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Al,
About '04...
July 20, 2001
by
birdman
Al, I suppose I�m not your favorite kind if Democrat in
that I worked for Bradley last year and in fact at the first
Bradley meeting I attended in 1999 they asked everyone to
say who they were and why they were there. When they got to
me I said that I was there because I had always liked Bradley
but mostly because I wanted the Democrats to hold the White
House and I was convinced that Al Gore was a stone cold loser.
Now , of course, I voted for you and was as disappointed as
anyone with the results of the election. I�m as angry with
old five-to-four as anyone. But now I hear that you are ready
to reenter the arena with an eye toward 2004.
There's a feeling among many that you got screwed out your
rightful place in the White House by a criminal enterprise
and therefore, the reasoning goes, you should get another
shot at it. Sorry, Al, but that's a crock. You almost certainly
did get screwed and you'd be a much better president than
the clown in the White House but you coughed up a sure thing.
If anything you owe the people here at DU and millions of
others an apology for losing to a guy with a pair of fours
while you were sitting with a full house.
Let's think back, now. Was it entirely necessary to show
up at the first debate huffing and puffing and snorting and
acting like the third grader whose always has his hand up
to impress the teacher? The sad part is that Bush performed
so badly that night. He acted terrified, blinking wildly and
fishing frantically for the canned answers that he had memorized.
He looked like he was in way over his head, exactly the image
you wanted the public to come away from that debate with.
But all anybody remembered was you (snort, snort).
Remember the tenant in the dump, Tracy Mayberry, Al? You
should. In fact you should have remembered her well before
last years campaign. How much would it have cost to fix the
woman�s place up in, say, 1998 so that you didn�t hand the
Republicans an issue that they could gleefully exploit for
a few days and portray you as out of touch with ordinary people?
You had eight years to get ready and you couldn�t tuck this
particular part of your shirttail in?
Do you lay awake nights thinking of ways to make yourself
look ridiculous? Love Story? Hello. Even if it was
true (and apparently according to Eric Segal it's not) who
the hell would ever want to compare themselves to that insufferable
snot-nosed hockey playing rich kid ?
Naomi Wolf ? The Alpha-male? The earth tones? All things
that enable conservatives to portray liberals as space cadets
who are out of touch with reality. Were you making these decisions?
If so, what the hell were you thinking about? If not, why
weren�t you in charge?
The Internet? Maybe you didn't word that statement properly
and certainly the reaction to it was overblown, but it was
a veritable windfall for the opposition. Do you think all
the people who worked so hard and were so disappointed this
time should have to worry in 2004 that you're going to make
this kind of gaffe again?
The release of water into the drought-stricken river for
a canoe photo-op. Anybody home there, Mr. Environment?
The crotch shot on the cover of Rolling Stone? Give me strength.
Yeah. They cheated you in Florida, Al. And they had their
buddies in the Supreme Court settle the issue for them. And
Clinton should have kept his shwontz in his pants and his
cigars in his humidor and those damn fifty year old hippies
should have voted for you instead of the consumer lawyer.
But it should have never been that close. You blew it. And
no, you don't deserve another chance.
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