Gore still sighs into microphone. It does NOT bother me, but the wingnuts

[karlrschneider]

will make hay with it. As if frustration is a 'bad' thing. Damn.
edit: on Larry King...sorry wasn't specific.

[Debau2005]

1. If that is all the can come up with

then they are really reaching! haha

[karlrschneider]

3. Sure, but remember what a 'big deal' it was in 00?

Shit, I probably shouldn'a mentioned it. My bad.

[MuseRider]

2. It seems to be a part

of his style, no more and no less. It does not bother me either, in fact I often sigh when trying to talk to people who seem belligerent or ignorant of current affairs.

[karlrschneider]

6. I do too...it seems to me a very natural response to idiocy.

But it probably doesn't play all that well to those not involved in the discussion. And that's unfortunate.

[MuseRider]

18. I remember thinking his sigh

during the debates seemed to make him look like he felt superior. Now we all know he is far and above superior to Bush** but I can see how it did not play well.

[tuvor]

4. And bush still speaks like a child who's just had things explained to him

by a grownup.

[karlrschneider]

10. Which is precisely why he appeals to the 29 percenters, which

with the bump from Diebold somehow magically translates to 51%.

[partylessinOhio]

5. Al Gore is doing a fine job! He remains cool and calm in spite of

having had the election and his votes stolen from him. That takes a real man. America will never forget that about Gore.

The Chimp would have committed suicide if their roles were switched.

[karlrschneider]

8. Yes, he is doing just fine...I agree. But you and I evaluate it all from

our own perspective which isn't necessarily held by a lot of less-informed people, many of which vote.

[partylessinOhio]

13. Don't forget Gore won the popular vote. * had to get the Supremes

to stop the vote count in Florida to win the state and the WH without the popular vote. Those voters were not uninformed, they wanted Gore not the faux cowboy.

[karlrschneider]

20. Yep, you're right. But there were enough bushbot types "voting"

that stealing the election was relatively easy and painless (for those with the wherewithal to do it.)

I've agonized for 6 1/2 years wondering what I might have done to help prevent the debacle we're stuck with.

[bobbieinok]

39. I've long thought they goofed in FL2000-- they didn't 'give' W a large

enough edge.

Therefore it was clear that really strange stuff was going on; so much was being examined and questioned. The 5-4 vote handed them a win.

BUT they learned from this 'mistake'; in 2004 they made sure W had a big enuff edge in OH and the country ('well, W WON the popular vote, ya know') that it was/is much harder to make a case that the election was stolen. AND the M$M was not examining everything and talking about the election 24/7 like they did in FL2000. The margin of W's 'win' in OH was so great it was much harder to make a case that there were major problems with the 'results' and that Kerry should fight.

We at DU, with the help of many such as truthisall, know there were major problems with everything connected with the vote in OH, BUT the margin of the 'win' for W makes it difficult for many to see.

[Sugarcoated]

14. I think Bush would've been in our face

as well as all Rethug political leaders, RW "news" and hate spewers. They wouldn't have handled it with class or doing what was "best for the country". The vulgar and loud mouth Rethug masses would have rioted.

[partylessinOhio]

24. Oh, yes it would have been a bloodbath. Don't you remember that night

when the Bushes were dining together and got up and left in horror when they got word that Gore was winning? Poppy or Barb jumped on Jebby saying something like, "You were supposed to fix it."

Chimp could not have taken the defeat, he would have done something rash, like suicide.

[AlGore-08.com]

36. A few days before the 2000 election, Smirk's camp promised to do that

Right before election day, the polls were so close that some of the media was speculating that Gore would win an electoral victory but Smirk would win the popular vote. Smirk's campaign told the press that if that happened, they would mount a huge PR campaign to declare Gore's Presidency illegitimate, get the American public to hate Gore, and move to impeach him for not winning the popular vote.

You don't have to wonder. They promised to do it.

[originalpckelly]

7. Is it me, or did Gore grow like a cool personality?

Where was that? He IS SO COOL! This guy should be President, how old is he getting anyway?

[partylessinOhio]

11. Gore is our President.

[originalpckelly]

12. Oh don't make me cry, please...

:cry:

[Pirate Smile]

19. He is 58.

[MadMaddie]

9. Gore could cut wind in the microphone...I would still want him

as my President.....of course the Neocons would want to convene a Grand Jury to determine if passing wind is a crime and millions of dollars later...it would dissapear...

That's all I am saying.....

[Webster Green]

33. Yep!.....He's great!

I love Al Gore.....The REAL President!

[Redstone]

15. Any sighing he does cannot POSSIBLY be worse than bushyboy's

little fake, nervous, "heh-heh" laughter, accompanied by that nauseating "pigeon-neck" thing he does, as if the wire from his prompter box is irritating him at about shirt-collar level.

Redstone

[Lisa]

43. and also that part where his eyes shift back and forth ...

... as if he's looking for people in the audience who aren't laughing at his "jokes". Creepy.

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[NightOwwl]

21. Sheesh...This is the first time I've had the privilege

...of seeing a freeper post before it gets deleted.

And the poster isn't even entertaining. Just a bore who'll be gone soon enough.

[karlrschneider]

23. LOL! It is a rare moment!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[karlrschneider]

22. You are an amusing little prick. Tell your Uncle Dad we said hi.

FOAD

[DemoTex]

26. FOAD?

Is that kin to ESAD?

Mac

[karlrschneider]

29. Tres similare.

:D

It suggests an intimate act followed by a terminal condition :D

How the hell you doin?
:-)
edit: browser acting up...grr

[DemoTex]

34. I'm laffin' now!!

That's what I thought FOAD meant! Moi? Doing great. How are you doing. Karl?

