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To: s-words who wrote (35266)	11/19/2000 11:03:36 AM
From: rocklobster	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

I'm abandoning Gore not because he is persuing a manual recount in several Democratic counties but because of the way in which he and his team have handled this mess. He lost the vote tally in the state of Florida, admittedly by a very narrow margin, yet still had the gall to send Daley out to say that He was the winner. He was not the winner of the Florida vote.. He lost.. He also lost the recount. and he lost the overseas vote as well. Yes I did vote for Gore and I will say that I will never vote for him again... i.e. 2004. I am one of those ones who was an "undecided" up until the very end and my reason for voting for Gore had more to do with Supreme court nominations and continued Gridlock, i.e. Rebublican house and Senate, than a desire to have Gore as president. Imagine Gore as the embassador to the world.. Do we want our Supreme Embassador to be the kind of man who will fight for what he wants blindly, and without any apparant consideration for the other side? Gore is showing us a scary side of himself as a leader. He has not handled this situation in any kind of diplomatic fashion. Gore will do anything in his power to prove himself right. this is not what I would consider a leadership quality. If he had simply sat back and waited for the process to take its course I may have still supported him, but sending in Jesse Jackson to incite mobs of Democratic supporters and claiming fraud on the part of the opposition have shown what kind of a leader Gore will be. He is blinded by his own ambition and by the time he figures out how much the "People" resent his glutoness it will be too late for him politically.. He is committing political suicide. He may still have a chance if he concedes gracefully monday, but he has shown fairly convincingly that he is not the type to admit defeat, even when he is wrong. I don't want a leader who can't admit when he's in a losing battle.. Can you imagine this guy in a war? holy shit. yes, I have abandoned Gore. rok