almost 8 years later .... (Recount)

[shireen]

Do you also feel the deep sense of loss over what could have been? If Al Gore had prevailed, our country would have followed a very different path.

It so profoundly breaks my heart ....

[DiverDave]

1. I'm watching it

But I know it'll just piss me off so I'm DVRing it and watch the rest later.

God, the difference it would have made if the sc ( no caps for people and things that don't deserve them) would have followed the rule of law...sigh.

[OhioChick]

2. Gore "did" Prevail. n/t

[BlueIris]

18. I hear you. I'm waiting for the outraged Gore supporters to start posting.

I thought the movie took some cheap shots at Gore, for the creators should be ashamed.

[mdmc]

3. I don't know how I feel

I didn't vote for Gore/Leiberman in 2000.
In 2006 I would have voted against Leiberman, if I had the chance.
In 2008 Al Gore is an environmentalist that I respect.
Things are getting better all the time.

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. WHAT!?!?

Tell that to 4081 families of dead US soldiers. Tell that to a couple million Iraqis. Tell them things are getting better all the time.

Good grief. Where have you been? Under a rock??

[dancingme]

4. yes but now the country knows what a moron Bush is

if Gore had prevailed in the recount, Bush would be a martyr to many Republicans. Now even Republicans can't stand him.

[Liberal Gramma]

8. Damned expensive lesson.

[countmyvote4real]

5. It is a real bitter pill made even more so by what transpired.

The film made it even more profound by not even going there. We all know what it's been like.

[Obamarama]

6. Revisiting those events reminded me why I LOATHE Resmuglicans...

I think the production did a good job of illustrating that the Supreme Court selected Bush.

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. Same here

[ThatsMyBarack]

7. What would LIEBERMAN have been like as our VP then?

:shrug:

[countmyvote4real]

9. The Mongolian Candidate. n/t

[DesertFlower]

11. i was wondering about that too.

apparently he had a liberal voting record. WTF happened to him?

[BlueIris]

19. Yeah, that's one silver lining, isn't it? Least there was never a Vice President Lieberman. nt

[JerseygirlCT]

26. Seems like maybe he'd already switched sides during this election

His cozy "debate" with Cheney, his comments during the recount... Nice to have a VP so willing to stab you in the back, huh? And stabbing the country right alongside.

[TomClash]

10. It was like re-opening an old wound

But well done.

[DesertFlower]

12. we wouldn't be in iraq. nt

[SharonRB]

13. Mine, too

It was so sad watching Gore and thinking about what could have been, especially how far along in the fight against global warming we'd be by now.

[Peregrine Took]

14. That is the horror of it. If only we could have known the damage that he

would cause to this nation.

[patrice]

15. Yes. I'm glad to see the whole story told, but it makes me feel bad too. nt

[hisownpetard]

16. Makes me feel bad and angry all over again, only more so now, knowing the chaos

that Bush has created during his illegally "won" presidency.

[defendandprotect]

17. While effective for the record/"Memory Lane" ...what is this movie doing to move public to action???

Did they make any suggestions for future --- ???

Or ways to correct the past --- ???

[Hippo_Tron]

20. Bush will go down as one of the top 3 worst presidets in history...

And Gore walks away with an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize. At the end of the day, Gore got the last laugh. It's just too bad that so many people suffered in the process.

[malaise]

28. But what did planet earth get as a result of

the criminality that went down in 2000?

Bush was given a signal that he was above the law and governed that way from day one.

add

[ColbertWatcher]

21. Another subtle thing from the movie...

...was the sheer number of people who were so eager to get their boy into office.

The lawyers, the judges, the public officials elected or otherwise, the "protesters", the sheer number of people who seemed to come out of no where to
do whatever was asked of them just so one idiot--their idiot--could win. Not govern, but win; just win. Which I guess was the other thing about the movie: the GOP only wanted to win.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

24. During the 2000 election campaigns I was in the midst of mourning someone whom I loved, so I paid

very little attention to the campaign and to Shrub. I was in survival mode. I had no idea who Shrub was, except I did know that he never would have gotten the candidacy without his daddy.

When Shrub and his minions started to block the recount and their brown shirt tactics, I knew that he was not an honorable human being. Wouldn't someone honorable want to know if they won fairly? When the Supremes sElected him, I knew we were in trouble.

[ThatsMyBarack]

32. Still rings true today.

The GOP only wants to WIN. That's why we're STILL at war.

[ColbertWatcher]

33. What I meant was...

...not succeed, but have their ideology be the last one standing.

The GOP doesn't care about anything long term; all they want is the blue ribbon, someone else is going to have to govern.

[JerseygirlCT]

25. I wasn't so much sad as pissed off all over again.

But yes, definitely, this country would have gone a much different, and much better way had the crime family not been able to cheat their way into the WH.

[malaise]

27. The most frightening part of that entire fiasco was

the role of the Supreme Court. I have always wondered if the CJ was afraid that his drug use would have been exposed.

No one will convince me that a coup did not take place.

[dysfunctional press]

29. it would hurt WAY TOO MUCH for me to watch/relive that fucking travesty all over again...

but it would be nice if more people knew what actually happened in florida.

[BlueIris]

30. It did hurt, and for me it was because it caused me to remember the world...before Bush.

I can barely, barely remember a time when I didn't wake up jaded and at least a little afraid. That's messed up. Especially because we will all have to live with this for the rest of our lives.

[dysfunctional press]

31. for those of us who endured the 8 years of drool-cup ronbo raygun...

the cheney mis-administration has been that much more painful...the tumor on america's soul has returned- and this time it's malignant, and quite possibly inoperable.