NEWS: Get The Fuck Over Gore, Already

POLITICS: Get The Fuck Over Gore, Already

Did anybody notice that Al Gore could not beat one of the lamest presidential candidates in the year 2000? Did anyone happen to see one of the most pathetic campaigns ever run that year? Anyone watch the debates, where Al Gore had his clock cleaned by a guy who can barely speak? Anyone? Apparently not because according a new Pew Poll, Gore is sitting third among Democratic voters for president.

Maybe those are just the people who don't want to vote for a black guy or a woman. But that is probably just hopeful thinking on my part. In all probability, those 34% are yearning for a man who does not exist. A man who looked really super when he was on film, with a slide show and gadgets to make him appear much more exciting than he is in real life. I know that to be true because on Democratic website after Democratic website I keep reading the same thing: "I'm waiting for Al to jump in."



Really? Because I'm waiting for my pants to join the race, or that old tire in my garage, or any lifeless object that is laying around. What the fuck is wrong with you people? The guy defines stiff. He is a door. He has become the darling of the Democratic Party because he has taken on a cause that no one is against and he made a movie about it. Wow. Just forget about the fact that he sucked as a candidate because you saw a giant him in a movie theater.



At this point, the Democrats are a shoe-in for the presidency. Every single viable Republican candidate is strongly for the Iraq war. Fred Thompson is now the leading Republican candidate and he is gung-ho for the war, which means he will lose the election. The only guy who can stop the Democrats from winning is Al Gore - because he is a disaster of a presidential candidate. Let it go people, let it go.



(I say all this now because Chuck Hagel has not entered the race yet, but when he does he will win.)

Maybe they're actually voting for the Al Gore doll from the Simpsons.

"You are hearing me speak."

I was thinking maybe they want the Al Gore from Futurama...

'I have ridden the Great Moon Worm!'

But hey, cheer up FTR, they could be waiting for an even greater candidate like John Kerry!

Who makes Al Gore look exciting.

Railing on Gore for "losing" that election is hardly fair. First he obviously didn't LOSE it - the SCOTUS dicked him. I suppose you could say it should never have been that close ... but the way parties break down in the US, combined with a winner-take-all electoral college, current elections are just *tight* and that's as much about things outside Gore's control as it is his campaign.

It also didn't help that he was hindered by the (quite literal) clusterfuck of Clinton's last few years - making a weird situation where he couldn't rely on the popular president.

This doesn't mean Gore couldn't have been a better campaigner. But part of what people have picked up on in the last few years is a more easy going, confident, aggressive Gore - like Gore mediated through some magic Howard Dean prism or some shit. In part because he's NOT under the spotlight, his intelligence and passion are more evident... so people are into him. And, since he's a celebrity now, I think folks believe he could transfer a lot of that over to a political campaign w/o losing it to please the median vote. So, I don't think people are "nuts" for supporting him at all.

Well put.

+1

But he's friends with Matt Groening. That makes him cool!

Since when does personality have anything to do with being president? .
John Kerry has plenty of it and his ass didn't beat Bush either.
If you are looking for a president who is also an entertainer I suggest you write in Arnold Schwarzenegger and see how far that gets you.

Umm last I checked before Gore started going hollywood with the global warming there were a shit load of people who were non-believers...**cough** Republicans**cough**

come on

HE IS SUPER CEREAL YOU GUYS

i think the original poster is correct in saying that he's simply the only one some people will vote for, because he's not female or black. The OP left out one crucial piece. Some people only vote for their party line and nobody else, regardless of what the politician stands for. I would consider myself a Liberal Republican; that is to say, I would prefer to limit the government's control over my personal life, I'm anti-iraq-war, i'm anti-abortion, anti-income-tax, completely for the civilian's right to have a concealed weapon, completely for the civilians' right to choose what he/she puts in his/her own body, pro-sg, pro-freedom-of-speech, pro-legalization-of-psychadelics, anti-9/11-cover-ups..etc etc.

Even though I may consider myself a replublican, I will simply vote for who ever supports what I support. Obviously we dont want a President that's a pushover because he wouldnt get a damn thing done in office. Neither do we want one that's got such a severe case of blood/oil-lust that he'll jeapardize his own country's safety+trust to meddle in another country's civil war.

So forget about stage presence and celebrity status. Give us a man or woman that's for real, someone that stands for what he/she believes in and gives a crap about what the citizens feel is important.

Did he lose the 2000 election? Funny, because I heard differently, despite the overall outcome. Maybe it's because I live in the Sunshine State. But, you know how rumors go, so who knows!

