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Can he go back and time and stop himself from giving the election to Bush Jr.? I would like to live in a timeline where we avoided that disaster of a presidency
as i said in the comment above... classic argument to keep the 2 party system. why waste your vote on a 3rd party. well to make them run better candidates. swe what happen when you allow shitty candidates win... they keep getting worse
Most green party voters absent a candidate would had voted against oil man Bush.
Are there any stats you're basing that on?
Anecdotally: I lived in California for 30 years, was registered Green, and voted for Gore, as did many of my Green Party friends.
How do you think Gore would've responded to 9/11?
He may have actually responded, as the intelligence report about a Bin laden attack was produced and given to the Bush white house before 9/11.
He also likely would not have gone to war with Iraq over false pretenses, saving trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives.
He also might have kicked off a US renewables industry in 2000, putting us ahead of target on clean energy and energy independence, weakening Saudi Arabia, who sponsored Bin laden with their oil money.
Lots of ways.
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 so you're probably right there, I'm more curious if Gore would've gotten us into the same quagmire in Afghanistan. I've heard Afghanistan made offers to help get OBL, but I'm not sure if Gore would've taken those offers.
Essentially, I'm trying to get an idea for how a Gore presidency would've changed the US' trajectory. I know he was in favor of green energy, but I don't know if he would've put that on the backburner while he dealt with 9/11.
Wait do you think that Bush did a good job? It was a complete failure, we played right into OBL hands. Its even more embarrassing that he basically copied what pancho villa did a hundred years prior, and we still fell for it! I doubt Gore would have bit so hard, and he definitely wouldn’t had invaded Iraq on a fucking lie.
How did you get that from my comment? I merely asked how Gore might've responded to 9/11. His response is my main criticism of his presidency, but I don't know if Gore would've done anything differently.
I doubt he would've waged a war on Iraq.