[Rhodes22-list] Correction Alert

Herb Parsons hparsons at parsonsys.com
Mon Mar 31 23:39:09 EDT 2008


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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