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1 posted on 11/25/2002 12:15:08 AM PST by KQQL
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BAWAHAHAHAHA ... Oh poor Al
2 posted on 11/25/2002 12:17:49 AM PST by Mo1
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3 posted on 11/25/2002 12:18:41 AM PST by KQQL
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Gore is like yesterday's trash.

This is what a Gore run in 2004 will look like, too.

4 posted on 11/25/2002 12:19:05 AM PST by sinkspur
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"We were invited to come and cheer him on," says a former volunteer. "We were chanting, 'Gore in 2004,' and he loved it. But I wasn't going to buy the book."

ROTFLMAO

Apparently, it's is easier to buy voters than it is to motivate buyers.

7 posted on 11/25/2002 12:22:01 AM PST by Samwise
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"We were chanting, 'Gore in 2004,' and he loved it. But I wasn't going to buy the book."

They may have been chanting "Gore in 2004" but I ain't buyin' that either!

Well he can always follow the example set by William Jennings Bryan and be a perpetual loser. I'm sure that the Rat party would keep throwing their support to him (snicker...).

8 posted on 11/25/2002 12:23:05 AM PST by weegee
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It's 1,928 on the Amazon List. But be prepared to upchuck at the 6 star reviews given by True Gorons ... one even called it an "important book". Ha!
9 posted on 11/25/2002 12:23:07 AM PST by BunnySlippers
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It seems like it was a marketing flop. Gore's supporters would never buy a book which honors the family they despise, while those who honor the institution of the family would never buy a book from Gore they despise.
10 posted on 11/25/2002 12:23:43 AM PST by Cultural Jihad
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Al should have written a self help book and followed it.He could use some help.
11 posted on 11/25/2002 12:24:28 AM PST by woofie
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And his crummy books have been touted to the heavens on every national network morning show ad nauseum! What book tour ever had such a fawning network television red carpet rolled out, day after barf alert day?

Compare Algore's invisible sales to the mega sales of Coulter, Goldberg and Hannity which had only negative reviews on network TV. It just shows how irrelelvent lamestream network televsion is becoming to politics compared to radio, the internet, and FOX.

12 posted on 11/25/2002 12:24:41 AM PST by Travis McGee
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I can't wait for Mrs. Bill Clinton to write her $8million book so I can avoid buying it also.
15 posted on 11/25/2002 12:25:57 AM PST by weegee
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I once knew a man named Gore
Who was an incredible bore
Said his wife to a tree
You're more exciting than he
But he stuck his tongue down her throat on national tv and she changed her mind
17 posted on 11/25/2002 12:26:53 AM PST by MTCJK
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19 posted on 11/25/2002 12:28:08 AM PST by The Great Satan
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5 out of 5 stars Family Not What You Assume, November 20, 2002
Reviewer: A reader from USA
The Publisher's Weekly review really shows their own bias and narrow mindedness in questioning whether or not people of different ethnic backgrounds are "family" and admitting to being confused by images like this. After all the name of the book is "The Spirit Of Family." If you enjoy photo coffee table books you'll enjoy this one. If your mind is open you'll get some value out of this book. Challenge yourself to think outside of mainstream media driven stereotypes that are flashed at us on the television. Don't assume because you see a Caucasian adult with a child of a different race that they will require "two checks"! Would you ask that question if both people were of the same ethnic background? After all how many ten year olds have you seen buy their own lunch or dinner!
21 posted on 11/25/2002 12:29:01 AM PST by The Great Satan
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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Complemented by a three-page introduction and a smattering of quotes from John Milton, Plato and others, this impressive collection showcases more than 250 photographs of contemporary American families, taken by the likes of Nan Goldin, David LaChapelle, Sally Mann and Nicholas Nixon. The so-called spirit of these images ranges from heartbreaking to smile inducing. Al and Tipper have arranged the photographs by theme (e.g., photos of farming families, families at mealtime, couples reading the paper, parents smoking around children, white children with black nannies, etc.). Without explanations, some are confusing, e.g., two little girls-one white, one black-stand side-by-side in their bathing suits. Are they sisters? Cousins? Friends? Yet this approach allows the more complex work here to maintain its socio-sexual zing. A nervous-looking bride walks through a park with her fiance, while a couple sits on a nearby park bench, kissing. A trio of pudgy adults smiles as they dig into a meal of ribs, corn on the cob and Diet Pepsi. Teens mourn over the casket of a classmate. A laughing woman sprays a young girl with a garden hose. A family of four stands at a busy intersection in Manhattan, underneath a Calvin Klein billboard showing an underwear-clad hunk. The book includes families from all walks of life and potential voting demographics-and it is oddly successful at describing the beauty and awkwardness of family in its current incarnations, including same-sex couples. The ambient tolerance, plus a few less-than-clothed figures, may provoke responses from a variety of camps.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

22 posted on 11/25/2002 12:30:22 AM PST by The Great Satan
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OK, it's my turn.

Al who?

26 posted on 11/25/2002 12:31:19 AM PST by kattracks
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Customers who bought this book also bought:

27 posted on 11/25/2002 12:31:42 AM PST by The Great Satan
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Maybe he can team up with Salon. If they were not broke they would have bought a truckload and gave them away to Table Talkers .....
29 posted on 11/25/2002 12:36:21 AM PST by John Lenin
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Oh, goody!

I like to take books by liberals out back and shoot holes in them and then leave them in coffeeshops and other leftist Schumerholes. Usually, I have to get them at used book sales so I can afford lots of targets. Sounds like I might be able to collect a bunch for cheap at the bookstores now!

31 posted on 11/25/2002 12:39:54 AM PST by fire_eye
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Al's prose is about as turgid as Bill Clinton's little friend Willard at a sorority volleyball tournament. Is it really any surprise that the books are tanking?
34 posted on 11/25/2002 12:52:08 AM PST by RichInOC
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They should have named it “Joined at the Head”.

Libs love sci-fi. With only pictures and very little text they might have bought it. HA!

37 posted on 11/25/2002 1:13:50 AM PST by johnny7
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