Open Thread: No Way to Plant the Seeds

An alternate universe: (0.00 / 0)

Al Gore wins in 2000. There is no Kerry '04. Obama is in the Illinios Legislature. Gore's running mate, whom I shall refer to as "VP Aetna" has beaten the GOP nom and is now "President Aetna."

(h/t Paul Twomey)

Did we dodge a bullet? Iraq. Wall St. Greed. Recession. So many negatives about Bush/Cheney.

"Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors." - John Dryden

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 12:39:54 PM UTC

Scary thought (0.00 / 0)

It's likely, though, that Joementum would be somewhat better if they got recognized as having won in 2000. Somewhat.

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by: JimC @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 13:22:10 PM UTC

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No (4.00 / 2)

Setting aside the other assumptions, there is no way that Joe Lieberman would have been elected President of the United States.  Even before he became an egotistical whore, he was still to damn boring to sustain a national campaign.

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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 13:22:32 PM UTC

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I usually try to ignore my gut reactions, but I don't think (0.00 / 0)

I was ever so distressed by a piece of political news than the announcement that Gore had selected Lieberman.  My first reaction was to tell the spouse that I wasn't going to be able to vote.

You see, I was a C-SPAN junkie back then and had listened to Lieberman's sanctimonious prattle about song lyrics and witnessed his disloyalty to Clinton.

I didn't even know about his participation in the PNAC back then.  The neo-cons had all the bases covered with Lieberman, McCain and Cheney.  

As I said on my blog the other day, "sloth was our salvation."

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by: hannah @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 13:43:21 PM UTC

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Y'all need to take a gander (0.00 / 0)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...

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by: hannah @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 13:55:24 PM UTC

Whoa (4.00 / 1)

I just found out that the trillion dollar price tag on the health care bill is actually over ten years.  That's only, like, 45 B-2 bombers a year.  In 1980's dollars, even.  That actually really does not seem that expensive to me, considering what the bill is actually accomplishing.

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by: Vis Unita Fortior @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 21:36:42 PM UTC

Yeah, some time in the last few years (4.00 / 1)

they started using ten-year costs for everything except wars. The media doesn't mind a bit.

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by: elwood @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 23:03:30 PM UTC

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Why I don't like Jim Carrey (0.00 / 0)

It's not that I dislike him, really. I just try to avoid him, to the point where I can't claim to have given him a fair try.

Here's the thing: he doesn't remind me of Jerry Lewis, as people often suggest. He reminds me of Red Skelton.

I never could stand Red Skelton, and I still can't.

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by: elwood @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 01:50:02 AM UTC

I loved Red Skelton...and the early Jerry Lewis (0.00 / 0)

but not Jim Carrey for the past ten years or so...

Have you told a stranger today about Bill O'Brien and his Tea Party agenda? The people of NH deserve to hear about O'Brien  and his majority committed to destroying New Hampshire and remaking it into a armed survivalist preserve.  

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by: Ray Buckley @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 01:57:20 AM UTC

I predicted this earlier today (0.00 / 0)

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.c...

Not here ... but I did. And while claiming credit for the prediction might be uncouth, believe me, the first subject line was unprintable.

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by: JimC @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 03:19:20 AM UTC