Amen to that. It is sad tp watch what he has become. He is/was a decent man but he is just a pathetic has been who needs attention. He and Ann Coulter should take their show on the road.
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That is exactly what I was thinking. The old man has lost his power but doesn’t know it is time to sit in an easy chair and enjoy his golden years.
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However, as bad a candidate as he was, the stupid far left were even worse for voting for Nader
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Pardon me for being a cynic too, but I think Nader was bought off by corporate interests many years ago. How else do you explain his acting as a spoiler in the 2000 election? He is a smart man and he knew that by running, he would draw votes from Gore and thereby improve Bush’s chances of winning.
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I agree, Gore was not an inspiring candidate.
Well, the “overcompensation” is something to consider. Are you aware of Rachel Dolezal?
Or those whites who love hip-hop soooo much that they are blacker than most black people? Or those black Republicans who have to prove their bona fides by attacking other blacks, like Obama, or saying the most outrageous things about goverment programs that help the poor?
It would not surprise me if President Hillary Clinton felt “pressure” in certain situations to use force to prove that she is capable as Commander in Chief, meaning she’s “man” enough to rain death and destruction.
I always thought that Gore surrounded himself with too many handlers who micro-managed him into total blandness. He never spoke off the cuff, or allowed a moment of real humanness to show because he was so afraid of making a mistake. In the end, he was ridiculed for his robot-like persona and his total middle of the road positions. There was no there there.
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How many lefties have proudly admitted that they won’t vote for the democrat, because the change they desire won’t happen until things in this country get much, much worse.
That always amazed and infuriated me. Selfish, immature little morons.
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He was on a call-in radio show (I think it was Diane Rehm). I called in and got to ask him why, if he cares so much about the principles that he espouses, does he consider the Prsidency the only office worthy enough for him to run for. Could he not make an actual difference as a Senator? He deflected the question and the host let it go at his non-answer. I really despise this guy for what he did to our country.
So many people have bought into the “one side is just as bad as the other” meme. It is completely dishonest and ridiculous.
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Isn’t he dead yet?
At first I wondered how TPM published such an article of unfounded accusations and unsubstantiated opinions that were buttressed by virtually no facts. Then I realized Amanda Marcotte wrote it.
I don’t agree with everything the man says, but Hillary deserves to be dissected. She voted for Iraq. She voted for the bankruptcy bill. She’s been very much a hawk. And her own supporters frequently used gender analogies throughout the 2008 campaign to bolster her “masculine” credentials and question Obama’s “testicular fortitude”. What’s sexist is claiming that somehow Hillary is immune to critiques from the left - and it’s also stupid politics because these sorts of challenges will make her into a better general election candidate (and one I plan to support should she continue to stake out some clear progressive positions).
And for the record, I voted for Gore, not Nader.
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Agree, Gore did not have the natural charisma or personal magnetism of Bill Clinton. And he made a serious mistake by distancing himself from Bill in the aftermath of the Monica Lewinski scandal – this was telegraphed by choosing as his running mate Joe Lieberman, the first Democrat to rebuke Clinton over Lewinski-gate.
Who knows what the outcome of the 2000 election would have been if he enlisted Bill to campaign for him – I suspect Gore would have won.
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Well this progressive supports the use of drones and is waiting to see the final TPP to see whether on balance it is a good deal or not. Though it is virtually a given that it will be better than the status quo.
Yes, Nader has become a sexist hack and a self-absorbed asshole who has a messiah complex.
But he plays into a willing audience of a segment of “the left” who eat his flavor if shit up with a spoon.
Already seeing “liberals” posting Facebook memes that Hillary is a war criminal, posting out-of-context pull quotes of her and Hitler (I shit you not) which nominally left-leaning (I’m above party labels) posters “like”.
Amazing.
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Maybe, but it could also have been ego and overweaning pride, or a lack of strategic thinking that blinded him to the fact that many people did not share Nader’s views and saw him as shrill or strident.
He’s dead to me.
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Calling Nader “dishonest” for speaking about the similarities between the two parties (admittedly with hyperbole) is dishonest in itself. Nader may have gone too far with the sexism line, but he’s correct about the depressing similarities between the two parties. And the claims that voters holding out for a real progressive Democrat are just naive purists that will only help elect Republicans are just excuses made by the corporaDems. The real fault for Republican successes lies with the Democratic party that has sold out its values. Many progressives simply cannot get motivated to vote for a corporate sympathizer like Hillary Clinton based only on the argument that she is better than the alternative, true though it may be.
Some voters may feel that letting the bad alternative get elected, despite the damage that it will do to the country in the short run, is indeed better than capitulating and thereby vindicating the tactics of the corporaDems. I’m not saying they are right—a lot of damage can occur in the meantime—but I understand the sentiment. It’s a valid viewpoint, just as valid as the viewpoint that these voters are just naive purists.
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Good points. Dems made the same mistake in the recent mid-terms by distancing themselves from Obama and the ACA. They should be celebrating their accomplishments (no matter how diluted) instead of hiding from them. Politicians as a whole are such cowards and whores. And don’t get me started on Lieberman.
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The same people who voted for him in 2000 - young people who don’t know history, who don’t follow politics, who are idealistic, and don’t think their vote counts for much. Nadar could spell trouble for Clinton because I think it’s going to be a close race. Clinton IS militaristic, but I think it’s just posturing. Hopefully she will mellow a bit when elected, but I doubt it.
“Yes, the drone program is wrong and should be stopped, but it’s not worse than the Iraq War.”
I wish Ms. Marcotte would give us more reporting, and less opinion. The drone program is not wrong. It is a very effective, and low cost (in dollars and civilian casualties) way of combating terrorists. I wonder if Ms. Marcotte is old enough to remember the freak out this country went through when we were attacked. If only Bush would have used drones instead of invading two countries, and the hundreds of thousands of deaths that resulted. Sometimes the lesser of two evils is the moral choice.
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It’s streamed to oral surgeons’ offices where it lulls the patients to sleep as she watches on a monitor.
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The only thing Americans know about the drone program is what Obama has chosen to tell us about it. One thing I can say is that all these terrorist groups sure seem to have a lot of “number two” men—how many times are we going to hear that a drone killed the “number two” man in ISIS/ISIL/Al Qaeda?
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