what's al gore's environmental cred? he wrote a book. when he became veep that all went right out the window.
anybody who runs for president does it for ego reasons. no offense but i really wish people would find a better reason to piss on nader.
and as i keep saying to people, nader isn't the one who lost gore the election. gore didn't lose the election. and it's gore's fault the election was so close that nader could even be considered a threat to him. history tells us that the veeps of successful two-term presidents usually wind up being elected right afterward themselves. how did he manage to screw up when history was on his side?
lots of reasons. won't go into 'em here.
i'm not voting for nader, mind you. i want to see the greens get their federal matching funds and so i might have voted for cobb, BUT, i would rather see the greens get more of a state and local presence and see how they run things before i go voting for them on a national level. so i'm going to vote for kerry. but i refuse to blame nader for gore's so-called loss (which really wasn't), and i agree with him that the dems and repubs are more alike than they are different. clinton wasn't so great for this country in some ways either, you know... in some ways, for instance, he really screwed the poor. not in the same way he wanted to screw monica lewinsky, but.
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Date: 2004-10-20 02:57 pm (UTC)anybody who runs for president does it for ego reasons. no offense but i really wish people would find a better reason to piss on nader.
and as i keep saying to people, nader isn't the one who lost gore the election. gore didn't lose the election. and it's gore's fault the election was so close that nader could even be considered a threat to him. history tells us that the veeps of successful two-term presidents usually wind up being elected right afterward themselves. how did he manage to screw up when history was on his side?
lots of reasons. won't go into 'em here.
i'm not voting for nader, mind you. i want to see the greens get their federal matching funds and so i might have voted for cobb, BUT, i would rather see the greens get more of a state and local presence and see how they run things before i go voting for them on a national level. so i'm going to vote for kerry. but i refuse to blame nader for gore's so-called loss (which really wasn't), and i agree with him that the dems and repubs are more alike than they are different. clinton wasn't so great for this country in some ways either, you know... in some ways, for instance, he really screwed the poor. not in the same way he wanted to screw monica lewinsky, but.