so wat are your thoughts on Bush's successor?
Cuomo, hell I think that he was a great man. Come on, NHIP (OoC: National Health Insurance Plan) is of course his shining achievement. Remember his political battle in Congress, touring the country with photo-ops with the elderly, college students, children, and homeless veterans. I mean you really could not beat that.
Everyone says that vice-president Gore "invented the Internet", of course he didn't but he did make accessible to not just rich people in the suburbs but to people in the mountains of West Virginia or to those in East LA. I mean I wouldn't be here on these forums without that push.
Foreign policy, I mean he did put actual boots on the ground on Kosovo, not that half-assed bombing run that Quayle, Buchannan, and the other Republicans wanted. I mean that really prepared the military for Afghanistan. Remember 9/11, how America and
the world was united against Al-Qaeda and Zawahiri. I mean we captured that man in the caves, put him on trial in
New York, he is in a prison somewhere in Colorado now. I mean in Afghanistan people are not forced to go to those madrassahs. Women can go to school, and they are not forced to wear the burka, I mean they wear hijab but I have friends that wear it too so it doesn't matter. Speaking of Muslim friends, remember how on September 12th he spoke at a DC mosque condemning collective blame. He said that "Islam is a religion of peace". Still, Afghanistan is actually a free and stable nation in the Middle East and that's something we should be proud of.
Remember the sanctions battle in the UN for Iraq and North Korea. They're both headed by tinpot dictators but at least the threats that they pose are minimal at best and when Kim Jong-il and Saddam die, there will be democracy there.
I mean Cuomo was amazing, Gore was a great man in 2004. I remember how Gore met with George Bush, the son, Dubya, after he won his Nobel Peace Prize for his documentary an
Inconvenient Truth, the movie about the treatment of political prisoners, Christians, and those in the Falun Gong in China. It was a real eye-opener.
Think about touring the nation to promote that movie and being MLB commissioner. It's a lot of work, especially the Academy Awards, the screenings at Cannes, speaking at universities and town halls, and the Grammy for the audiobook as well. Bush did a lot of action against steroids in his actual job which is just commendable.
It is sad that Gore lost in '08. I mean there was the whole recession and all but I really hope that President McCain and Vice-President Guiliani really try to fix this economy up, though.