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  •  You're underestimating the Clintons (3+ / 0-)

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    they had that talk with Gore in 2005 or 2006, and made sure that he wouldn't run.

    A Gore-Hillary race would have been ugly, with a lot of personal animosity due to their days in the White House, and as such I doubt Gore had the stomach for such a fight.  It is quite different than fighting Rethugs.

    John McCain's Something for Everyone Plan: Military draft for youth, SS benefit cuts for elderly, Middle Class destruction, stock market plunge for wealthy.

    by IhateBush on Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 02:54:28 PM PDT

    •  You're underestimating Gore (9+ / 0-)

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      MarkInSanFran, bronte17, MahFellaMerkins, TLS66, kimberlyweldon, Tuba Les, lilyvaldem, thursdays child, planetclaire4

      and overestimating the Clintons.  The Clintons thought that Gore was dead and buried in 2005.  In their world, in 2006, Gore was just a guy with a slideshow.  Why Bill didn't even discover that the environment could be a political issue until earlier this year and tried to appropriate it from Gore just like he appropriated the federal deficit issue from Perot in 1992.

      Had they asked, Gore would have given them the same answer he's given everyone else - "no plans."  Had he decided to jump into the race, Hillary wouldn't have been on his short list; he learned from his error in 2000 not to listen to the DLC gang.

       

      What FDR giveth; GWB taketh away.

      by Marie on Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 03:12:43 PM PDT

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      •  Thanks Marie... (6+ / 0-)

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        Marie, MahFellaMerkins, kimberlyweldon, Tuba Les, thursdays child, planetclaire4

        Had they asked, Gore would have given them the same answer he's given everyone else - "no plans."  Had he decided to jump into the race, Hillary wouldn't have been on his short list; he learned from his error in 2000 not to listen to the DLC gang.

        I hope that most of us learned the lesson regarding the DLC and Clinton's attachment to it.  That is exactly the reason that we need Al. No matter how you analyze, view, twist and turn it, Hillary is not a progressive Democrat and never will be. Based upon her record and what I've heard from her campaign, she will keep the corporate love affair alive.  

        by victoria2dc on Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 04:10:46 PM PDT

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        •  Based on the public response to (1+ / 0-)

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          planetclaire4

          him co-winning the Nobel Peace Prize, I don't think he's going to run.  He could fight the right, left and center well enough to win, but it wouldn't leave him with enough political capital to tackle all the major problems this country will face in the next few years.    He may also recognize that whoever is in the WH when the currently maturing problems created by administrations from 1981-2008 hit will be blamed for all of them.  My guess is that the next POTUS will  get one term and be reviled at the end of those four years.    

          What FDR giveth; GWB taketh away.

          by Marie on Sun Oct 14, 2007 at 05:36:40 PM PDT

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