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Posted By Santosh-Phila, PA : November 27, 2007 3:17 pm

Thanks for posting those links, doesn't matter to these geniuses what the real facts are, but again they do have BDS.

Try to imagine what the U.S. would be like if Gore had won.

We would probably have cleaned up Afganistan and worked on the Terrorist around the world.
Tens of thousands of dead would still be alive, thousand would not have been maimed and the national debt would probably only be $5 trillion instead of $9 trillion.
Not to mention that the U.S. might still have a portion of the moral high ground.

Gore tried to steal the election from President Bush. The thought of 'President' Owl Gore is very disturbing.

Thank God Gore wasn't able to steal the election from President Bush. The thought of having Owl Gore in office is disturbing.

algore has only snowed a bunch of dummies into believing the sky is falling, then with his other hand has you all buying carbon offsets from HIS company. how does that feel?

The only way Gore could get into the White House. His home state knew he was a loser which is how he lost the election.

"Had the American people voted for Gore, there would be NO IRAQ WAR today. Its time for America to wake up and elect INTELLIGENT presidents.

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OMG, more nonsense from north of the border. What's the matter, got some spare time to blog on our sites while standing in line for medical care?

Care to discuss the FACT that Al Gore went to court to throw out all of the absentee ballots, you know the ones that are mostly from OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN OVERSEAS?

Posted By Tom – Dedham, Mass : November 27, 2007 3:35 pm

You mean the absentee ballots that were postmarked AFTER Election Day that commanding officers ordered their troops to submit in order to throw the election to the GOP?

Bush: "Hey there Al boy...I'm in a real pickle with that Iraq thing...can ya help me?"

Gore: "It's an inconvenient truth that you messed things up really bad! So, no f'n way! Things are so bad in this country and the world becaus of you I chose not to clean up your mess by running and winning the presdency next year!"

I love the election was stolen theory. I lived in Florida during 2000 and was amazed how the local news broke in before the returns were final with a group of ladies from down around Lauderdale, talking about how they voted wrongly and how confusing the ballots were.

It was hard for me to swallow that a group of ladies that can go to lunch together, get everything on one tab and figure out who owes what, including tax and gratuity without pen or paper lack the ability to put an X by a name.

When the early returns showed that their boy was not in the lead, the protests came. I asked myself: "If I was confused, why not ask for help? If my ballot was incorrect, can I get this one destroyed and get another? If I screwed up the simplest of tasks, would I have the guts to go on national TV and advertise how stupid I was because I lack the skills necessary to put an X by a name?"

When I saw that I figured the fix was in, if Gore lost the Dems would use their typical "take it through the courts and let the 'rule of law' sort matters out."

In this instance the gambit didn't pan out as expected. How did that group KNOW that their ballots were marked incorrectly thereby making a recount necessary? How did they know that the other folks in their community didn't vote differently and that they weren't simply among the 49% that voted one way?

Ask yourself this, there's a hotly contested issue in your community and polling showed that 49.9% were for and 50.1% against. Election day comes and with 20% of the ballots counted in your neighborhood it's 51.2 to 48.8, would you stand out in the street and proclaim to all of your neighbors "This isn't right, I think I screwed my ballot up because we should be passing this resolution"!

Conspiracy theories are like opinions, anyone can make one up if they want. Get over it and look forward!

Have a great day!

Bush won the only vote that mattered: the electoral college. The popular vote is irrelevant and I wish people who should know better would acknowledge that. If you are of voting age, you should at least know how voting works.

Posted By Lance, Beaverton, OR : November 27, 2007 12:44 pm
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Number one, Vice-President Gore was awarded the electoral votes of florida at first but then, Dubya called his brother and set up sheat-shop so the networks pulled the decision.

Number two, the slim margin of 527 votes, was clearly enough for the Vice-President to ask for a recount, knowing that the election could've been snatched from Georgie with a recount, he flew dozens of lawyers from Texas to Florida and cried fowl, the Florida Supreme court ignored him, then the fight went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, were Ms. Sandra Day O'Conner was quoted saying that she had enough of the Clinton-Gore era and was going to side with the Ring-Wingers in stopping the fair and balanced recount......

if Geoge Bush was so confident that he has won Florida, a recount should not have been out of the question

And if YOU have half a brain, you'd understand how the 2000 Election was stolen,

If the election was stolen, then how did Bush get re-elected by an even larger margin and larger voter turnout?

What does the weather have to do with world peace?

