At the 2000 Dem Convention, did emotions and hope run this high?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

I was too ignorant at the time to take notice

[kainah]

1. No n/t

[Norbert]

2. No

This is probably as good as it gets.

[WindRavenX]

3. nope

Many Americans still weren't sure who Al Gore was. After tonight, I don't think any American who watched will be unsure as to who the man known as John F. Kerry is or what his message is.
We are a united party too- in 2000, the Democratic party was still split into factions.

[lapfog_1]

4. Absolutely not.

It all seemed forced. And the left base was too much "Gore and Bush
are too similar, they are both owned by corporate America, we
want Nader"... and the right and center base (of the Democratic
party) were NOT excited about Gore (I liked Gore a lot, but then
I reported up the chain of command to him and noticed that he
did a lot for us). Plus Bush was all about tax cuts (now that we
have this surplus, why aren't you getting your money back!) and
compassionate conservatism (whatever the hell that meant). People
back then thought there was no way Bush could fuck it up too much,
and nobody got excited about Gore (it also didn't help that the
right kept lie after lie about Gore in the media echo chamber,
like the whole "Gore said he invented the internet" piece of crap,
which, of course, Gore never said, plus the Gore thinks that "Love
Story" was written about him specifically, which, of course, Gore
never said, and so on and so on. So Gore was always defending
himself, the nation was convinced that while Clinton was charming,
he was always lying about something, and so, by association, Gore
was probably a liar too.

This seems much different. First we now know what an evil fuck
Bush is, not to mention that his lack of sophistication, and even
lack of intelligence which seemed (to many, not me) sort of charming
in 2000 (everybody can go have a beer with this guy)... seems
very embarrassing now. So we are all united in wanting to get
this EVIL STUPID embarrassment out of office... but after tonight,
I think we've all changed (I know I have). I still want Bush out
more than anything, but now I want Kerry to be our President...
and that's different. I had already contributed as much as I
could afford to Kerry right after it became clear that he would
be the nominee. Now I'm wishing I had either a job or saved more
money so I could max out in my contribution to our next President.
And the new contribution would not be about Bush, it would
be about Kerry.

[wyldwolf]

5. no. There was confidence, almost a sense of certainty, we would win...

..and we did.

[Bucky]

6. Dunno. I think there was a failure of heart. We had hopes of winning, but

but we didn't have a plan. We certainly didn't have the raw mojo of this year's shindig. When Gore turned his convention into an infomercial, it felt forced. Kerry's infomercial is perfectly recieved.

Remember this one, kids. There won't be that many this good in our lifetimes.

[Newkophile]

7. Impeachment of Clinton made me pessimistic

The fact that Gore felt he had to separate himself from Clinton because of Ken Starr & the Lewinsky impeachment mess, hurt the 2000 election. If Gore could have run by continually mentioning Clinton's role in the 8 years of peace and prosperity, the 2000 election would have been a rout.

[Zech Marquis]

8. this one was much more charged and full speed ahead like

it just feels sooo much STRONGER :bounce: