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Subject: [PEN-L:6128] Gore's concession speech
Gore's concession speech hardly helps the cause of those who want to use
the closeness of the race to shift US politics to the left.
It was patrician and patronising in ton
Nathan Newman wrote:
Gore's speech was pathetic-
I'm gratified to see Nathan's reaction to Gore's speech. My own reaction is
that while I am appalled at the supreme court/florida mafia coup d'etat and
can take no comfort from Bush's obligatory homilies, I also can't find any
regret that Gore
At 08:34 14/12/00 -0500, Nathan wrote:
Gore's speech was pathetic- aimed at his own credibility although being the
"good son", he probably believes a lot of that crap.
So progressives need to just ignore Gore- the votes suppress belonged to the
folks who were disenfranchised, not to Gore. If he
Gore's concession speech hardly helps the cause of those who want to use
the closeness of the race to shift US politics to the left.
It was patrician and patronising in tone and substance. Its overuse of
quotations and dignified good humour was intended to signal that the New
Democrats
