Al Gore on the Clinton Years

[Zandor]

"For eight years, the Clinton-Gore Administration gave this nation honest budget numbers; an economic plan with integrity that rescued the nation from debt and stagnation; honest advocacy for the environment; real compassion for the poor; a strengthening of our military -- as recently proven -- and a foreign policy whose purposes were elevated, candidly presented and courageously pursued, in the face of scorched-earth tactics by the opposition. That is also a form of honor and integrity, and not every administration in recent memory has displayed it."

http://www.california4gore.org/Al_Gore_Iraq_War.html

[spanone]

1. ..and junior has given us just the opposite.

[Zandor]

2. Yes - Gore is right on

He understands how good Clinton was.

[stlsaxman]

7. He was also played a large part in that goodness.

He knows exactly what has been undone by Cheney/Bush.

[MethuenProgressive]

3. You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.

I wish Al would enter the race.

[daninthemoon]

4. Every time I hear Bill Clinton, like this morning on "This Week".

I just want to weep for what we've lost, and how low * has taken us from where Clinton/Gore brought us.

[Zandor]

11. It puzzles me when I hear progressives run him down

He is missed.

[ryanmuegge]

5. They didn't give us an honest way of calculating inflation, though.

[Mrs. Overall]

6. .

On Edit: For clarification, this super strong hunk doesn't represent Mr. Gore, but is one of the Herculoids: Zandor, Tara, and Dorno, a Hanna Barbera creation.

This is just leftovers from some fun last night in GD. Pretty sure I'm on ignore.

[GeminiProgressive]

8. sorry I know I will get flamed

but advocacy and concern for the poor? When? by keeping the death penalty legal? By passing wefare "reform"? Maybe NAFTA really helped out the American workign class? There were some gains such as Family Medical Leave...but I think there were many more negatives.

[Bitwit1234]

9. If Gore had taken advantage of that statement he made now

when he was running for president, HE MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN ENOUGH VOTES TO OVERCOME THE REPUBLICAN STEAL. I still say his downfall was ignoring THE CLINTON PRESIDENCY. He bought in to the republicans slime machine and he paid for it.

[Zandor]

10. Agreed

Running from Clinton is something I don't understand. It was either his ego or he feared Clinton's negatives.

[Uncle Joe]

13. The only reason Al Gore didn't win by a landslide,

is because he empowered Zandor and virtually everybody else over the heads of the corporate media when he championed the Internet while he was in Congress. As the Internet grew in power and influence, the corporate media felt threatened, they wanted to retain their monopoly on information. Information = Power, money (as is currently being spent on this election)and influence. So they slandered and trashed him for the better part of two years prior to the selection of 2000. They camouflaged Bush's obvious shortcomings, mistakes and lies and gave him a free pass to the White House. I believe it was a miracle with all this, that Bush didn't win by a landslide.

Corporate media owners and CEOs = Zeus

Al Gore = Prometheus

Information from Internet = Fire

Millionaire pundits and trivia columnists puppets = vulture or vultures

Al Gore's credibility = Liver

Internet = Hercules

[PDenton]

12. Sorry, even Saint Al can't convince me otherwise

Clinton was a mediocre president with excellent fortune. I am not the biggest Clinton fan.

And I'll probably get banned for this, but much of Clinton's success layed with the relative even administration of George Bush. Sure, he was a Republican but behind the scenes he did a few things right.

Not to mention, Clinton was just lucky or fortunate, whichever way you look at it. He had his presidency on autopilot most of the time; he didn't have to make alot of tough decisions, and most of the decisions he made were the "easy" ones, not necessarily the right ones.

OTOH, don't forget the other Clinton:

- ended welfare by caving in to political pressure, no matter how many people were dumped on the street
- never met a free-trade deal he didn't like
- never met a capitalist he didn't like
- embarassed the nation by using the White House to further his libidinal instincts.
- rejected Kyoto