how would the world be different today if al gore had been elected president in 2000?

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what do you think?

i wasn't that enthusiastic about him at the time, or even now really, but i read a book about the election crisis a few months ago and sometimes i feel kind of sick just thinking how...different...it all could've been.

no war in iraq, definitely. 9/11 would've happened (can you imagine what his 9/11 speech would've been like? i sure can't), but i think gore would've handled the aftermath a lot better: yeah probably a war in afghanistan, but i can't see gore squandering post-9/11 goodwill and alienating the whole world the way bush has.

in fact, the more i think about it the more i think gore would've risen to the challenge and been a damn good, maybe even a great president. it seems downright tragic to me that we never got the chance to see what could have happened.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:45 (twenty years ago)

Gore is an environmentalist, right? So he wouldn't probably have denounced the Kyoto treaty, which I think is one of the most far-reaching decisions made by the Bush government.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:52 (twenty years ago)

Also, he wouldn't have cut off US development aid for agencies and NGO's that support birth control.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 10 March 2006 07:54 (twenty years ago)

Actually, he might have done this as a palliative to conservative Christians who are Democrats - those exist too, as a way of protecting Roe. He's married to one.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 10 March 2006 09:11 (twenty years ago)

it's hard to imagine anything being any *worse* than it is now, put it that way.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 10 March 2006 09:16 (twenty years ago)

Jon Stewart would be back in bad nerd movies.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 10 March 2006 09:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm not saying I believe this, but does anyone else take seriously the idea that the US would have been attacked again, or worse? That the (partial) US economic recovery might have been slower (partly because fuel prices would be higher...?) etc etc...

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 10 March 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Gore Vidal would have been even more bitter.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

The NY Times editorial page would be picking him to pieces.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I don't think we would have had the War on Terror as such. I think they woulda gone after them with cops instead of troops(like in 1993).

But yeah, what wouldn't have been different, aside from probable republican control of the congress?

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

9/11 would have happened and the Republicans would have impeached him for it.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Iamstillnotconvincedthat9/11wasinevitable

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

I think it was inevitable as far as who was sitting in the executive branch - the main gov'tmenal fuckup was surely at the intelligence coordination level. The FBI and CIA would still have been a mess, not talking to each other, etc. regardless of who was in the Oval Office.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

(which is to say that a Republican-controlled Congress would have found a way to blame it on Gore anyway and nail his ass to the wall for "dereliction of duty" or somesuch)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.uaw.org/solidarity/02/0902/pics/SPY27.JPG
"Saddam! Find out if there's a connection."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

I agree I don't think it was inevitable at all at the executive level.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

He was elected president in 2000.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

No, he wasn't. Bush was awarded more electoral votes.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Stem Cell research wouldn't have been defunded at the federal level. Probably would have leaned on folks for an increase in CAFE standards and alt.fuels(aside from some 15-years-hence hydrogen tech).

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

ANSWER would be protesting his imperialist war against the people of Afghanistan.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

what wouldn't be different?

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:47 (twenty years ago)

NAFTA, CAFTA, etc.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

But would CAFTA have gone thru as it did? Was/is Gore's stance on all this the same that Clinton's was?

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

dunno about 9/11. if it had, we'd still probably have gone into afghanistan.

i do know THIS much though: NO ridiculous, budget-busting tax cuts. and if there was a budget deficit, it wouldn't be anywhere near as large.

oh yeah, katrina relief wouldn't have been botched -- then again, i don't think that it would've been botched under either reagan or bush I, either.

thank you.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Apparently, Gore was on good terms with Bush I. Even described him as "a very nice man" when Gore was giving a talk on global warmin back in Portland on the week after Katrina.

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

I can't find what his position on CAFTA was, but I do know that his famed environmentalism certainly didn't stop his enthusiasm for NAFTA.

No way that the Katrina relief efforts would have been so botched.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:10 (twenty years ago)

I like that story of Gore chartering his own plane to fly people out of the wake of Katrina. pretty cool

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

"This Blackberry! Two people. I could've got two more for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Tipper. For this!"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Hahahahahaha!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

I don't get it

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Gore = free trade glutton just like Bill, no CAFTA, lol!

― veedahl goar, Friday, 10 March 2006 23:32 (twenty years ago)

It's from Schindler's List, Shakey.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:34 (twenty years ago)

oh. I probably slept through that part of the movie.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

BREAKING

AL AND TIPPER GORE SPLIT

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38001.html

― max, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 16:27 (fifteen years ago)

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