Big Mick wrote:

"I am a left wing union organizer. My politics in most every area are very much on the left side of the political spectrum. I was also the State Director of the Gore Campaign in the last Presidential election. I am not a Bubba, or a conservative. And I own guns. And I am VERY well trained. I shoot them for fun as well."

If you examine the left-right political continuum, you will find that Al Gore is a centrist on some issues and somewhat to the right of center on most others. What is considered "liberal" in the USA, is usually on the right wing side of the fence in almost all other industrialized democracies. Look north to Canada or across the pond to Great Britain, for example, and you will see that such policies as socialized medicine for everyone, considered far left in the USA, is an inviolable right.

Canada's far right party, the Canadian Alliance, wouldn't dream of proposing the kind of right wing welfare laws passed by the Clinton-Gore administration.

Big Mick, I'm sure you a sincere individual. However, based on what you've written in this discussion, I can see nothing leftist about your politics.