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In reply to the discussion: Gore not becoming President: whose fault? [View all]Samantha
(9,314 posts)He thought that was the best thing to do for the Country, and additionally the Democrats failed to back him up except for a couple who weakly spoke out while the recount was being conducted (and the Congressional Black Caucus who protested on the date the Electoral College met to count the votes).
While we did not have an open revolution, what we did get was this: a man who sat in the Oval Office for 8 years and destroyed our economy, our Country's reputation, a terrorist attack on our Country 9/11 that Bush* failed to thwart, a huge deficit which accumulated and was hidden from the public eye since the figures were kept off the general ledger (Enron-type accounting), and the lives of thousands of innocent civilians who had misfortune to live in Iraq. The damages done by Bush*, including appointing Roberts to be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, will continue to have rippling deleterious impact on this Country for decades to come. And many of those damages can NEVER be made whole again.
Sam