Al Gore, next president

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: GUEST,Murray MacLeod
Date: 12 Oct 00 - 10:30 PM

Well, let's put it this way DougR. I have bet more than I can afford to lose, but I am not going to lose.

Muray

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: DougR
Date: 12 Oct 00 - 10:36 PM

Don't want to cause you any sleepless nights, but lots of luck! Look at it this way, if you lose, you'll be a bit more careful with your money in the future. The race is going to be very close which means that you may do a bit of sweating before the results are known. If you win, next time maybe you will be a bit more careful with your money!

DougR

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: GUEST,Murray MacLeod
Date: 12 Oct 00 - 10:59 PM

Doug, let me tell you , my confidence level in the outcome of this event is sky-high. I really don't give a shit about the media's opinion as to who won or lost the debate last night.

The American public is NOT going to elect a President a candidate with G Bush's foreign policy. I have to be careful here, I don't want to be too specific, I am not a US citizen. I do not wish to cause offence.

Murray

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: kendall
Date: 12 Oct 00 - 11:08 PM

What foriegn policy?

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: DougR
Date: 12 Oct 00 - 11:13 PM

Kendall! I thought you went to bed!

Don't sweat it Murray, everybody is entitled to an opinion.

DougR

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: GUEST,Murray MacLeod
Date: 12 Oct 00 - 11:14 PM

Exactly.

Murray

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Oct 00 - 04:32 PM

well!!! I, for one, will sleep easier knowing Murray's money has assured my future happiness..*big grin*....

(if Murray loses, we ALL lose...and there will be some mighty long faces in here...so VOTE,Americans...keep Murray's record intact!)

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: Big Mick
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 02:06 PM

A.) I love you all dearly
B.) Al Gore is my guy, and I have backed this with my time, money and talent
C.) This, coupled with the George Bush thread, is the dumbest damn thread I have ever seen.
D.) Don't forget to vote.

All the best,

Big Mick

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Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: DougR
Date: 14 Oct 00 - 11:38 PM

Gee whiz, Big Mick, you really think it's more ridiculous than the condom thread? Just a lot of good friends having a lot of fun.

DougR

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 02:48 PM

Here's a look back at the fairly recent past. Who among us thinks that we and the world in which we live would not be in better shape if Al Gore were sitting behind that desk?

Al Gore for President!

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 02:52 PM

Al Gore for science advisor to Obama or Clinton

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 02:58 PM

I second that!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: Amos
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 03:29 PM

IT is an interesting read, I must say -- a few stout hearts with a keens ense of Bush's inherent unpalatability, and a bunch of rhetoricians all set to send him in to save the Republican world. In retrospect, you have to ask "What did they miss that they could have seen coming?". When I really screw up a hjudgement call, I like to review and ask why I did so I can change my operating basis somehow to prevent the castastrophe from recurring.



A

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: PoppaGator
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 03:54 PM

Fat chance, Amos, that more than a very few of our resident right-wingers are ~ even yet ~ ready to admit that the non-election of W to the Presidency in 2000 was a disaster.

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 06:02 PM

It's not out the possibilities that Al Gore could be the next president...

If the convention becomes a complete slobber-knocker with neither Obama or McHillary's folks willing to give, it is possible that after a few rounds of voting that party elders could step in, offer Gore as a "compromise" nominee allowing both the Obama and McHillary people some level of face saving...

Stranger things have happened...

Like a moron stealing the presidency...

B~

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 06:09 PM

yes...'possible'...but it sure would not set well with many that he didn't 'do the work'....or spend the money.

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 08:51 PM

Well, if you go back far enough, there is a precedent for that.

The Athenians (Athens, incidentally, was the longest existing democracy in history, not the United States) chose their public officials not by vote, but by lottery. Athenian citizens were well educated, and were expected, as the civic duty of a citizen, to take an interest in public affairs and know what was going on, so if they were selected in the lottery, they would be prepared to take over the duties of the office.

At the end of their term, their performance in office was reviewed and evaluated by jury of 501 citizens (deemed too large a jury to bribe), and they were honored or censured according to their performance. Someone who really messed up could be banished. So it behooved them to keep well informed, and if chosen, keep their noses clean.

Not a bad system. . . .

Info from First Democracy : The Challenge of an Ancient Idea by Paul Woodruff.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Al Gore, next president
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 08:59 PM

I agree...not a bad system...for Athens. I can just imagine that lottery running here, and some of the folks we might get making decisions. A bad set of 501 (isn't that about the size of Congress?..*grin*)could mess things up pretty badly before their 'review'.