[Rhodes22-list] Correction Alert

[Herb Parsons]

OK, does ANYONE on the list not yet know that Al Gore was recently on 60 
minutes??

now, can someone please break the "SEND" button on Pete's email program????

petelargo wrote:
> Al Gore was just on 60 minutes last nite.  He lost the weight. Also, it took
> him a while because of the size of the house and his schedule, but he
> finished making his mansion energy independent and is now working on his
> parents place. He made a ton of money investing in Google early on. He
> donated every penny of his book and movie and Nobel Peace Prize award to
> upcoming ads and movement to ally political opposites and mobilize
> international trainings to the climate change awareness issue. 
>
> I won't even get into the 2000 vote "scamola" as there is plenty of data on
> that, but no one questions that he won the popular vote.  He certainly was
> within his rights to sue but opted out. Classy guy. Good pick, Stan.
>
> More info:
>
> The Florida recount was stopped a few weeks later by the Supreme Court of
> the United States. In the ruling, Bush v. Gore, the Florida recount was
> called unconstitutional and that no constitutionally valid recount could be
> completed by the December 12 deadline, effectively ending the recounts. This
> 7-2 vote ruled that the standards the Florida Supreme Court provided for a
> recount as unconstitutional due to violations of the Equal Protection Clause
> of the Fourteenth Amendment, and further ruled 5-4 that no constitutionally
> valid recount could be completed by the December 12 deadline. This case
> ordered an end to recounting underway in selected Florida counties,
> effectively giving George W. Bush a 534 vote victory in Florida and
> consequently Florida's 27 electoral votes and the presidency.[44] The
> results of the decision led to Gore winning the popular vote by
> approximately 500,000 votes nationwide, but receiving 266 electoral votes to
> Bush's 271 (1 DC Elector abstained).[45] Gore strongly disagreed with the
> Court's decision, but decided "for the sake of our unity as a people and the
> strength of our democracy, I offer my concession."[46]
>
> The election was one of the most controversial in recent American
> history.[1][2]
>
>
> Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
>   
>> Stan,
>>
>> Count yourself lucky, at least you know what you want!  McCain is half
>> RINO,
>> half DINO.  Hillary is a Clinton.  Obama is half everything.  If in fact,
>> if
>> he's got Jewish blood as well, he doesn't have to apologize for his
>> Pastor.
>> That church will throw him out in a heartbeat.
>>
>> Gore wouldn't be so bad.  Maybe if he was the President he'd sell his
>> gazillion square-foot, global warming house.  They have a track at the
>> White
>> House don't they?  Big Al could use some exercise. If  he does run I'd
>> like
>> to remind him of two things.  One, win your own state.  Two, the Supreme
>> Court didn't pick the winner in 2000, they just set a deadline to stop
>> re-counting the votes in Florida.  He lost by all five methods including
>> the
>> two he cherry-picked.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:55 PM, stan <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>    I feel it is my duty (politically speaking) to join my Rhodies friends
>>> early exit-poll reporting of their secret balloting.
>>>
>>>    I would choose McCain because of his age
>>>        Listening to the younger members of the List proves that age makes
>>> one smarter.
>>>
>>>    I would choose Hillary because she is a woman,
>>>        and try as I might, my high lab TEST. level makes me prefer woman
>>> over men.
>>>
>>>    I would choose Obama because he is half white,
>>>        and because I have read a dirty tricks blog that he is half
>>> Jewish.
>>>   They did not
>>>        mention whether it is the top or bottom half - it does make a
>>> difference.
>>>
>>>
>>>    But with only 2 choices allowed, I had to rule out John because, while
>>> I love his                                 McCain/Kennedy immigration
>>> bill,
>>> I do not appreciate his disrespect of women:
>>>        He has reiterated his vows to stick with the party line:  Keep
>>> government off men's back
>>>        and control over women's inside.  Also, while I feel candidates
>>> have a right to flip/flop,
>>>        his flop on now decreasing taxes during war, breaks with all prior
>>> Republican
>>>        commander in chiefs.  I will give him a second look when he gets
>>> as
>>> old as me.
>>>
>>>    I'm going with Al for president and Barack as VP because Clinton
>>> ignored my right-on and
>>>        perfectly timed Hail Mary call on 4 and 10 at the start of the
>>> second half and blew her game.
>>>
>>>        For Gore bashers:
>>>            With all those terms as a congressman and
>>>            all those terms as a senator and
>>>            with the maximum 2 terms as vice president
>>>                a "no experience" bash does not hold water.
>>>
>>>        And with a winning of the popular presidential vote,
>>>            the "un-winner ability" bash does not hold water
>>>
>>> But who listens to the hairy 135 Pound Gorilla in the Rhodes chat Room.
>>>
>>>
>>>  stan/ec
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