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Originally Posted by bandycpa
This can't be accurate at all.
Al Gore would have only been 21 then.  |
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Originally Posted by bandycpa
Good grief. He's been accurate on lots of things:
1) Inventing the internet
2) Global warming
3) Winning the 2000 election
4) The Lockbox Theory
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Bandy, you're clearly not remembering items #5 and #6 on Vice President Gore's list of Great Inventions: the TARDIS, and the Neuralizer. The former he used to travel back in time to create the Internet before he thought of it and the latter he used to make everyone forget items #5 and #6. But not item #7--
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Originally Posted by longrange1947
Historians will see this stuff and assume that he really did invent something.
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Yes, they will. They will assume (and prove) that he invented his own defeat in the 2000 presidential election by:
(a) trying to re-invent himself as a populist during his acceptance speech at the 2000 DNC,
(b) not letting the most popular Democrat of the decade campaign on his behalf,
(c) and assailing the Second Amendment in states Democrats had carried in 1996.
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Originally Posted by bandycpa
Wonder what else they'll believe to be true that really wasn't?
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IMO, it will be then what it is now--
- that in the late nineteenth century the United States practiced deliberately imperialism;
- that African American political activity was not a central cause of the Civil War;
- that the Vietnam War was the most unpopular conflict in American history;
- that the "new" history of the 1960s and 1970s was "new";
- and that history has "lessons" that can be applied to contemporaneous policy debates.