GORE'S SON GONE TO 'POT' (Like Father like son!)

ny post ^ | 12-21-03

[RJCogburn]

You sympathize with Al and Tipper Gore?

I sympathize with any parents whose child is behaving badly.

Despite the most devoted and diligent parenting sometimes kids screw up. It is frustrating, angst producing, and upsetting.

[Jimmyclyde]

You should be ashamed in taking delight of Gore's kid's demise. Yeah he screwed up. But taking delight in this is just as wrong/hypocritical as taking delight when Bush's daughters got in trouble with the law.

You have me confused with someone else. All I did was post a news story.

I have yet to take "delight" in anybody's demise......

.... but the night is still young. :)

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

problems have repeatedly endangered others -- driving at high rates of speed, driving while intoxicated or on drugs driving with headlights off.....This will likely never get as much press attention as the Bush girls' underage drinking, which, while wrong of them, did not put the lives of others in jeopardy.

Um, you must be kidding? The Bush girls never drive drunk? also, you are baiting others to bring up our first lady's past driving "boo-boos"

[GOPrincess]

If the Bush girls have driven drunk, then throw the book at 'em. However, at minimum I tend to think that the presence of the Secret Service would prevent them from getting on the road drunk. Young Mr. Gore, on the other hand, has driven under the influence, at high rates of speed, on multiple occasions, with far less press attention than that received by the Bush daughters.

As for the first lady's accident as a young woman, anything I have ever read indicated it was a tragic accident. If alcohol and drugs were involved and were a mainstay in her life at that time, as they seem to be for the Gore son, I will certainly stand corrected.

I'm not quite sure what your point was, but the tenor of your post seems to have an unpleasant, troll-like edge.

[Wolfie]

So far he hasn't done anything that would keep him out of the Oval Office someday.

[monkeywrench]

"Despite the most devoted and diligent parenting..."

I wonder if the former vp and wife's 'devoted and dilligent parenting' consisted of 'no controling legal authority' type coddling?

[Torie]

Surely we can do better than this feeding frenzy on the Gores, because the son, aged 21, was caught with a bit of pot in his car. There, but for the grace of God, go I.

[mvpel]

I wonder when the drug warriors will chime in to this thread saying that nobody gets arrested for marijuana possession? ;-)

[stands2reason]

What do you think, they get a ticket? Of course they get arrested.

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

Children of the President always have and will receive more attention, bad and good, than children of other political figures. And also, I don't see how you can criticize Gore's parents without criticizing the Bush girls' parents. Whitewashing bad behavior on one side and demonizing the other side is tiresome to me. Sorry.

[GOPrincess]

I don't approve of what the Bush girls did, and truthfully didn't think it reflected well on their parents -- not only was it illegal, it was *dumb* on multiple levels.

But it appears to me that what Gore Jr. has been doing has been much more serious than trying to have a drink in a restaurant while underage -- in his case it involves not only drinking, but drugs and high rates of speed, endangering the lives of who knows how many others -- and it has been a "phase" of his life that has lasted at least 8 years. This is no period of adolescent rebellion, this is basically how he's been living his life, from becoming a teenager to reaching adulthood. He was suspended from St. Albans School when he was just 13 for booze and pot use (at which point his parents moved him to another school, I believe Sidwell Friends). It would be silly *not* to wonder about what the family and parenting situation is in this case, don't you think?

If the Bush girls had problems this prolonged and significant, yes, I would question their parenting much more seriously too. Call me an equal opportunity parenting critic.

[Dark Knight]

That's not why the main stream media decided to stop with the Bush girls. They are babes...The make believe photo of Bush getting them out of jail increased their Q rating. Chelsea with her beau barfing on the sidewalk decreased her Q rating.

Al Gore doesn't have a Q rating. If he were in a movie, only the hard core imsomniacs would go. His son is even more unknown.

That being said, the younger Gore is trying to drive into a wall. My hopes are he doesn't complete it before he has an epiphany. And if he does not, that it is an inanimate object he runs into when he finds the laws of physics too onerous.

DK

[Cultural Jihad]

Whitewashing bad behavior on one side and demonizing the other side is tiresome to me. Sorry.

Not all bad behaviors are equally bad. As I remember, the Bush twins were caught trying to order alcohol at a restaurant one time, not with driving with a bong with no lights on.

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

>>>Two passengers were also arrested and charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession. They were identified as Yann V. Kumin, 21, and Marc G. Hordon, 22, both of Cambridge, Mass.<<<

Gore Jr. is studying at Harvard, apparently, and folks are feeling sorry for how "disadvantaged" he is?

[Analyzing Inconsistencies]

In this country of political nepotism (Kennedys, Doles, Clintons, Bushes) I suppose we can expect for Gore Jr. to have a promising political career someday...at least as long as he swears he didn't inhale.

[WhiteGuy]

Yawn..............................

[YourAdHere]

This is not his first drug arrest. The kid has a history. The first time was a few weeks before election 2000, but the press quietly buried it. They had no problems bringing up a 24-year-old DUI against Bush, however.

[thathamiltonwoman]

Something has been wrong with Gore III for years. The first hint was at 13 when he left or was asked to leave St. Albans.

[Atlantian]

The 2000 incident was speeding, going 97 in a 55 zone in North Carolina a few days before the Dem 2000 convention. Gore asked the news media to hold the story until after the convention, and they did.

In Sept. 2002, Al III was stopped for drunk driving near a military base in VA.

[Johnny_Cipher]

A "The Branch Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree" bump.