NOT HAVING THE 2000 ELECTION STOLEN FROM GORE-Would have Been Greatest Step For World Peace (TPM)

[kpete]

On Gore
First, before any other yapping and commentary, a big congratulations to Al Gore.

There are several layers of irony and poetic justice wrapped into this honor. The first is that the greatest step for world peace would simply have been for Gore not to have had the presidency stolen from him in November 2000. By every just measure, Gore won the presidency in 2000 only to have George W. Bush steal it from him with the critical assistance of the US Supreme Court. It's worth taking a few moments today to consider where the country and world would be without that original sin of this corrupt presidency.

And yet this is a fitting bookend, with Gore receiving this accolade while the sitting president grows daily an object of greater disapproval, disapprobation and collective shame. And let's not discount another benefit: watching the rump of the American right detail the liberal bias of the Nobel Committee and at this point I guess the entire world. Fox News vs. the world.

And not to forget what this award is about even more than Gore. If half of what we think we know about global warming is true, people will look back fifty years from now on the claims that "War on Terror" was the defining challenge of this century and see it as a very sick, sad joke -- which rather sums up the Bush presidency.

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[ixion]

1. a very sick, sad joke indeed...

it would be freakin' hilarious if it weren't so tragic.

[Solly Mack]

2. Yep

[book_worm]

3. The man who should have been president. The wierd thing is how it has turned out on a personal

level for the two men: Bush--perhaps the most hated man in the world, not respected even by his own country by and large and looking at being marked as perhaps the worst and most destructive president in our history. Gore: Universally respected and admired. An Oscar winner and Nobel Peace Prize Winner for his efforts to save the planet. Hundreds of thousands of people hoping, wishing he would run for president again.

Thanks Supreme Court!

[L. Coyote]

5. The man trhe People chose to be President. He lost by theft and 1 vote = 5-4

[L. Coyote]

4. This should be an important focus of the current story. Bush stole election from Peace Laureate

[bonito]

6. K&R

[pacalo]

7. The most fitting bookend would be President Gore appointing the next Supreme Court Justice.

[mod mom]

8. Josh also asks "WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?" Me: OVAL OFFICE!

[Enrique]

9. gore would have read the Aug. 6 briefing

"bin laden determined to attack within the United States"

[ooglymoogly]

10. Should have read "with the help of the SCOTUS and the corporate

noise" calling themselves in delusion "mainstream media". kr