re: #282 stabby

Everybody is.

Really? I see no reason to be.

Are you more embarrassed by Al Gore than by George W. Bush?
How about Dan Quayle?
Or Sarah Palin?

re: #286 sagehen

There’s the Senate, the constitution provides specifically for a procedure. (at the time it was an even split, and VP-still-standing-Gore would have been the tiebreaking vote, and… it would have been ugly, and R’s would have complained vehemently forever about doing it that way, but… IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENTIRELY LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL).

He chose not to do that because the result would have been a country even more bitterly divided than it actually is anyway — that playing every possible legal maneuver and working the rules and getting the big chair was less important to him than what that would have done to the country’s mood/tone.

Yeah, but Al Gore so shut up. ///

Just do not get the Al Gore hatred. He’s not perfect, but to embarrassed by him? That’s really fucking stupid.