Posted By Wayne, Greenville TX : November 27, 2007 2:45 pm

There you go again Wayne.

Care to discuss the fact that a few liberal newspapers actually paid independent groups and they counted Florida's votes and Bush won.

They were so sure that Gore was going to win the recount they paid to do it and sorry buddy, Bush won.

Care to discuss the FACT that Al Gore went to court to throw out all of the absentee ballots, you know the ones that are mostly from OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN OVERSEAS? How nice of him.

So if the supreme court was filled with democratic appointees and they stopped the stupidity, you all would be saying the process was above board and the system worked the way it should? Of course you would.

Hillarious you DUMBOCRATS keep saying the election was stolen, no the Florida Supreme Court(very liberal ct) tried to steal it for Gore and the Supreme Ct(it was very left judges voting in favor of Bush) did the right thing. Listen Dems if Gore had really won the vote in Florida we would now about it, countless newpapers,watchdog groups and lobby firms have investigated this and all confirm bush won florida. SO get over it,,,love to hear you guys explain JFK victory in Chicago with more than 100k dead people voting for Kennedy????Liberals are pathetic hypocrits....

If Al Gore had won his own state and Ohio, Florida would have never mattered

I love the "what if" folks out there. No one knows what would have happened had Gore won the WH. Things could be better, BUT, they could be worse too. The UN sanctions on Iraq totally collapsed; Saddam reinstated his WMD program and an arms race with Iran ensued; Gore invaded Afghanistan and since it was his focal point for our war on terror, militants stormed the country thus becoming a quagmire (as it was for the Soviet Union) for the US in mountainous territory,
Anyone can surmise what could have happened, so what?! Pure speculation...that's all it is. Let historians hash it out a generation, or more, removed.

Should have been President Gore. Could have been President Gore. Would have been President Gore. And I don't care what the Republicans might say, he would have been a good leader.

Bush won the only vote that mattered: the electoral college. The popular vote is irrelevant and I wish people who should know better would acknowledge that. If you are of voting age, you should at least know how voting works.

Posted By Lance, Beaverton, OR : November 27, 2007 12:44 pm

And if YOU have half a brain, you'd understand how the 2000 Election was stolen, thanks to five Supreme Court Justices appointed by RepubliKKKans.

Seeing those two together causes one to speculate. What if Al Gore had become president in 2000? (Note I did not say, "What if Al Gore had won the election. He did win the election. He just didn't become president.)

Would the nation be in as big a mess now? I doubt that we would have invaded Iraq. I doubt that we would have added 3 trillion to the national debt. I doubt that the nations of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia would hold us in the contempt they now do.

An ironic thought is that the Republican Party would be much stronger now. It was the image of our fumbling, bumbling, stumbling, lackwit policy in Iraq that has turned voters against the Republicans. The pedophile Congressman, the toe-tapping Senator, and the former Republican Congressmen that are now in the slammer didn't help, but they weren't devastating.

Bush won the only vote that mattered: the electoral college. The popular vote is irrelevant and I wish people who should know better would acknowledge that. If you are of voting age, you should at least know how voting works.

Posted By Lance, Beaverton, OR : November 27, 2007 12:44 pm
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Not necessarily true...if the recount was permitted then it would've been clear that Gore won Florida.

Good Lord I need to figure out some kind of junk science too! Then, when I've snowed everyone on it, I can set up a company to sell a way to make up for the so-called damage that you do. Anyone care to look into the company that sells 'carbon off-sets'? algore owns the company, that's pretty nifty isn't it?

Don't believe it! They're still mad at each other........

Actually the popular vote DOES count for something. The electoral college is outdated, something I've thought since before 2000. One person = one vote, this is how it should be.

Hmmm, America, aren't you thinking back to 2000 and the hanging chad? Let's see, deeper in debt, deep in an uncessary war, and where are we global warming? Hopefully we learned something...albeit the hard way.

Lance – Thanks for pointing out that during the past 7 years it is the technicalities that matter in this country and not the will of the majority.

As for the conversation Gore had with GW, it most like fell on deaf ears.

It's fun to imagine what could've been, huh? What would have happened in the alternate universe? Gore would be President, hosting Bush for...cleaning the White House pool? Trimming the White House hedges?

Lance from beaverton actually believes GW "won" the 2000 election, am I the only one in America that saw the news broadcast where one of the thugs that stormed in and phisicaly disrupted the vote count admitted he was paid by the Bush campaign to do so, Had the votes been recounted I am as sure as Karl Rove is that Bush would have lost the electoral college as well.

