posted on December 14, 2000 06:36:32 AM new
Hey Calamity - I wondered where you'd gone. Has been rough on the whole country, hasn't it? I, too, hope we can come together as a nation.
posted on December 14, 2000 07:58:02 AM new
I totally agree!....I believe that they both made excellent speeches, void of malice or "sore looser/boastful winner" feelings....Both should be commended....
I allowed my children to stay up to watch & pointed out to them that despite all the finger pointing & name calling that they have witnessed since the election, the legal battle have come to an end & these men were now doing the "right thing" for their parties, but most of all for their country....
To borrow the phrase used by both "God Bless America"
posted on December 14, 2000 10:25:09 AM new
Remarkable class on both sides. No tasteless victory-dancing from GWB and, really remarkably - because what, after all, does he have to lose? - no bathos from Gore. It was noted that this is one of the few speeches Gore has actually written himself, and that ironically, in what must have been the most difficult moment of his career and he could've retreated to being an automaton, for once he didn't come across as wooden. So much of Gore's political life has reflected a tendency to self-destruct; a it's tempting to wonder whether the race would've been this close had he been able to convey this genuineness before 11/7.
Follow-up speeches from both sides, including by Lieberman, have met the two candidates' challenge of bipartisan unity. I think the whole debacle was a good reminder of just how nasty things can get if we let 'em. I hope we can all remember.
