Do you think that Gore will run?
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Immanuel
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maineman said:
I'd love to have a beer with President Bush. Maybe I could talk some sense into him. It would be quite interesting. Then again, I would have liked to have a friendly dinner with John Kerry when he was running for President. You can't "know" a candidate by what they say for the cameras. A little one on one chat with either one of them might bring about a different view of them as people.
Immie
Bush is no liberal... long shot. A liberal would not have attacked Iraq, would not have appointed those loosers to the S.Ct., would never have lowered taxes on those most able to pay (while increasing spending), would never have vetoed stem cell research, would never have appinted that looser to the UN...
Immanuel
Junior Member
Oh and to answer the question of the thread, I would take a whole new look at Presidential Candidate Al Gore in 2008 than I did in 2000 after the last eight years.
That is not to say that I would vote for him for sure, but I would give him a different look now than I did back then.
Immie
That is not to say that I would vote for him for sure, but I would give him a different look now than I did back then.
Immie
Jarod said:
Ummm, while Kerry is well educated and has married a rich women, he didn't grow up "elistist" in the thurston howell-sense of the word.
His father was a mid-level government bureacrat. And I don't think his mom had a career. So, he was well off (not rich), and got a ivy league education, and speaks like he has an ivy league education.
But, it doesn't compare to a family of millionaires like the kennedys and bushs.
OrnotBitwise
Watermelon
It all hinges on what we're calling "elitist" now doesn't it. My general observation is that conservatives are more likely to call an educated person, especially an academic, "elitist" whereas liberals are more inclined to so label someone who believes in the perogatives of wealth.Cypress said:
Personally, I call Bush an elitist, not because of his birth and wealth, but because of his beliefs. Of course, it's likely that his beliefs result from his birth and wealth, but that's another question.
Cypress said:
His family was not rich....a relative from his mother's side of the family, paid for his schooling and college because his family did not have the money....
It just so happens that his Mother, had relatives names Forbes....
from what I have read...
Jarod said:
"On his mother’s side, Kerry’s blueblood middle name, Forbes, refers not to the family of magazine publishing fame but traces back to the Reverend John Forbes, a Scotsman who held an important colonial position in East Florida and was a loyalist during the Revolution"
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_58/reportersbooktriestoanswer.html
Cypress said:I don't know.
I don't see how its possible for rational people to say Gore or Kerry "didn't come across very well", while bush is clearly the dumbest, most ill-prepared and most inarticulate candidate ever put forth by a major party. Yet all the talk remains on how Gore "didn't connect well".
If people are deciding their votes because Gore sighed too much, walked like a robot, or doesn't seem like a cool guy to have a beer with, they need to have their voter registration cards revoked
Really. I was cringing with embarrassment for bush during his debates with Kerry. I mean, I hate that guy, and I was still embarrassed for him. It was the humanity of it all.
And the dopes put him back in office. Kerry didn't come off good? Give me a break. Grind would have looked good up there next to bush, and think about that for a minute, ok?
Cypress said:
I think he wants it, and in a normal year, I'd be willing to put money down saying he runs.
But...you'd truly have to be crazy to want to take over after this maniac leaves. Any idea what the next guy is going to have to deal with???? It's actually insurmountable. So the question becomes, is Gore nuts? And that I don't know.
OrnotBitwise said:It all hinges on what we're calling "elitist" now doesn't it. My general observation is that conservatives are more likely to call an educated person, especially an academic, "elitist" whereas liberals are more inclined to so label someone who believes in the perogatives of wealth.
Personally, I call Bush an elitist, not because of his birth and wealth, but because of his beliefs. Of course, it's likely that his beliefs result from his birth and wealth, but that's another question.
Ornot! Who's your daddy? Is that what you're going for there?
Who's your daddy?! How un-Ornot! lol
Darla said:
When I was overseas and heard him campaigning in 2000 I cringed with embarrasment. By 2004, I'd distanced myself so much from him and his administration, I had no feeling of empathy for the chimp.