Posted on 05/13/2014 2:40:51 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Al Gore: ‘Our democracy has been hacked’ By: Roger Simon May 13, 2014 03:34 PM EDT
CHICAGO — You think Al Gore is upset about global warming? You ought to hear him on American politics.
“The American political system is an utter catastrophe,” he said. “Our democracy has been hacked. The country is utterly and completely paralyzed. Hog-tied. And on a measure that will mean countless deaths in the future.”
“Why?” Gore asked. “The influence of money. The average member of the House and Senate has to spend five hours per day begging rich people for money. Begging rich interests for money!”
And those rich people and rich interests don’t give you money with no strings attached. No way. In return for their money, they want votes that will benefit them. “The piper is paid,” Gore said.
Gore served eight years in the House, eight years in the Senate, and eight years as vice president under Bill Clinton. When Gore ran for president in 2000, he beat George W. Bush by 543,895 popular votes, but the Supreme Court gave the presidency to Bush by a 5-4 vote that some (including me) considered nakedly political.
By the end of his 2000 presidential campaign, Gore had become an accomplished speaker and his old joke no longer seemed to apply: “Al Gore is so boring, his Secret Service code name is Al Gore,” he used to say to reliable laughter. (It was actually “Sundance”).
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Correct. 9-0 decision sending it back to FLA asking “what the hell are you morons doing down there?”
The FLA SC basically answered back and in a 7-2 vote the SCOTUS sent it back again saying “not good enough” so the FLA SC changed their thinking yet again. Even the CJ of the FLA SC thought it was wacky.
Their final determination was ran back up the flagpole and SCOTUS voted 5-4 on their “remedy”. The simple fact is, according to the law, Florida certified the election for Bush and all the rest was Gore trying to steal it back.
The courts had no real power after the certification.
He seems to know a lot about the process, even though he claims to be so far above it.
It is almost like politicians approached HIM for contributions and he gave them a quid pro quo, (or maybe a reach around).
Yeah, Al would rather just TAKE their money!
Oh, our republic has been hacked by his PARTY!
#RestoreOurConstitution
Outlaw career politicians like algore: term limits, one and done. Problem solved.
Al Gore...making 100's of millions on an environmental hoax. Such a hypocrite.
More like a snake.............IMO
But you don’t mean that in a BAD way, right? :)
I know- just seeing if anybody was paying attention.
Outlaw the Democrat party, problem solved.
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