re: #482 Hecuba’s daughter

Clinton lost the House and Senate in 1994 thanks to Newt and his brilliant framing of Clinton’s tax increases on the wealthy and effort to provide health care. Gore should have won the election outright — it shouldn’t have been so close — (don’t forget the butterfly ballot that lost him thousands of votes and the disenfranchisement of thousands of African-Americans who were deprived of voting due to Katherine Harris) but Gore’s performance in the debate where camera caught him sighing and making faces certainly didn’t help him and the media was just as dishonest then as it was in 2016, in promoting the GOP.

Gore lost the narrative. It’s too bad because had he become the 43rd President, things would be very different especially environmentally speaking and on the courts but also in FP. I think Gore was in a tough spot tho. People generally liked Clinton’s performance even if they thought he wasn’t the most upstanding spouse. That said, it gets me mad at all the phonies who had moral outrage at Clinton yet think Trump is divinely chosen and his moral failures- which far exceed Bill’s aren’t disqualifying and their nastiness to the Obama family. The Obama family is pure class and the racist right treated them like shit.