What if Al Gore had been President?

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

Not very poignantly written, but will give us a heartache nonetheless:

http://media.www.bgnews.com/media/storage/paper883/news/2007/09/07/Forum/What-If.Al.Gore.Had.Been.President-2955383.shtml

[onehandle]

1. He would have been impeached immediately after 9/11.

The Republican Congress would have barbecued him for not protecting us.

The Gore Presidency wouldn't have lasted a year.

Lieberman would have slipped into the Presidency and the Iraq (and Iran) invasion would have happened anyway.

[liberal renegade]

2. That sounds about right......

[tom_paine]

3. No, because 9/11 would have been partially or totally foiled

ESPECIALLY if the Bushies LIHOPped or MIHOPped it in the first place, at LEAST a 50% probability at this point.

However, you may be right about the rest of it because the Bushies just would have engaged in criminal activity until they "trapped" Gore and forced the impeachment.

Either that, or they would have Wellstoned or Kennedied his ass, though I suspect they don't much like doing things as directly as they did in those days, having their Loyal Bushies ventilate Kennedy's head on national TV.

[Sadie4629]

4. How could any President have prevented the attacks?

Forget LIHOP/MIHOP for a minute.

With the info that was contained in the August briefing that Bush ignored, what would any other President have done? Shut down the airlines? Closed the WTC? Evacuated NYC/Washington? For how long? When would the threat have passed?

[tom_paine]

5. That's easy. #1) have you ever heard of the Gore-Hart-Rudmann report?

I am not going to waste time explaining what it was. Google it to read and understand.

A quick note here: if you think that I meant a President alone could have stopped the attack taht is not what i meant at all, but rather the difference between having Loyal Bushies (who's first allegience is to Fuhrer and Party above country) and having Loyal Americans in authority positions.

For instance, think back to the days when America was still free.

Remember how Clinton handled the threat of the Millenium Bomber? went on national TV and alerted as many people as possibel to be vigilant.

As the millenium approached, MANY people heard this message and many people were extra vigilant because they had warning to be so.

Surprise, surprise... people, most of whom had heard Clitnon's message, and if that was his message to the public, what was his message to Law Enforcement at this same time? Probably even more attention-grabbing and focusing.

Ih any case, these forewarned employees and Loyal American stopped these Bushpals from killing hundreds, possibly thousands.

So, there are TWO (and there are so many more reasons I could cite, but this post is long nough already) reason to back up my assertion, both real and valid.

1) The implementation of Gore-Hart-Rudman
2) Going public with the numerous and repeated intelligence wwarnings from various sources, in order to alret and make all America mor vigilant.

How's that for ignoring the LIHOP/HIHOP/MIHOP that very likely occurred?

I stand by what I said: Gore is President, and 9/11 is partially or toatlly foiled. 90% certainty.

I hope now yuou see why I have good reasons for making this assertion.

[Sadie4629]

7. I Googled "Gore-Hart-Rudman"

and "Gore-Hart-Rudmann" and gore hart rudman and the only hit I got was a message board which really didn't tell me much.

[tom_paine]

8. OK here you go

Here is a page which ocntains the actual link to the .pdf of the report, if you wish to read some or all of it:

http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/lib_assessments2.php

The link is in the middle of the page under "Key National Reports"

Some analysis of the report and what it meant, as well as what the Bushies did with it...used it as toilet paper:

http://archive.salon.com/news/col/huff/2001/09/13/media/index.html

[Rageneau]

6. See "Family Guy" clips on You Tube for the answer.

[lib2DaBone]

9. Roll Over fido....

He would have rolled over and surrendered everything... just as he did.. He did not even contest the obvious election fraud...Forget AL.