Reply #91: I guess we will just have to agree to disagree [View All]

[Samantha]

I think Al Gore, though a statesman and a man of high personal integrity, is also human. He had faith that the Supreme Court would do the right thing in considering the 2000 election question. (I had no such faith). Five political Republican judges could not rise above their own political persuasions and do the right thing. Their failure to do so pulverized this Country and its people. In that aftermath, this Country has sunk to depths I could not have dreamed it would spiral into. I believe as a human being, that despite all of his best efforts, Gore was in a place where none of us have ever been. Echoing in his ears were the words of David Bois, "There is no appeal from Supreme Court."

From whence he came, Al Gore has a navigation system that drives him to always do the right thing. But when the right thing, in other words, the legally-dictated action, propelled him and us into a direction we were never intended to head, what is the solution that will turn things around. I do not think the answers came quickly for Gore and I for one cannot criticize him for that.

As I have said in many other posts here, Al Gore ran this Country during the impeachment process when Clinton was too depressed to do so. Additionally, he had eight other spheres of interest, which in acting as a co-president of the country, a deal offered in private to him by Clinton for agreeing to run in 1992, for which he was responsible. Add to that the difficulty of mounting a political campaign for president, during which some of the base was abdicating over the sexual improprieties of Bill Clinton, and one has a motley mixture of difficult responsibilities almost more than any one man can handle. But Gore DID handle it, he helped pull the Country through the impeachment crisis, he maintained his own end as far as meeting his responsibilities and he mounted a winning election campaign. That accomplishment at that time makes him in my book a political superman. I look over the field and I really don't see too many people on either side who could have waded through those waters and persevered as did Al Gore. When he received his official thanks for all his efforts via that per curium Supreme Court opinion, it appeared to devastate him. The fact he went into hibernation for about a year to contemplate the events and to cultivate a plan for the future is totally understandable. I am not going to criticize him. If you choose to do so, that's entirely your prerogative.

I personally see a small hope for our future twinkling on the horizon simply by virtue of the fact rumors are swirling Al Gore might run again. I pray he does.