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Quote by: Milton Bradley ( Remember, his sister was "the first Peace Corp. volunteer", or the "I live on a farm" quotes? ) |
See? You've fallen for Bush's massive underground campaign of painting Bush as a liar by making lies out of things that simply sounded implausible if stated a certain way. You two examples point this out clearly...
His sister in the Peace Corp. -- Gore's sister Nancy was among the first volunteer workers who actually
set up the Peace Corp back in 1960, long before they actually began sending kids overseas.
Working on the farm -- while Gore did go to school in Washington DC, he spent his
summers working on the family's Tennessee farm, doing exactly the chores he said he did. I'd think that puts him more in touch with farmlife than 95% of Americans.
Face it, Milton, Gore was the victim of a campaign in which the Republicans found it politically expedient to tie Gore to Bill Clinton's reputation of telling lies. They simply cherry picked his statements for anything that sounded, or could be
made to sound, implausible and created mountains out of it. In other words, he was "Swift Boated". Alas, Gore lacked Clinton's ability to swiftly counter opposition rumor mongering.
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Quote by: Technosoul One problem is that a really intelligent person often sounds to boreing and that turns voters off. |
Indeed. Modern, media-fueled elections have become cult of personality competitions.
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Quote by: Technosoul The reason for the "short list" of canidates to pick from is because I was not creating a "new election" but intended for this to be "in hindsite". |
Fair enough, but given that Kerry was a pretty bad candidate under any circumstances, and Gore ran a fairly anemic campaign, methinks this is sort of wistful thinking rather than cause for serious discussion.
GIVEN THAT, however, perhaps there is a lesson here. In any election we're given the candidates we're given. Wishing there were better candidates or for your favorite guy to be running seems to be an excercise in futility.
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