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Well, like I said, I think everyone is over-reacting. I don't see anything wrong with any pictures I've seen on this thread. I've never considered Gore as being a manly man or not a manly man, except with that ill-conceived alpha-male charade that personality shaper put him through in the election. I think he is good to his wife and kids and therefore to imply anything else borders on false-accusation. I don't know that these types of threads serve any purpose except to show us as mean-spirited or hypocritical. Politically, I think Gore would be inept as a commander-in-chief and his environmental wackoism and his tax and spend policies would be disastrous for our economy, but I would never accuse him of being a bad father without good evidence.

I'm not here to disrupt, but I didn't see anyone else make the type of comment I'm making so I made it so that any lurkers may know that not all conservatives are so cold-natured as those that are on this thread appear to be with their comments and their implications.

Good points, but I think the commentary is more based around whether it's normal for him to be in the position he's in. The gut reaction that the photograph brings out when it shows his grown-up daughter's head in his lap while he's doing his slobber-kissing thing with his wife is that it's somewhat improper by our cultural norms.

It's interesting to see the reactions though, and I think the "mean" comments are tongue in cheek, not to be taken seriously. Of course his defense of the perverted Bill Clinton's oral sex with young girls doesn't help him. I would say about 10% have your response that it's no big deal and normal family love, 90% seem to think it's creepy or borderline inappropriate. Zero percent actually think he's a incestual child molester. 100% think he needs to review the photos of himself better as a politician in the national eye. Unfortunately he has a daughter/advisor trying hard to make him look like a sexed-up hottie. That's weird enough.

Of course it's natural for the impression to vary from person to person. Clinton simply hugging on Chelsea makes people more leery than seeing Bush innocently plant one on the lips of his beautiful daughters. Even ignoring the politics, humans just get gut feelings as to sexual udertones in a hug or kiss -- or photograph.

Normally I would agree that such bashing on this forum is somehow unseemly. Then I reflect on who is being bashed and it all makes sense.

Again, we must toast the fine folks of Al's supposedly home state of Tennessee for not buying it. Can you imagine Al as Commander in Chief after 9/11? Would he beg the terrorists to please leave us alone or would he just surrender, declare victory and shake the taliban down for campaign contributions.