Gore Compares 2008 Choice To 2000 Election

Former Vice President Praises Obama, Reflects On His Own White House Run

(AP)  Al Gore told Democrats Thursday night that the 2008 election is close because defenders of the status quo "are desperately afraid of the change Barack Obama represents." And the former vice president said he knows something about close elections.

He does because he lost one, in overtime, in 2000, to President Bush.

Gore said Bush's leadership has spelled calamity and Republican John McCain would bring more of the same.

Addressing tens of thousands at Invesco Field, Gore said that when he ran against Bush, some people saw little difference between them and thought the outcome wouldn't matter much. "But here we all are in 2008 and I doubt anyone would argue now that election didn't matter." (Read the speech)

Gore said that if he'd been elected in 2000, the United States would not be bogged down in Iraq, would not be facing "a self-inflicted economic crisis," and the government would not be disregarding the Constitution or denying the climate crisis.

"Today, we face essentially the same choice we faced in 2000 ..." he said. "John McCain, a man who has earned our respect on many levels, is now openly endorsing the policies of the Bush-Cheney White House and promising to actually continue them, the same policies all over again."

Gore said he's for recycling, "but that's ridiculous," drawing cheers from the Democratic National Convention crowd.

He said that with McCain's support, Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney "have led our nation into one calamity after another ..."

"If you like the Bush-Cheney approach, John McCain's your man," Gore said. "If you want change, then vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden."

Gore said there is no better example of resistance to change than the climate crisis. That's been his cause; he shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his work on the issue.

"We are facing a planetary emergency which, if not solved, would exceed anything we've experienced in the history of humankind," Gore said. He said McCain wouldn't do anything about it.

Obama would, he said, and Democrats should work with him "not only in the heat of this election but in the aftermath as we put his agenda to work for our country."

He said Obama's wisdom and experience "has taught him something that career politicians often overlook - that inconvenient truths must be acknowledged if we are to have wise governance."

The latter was a reference to the Oscar-winning documentary about Gore's campaign to end global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth."

[veteran22]

Dorkfish is when you shoot someone in the face; dorkfish is when you say there are weapons of mass destruction in a country where there are none; dorkfish is when crooked lobbyists pay off the speaker of the house so a rich Chinese businessman can continue to keep his workers like slaves (Abramnoff/Deley). Dorkfish is when you lose an election and then cheat and lie like hell to say you won. If you want to see Dorkfish, look at those demon seed republicans -- if you want to see fool Jon, look in the mirror for only an absolute fool would believe in them or defend them.

[rasputin1357]

Every friggin white guy they interviewed, typically looked, and always sounded like a "dorkfish."

What is it about Demotard white guys?? Reckon they got "pants" one too many times as a kid??
ROTFLMGTBO!!!!!

Posted by JonGood54 at 09:38 AM : Aug 29, 2008
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Hey JonGood54...I realize you are severely retarded but do you really have to demonstrate it here on this board?

[jongood54]

Just keep one thing in mind and you think back on that stadium full of Obama worshippers last night:

Did you noticed every time they interviewed some white dude in the crowd, if not at first site, at least by his second word out of his mouth, you knew he was a genuine "dorkfish"?????????

Every friggin white guy they interviewed, typically looked, and always sounded like a "dorkfish."

What is it about Demotard white guys?? Reckon they got "pants" one too many times as a kid??
ROTFLMGTBO!!!!!

[jongood54]

Just imagine how different things would have been had Gore gotten elected in 2000?
Posted by Policrypt at 10:33 PM : Aug 28, 2008
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My mind isn''t capable of painting such a horrible portrait of the country I live.

We know for sure we would still be in the Clinton recession of 2000. The camel humpers would be massing huge forces on both our southern and northern borders....Likely equipped with nuclear warheads.

For we all know "Treeman" Gore, or any of his fellow DemoTard suckbuddies would have paid nothing more than lip service to the events of 9-11.

[im4honesty]

The issues on which McCain and Bush differ are legion:

Posted by peterp111



McCain has flip-flopped on the Bush tax cuts for the rich, he was in goose-step with Bush/Cheney going into this illegal war, and McCain, of all people, has endorsed the Bush/Cheney policy on torture. Now he wants to continue bankrupting our country by keeping this insane war going. The choice is clear, if you want more of the same... vote for McCain.

[grammawhamma]

Just goes to show how popular Gore is...this article has been out for hours and only 5 posts. Half of them are anti-Gore. Gore ranks right up there (or should I say down there) with John Kerry in my opinion.

[grammawhamma]

Posted by linymo at 12:24 AM : Aug 29, 2008


I am an American and I agree with you 100%!

[jaykay3141]

Maybe in 75 years everything will be declassified and my grandchildren will learn exactly how the Bushies stole the 2000 election....