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"Dave Thompson" <dav13795@wdmdx1.com> wrote in message
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> "Baxter" <baxter.spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote in message
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> > "GeneK" <gene@genek_hates_spammers.com> wrote in message
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> > > "Baxter" <baxter.spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote...
> > > > At least we wouldn't have people like John Ashcroft.
> > >
> > > Don't bet on it.  "Liberal" FDR's AG Francis Biddle didn't
> > > hesitate for a moment to intern thousands of Japanese Americans
> > > during WWII.  Politicians are politicians, when they perceive
> > > an atmosphere of panic or anger in the voters, they'll do whatever
> > > the polls tell them it takes to pander to it, regardless of their
party
> > > affiliations or politics.
> > >
> > FDR wasn't running - Gore was.  We can be sure that Gore would not have
> > picked Ashcroft nor Pitt. If you think Gore would have picked people as
> bad
> > as these two, name them - else you're just talking hypotheticals.
>
> I don't think Gore would have done any better - just different. Consider
how
> horrible his campaign team was and they were handpicked.
>
Yes, he did screw up the campaign.  I think Gore was entirely lame and would
not have been any real help.  Bush, on the other hand, is entirely bad for
the US.  Pretty much Gore=placebo, Bush=poison.