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When the election was called for Bush, we were jumping up and down and screaming and laughing and cheering! Our neighbors were laughing at us (the liberals!) from over the wall. We even photographed the TV as it said Bush won! I will never forget that.

And then came that phone call when Gore took back his concession and called Bush snippy.

What an election to have lived through. What a time that was.

I am sure our extended family was not the only one to have a political gag order on it that Thanksgiving. It was like the Civil War for polarizing families.

It was horrible! The whole set of maneuvers by Gore had all the earmarks of the Clinton playbook. That was the scariest part of all. I actually wondered, what if this isn't settled by Inauguration Day? What if somehow Clinton finagles another term, or even an extra DAY of presidency out of this? The idea of Clinton is scary enough by itself; the idea of Clinton in an uncertain situation like that, with no boundaries of precedent to curtail his megalomania, was terrifying.

I was cheering that Florida judge on. Now I can't even remember his name! When the people started yelling and demonstrating outside that room in Dade County--protesting when the vote counters tried to take their act to the back room--I was relieved. I heard someone called up "the Cubans" and they came down there and gave the liberal power-grabbers hell. These would be the Cubans whose families were specifically screwed by Castro in the 50's--60's. Those people will NEVER forget, and I don't think they will ever vote democrat.

Al Gore was getting crazier by the day. I believe that he has obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. I thought he'd NEVER go away! It was fun to joke about him early in the campaign, when he was having so much trouble with his tenant in Tennessee (he wouldn't fix their toilet), but it was no fun any more when he was pulling that coup attempt.

I remember some other fun things about the campaign, such as Al saying his mother-in-law took the same medicine as the dog, and saying that hers cost much more. People used to ask (on internet forums), do Al and Tipper have two dishes on the floor--one for the dog, and one for "Mother"?