The Gore rides in on a white horse to save the party, the country and

[cali]

and the world narrative, is both childish and offensive. It's magical thinking on every level.

Al Gore had every opportunity to run if he so wished. He chose not to enter the fray. By dint of that fact alone, he doesn't deserve the nomination. Whatever you feel about Clinton or Obama, they were willing to battle for what they believe.

Unlike most DUers, I'm not into the true cult of personality around here: Al Gore. I like Gore OK, but I sure as hell don't see him as a savior, and he's got a lot of mistakes under his belt too.

It won't happen, but if it did, I'd sit out the election to protest such a profoundly undemocratic move. And I'm not the only one.

Al Gore doesn't deserve the nomination. In fact, he deserves it less than those who ran and withdrew.

[Uben]

1. Gore isn't running

....Edwards isn't running, and there is no savior going to come riding in on a white horse!

It's Clinton or Obama. Period.

I agree with the OP.

[bowens43]

2. Not to mention that Gore

couldn't beat the stupidest man ever to run for the office. McCain would destroy Gore just like will hillary if she manages to steal the nomination.

[cali]

3. I don't know what would happen but the Gore as superhero savior

of mankind bullshit is the most sick making cult like crap around. And it pisses me off.

[terrya]

4. I don't think he wants it.

I don't think he wanted it before, I don't think he wants it now. I think he sees what he's doing now as a moral imperative.

[zalinda]

5. And Obama will stand around with his finger

up his nose, just like when Rezko's tenants were freezing, in HIS district. Either he was too stupid to know what was going on in his district or he didn't care. If he can't pay attention to a little district in IL, how is he going to run the country. Oh, yeah I know, hope and change or is it change and hope? :puke:

This election has been a combination of American Idol and Ebay, it's a damn shame.

zalinda

[cali]

6. confused as always, dear.

The OP isn't about Obama, now is it? As ususal you get it all wrong, blinded as you are by adulation of JE and hate. have fun with that.

[zalinda]

8. That never stopped you now did it, sweety?

Or are you too blinded by the Obama halo to remember?

zalinda

[Tellurian]

7. Uh, huh-

Here is a key article entitled:

“Barack Obama and his Slumlord Patron”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS-rez23.article

From the article:

“For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago’s South Side.

It was just four years after the landlords — Antoin “Tony” Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru — had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers.”

“”Their buildings were falling apart,” said a former city official. “They just didn’t pay attention to the condition of these buildings.”

Eleven of Rezko’s buildings were in Obama’s state Senate district.”

“Obama role unclear:

Just what legal work — and how much — Obama did on those deals is unknown. His campaign staff acknowledges he worked on some of them. But the Rezmar-related work amounted to just five hours over the six years it said Obama was affiliated with the law firm, the staff said in an e-mail in February.”

———

The “5 hour” number is a legal obfuscation by the Obama campaign meant to confuse his real involvement as a lawyer in multiple Rezko Slum-tenement land deals.

There is probably one specific deal that occurred were Obama billed Rezko for only 5 hours of work. So when asked how much work Obama did for Rezko, the Obama campaigns changes the question from how much work did you do EVER, and instead answers how much work they did on ONE SPECIFIC DEAL.

In the case I referenced earlier from 1994, Obama represented Woodlawn, who was a partner with Rezko in this deal. Woodlawn was supposedly a non-profit organization that teamed up with the For Profit Rezko to build/rehab/manage these slum tenements.

For all intents and purposes Woodlawn and Rezko are one in the same. But to push these corrupt land deals through a person like Rezko needs to create the ILLUSION of Public Service by partnering with a shell organization like Woodlawn.

And In order to create the ILLUSION OF PUBLIC SERVICE Obama decides that it will be Woodlawn, and not Rezko, who fights the tenants and the city in Court. And, obviously, it is the better legal strategy to claim that your enterprise in NON-PROFIT, for the public good, etc.

But Rezko and Obama knew what they were doing. And they knew that when it came time to fight for Rezko’s Personal interests against the people he was letting freeze, it was better to show the face of the NON-PROFIT in court.

The entire point of bringing in a “non-profit” like woodlawn is to HIDE who is really responsible.

Obama is trying to hide behind Woodlawn. How much work did he do for Woodlawn (subsititute: Rezko)?

[JimGinPA]

9. It Is Astounding How Far HRC Fanatics Will Twist Something To Dump On A Thread

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