Why I love this picture so much...

This picture was linked earlier, but I just had to share it again.



Here's someone who's had deep tragedy in his life, who's fought his heart out for a cause that far too few pay attention to, whose breathtaking foresight and passion are derided and maliciously mischaracterized as "craziness," and who -- despite earning the position where he could have led us to more peace and prosperity -- had his life's dream stolen by predatory thugs. Thugs who then mocked him when he showed himself willing to take the fight for his rightfully won leadership as far as he could legally go. And he's had to watch this unlawful band of usurpers take this beautiful country and soil it through greed, stupidity, and rapacious warmongering.

But look at this man's face. It's open and honest. It's hopeful. There's candor in those eyes. You can see what's inside his heart and mind -- he's continued to fight for his cause, and despite all the horrible setbacks, vicious insults and endless obstacles, he still sees the future as one to be awaited with excitement. And he's still trying to help the world see it with him.

This is the face of my president.

God willing, he will someday be in the White House where he belongs.

But then I read your post and I so agree. There is hope in that face.

Dammit, I'm gonna' cry. Very touching.




Cher

:kick:

... the evil smirk caught on W's face after his recent non-apology for saying "bring it on."

Thanks.

Hekate

:hi: Saving the world! :loveya: :loveya: :patriot:www.cartoonbank.com/newyorker/slideshows/040913algore.html President Gore song

Thanks for sharing. :hi:

i guess that everyone sees things a little different.

He Cares

"Just another corporate whore."

Look, I appreciate Gore's work the past couple of years just as much as anybody else, but sadly it is too little, too late. Now that he is out of public office, and not beholden to his corporate masters anymore, now he comes out with this movie and lecture circuit tour. Now, when it really doesn't count for much.

But back in '00, when it really counted, he allowed himself to be manipulated by both his DLC handlers and his corporate masters. The state of Florida would have been his, except for one thing. Rather than doing what the people of Florida were wanting, which was to prevent oil drilling in the Gulf off the coast of Florida, instead Gore decided to pander to his corporate masters at BP and Occidental Petroleum and back said offshore drilling to the hilt. This move pissed off almost 600,000 registered Democrats and self described liberals to the point that they switched their votes to Bush instead. And thus the election was lost, as was the future of our country.

Therefore, while I appreciate Gore's speaking out now, and will probably go see Inconvient Truth at some point, I can never trust the man again, and will not vote for him if he decides to run. I just can't trust him anymore. He has caved in to his corporate masters too often to think that he wouldn't do so again.

This move pissed off almost 600,000 registered Democrats and self described liberals to the point that they switched their votes to Bush instead. And thus the election was lost, as was the future of our country.


600,000 dems switched to BUSH because of GORE's 'TIES' TO BIG OIL!?!? pleaasssse give me some of what you're smoking.....

That is unless you don't wish to believe either Greg Palast or Jim Hightower, both of whom covered it. Go read "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and "If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates". I would also suggest that you go take a look at who was donating the big bucks to Gore in the '00 campaign.

Also, while you're perusing the Palast book, note that Gore had the entire Votescam scandal handed to him on a silver platter early in the recount period. Now think about this, you've been handed the very information that would not only win you the election, but would banish your opponent and his political cronies to the wilderness forever. What would you do with that info?

Gore sat on it, and thus we all lost.

Hate to say it, but those are also some inconvienent truths. The sooner we face up to the reality of the two party/same corporate master system of government, the sooner we can fix the problem.

There's no doubt that some delusional Dems voted Bush as have other delusionals voted Raygun and even Nixon in the past. I wonder if there is still "no difference" between "Tweedledum and Tweedledee ."

However the real culprit re Gore http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2000/11/images/Nader,Ralph.jpg

Blaming the party and candidates shortcomings on a man who got like 2% of the vote, Puhleeze. All you are doing is exonerating the horrible tactical decisions of the Gore campaign, and scapegoting a candidate who had absolutely no effect on the outcome. In fact, according to Al From, head of the DLC, if Nader hadn't been in the race, Gore would have actually done worse. "The assertion that Nader's marginal vote hurt Gore is not borne out by polling data. When exit pollers asked voters how they would have voted in a two-way race, Bush actually won by a point. That was better than he did with Nader in the race."<http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=127&subid=179&contentid=2919>

But hey, never let the facts get in the way of a good scapegoating, eh? After all, it wasn't like Gore actually lost the popular vote in Florida, or the Supreme Court took the decision out of voters' hands now. Nooooo, it was all Nader's fault:eyes:

You know, it is this kind of attitude that is really hurting the Democratic Party. By scapegoating others, you allow the real problems of the party to continue to fester and grow worse. Perhaps it is time we dropped this tactic and take a cold honest look at what is really going on in the party before it is too late and we find ourselves irrelevant:shrug:

Any/all candidates will have some negatives - but I am keenly aware of, and critical of, his former DLC status. I am very disappointed to hear that he backed offshore drilling in Florida in 2000. I am not in the "can never trust the man again camp" because I believe in the reformative effective of personal humiliation and having the people who you thought would support you (corporate backers) abandon you instead.

I want to hear him now. What does he think about NAFTA (which he personally pushed through the Senate)? What does he think about off-shore drilling? How much of his campaign funding would be from corporations and how much from the people? I want to hear him talk about how he has changed since 2000. I am hopeful that he sees things differently now.

I'd do cartwheels for weeks if I thought Dennis Kucinich would get the nomination - someone who *really* thinks outside the box and speaks truth to everyone.

If I can't have a truly different candidate - I'd rather have someone who has sinned and now admits his mistakes than to have someone who is a pretender to the 'new Democrat' throne. Evan Bayh and Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton haven't supported offshore drilling in FLA and their last Presidential campaign was not backed by questionnable corporations -- but they are not better than Gore.

I think that Bill Clinton and Al Gore drank the Milton Freedman free market kool-aid long ago. Lots of people who thought of free markets as a religion in the 80's and 90's are now changing their tunes.

I am going to give Gore the opportunity to show me he has changed his.

If Gore - then I want a strong anti-war VP to go with him. An end to empire, an end to globalization.

.....I honestly think that would be a winning ticket.

BTW...great pic

but I would like to see someone fresh to take over like Feingold/Clark. Just my opinion, but I would rather focus on November 2006.

Gore Clark in '08 for sure!

An environmentalist AND someone who actually served in the military and can therefore manage it correctly!

but I'm ready to support Gore for another run at Prez in '08. Not Kerry, definately not Hillary. It makes me sick to think where we are now and where we would have been if FuckWad bush and his cabal had'nt stolen the election in 2000