And which cause are you referring to? The Global Warming issue in An Inconvenient Truth or his determination to rip the Bush administration a new one in The Assault on Reason? He did write more than one book. It came out about a month ago. I don't know if you knew that or not since your focus seems to be a bit off.

I'm also not too clear on why his being "a door" has much to do with anything. Personally, I'll take "a door" who takes his job seriously over a complete moron who can tell a good dirty joke any day. You even said Bush was the lamest presidential candidate in 2000, yet he is known for his swagger and panache (definitely not stiff qualities), so I'm still trying to figure out the reasoning behind the whole personality issue. The Dems are behind him because after all of these years, he has indeed become aggressive (again, read The Assault on Reason and watch or read any interview he's done in the last year) and, politically, he has been making sense. A lot can change in 7 years. I didn't used to like spinach, now I do. I don't see the problem.

two words . . . PMRC & the Electoral College

or maybe people like his priorities. I'm just saying...

The Al Gore that lost the election in 2000 is no more the Al Gore of today
than the George Bush who won is the same George now.

The 2000 election was predicated on an illusion and then stolen. Gore entered it like a statesman. Like a boxer in a knife fight. Bush and Co. found it very easy to be popular based on nothing but southern BS. And then did everything that could to undermine reality and when that wasn't a sure enough approach... they instigated and controlled the largest act of voter fraud in the nation's history. Gore didn't lose because he was boring anymore than Bush won on charm and personality.

It was a squeeker.

He's not even in and he has a powerful support base that wouldn't have touched him in 2000. Evangelicals are backing his Global warming fight for fuck sake.

Ever see the SNL clip of him addressing the nation as president or any of his firey speeches about the war? Do you think people would have thought him stiff if they were allowed to see this part of him before the 2000 election? The SNL clip alone would have won it for him.

I think Gore is a viable candidate, and i feel like the public has realized over the past 7 years that all the bullshit about him being "not exiting" or "cardboard" is completely irrelevant to his ability to politic. I'm not sure if I'd vote for him, but I wouldn't rule him out either.

Wellll, now Georgie was a lot more exiting, wasn't he? I'd prefer to avoid that kind of disappointment and sadness about America in the future. Vote BORING.

Frankly, I'll take a lame yet competent President over the war monger Bush any day. Even Republicans are distancing themselves from Bush by calling him the worst President in the history of the U.S.

Ragging on Gore for being boring is what's wrong with politics today. The public, including the writer of this piece, can't seem to get below the surface of sound-bite driven journalism.

I recommend reading. And the first book you should pick up is Al Gore's new book "The Assault on Reason."

It's an absolutely brilliant treatise on the state of the country and how the Bush administration has slowly grabbed power and taken civil rights away in the interests of national security. In addition, he discusses other issues that he is passionate about such as the environment, education, as well as the internet.

I do have to admit, that I didn't read the book, I listened to it as I like to absorb my reading in the midst of horrible LA traffic. In any case, the book is read by actor Will Patton, and is incredibly engaging.

Also, Spike Jonze made a short doc about Gore that is really a cool, personal glimpse into the man.


Oh, and I am not related to Al, but we do share the same name. I did meet him once at Sundance. He is a film fan, which is cool. If he had only been himself during that campaign, rather than the polished, over-produced image, he would have won handily.

I'll vote for Gore if he gets Bender as his running mate.

First of all, thanks for the condescending bullshit. Your arrogance is not surprising considering the medium you work in.

I actually can get far below the surface of "sound bite driven journalism." Turns out I have to do a lot of reading for this site.

Ragging on Gore for being boring is called reality. He would be a quality candidate if he was not a stiff fuck. That's how our America works - especially now in this sound bite driven age. Try accepting it for what it is. Maybe you can make a movie about it - or better yet, do what you do and write a review about a movie someone else makes about it.

This article is hardly worthy of the term "news." I thought news was supposed to at least TRY to be unbiased. Is this even relevant information? This is just your rant on Al Gore. Fuck you.

you guys are super stoked on him,

even if you don't know it

Despite the fact that he was "stiff" and "wooden", he still managed to get 50% of the vote. Imagine what he could get now that people like him more. 51%? 52 whole percent? Why, that's enough to win an election!

I'd vote for gore over those other 2 losers any day. If anyone needs to back out its hillary.

I always have loved Gore. FTR hating him just makes me love him more.

Also, that percentage poll doesn't add up to 100%...