On Mar 31, 6:32 pm, "todd" wrote:
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The tragedy we actually endured instead was a direct result
of the will of the electorate. Consider that as VP Gore chaired
a commission on airline security that, among other things,
recommended that airliner cockpit doors be closed and locked
at takeoff and remain that way during flight other than when
authorized persons were entering an leaving cockpit. How likely
do you suppose it would have been for Gore, as President, to
have tabled a rule he himself had recommended a year before?

I love discussions like this about Gore. People talk like he was some
outsider with all these great ideas. HE WAS
THE FREAKING VICE PRESIDENT FOR
8 YEARS! If it was such a great idea, why
didn't he get it implemented
himself?

As you may note upon review the commission
met late in Clinton's second term, not before
he took office, so your claim that Gore had
8 years to implement it is wrong. I may be
mistaken but I expect that the commission
was created at least partly in response to
al Queda's mass hijacking plot thwarted a bit
earlier in the Clinton Presidency and not
merely to rectify the preceding twelve
years of disregard for the issues.

Secondly, the FREAKING VICE PRESIDENT
has no authority beyond his duties as president
of the Senate. He has no authority to implement
anything.

But of course, George W Bush was THE FREAKING
PRESIDENT when the regulation was tabled, when
bin Laden's name was removed from the State
Department's list of terrorists, when the people
tasked with tracking, bin Laden and al Queda
were reassigned and when the DOJ redirected
its focus from national Security to anti-porn.

Also, thank you for confirming what I wrote earlier,
"Some people, of course, will say they are 100%
confident he would have done those things or worse.
Such people are the real reason he (Gore) was not
elected President. "

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FF