VP Gore who should have been president is a respectful man who is admired by many. Good men reap benefits and believe me he has......We would have had a much different country if Mr. Gore was president. You can be assured of that...and that means much more positive and prosperous.....

Bush won the only vote that mattered: the electoral college. The popular vote is irrelevant and I wish people who should know better would acknowledge that. If you are of voting age, you should at least know how voting works.

Yeah, if I'd lost an election and had to have my daddy give me the job anyway, I wouldn't hold any resentments, oh my no. Being rich as Midas must be an interesting feeling – what CAN'T they get away with?

HERE WE GO AGAIN (yawn):

"and had Republican lackeys and the Supreme court shut down the re-cont in Florida (IN CHERRY-PICKED PRECINCTS,)"

Seeing this picture makes me agree with those who believe that if Gore truly believes that we are on the brink of Climate disaster, and wants to stop it before it is too late, that he would put himself in the position to affect change the most. (by running for the president of the United States). Gore would win in a landslide.

Ironic that one got the Nobel Prize and the other got the title of Worst President Ever. I wish we would have had the Nobel Prize winner as president; then America wouldn't be in the agonizing mess it's currently in, because nobody could do a worse job than Bush has....

Why are Democrats unable to leave politics out of a news story? They need to just relax at home and sip their free coffee, while the working class supports and protects them.

To AJ in VT:

Actually, I bet Gore went into the dinner with the other laureates. That's the reason why he was there.

To J. Williamson:

EVERY president who served in the last fifty+ years lost the popular vote EXCEPT G. Bush in the election of 2004 (Check your history, dear.). So, Gore being gracious is the least he can do since he was declined by the American population via our electoral college. This was the only way he was ever going to see the Oval Office again, and he got to do so for purporting lies.

And all tha wasted time hating eachother if your going to hate someone stick it out. Don't get cool with him just cause he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Bush is SOOO FAKE!

Both have great hair. Both have a well cutand tailored suits. One is reviled and the other is revered. Who would be the best role model?
A. Hans Solo
B. Darth Vader

So Geo Bush doesn't "harbor any resentments" over the 2000 election? Well that's mighty big of him considering how he lost the popular vote by over a half of a million ballots – and had Republican lackeys and the Supreme court shut down the re-cont in Florida. Mighty big indeed.

Imagine if W had not stolen Florida (Remember how Fox hired W's cousin to be their main contact on the FL vote? and they announced W the winner when exit polls showed Gore?). Gore would have been president. Do you think W would have won a Noble Prize in anything??

President Gore meets King George. Was there someone there who spoke idiot to translate for the moron so he could understand what President Gore was saying?

I bet Gore took a long, long shower after meeting with Bush. He would have to in order to wash the filth away.

I hope George got some coaching as he prepared to open a peace summit. My guess is President Bush would like to be awarded a Nobel Peace prize for the Annapolis gathering. The problem is his long history of making war and doing so badly.

Refusing to have his picture taken with Bush would have been a wonderful political statement, but I suppose Gore is trying to quit politics.
It'd have been a great environmental statement too.

This should come under the new heading "Almost News". So when you don't have enough to talk about, you can post what might have happened. We might have been blown up in a nuclear explosion, but thank God we're still here to read the news that almost happened.

My guess is that Gore pulled no punches in meeting with the President. Gore possesses the luxury of having achieved worldly success and approbation. Those things together with his background as VP, Senator, and political scion – the two of them are birds of a feather – qualify him to talk turkey to the POTUS. You'd have to think global warming and Iraq were on the table, though you'd have to think Bush stuck to the script of being "concerned" about climate change and "confident" that the tide is turning in Iraq. He's also "deeply concerned" about Iran and Darfur, and he always has to bear in mind the "geopolitical consequences" of any action by the U.S. Gore no doubt reminded him that he wishes the President to succeed and hopes that Bush keeps his thoughts in mind and calls him if he can ever be of any assistance. There probably weren't any jokes about Ohio or Florida or the 2000 election. Then they posed for pictures.

Is there anybody who does not wish they were a fly on the wall in the room when Bush and Gore met privately?

