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fasttense

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27. I'm so sick of seeing these excuses for RepubliCON theft
Fri Jul 4, 2014, 09:10 AM
Jul 2014

Al Gore Won. No matter how you count the votes, Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election and the unholy and corrupt union of the Supremes and RepubliCONS stole it from him as was the plan.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/111201a.html

To claim anything else is to hide the truth and help justify the theft for the RepubliCONS.

You think he should have had over the top votes so RepubliCONS couldn't have stole it? Really? Why not just challenge the Supremes and the RepubliCONS and fight back and protest? Oh, that's just too difficult.

So we all sat at home and let W and the Supremes steal the election. It was every single voter's, who gives a crap about their vote, fault. We stood around and watched an outright theft and only a very few of us fought back.

We should have poured into the streets, with or without Gore, and remained there until all the votes were counted accurately.

But don't give RepubliCONS cover for their theft by claiming something else happened. They stole it and nothing Gore would have or could have done would have changed the theft. It was planned from the get go. Put the blame where it belongs.

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Nonsense. NAFTA sank Gore. Labor stayed home. End of story leftstreet Jul 2014 #1
Gore had the courage of his convictions and openly debated NAFTA for all to see, not mention in Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #4
How'd that work out for him? n/t leftstreet Jul 2014 #6
It apparently worked out well for Bush, so in Florida NAFTA didn't damage Gore, Bush wasn't Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #8
The corporate media didn't sign NAFTA. Clinton did leftstreet Jul 2014 #12
I never said or implied the corporate media signed NAFTA, my contention is NAFTA didn't damage Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #13
I'm so sick of seeing these excuses for RepubliCON theft fasttense Jul 2014 #27
"It was planned from the get go." CrispyQ Jul 2014 #31
We need to break up big media corporations abelenkpe Jul 2014 #2
I agree abelenkpe, fortunately the Internet is taking some of their propaganda power away, but Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #5
I generally see mainstream media as individual actors all with similar/same motivations BootinUp Jul 2014 #3
I believe they were too scripted in their talking points and if they were true believers in Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #7
"Can't see the forest for the trees." Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #9
Unsung héros of the Gore defeat aside from Nader: the NRA kelliekat44 Jul 2014 #25
I still contend the corporate media's propaganda was the primary reason that Gore lost. Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #26
Harris and the Florida GOP machine tipped the scale in favor of Shit-for-Brains lpbk2713 Jul 2014 #10
None of that would've mattered had the corporate media not waged a relentless war against Gore Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #11
This thread needs a theme song. Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #14
Kicked for the 11:14 PM Crowd. Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #15
The PEOPLE actually did elect Gore HeiressofBickworth Jul 2014 #16
I agree with you Gore did win, but it was close enough for the Republicans to steal Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #17
I agree with you but HeiressofBickworth Jul 2014 #18
Yes, but the greatest threat to our democratic republic is the monopolized corporate media's Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #19
Since the make-up of the SC is for life, HeiressofBickworth Jul 2014 #20
Two of those "Justices" Roberts and Alito were appointed while Bush the Least was pRresident Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #21
I think we both agree that the RW propaganda HeiressofBickworth Jul 2014 #23
The pleasure has been mine, HeiressofBickworth. Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #24
P.S. The Citizens United decision is prima facie evidence that the Republican Supreme Court Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #22
Does anyone out there believe, the Kochs and their friends don't believe in the power of propaganda? Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #28
You mistake the hammer for the carpenter. Republicans were the cause, the media was a tool. Bluenorthwest Jul 2014 #29
You mistake a tool for a willing tool and you/we do so at our own political and real life peril. Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #30
The Preeminent Cause for the Coup of 2000 was the Corporate Media Bluenorthwest Jul 2014 #32
Only six corporations own 95% of everything the American People see on television, hear on the radio Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #33
that's very true - the corporate media was sleazy back then too - not just so obvious samsingh Jul 2014 #34
There wasn't a racist tinge as is the case today, but to myself and many other close observers Uncle Joe Jul 2014 #35
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