Even though, in 2000, he had an albatross around his nexk by the name of Joe Lie-berman.

I almost didn’t vote for the Gore/Lie-berman Democratic ticket in 2000 for the simple reason that Lie-berman was chosen (by the DLC?) to be Al Gore’s running mate, but I knew that Bush and Cheney in the White House would be worse than anything We The People could imagine.

So, in 2000, I voted for Al Gore as President of the United States, but held my nose in regards to Lie-berman.

And if Al Gore were to choose to save our republic and run for the presidency again in 2008, I definitely would vote for him again, no matter who was his running mate, although this time around I would think that Democrats would be able to field someone a whole lot better (and saner) than Lie-berman.

I’ve felt that Gore’s loss in 2000 was God, the Universe, or Karma sparing us and him having 9/11 happen on his watch.

Republicans would have blamed it all on the Democrats. We might have been in for an even longer reign of Republican terror when Gore was voted out in 2004. Gore would have taken personal responsiblity for this, and may have destroyed him.

So as bad as this 7 years has been, I think it’s not as bad as the wingnuts would have made it if Gore was running the country. At least now I have hope.

Likely, 9-11 wouldn’t have happened.

I don’t think Gore would have allowed Cheney’s energy group to threaten the Afghan Taliban with extinction (….blanket your country with bombs or dollars) rhetoric, which I believe, triggered the Taliban to go to a proven, in-country war leader to provide the “cover” for bin Laden to launch his troops.

I also think Gore has an eye for BS’ers and the cover-up of the run-up to 9-11(incompetant or otherwise) would have been minimized.

Yeah, it is all speculation now that many of the Taliban leaders have been killed and we cannot prove anything.

Still, the circumstances seem pretty well connected.

Bush wants dots. I’ll show him, dots.

“Is anybody there?
Does anybody care?
Does anybody see what I see?”

what’s the name of the song, and who did it?
thanks…….

((((esten))))

The song is titled “Is Anybody There?” and it is from the musical “1776 – Musical” and the character John Adams (played by William Daniels in the movie/and on Broadway) sings the song.

Wordsmith @ 211

I love CNSY or CSNY, doink…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=

B side of ‘Ohio’, BTW.

Christy Hardin Smith @ 241 – thank you, I’m sitting here with a printed out organizational DOJ chart trying to keep up with this story.

punaise @ 246 – god bless, I love your mind and heart

I’m a huge FDL supporter and I didn’t mean to anger anyone. My experience with the intelligence community tells me that these folks work incredibly hard. They tried very hard to get the information to stop it.

WE know that. One need only read the 9/11 Timeline and see all the instances where the intelligence was there, this administration had been notified by the intelligence community both inside and outside this country.

And yet they did absolutely nothing.

I have a very hard time believing that any other administration would not have heeded the warnings from intel. Heck, there were areas that had been responding independently of the administration, like the FAA and its four warnings.

The bigger problem I see is that much of the intelligence was thwarted (Able Danger) when not ignored (Phoenix Memo), by elements within the government that were encouraged by Republican majority and a Republican administration. These elements must be remediated as soon as the next administration takes office, or 9/11 will happen again.

OT – House Progressive leaders sign on to Cheney impeachment motion

Yeah, but they’re not trying to whip the caucus on this. I wish they would.

Bob in HI