Posted on 06/29/2002 7:09:58 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
Gore Vows More Spontaneous Campaign
Gore Promises More Spontaneous, Less Restrained Campaign if He Runs for President in 2004
MEMPHIS, Tenn. June 29 — Al Gore told top Democratic fund-raisers Saturday that the party's 2000 campaign had too many consultants and that if he runs for president again he will speak from the heart and "let it rip."
The former vice president attended a weekend retreat with about 60 fund-raisers and Democratic Party activists from across the country.
Reporters were barred from the meetings, but aides and others said Gore promised a different kind of campaign than the Democrats ran in 2000, when he lost to George W. Bush.
Gore said that campaign had "too much strategy, too many consultants giving too much advice," said Chris Korge, a party fund-raiser from Miami.
"If he were to do this again ... he would not be so guarded. He would let it rip and let the chips fall where they may," Korge quoted Gore as saying.
Strategy sessions for this year's November elections were the main focus of the retreat.
In brief comments in a hotel hallway, Gore said he was "extremely encouraged by the level of enthusiasm ... that we're going to have a successful 2002 election."
He said that that encouragement also applied to his possible second run for the presidency.
"Well, sure, but I'm not addressing that decision this weekend and probably won't until after the first of the year," he said.
Gore said he "would spend more time speaking from the heart" on "the basic challenges of the country."
"We're at a time when very basic decisions have to be made about the direction of our country, and I don't think the American people want to see small tactical moves in one direction or another" by political candidates, he said.
Since the 2000 election, the former Tennessee congressman and senator has spent a lot of time in his home state, where he and wife Tipper recently bought a $2.3 million home in Belle Meade, an affluent community bordering Nashville.
Gore said he plans to campaign heavily in Tennessee for the state's Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate and governor.
The "whiff" in question came from Nadler's large rear end; the latest "rip" comes from Gore's.
Algore is a little man, he just doesn't know it. Or maybe he does.
A life of neurotic overcompensation can be a very sad thing indeed.
Al Gore is a protected class NOT one of the "little people" that he claims to represent. What a surprise! /sarcasm
Al isn't that literate.
SUSANNA MCGAVOCK CARTER: A BELLE MEADE SLAVE (1812-1892)
Ann's sisters were left in the custody of Randal McGavock, a wealthy citizen and one-time mayor of Nashville. McGavock claimed the sisters as his slaves after their father died. He gave Susanna to his daughter, Elizabeth Irwin, on January 2, 1840, when she married William Giles Harding, owner of the Belle Meade plantation.
Susanna became Harding's trusted house servant. She married a Belle Meade slave, Isaac ("Big Ike") Carter, and had four children: "Little Ike," Joe, Porter, and Willie. Susanna was one of Harding's 140 slaves at the 3500-acre Belle Meade plantation, just west of Nashville.
Several Belle Meade slaves served in labor battalions and military regiments of the Union Army of the Cumberland. Dozens of Belle Meade slaves became fugitives in Nashville during the occupation.
Belle Meade was sold in 1906, the year that Bob Green, the famous Belle Meade horse trainer, died.
ROFLMFAO
Ah, the lawns! The beautifully manicured Belle Meade Boulevard and its meandering side streets are home to many of the citys most prominent citizens. Once part of the huge Belle Meade Plantation, the area is generally considered very old Nashville. Theses days it attracts top executives moving here who want the charm of a gracious, established home combined with an instantly appropriate address. Developed during the 1920s, its seeing an amazing trend: buyers who purchase older homes so then can tear them down to build new, traditional houses on the lots. Belle Meade homes range from around $250,000 into the millions, and they vary in style and size. Most come with impeccably landscaped, large lots.
That won't last long. Grass is an endangered species to "earth in the Balance" Al and he will never hurt it with an evil lawnmower.
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