We as a family of My Father & Mom & the 3 sons support & endorse the Republicans & the Democrats From Rt.Hon Roosevelt to Rt.Hon Benjamin Franklin to Rt.Hon Ford to Rt.Hon George Bush Sr & Rt.Hon George Bush Jr to Rt,Hon. Hilary Clinton & Rt.Hon Bill Clinton to Rt.Hon Jimmy Carter to Hon Ronald Reagan to Rt.Hon John F. Kennedy &(Marilyn Munroe Scandal1963)& Rt.Hon John Kerry We ape at the U.S Republican & Democrat senators & Presidents in admiration & awe as if they are Hollywood Stars & whenever America sneezes Britain & Europe & the whole world sneezes We all 5 bow & courtesy before the Amrican Senators & Presidents in awe

It is nice that they are polite. It is ashame though that Bush never had faith in the entreprenuerial spirit that America is famous for. If there had been mandates imposed for green house gases, that would have generated a need for new businesses to find ways to help existing businesses clean up their messes. Because Bush is an oy... I mean oil man, this would not be an administration that would welcome the reduction in the use of oil and fossil fuels.

Bush shows so much class allowing this manic in his office and you liberals still bash Bush. Gore has repeatedly badmouthed Bush personally and Bush has said nothing negative about Al Gore. I think it is absolutely amazing how Bush is not given credit for showing consideration and class in these situations. I can not wait to hear all the uneducated liberals on here saying "Oh Bush stole the election anyway" hey morons no he didnt and GW has more class in his pinky then half you morons have in your full family trees.

Best. Slip of the tongue. Ever.

How surreal for Mr. Gore. Being in the office that is rightfully his, standing next to the twisted nitwit that stole the election from him and is destroying our country and Iraq.

Al Gore has more class in his little finger than George W. Bush has in his entire body.

Wow, a Nobel Prize winner for a documentary loaded with factual errors, and all he can come up with is a Forrest Gump line?

I cant believe that the White House spokesperson said Bush doesnt harbor resentments – here are three instances: 'With or without us' comment to countries which didnt support US led invasion of Iraq, screwing France with trade tariffs for not supporting the Iraq invasion, cronyism in every aspect of his business and political life to date. I don't feel Gore deserved the Peace Prize to be honest, but am glad that Bush had to hide his real sentiments and play nice to the real winner of the 2004 U.S. elections.

Now here's a photograph that's an oxymoron...a Nobel winner and a mor–won't even go there...it's just too easy!!!!

That must have been a little uncomfortable for both of them...

Well at least we know if Al Gore was president Bush never would have been inside the oval office.

I hope for once, we can all put aside the acrimonious, partisan rhetoric like these two polar opposite politicians have. For one blog, stop the Bush-Bashing and Gore-Bashing.

that possum face lying bush that stole the 2000 presidential election from AL GORE i thank more of barney his dog than g.w. bush AL GORE thanks for being the MAN you are america need honorable man like you god bless you AL GORE.

President Gore! (Only in dreams...)

There is an old saying that the White House would be well advised to heed..."with friends like these you dont need enemies"
lol

Does this mean they're gay?

So Gore went to the zoo to see the chimp at play?

Bush was quoted as asking Gore, "Do you think you coulda started as good a war as me?!"

"current occupant" yeah like a squatter.

Bush seems quite comfortable in the picture. Gore is the one who seems to feel uncomfortable. Then again, however, that is his unusual demeanor.

President Gore is not such a slip. Had an official recount been done with the entire state of Florida in the 2000 elections Gore would have been declared President. There was a reference to this by CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin.

Vice President Gore has ignored our elected president for quite some time now. It was a photo opportunity for him to be seen with President Bush. Several months back he was screaming at him and his policies like a lunatic. CNN likes to give publicity to Al Gore more than our president deserves. Perhaps CNN will not publish this letter.

I'm sure Gore had to fight back the temptation to pummel the monkey-brained corrupt dynasty/heir-presidency-stealer into a pulp.

Awkward? Of course. It is Gore who should be ashamed of himself. He is relying on shoddy science to speculate that puny humans might possibly be responsible for global warming. Kudos to Bush for sticking to the truth – that humans have nothing to do with climate change...instead it is the work of mother nature.

Calling Al "President Gore" isn't a slip of the tonuge, its a freudian admission at very least, from the most corrupt and cynical White House in american history.

JUST LOOK AT GORE, HE IS A FAT CAT AND I MEAN FAT!! LIVING OFF THE GLOBAL WARMING B/S GORE? LMAO!!! WHAT IS YOUR ELECTRIC BILL GORE MONTHLY?? $3000.00

WhatEver !!, If Gore is half the man He told him Look what you have done with your stolen victory. PERIOD!

Slip of the tongue or telling the truth? Perino might have simply been acknowledging who REALLY won the 2000 election.

