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for being the planet's biggest advocate in the fight against climate change. His prestigious nomination in this exclusive club puts him in the company of such independent thinkers, statesmen and activists as Dr. Martin Luther King, President Jimmy Carter, Elie Wiesel and Mother Theresa.
Now let's talk chops. Gore's an enlisted Vietnam vet who served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, two terms in the Senate, and eight years as vice president in one of the most successful administrations ever. Let's not forget that he won the popular vote in 2000, and as many say, the Electoral College as well.
So wait, he's hip, he's brilliant, he's highly experienced. Is America ready for a real leader after two terms of a guy who makes Jim Carrey's "Dumb and Dumber" character seem downright cerebral? You bet your asinine Bush-isms it is.
I even have the perfect campaign slogan for Gore: "Imagine how it would've been."
Just imagine what the country would be like today had he become president in 2000 and not Bush. Imagine an America without this bloody debacle in Iraq. Imagine an America that commands the respect of its allies and is feared by its enemies. Imagine an America that puts the environment before big corporate interests. Imagine having a president who strives to bridge the gap between rich and poor, where the middle class, not the wealthy, gets the tax breaks, and where the minimum wage is not a shameful $5.15. Pretty powerful stuff on the campaign trail, huh?
The woman is nasty and repugnant. She cannot hide her nastiness and meanness and the media cannot cover this mean character that she has no matter what they try. Her screeching voice is extremely nasty and annoying. You can see meanness dripping from her face with those wide mean open eyes of hers. It is our human nature to be less tolerant of a mean woman than a mean man. As I said, before the voters will realize her extremely left wing politics and huge flip flops (worst then those of Kerry) they will be quickly turned off away from her and at an early stage of the campaign when they realize how horribly mean and nasty she is.
What 2004 blue states that Kerry won do you think Hilly will lose? You mentioned NH. What else, and why?
He can. There are enough fools and idiots that will vote for him. He came close in 2000.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American public. Especially on election day.
Maine, Michigan, Oregon, Minnesota. Those states will vote for a democrat but not for a very mean and nasty woman to be President.
If Algore is so smart, why did he "chicken out" of his presidential bid in 1992? He was the frontrunner then and could have easily gotten the Dem nomination, saving us from eight years of Clintonism.
Imagine an America with a couple of big mushroom clouds over portions of it and the "nucular" winter that would follow.
None of those states have gone for the GOP in a national election in a while. They will back Hilly, I think.
We have a better shot at Wisconsin, but it ain't enough.
Disagree about Oregon. That place is for all intents and purposes California-lite, politically speaking.
Anyway I really do not see us losing Ohio to the mean and nasty Hillary Clinton. If Gore and Kerry could not win it, Hillary Clinton will not be able to win it. Voting for President is not the same as voting for a governor or a Senator, please do not take the 2006 elections as the way Ohio is going to vote for President in 2008. Hillary Clinton will bring every conservative and Republican to vote against her in Ohio, they will easily outnumber any number of democrats and liberals that will vote for Hillary Clinton in the Beckeye state. Also Hillary Clinton will lose the majority of independents in Ohio.
Hilly does have so many glaring deficiencies. I think that the problem is that most of the blue states are so blue that despite her problems, she can still carry many of them.
Wait and see.
Amen to that.
That's true, but we don't have much wiggle room, either.
Al Gore, the only Vice President big enough to require his own zip code.
Agree.
He's looking like a balloon for crying out loud!
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