Did you see that news on that BE-90 crash at Tampa yesterday? Fireball. The news-hounds are blaming Alberto. Eh? Maybe a TSTM, but not Alberto winds.

Mac

[karlrschneider]

35. Hangin' in there, gonna go flyin' wit my doc next week

he's been begging me to ride along for 2 years now, he has a BE55 (which I think he really doesn't know how to drive). I caught a bit about that wreck at the Knight apt but didn't know what kinda plane it was...what little I did catch led me to think it was a 172-type. Harumph, guess it was more machinery than I thought. Bummer. I lived in Tampa for 15 years but rarely flew out of there, mostly from the Dolly Parton hangar at TPA.

[DemoTex]

40. Dolly Parton .. ?

Her hangar or that tit-like tent just east of 36R? I think I know the answer. That thing has been there a long time. I remember refueling a Lear 25 there in a rainstorm in the late 70s. We came out of Stuart Beach heavy and had to do an immediate refuel to make KIAH, across the Gulf, legally. That LR-25's CJ-610s sucked the fuel.

Mac

[karlrschneider]

41. Haha...yeah the 'tent'. They built it in...lemme think, '82?

Somewhere around there, a couple years after I moved to TPA from TUL.
I guess it's still there but I haven't been down that way in a few years.
;-)

[DemoTex]

46. Must have been earlier???

Seems like we re-fueled that LR-25 under thet tent in '78 or '79. But, I had many more fuelings there (LR-25, LR-55, FFJ-20, L-1329).

[karlrschneider]

48. It might have been in 79 but for sure not before March of that year

'cause that's when I moved there and I watched it being built. I had an office just a few blocks east of it on Lois Avenue (didn't do any flying for the first year or so in Tampa).

[DemoTex]

50. I beat TPA up in the B-737 and MD-80.

I was down there so much, I started to run for mayor (old pilot joke). The pre-symptoms of one of my most significant in-flight emergencies began at TPA (ratty old MD-80). I could not get start pressure for #2 engine start from either the APU or crossbleed at the gate (low-power on #1). I single-engined taxied to a spot where I could do hi-power run-up of #1 to get enough duct pressure to start #2.

Later in the flight (over WVa), we experienced a total loss of pressurization. I did a high-dive to 10,000 feet. We landed PIT with no problems. Made CNN that night! It was all connected to that hell-hole plumbing!

[Mr_Spock]

17. sigh

I thought I should sigh also :D

[charlie]

25. Didn't notice Gore sighing in the debates

I couldn't hear him over Dubya honking snot, SNNNRRRKK!!! No foolin', the chimp squicked me out hoovering his pipes every 10 seconds, and no one said squat about it.

[Lisa]

45. I'd repressed that! Thanks for the reminder!

I kept expecting him to spit it onto the floor afterwards (and indeed there is a photo of him doing just that, on the White House lawn). I suppose his handlers told him to just swallow it.

You know, if Gore had done anything like that, I probably wouldn't have noticed because I would be busy focusing on what he was telling us. With Bush, there is plenty of time to notice this sort of stuff because he says so very little!

[charlie]

52. ...says so very little...

OH YEAH. That was the last time we saw solicitous, polite Bush. He had so little to say, he was desperate to run the clock out. Every time a moderator would clear his thoat, shift in his seat, Dubya would pounce, bright-eyed.

"Huh? Yes, you were saying?"

"Oh no, please continue."

"No, no. Please, go ahead."

"Oh no, governor. I didn't mean to interrupt. Continue, please."

"Okay, sorry. Thank you."

(5 seconds gone, YESSS!!)

[MADem]

27. Well, we all have plenty to fucking sigh about

And I'd rather hear that at full volume than Monkeyboy's "heh, heh's" and snort-snorts!

[Adelante]

28. He sighs in his course of conversation

But I didn't notice he was sighing into the mic. The interview was great.

[treestar]

30. Why let the wingnuts decide everything?

If they don't like it, so what? They're not going to vote for him anyway.

Pleasing them is impossible. Why try?

If we're that shallow in this country, we deserve the BFEE.

[karlrschneider]

32. I agree with you 1,000,000,000,000,000 percent.

Maybe a million times more than that.

[Bluebear]

31. I've been sighing for six years. nt

[WindRavenX]

37. oh jesus you cannot be serious

is this it? Is this really fucking it?

He sighs into the mike-- and we worry because...?

[karlrschneider]

42. Because the morans will make a 'big deal' out of it.

Don't you remember 2000?

[upi402]

38. If you ain't sighing sometimes, you ain't paying attention

His movie, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was outstanding. I like what Mike Malloy says, you don't even have to read -just look at the pictures!

[Hubert Flottz]

44. Al Gore could sh*t on the mike and sound better and smarter than

the idiot in chief!

Edit...Sighs are better than LIES, any day and bush lies into every mike he gets in front of!

Sighs are better than wars over lies too.

[Hubert Flottz]

47. Sighs are better than Spies or Lies...

Bush is a loser and the Freepers know it!

[ComerPerro]

49. At least he doesn't stammer like a damn moron and take unnatural pauses

[Clarkie1]

51. I like Gore, so I'm sorry to hear that.

It shouldn't be a factor of course, but these insignificant things always are. Like Kerry's annoying habit of running his finger across his upper lip every minute or so. Anyone else notice that?

[Gloria]

53. Meanwhile....Bush falls OVER the microphone when

he's feeling agitated about something....

[hiphopnation]

54. didn't see the interview

but i think you're right. something like 90% of communication is non-verbal. they'll make hay with it because they should, it's a terrible public speaking habit and I'm surprised he didn't kick a long time ago. it did terrible things for him in the 2000 debates, it was quite frustrating to watch. however, with a little practice, can be easily overcome.

then again, maybe he won't enter the race. :shrug: