Reply #34: Completely agreed - but then again, you and I have been down that [View All]

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road before! :D

Another reason to add to yours regarding Obama and Gore. Yes, experience. But something else. I would want the first black president in American history to be able to get working on more than just cleaning up some cretin's multiple messes. What if it takes more than the first four-year term? Can't you just bet that Obama's enemies from the knuckledragger crowd would almost literally pay to see him fail, or to see him not succeed up to everyone's expectations (especially since cleaning up after the schmuck-in-chief will be one galactically HUGE job)? They'd be waiting to pounce on him and drag him through every kind of shit because of it. It might cost him a second term, and it might risk leaving some - um - shall we say unenlightened voters pointing at him and saying - "See? They can't handle the job!" Truly. I hate even to think about it, but these are inhabitants of the Dark Side. Some of them are truly Satan's spawn. Look what one of the vilest of them tried to do on his radio show to Michael J. Fox, for heaven's sakes! Look what they did to Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Max Cleland, and even to john mccain. They'll do ANYTHING they think will work to bring down ANYBODY on our side. No matter how low they need to stoop to do so or how much they feel compelled to distort or obliterate the truth. BET ON THEM TRYING to appeal to the baser nature and deeply-buried, hushed-up demons of their lowest-of-low-life constituents. Anybody remember the campaign against Harold Ford in Kentucky? Talk about low-life!!! And it might not only deny Obama a second term, but make it that much harder for more African-Americans to seek the highest office. The same effect, I think, would also be at work against the first woman president. And it would be horrendously unfair, but then again, when have these human vermin EVER bothered themselves with genuine fairness?

I think if Al Gore were in that position, his years and years of experience and battle-hardening would leave him a lot better able to weather any such assaults. Plus, he's got an ungodly amount of political capital built up - more than Obama OR Hillary OR Edwards OR anybody else - on our side OR the bad guys' side.

And one other thing that makes me hesitate about Obama and/or Hillary. I'd hate to take a strong Democrat out of the Senate when we need EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM in there keeping our majority intact.