Decision Points: The Presidency of Al Gore

Emperor Norton I

Emperor Norton I

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Paul V McNutt

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I think Gore could prevent 9/11 with better cordination ov intelligence gathering. If not there is an invasion of Afganistan but not Iraq. Either way he defeats John McCain in 2004. The economy is good and Gore Care passed in 2001 is popular. With the economic collapse Lieberman or Hillary loses to Mitt Romney. Because there was no stimulus and the economy is worse Romney loses in 2012. In my DBWI President George W Bush, I had Puerto Rico vote for statehood in 1994 and provide the electoral votes for the Gore victory. t The was still a Florida recount and a Bush vs Gore Supreme Court decision but it only reduces Gore electoral college margin. On the ottoman Othertimelines, I wrote a TL that had Gore spending the last day of the campaign in New Hampshire. That state's 4 electoral votes carry Gore to the White House.
 

THE OBSERVER

Would Gore not invade Iraq? Don't think he'll give into the demands of Chalabi and his friends, but he will do something in Iraq.
 

THE OBSERVER

I think we can call the first decade of the 21st Century pretty dull. BTW, loved 'Limbaugh's insides.' Then again, maybe an angry Washington Times reader or writer slammed his pen down on the paper in frustration.
 
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Dathi THorfinnsson

THE OBSERVER said:
Would Gore not invade Iraq? Don't think he'll give into the demands of Chalabi and his friends, but he will do something in Iraq.
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Why would he?

Sadams a nasty autocratic dictator, sure, but thats not why Bush attacked him. Gore doesnt have the Daddy issues with iraq that w did, and wont be surrounded by neoconmen like rumsfeld and cheney.
 
Emperor Norton I

Emperor Norton I

I'm of the opinion that Gore would avoid Iraq, and in a subsequent world if/when Middle Eastern "summer of freedom" arises, the US will most definitely intervene in Iraq the same way it did in Libya. We're very comfortable intervening in places we've already been, which is why we reinvaded Iraq in the OTL.
 

Glass Onion

Norton, why is there a picture of an inauguration on the newspaper? Wouldn't the picture be of Gore celebrating victory, or of making his victory speech, given that the headline's context suggest that it 's the paper for the day after the election? I know it is a slight nitpick, but still.
 
Emperor Norton I

Emperor Norton I

Glass Onion said:
Norton, why is there a picture of an inauguration on the newspaper? Wouldn't the picture be of Gore celebrating victory, or of making his victory speech, given that the headline's context suggest that it 's the paper for the day after the election? I know it is a slight nitpick, but still.
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In the caption, as is in the picture, it says "Al Gore at the Vice Presidential nomination". The intent being that it's the paper representing presidentialness-ness with an image like that. Maybe I should have used a campaign image that looked like he had won, but I don't think that'd have looked as interesting, and what's done is done.
 

Glass Onion

Norton, why is there a picture of an inauguration on the newspaper? Wouldn't the picture be of Gore celebrating victory, or of making his victory speech, given that the headline's context suggest that it 's the paper for the day after the election?
 

usertron2020

Donor
Glass Onion said:
Norton, why is there a picture of an inauguration on the newspaper? Wouldn't the picture be of Gore celebrating victory, or of making his victory speech, given that the headline's context suggest that it 's the paper for the day after the election?
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Hey, it's the Washington Times. I'm amazed it isn't a picture of Gore picking his nose!:p
 

Historico

Awesome update HC, It's good to see Chief of Staff Ron Klain and the Gore Administration being able to convince Jeffords to leave the GOP and caucus with the Democrats. The EOA shouldn't be Gore's last attempt at getting progressive legislation through Congress. Might there be enough Democratic support in Congress to get a repeal of the Byrd-Hagel Resolution, so the Senate can ratify the Kyoto Protocol Agreement and the President sign it as is? Or does Gore think he could get the developing countries to sign onto the Carbon Dioxide Emissions cap at the end of 2001 or 2002?
 

Republican Jim

hcallega said:
Quoting Ronald Reagan, Jeffords stated “I haven’t left the Republican Party; the Republican Party has left me.”
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Just so we can keep the timeline accurate I have a correction - it was Barry Goldwater who said "I haven't left the Repbulican Party; the Republican Party has left me."
 
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