I heard portions of Al’s speech, sponsored by MoveOn.org. I am absolutely thrilled he did not win in 2000. He and his audience were frothing at the mouth.
In December of 2000, even though I strongly disagreed with the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to order a halt to the counting of legally cast ballots, I saw it as my duty to reaffirm my own strong belief that we are a nation of laws and not only accept the decision, but do what I could to prevent efforts to delegitimize George Bush as he took the oath of office as president.
I must have missed that.
The US Supreme Court did not halt the counting of any ballots, legally cast or not. Gore is the only one who attempted to halt the counting of ballots–those of military people stationed outside Florida who sent in their absentee ballots. For those who truly don’t know what happened, the Supreme Court decided if any counties recounted votes, all had to recount votes. End of story.
This is, though, the reason for hatred of Bush. “MoveOn” isn’t interested in doing that. Neither is Gore. He will always see himself as the aggrieved party.
He at least has more personality than Kerry.