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Al Gore blamed Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky for costing him the presidency (tr)
Daily Mail UK ^ | June 5, 2018 | By DANIEL BATES

Posted on 06/06/2018 2:26:00 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

FULL TITLE: "Al Gore blamed Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky for costing him the presidency – but power-mad Hillary had already torn apart the president and the VP"

Al Gore never forgave Bill Clinton for 'betraying' him over the Monica Lewinsky scandal and costing him the 2000 election, a new book reveals.

A new book claims that Gore felt Clinton's 'impeachment cast a permanent shadow on their joint accomplishments' and ruined his chance of succeeding him as president.

Gore's camp thought that Clinton 'did not want Gore to succeed' against George W Bush after he was impeached following his affair with Lewinsky.

First In Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents and the Pursuit of Power gives fresh insight into the dark tensions at the heart of the relationship between Gore and Clinton.

The two men were like 'brothers' but their friendship turned to animosity in part due to Hillary Clinton clashing with Gore as she built her own power base in the White House.

As Gore sees it there has been 'no closure' on the feud and he only endorsed Hillary in a Tweet four months before the 2016 election amid panic from Democrats.

Clinton's legacy as president is being re-examined in the #MeToo era, and earlier this week he was challenged about the Lewinsky affair on NBC's Today show.

First in Line, by New York Times bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower, takes a different track and looks again at his relationship with Gore.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: algore; billclinton; clinton; crooked; gore; lewinsky; monicalewinsky; slick
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1 posted on 06/06/2018 2:26:00 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

With the left, it’s always someone else’s fault!


2 posted on 06/06/2018 2:27:33 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey Algore. If you lie down with dogs....

.... you wake up with fleas.


3 posted on 06/06/2018 2:28:13 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“in part due to Hillary Clinton clashing with Gore as she built her own power base in the White House.”

Bill was to be Hillary’s stepping stone to the WH!


4 posted on 06/06/2018 2:28:36 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe not, fat boy.

There could’ve been more attention focused on Chinese Communist influence on the 1996 Presidential campaign including contributions solicited by Al. Illegal foreign campaign donations in exchange for rocket technology...


5 posted on 06/06/2018 2:28:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama bowed...

Clinton sprawled...


6 posted on 06/06/2018 2:29:19 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That, and the fact that Algore was a dick.


7 posted on 06/06/2018 2:29:57 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: TexasGator

Bill was to be Hillary’s stepping stone to the WH!

But she kept tripping on destiny


8 posted on 06/06/2018 2:30:32 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

algore is upset because bubba had it in for him, probably.


9 posted on 06/06/2018 2:31:09 PM PDT by llevrok (Established 1950.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought it was hanging chads that cost Gore the election? Its always something with these losers!


10 posted on 06/06/2018 2:31:53 PM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

IMO the decision to snatch Elian Gonzalez and forcibly repatriate him to Cuba cost Gore that election. Likely ticked-off Cubans in Florida were the hanging chad margin of difference.


11 posted on 06/06/2018 2:32:07 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: bigbob

Yup. Algore was a lousy candidate. Maybe not as bad as Hillary, but pretty bad. One only needs to look at the first two debates.


12 posted on 06/06/2018 2:34:56 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Cankle is taking lessons from Manbearpig on how to perpetually blame your failures in life on anything and everything OTHER THAN themselves.


13 posted on 06/06/2018 2:35:34 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thanks Bill for saving us from Gore. U were so-so president, but Gore is insane.


14 posted on 06/06/2018 2:35:56 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You lost Florida and the election because the Clinton administration sent a Cuban boy back to Fidel Castro’s Cuba.

“González’s mother, Elizabeth Brotons Rodríguez, drowned in November 1999 while attempting to leave Cuba with González and her boyfriend to get to the United States. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) initially placed González with paternal relatives in Miami, who sought to keep him in the United States against his father’s demands that González be returned to Cuba.”

“After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, by order of U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, federal agents took González from the paternal relatives and returned him to his father in Cuba in June 2000.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C3%A1n_Gonz%C3%A1lez


15 posted on 06/06/2018 2:35:59 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Having the personality of cardboard was also a factor in your defeat.


16 posted on 06/06/2018 2:37:08 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Algore couldn’t even win his own state!


17 posted on 06/06/2018 2:37:17 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Amazing how these folks are trying to play revisionist history...

They steadfastly claimed it was a “personal matter”....

There, you OWN it.

This is the very subject that brought me and many others to FR back in 1998...yep, i’ve been posting here now for 20 yrs.

I look back at these 20 yrs, wow, what a shit show it’s been...


18 posted on 06/06/2018 2:39:16 PM PDT by Professional
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gee, Al, you would have been president had you just been able to CARRY YOUR OWN HOME STATE.


19 posted on 06/06/2018 2:39:30 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
ALGORE stood on the steps of the Capital with a plethora of Democrats behind him and told the world that Bill Clinton will go down as one of the greatest presidents in U.S. History. He didn't have to do that.

Even someone as dumb as he should have known that things you say and do have consequences.

20 posted on 06/06/2018 2:41:20 PM PDT by wmileo
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