Did Al Gore have what it takes to be President?

[Razgovory]

With people declaring their candidacy for the President right left, I had a few idle thought about poor old Al Gore.  Now I, like most Americans who voted, voted for Al Gore.  Still, despite my vote he did not win.  He did not appear to take losing well, he gained quite a bit of weight and kinda went a little nuts.  I wonder if a man that is so transformed by setbacks would make a good president.  While I was no fan Mr. Bush, in hindsight he seems a bit more stable then Mr. Gore.  A sitting President who has a nervous breakdown would probably be bad.  So I wonder if Bush was actually the better man for the job despite everything.  Any thoughts?

[Eddie Teach]

Now I, like most Americans who voted, voted for Al Gore.

48% is "most"? 

[Razgovory]

Oh fuck you.

[alfred russel]

Al Gore almost had what it takes to be president---he needed to have 5 supreme court votes, and he only had 4.

[dps]

I didn't vote for the man in 2000, so obviously didn't think so then, and I haven't changed my mind since. 

[DGuller]

Better to trundle forward rather than to gallop backwards.  Would he be a great president?  Seems unlikely.  But to be better than Bush, all he had to do was to not go out of his way to be a disastrous one.  No contest, really.

[Ideologue]

If Al Gore had been elected, we'd have lunar colonies and flying cars by now.

[jimmy olsen]

If Al Gore had been elected, we'd have lunar colonies and flying cars by now.

But would we have armies of killbots? That is the question.

[Eddie Teach]

Isn't Gore a killbot himself?

[Habbaku]

Better to trundle forward rather than to gallop backwards.  Would he be a great president?  Seems unlikely.  But to be better than Bush, all he had to do was to not go out of his way to be a disastrous one.  No contest, really.

Yeah.  If the choice is between the Bush we know and the Gore we don't, I'll "risk" a Gore Presidency.

[MadImmortalMan]

Al saved himself from having to be the guy everybody hated by losing that election.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Better to trundle forward rather than to gallop backwards.  Would he be a great president?  Seems unlikely.  But to be better than Bush, all he had to do was to not go out of his way to be a disastrous one.  No contest, really.

Yeah.  If the choice is between the Bush we know and the Gore we don't, I'll "risk" a Gore Presidency.

People like certainty though and it was unclear whether Gore would be a bad president, not so with Dubya.

[MadImmortalMan]

Better to trundle forward rather than to gallop backwards.  Would he be a great president?  Seems unlikely.  But to be better than Bush, all he had to do was to not go out of his way to be a disastrous one.  No contest, really.

Yeah.  If the choice is between the Bush we know and the Gore we don't, I'll "risk" a Gore Presidency.

People like certainty though and it was unclear whether Gore would be a bad president, not so with Dubya.

History decided that question. Gore would have been the same as Bush on most things, especially war. Especially with Iraq.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yes, it wasn't a great choice 

[jimmy olsen]

Better to trundle forward rather than to gallop backwards.  Would he be a great president?  Seems unlikely.  But to be better than Bush, all he had to do was to not go out of his way to be a disastrous one.  No contest, really.

Yeah.  If the choice is between the Bush we know and the Gore we don't, I'll "risk" a Gore Presidency.

People like certainty though and it was unclear whether Gore would be a bad president, not so with Dubya.

History decided that question. Gore would have been the same as Bush on most things, especially war. Especially with Iraq.

Might have managed the occupation better. Hard to see how he could have done worse.