In 2000, after losing to Bush, Al Gore had to oversee the certification of the election...

[Drunken Irishman]

This is a leader.

Gore was robbed. We knew it. America knew it. He knew it. But he put country over ambition and conceded.

Then he stood overseeing the certification of the election he lost due to the Supreme Court stopping a recount in Florida.

[58Sunliner]

1. And what fucking good did it do our country???

What about his responsibility to his voters and the thousands that worked on his campaign?? He did not put country over ambition. Fuck that, with all due respect.

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Then don't complain about Trump doing it now.

[58Sunliner]

4. ???? False equivalency.

[NYC Liberal]

3. What should he have done?

[58Sunliner]

6. He should never have conceded. It would have been a stand for democracy.

How many people did Bush and Cheney kill??

[NYC Liberal]

7. Ok. He doesn't concede. The Electoral College meets and votes.

Congress meets to certify. What does he do?

[JI7]

12. There was nothing he could do. People lied and claimed he was just like Bush

[regnaD kciN]

18. It wouldn't have done any good...

...the election would have just gone to the House, which was under Republican control, and they would have certified Dubya as the winner anyway.

[llmart]

5. I have to agree with you.

I remember thinking that his concession speech was civil and decent under the circumstances. I know lots of Dems were (and still are apparently) angry that he didn't fight, but it's easy to say that in hindsight. We had seen nothing like that in our lifetimes and neither had he.

He's also gone on to do an awful lot of good in the environmental sphere.

[NYC Liberal]

11. He did fight though. All the way to the Supreme Court.

[llmart]

15. Yes, I know that but...

they did stop counting the votes and that's what many were angry about. The country was clamoring for a resolution quickly.

[Nictuku]

8. I admired him when he did it

.... but now, to think of where our country could be had he not been cheated by a Supreme Court Decision interfering with a State's election procedures.... (sigh) Climate change.... we might actually be carbon free by now.

In retrospect, I still admire him for putting country above ambition, but in retrospect, did he really? With Bush we got the Iraq war, and we will never know if he would have taken the PDB that warned of the attack more seriously than Bush did, and then what would the middle east look like today in terms of our relations?

[JI7]

14. There was nothing he could do then. The ones that lied about him being the same as Bush

were the problem.

[Ferrets are Cool]

16. He did not have the luxury of hindsight that we have now.

Had he known that a war criminal would rise from his concession, I'm sure he would have gone down fighting.

[ffr]

9. 5-4 was the start of all of this, IMO.

Democrats are locked into the way it was. Rs have moved on to any adversary willing to help them, it's okay with them.

[enough]

17. I disagreed then and I disagreed now. The media and the Democratic Party

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refused to acknowledge what was happening. They treated that travesty as if it was politics as usual. The Democrats actually told their members to be patient and not object.

This was a massive defeat for democracy in our country.

We now have three justices on the Supreme Court of the United States who participated in the Republican operations in Florida to make this happen: Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.

[lostnfound]

19. And we still have Stone, Rove and Manafort to screw up the country and world nt