Reply #205: That's not true regarding other efforts

[RestoreGore]

I did not try to draft him, because drafts do not happen in this system. I tried to get write in votes for him in states that allowed such ( not at any convention), but once John Kerry was selected that effort was over. I also tried via petition to have a constitutional amendment regarding federal election fraud get to Congress to safeguard against what happened in 2000 from happening again which did have thousands of signatures on it (including Ted Rall's and others BTW) from those who also believed in a remedy considering none was given by the state of Florida or this Congress in response to the total dereliction of duty in counting the electoral votes in 2001. That in case you don't understand IS NOT A DRAFT, but was on my part an attempt at "restoring" what I believe to this day was stolen from this country.

However, I have never bothered this man the way people are now harrassing him daily. I didn't follow him around, stick banners in his face, or state that he would be forced in any way to do anything, and he never asked me to quit either, because bascially he believes in the freedom of this Democracy, and more than likely already knew it wasn't going to happen anyway... And he was right again.

Again, I did not harass him, I took it to the party responsible which was Congress, out of a sense of moral outrage which was not shared by any other Gore "support" sites at that time I guess because it wasn't "politically expedient" to stand up for the Constitution. And I like so many Americans who dared to speak up was summarily ignored by this corrupted corporate warmongering Congress that didn't give a damn about doing what was right, and I believe on the whole still doesn't. And it was that illumination that hit me like a ton of bricks that I saw an inconvenient truth.

It was then that the realization also hit me about how utterly fixed this all is and how naive I had been, and showed me that this was not a system that believed in Democracy and it was the end of any effort that I then believed was simply a spinning of wheels, which is why I support Mr. Gore 's efforts at a grassroots movement do much now. It was also then that I realized that Mr. Gore is indeed a good decent man of his word regarding his intentions and that he truly does know better than me or any of us what is the best course for him to now follow. And after that experience it is clear to me now why he is not planning on running and I too learned a valuable lesson about respecting a man's words and allowing him to do it his way.

I am on to helping Mr. Gore save this planet. So please in the future if you are going to mention what I tried to do, at least tell the truth.