The difference is that Al Gore, unlike Cheney, is a man of conscience and principles. You can't be selfish and still devote your life to something like Global Warming. Before real Science began its slow comeback and started knocking the junk science/oil company propaganda "theories" off the shelf, he might as well have gone around saying he was abducted by aliens. People nodded politely and backed away from him with fear in their eyes.
There are some who still do, the pathetic brain-washed pulpit pets who wouldn't know an original thought if it whacked them upside their religious crap addled pea brains. But those people will never vote for a Democrat. They'll continue to follow their idiot leaders right off the cliff. The ones that did manage to make their way to the voting booths based on hate crumbs will not find their way back once they realize the GOP front runners are no longer pandering to them the way they did before Jerry "Dick in a box" Falwell was alive to translate for them. And once the rapture comes and takes them away, we'll have our country back anyways.
I want a Vice-President that I and the rest of the world can respect. Al Gore gained my respect with "Earth In the Balance." I've always respected visionaries who can back up what they see with some hard facts and he did that in his book. His theories have not only withstood the test of time, they've been proven to be exactly what he said they were, unlike the right wing wackos and their hallucinations about dinosaurs riding around on arks.
This is the kind of man who can bring honor and dignity back to the Vice-President's office because he doesn't need it anymore than he needs the Presidency. He's already had power, he's already had fame, he's already had respect. So the office is safe from those kind of political machinations that will leave the kind of dirty brown shit stain on it after Cheney leaves. Al Gore can do more as Vice-President to reverse Global Warming and Climate change than he could ever do with all the obligations of the Presidential office.
My reason for wanting Obama as President is because I believe in him. I believe that he is a good man. I believe that he honestly does not want war, does not need war to pump himself up so others will see him as a man instead of an idiot like Duh-bya. Obama won't embarrass us by marching around in a flight suit he did not earn the privilege of wearing. He won't act like the ignorant uncle bubba who had one beer too many and started fist fights with foreign countries. He will restore dignity to the office of the President. He will be a good, honest and caring President with the courage of his convictions. I define strength as standing up to the war machine when all the bought and paid for presstitutes and their handlers are screaming for war and Obama had the courage to do so. That alone tells me has the courage needed to be a good president.
But my main reason, shallow though it may sound, is that this country needs a symbolic turnaround for the rest of the world to believe we are really trying to take our country back from the crazies. We've gone backwards in time by allowing the American version of the Taliban to do our public speaking for us. So many in the world not only perceive us as violent and oppressive war-mongering invaders, they also see us as religious fruitcakes not much different than other religious extremists like the Taliban and Al Queda. When you have TV Evangelists defining foreign policy for the Moron-In-Chief, you tend to lose world respect as a country. Extremism is extremism no matter what holy book it uses to excuse its extremism.
So it comes down to this: I like both candidates equally. I think both would be great for the country and for the world. But I think a really bad symbolic act would be to have a Rich, White, Southern Christian male as President and a black man as his VP. Even if we know in our hearts that the relationship between them would not be anything less than total equals, the symbolism is counter-productive to the image we are trying to re frame to the world. And because of the damage done by Bushco we have to fix our image first before we can move forward. Anything less than an Obama Presidency will say we are ready for more of the same under a different name. Only Obama can truly be the face of change the rest of the world wants to see.
That is why we need Obama as our first black President and Gore as our Vice-President. Together they make a team dedicated to peace because one had the courage to stand up to the warmongers and the other actually served in a war so he understands first hand the necessity of keeping us out and getting us out of another one. They are both intelligent, educated men who don't have to resort to simple-minded bible quotes and threats to run a country. They will lead us into the new age with honor, dignity, and pride of accomplishment.
It will not happen overnight, but between them there's quite a few presidential elections to win in the future. I truly believe that together they will move us forward so the damn dinosaurs can get off that stupid ark and get back to their tar pits where they belong and we can get our country back.
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Gores time has come and gone.
#1 Ron Paul
#2 Barack Obama/Wes Clark
This Ron Paul?
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