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.

www.KusterforCongress.com - www.paulhodesforsenate.com

www.nikitsongas.com - www.devalpatrick.com

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by: Jack Mitchell @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 06:39:54 AM CST

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 07:22:10 AM CST

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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 07:22:32 AM CST

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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 07:43:21 AM CST

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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 07:55:24 AM CST

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 15:36:42 PM CST

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 17:03:30 PM CST

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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 @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 19:50:02 PM CST

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 written a letter to the editor today? Have you donated today? Have you put up signs? Have you made calls? Have you talked to your neighbors?

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by: Ray Buckley @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 19:57:20 PM CST

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 @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 21:19:20 PM CST