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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I don't know if Gore would have been a good president or not, but man, I don't know if there was a candidate that was so wrongfully ridiculed and taken out of context more than him. I get that he was ridged and awkward, but some of the talking points around him were unfair in my opinion.
They criticized him for being in a non-combat role in Vietnam. - The truth is that he volunteered when he became draft eligible and never requested a non-combat role. He told friends at the time, that despite being anti-war, if he avoided it, someone else would have to go instead.
- He was still in great danger just being there.
- He never claimed to have been a war hero and fully acknowledged that his status likely kept him safer than some others.
He claimed to invent the internet. - He didn't claim that. He was part of the team that developed the technology and was a pioneer in computer communications, what eventually became the internet.
Aside from that, he became a successful business man that amassed a $300 million fortune. Surely he knows a thing or two about financial management.
His biggest problem is that he was a dork, something people don't want in a president, which is too bad actually. |
His wife was a huge problem as well, Tipper Gore was the face of parental complaints about 'you kids listening to your foul mouthed hippity hop'