"[Bush] does not harbor any resentments... He never has."
What about Saddam Hussein? Wasn't he "the guy who tired to kill my dad" as W said? By the way, the assassination plot against the elder Bush was a fabrication.

What would Bush have to harbor resentment about? He stole the election from Gore, and has run this country into the ground. If anybody shoul dbe mad, it would be Gore!

So Dana Perino said the president had no bad feelings about the 2000 election!!
Why would he? Or does a thief have a conscience.

America does recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry – the Oscar. The world rewards "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses*. (*wikipedia)" – the Nobel Peace Prize. The Cheney/Bush administration bends over backwards for a photo-op to associate themselves with those America and the world reward. A photo-op is nothing but a cheap shot to obtain glory.

Downright classy!
Although no fan of Bush, and doubtful of the legitimacy of his presidency, this meeting showed that harboring resentment does no one any good.

Congrats to both.

I'm glad that the Bush White House is willing to allow some brains in the place. The total IQ in this photo is finally in triple digits with the addition of the Nobel Prize winner.
Bush looks like a nervous frat boy at a DUI stop.

LOL.

I guess we know who she voted for.

awkward?? that's not too awkward of a picture . right.

Denis Hastert has finally made his resignation official and effective tonight, setting up the state for a spring special election! But the real congressional story today is the Mississippi controversy over the timing of the Senate special election to replace Trent Lott - it could go all the way to the courts!

Al Gore liberal arts awards do not really hold much sway with people, and Gore and Bush standing side by side you can see America made the right choice with President Bish. Gore's seems to flakey and phoney the democrats all seem like back actors where President Bush and Romney seem much more genuine.

oh what could have been.

Just think about what a difference the election in 2000 made. If Gore were the President in the Oval Office instead of Bush ... we wouldn't be fighting a war in Iraq, and thousands of Americans who have lost their lives there would still be with us ... we probably would have put our full efforts into Afghanistan, and as a result might have had real success there instead of the pending failure we now face (and might also have caught Bin Laden), we would not have the crushing debt our nation now faces, our standing in the world community would be far higher, we would already be on the way to dealing with global warming, our Supreme Court would have two new moderate judges rather than two extreme conservatives ... the list goes on.
The picture of Gore in the Oval Office underscores the deep tragedy of the past seven years.

Bush Smiling since he still knows he bought the election back in 2000 – Repubs = Big Business = Deibold (makers of voting machines). If I was gore – I would have brought it up – I mean look at the permanent dmg bush has caused.
Bush is a Disgrace to the Flag and to this country- Impeach him and throw him in jail – then throw away the key!

I wonder if they shared a chocolate malt and reflected on the good old days, you know the ones, when there rich daddies could solve every problem they faced down. Two of the biggest bulls*itters of their time. All that hot air probably melted at least two inches of glacial ice and Dick Cheney's robotic heart overheated.

Those poor saps that actually earned their peace prizes were the ones looking awkward. Gore almost drown in his own self absorbed arrogance while Bush grin on like a stuck pig. Pitiful partisan politics as usual..

those two washington insiders should move in together.

what a couple of losers.

Had the American people voted for Gore, there would be NO IRAQ WAR today. Its time for America to wake up and elect INTELLIGENT presidents.

And why on earth would George W "harbor any resentments"? After all, Al Gore isn't the one who benefitted from the questionable election results...

Go ask them! They didn't tell us they are going to meet anyway. It is all about photo ops! Looks like Bush is a celebrity to me.

Dumbya stole the election! Why would HE harbor any resentment????

Wouldn't it be the other way around??

"Obviously, President Gore – Vice President Gore will bring up anything he wants to bring up." I am guessing Dana Perino doesn't know who the president is. What a flub.

Gore has done more as non President than Bush has undone and destroyed as President.

Do they have a Nobel for Literacy? Perhaps that could go the Bush for My Pet Goat.

Bush to Gore: I'm in your White House bombing them terrorists!

Gore to Bush: I'm in your White House terrorizing your voters!

I hope Gore was secretly laughing his head off. He has accomplished so much and "the present occupant" has made a big mess of everything. What is really sad is the fact that all of us are paying for putting Bush in office and will pay for years to come.

ahahagore loooks like he doesn't want to be there

The irony is that a man who should have been president (Al Gore), but wasn't, will be remembered 1000 times better light than a man who stole the presidency...

...There is a little justice in this world after all.

Thank you Mr. Gore, for everything.