Memo to Al Gore

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You fucking wimp. People like to blame it on Nader, but this is your fault. You were elected president. You were the man we put our confidence in, yet when push came to shove you stood back instead of continuing to push. You stood back and let that snake slither past you into the White House. You probably handed over your lunch money in elementary school before a single punch landed. You said you were doing it to keep from embroiling America in a divisive, destructive battle. Guess what? We got it anyway, and it's worse than the one you would have started. A fuck of a lot worse, and growing worse still every day.

And where are you now? Running a cable network for international news produced by the CBC. You should have been in the Oval Office. Instead you'll be disseminating pictures of what you could have prevented. Is that what passes for penance in Goreland?

If there's any justice, history will treat you at least 10% as badly as it's going to treat our moron-in-chief. And you know what? You would have been a lousy president. Your idea of defending the Constitution was to stand aside and open the door for a man intent on burning it and stomping on the ashes. If you couldn't even stand up to Bush, how would you have stood up to Osama bin Laden?

Get out of my face, bitch.

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William Shunn
William Shunn

Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. Creator of Proper Manuscript Format, Spelling Bee Solver, Tylogram, and more. Banned in Canada.

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