
In an unexpected judicial turnaround, the Supreme Court this week reversed its 2000 ruling in the landmark case of Bush v. Gore, stripping George W. Bush of his earlier political victory, and declaring Albert Arnold Gore the 43rd president of the United States of America.
Gore will serve as commander in chief from Dec. 10 to Jan. 20.
"Allowing this flaw in judgment to stand would set an unworkable precedent for future elections and cause irreparable harm to the impartiality of this court," said Chief Justice John G. Roberts in his majority opinion. "Furthermore, let me be the first to personally congratulate President Gore on his remarkable come-from-behind victory. May he guide us wisely into this new millennium."
Phew. Now we can blame *all* of our problems on the Democrats. Al Gore was officially President during one of the most challenging times in our nations history - AND FAILED!
Can Al bore us to death within that timeframe?
zzzz, oh, sorry, what were you saying? ;-)
come on guys, he's super serial about this.
(I won't complain if nobody gets the reference, maybe I just need to grow up.)
Seriously. Then again, Gore did warn us about Manbearpig. Gotta credit him for that...
EXCELSIOR!!!!
Oh, and don't forget the new President is a tech geek, after all he did invent the internet, a Nobel Prize winner and an expert on Global Warming. LOL :-)
Don't forget fixing Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York!
MANBEARPIG! :)
LOL. Love the South Park references on here. It's really the best social and political commentary and satire on TV and the best part is that nobody is spared. Those of us sick of the 2 party oligarchy under which we are subjagated generally love South Park. Parker and Stone slam the elitist left and the elitist right or, as I like to call them, the "Dimwhitcrats" and the "Ripofficans". Most of them manipulative, ambition driven, and lying. Many of you easily manipulated, sheepishly following, and believing anything you hear from anyone representing your favorite political animal. Very sad and not the America built on dissent, strength of character, and the concept of representative governance. Keep blasting people South Park because freedom of speech is one of the last remaining freedoms we have and even that is threatened. If it's not the left suppressing your speech for fear of a small minority being offended then it's the right attempting to suppress our speech and actions all in the name of their fictitious invisible deity in the sky and his socalled son whose philosophy most of them ignore.
do you think we could fill in the white house with molten lead?
Welcome to Bull @!$%# of America, land of the corrupt , the inapt, and losers, this country got what it deserved under King George, every last murder of all the innocent could have been avoided. Way to go Supreme Court, you @!$%#ing idiots.
It hurts more to think of how different things would have been had Gore won. Even if he hadn't gotten re-elected we would have had an intelligent person at the controls, and at least one war would have been avoided. We joke about Gore being boring, but the Iraq war has cost the U.S. not only in money and blood but also in the good will of our Allies. I doubt that the country would be in financial collapse if Gore had been pres.
DJ, the whole world is in financial collapse right now. It's not just the US, you can't possibly blame Bush for the financial collapse of the World. He just doesn't have THAT MUCH impact.
I don't know. We seem to be living in the crater formed by Bush's impact.
Al Gore is as big a jackass as Bush. Are you all really this naive? Gore is an elitist who represented a state in which he rarely lived only because his dad before him had a power hold on Tennessee. He knows you need him to survive, you need men like him to live, you need men like him to lead you or you're lost. Do you really think he gives a damn about you or thinks you have the intelligence to question anything he says or does? He's no different than Bush or anyone else who has been a power player in DC. I've been around DC elites. But nobody like Gore. I can't imagine what he says about the "common" man when you're not listening to him BS in his speeches.
At least Gore hasn't lied, tortured and brought the economy down to it's knees.
It's not just the US, you can't possibly blame Bush for the financial collapse of the World. He just doesn't have THAT MUCH impact.
I don't know. After all, everything bad that happened these last eight years up until the market crash was Clinton's fault.
i must have missed something, is this article a joke a december fool joke.
JERRY, hi, it's satire. :-) We all need a good laugh now and again, lol.
We borrowed over 800 Billion Dollars for Mr. Bush's private war on Iraq, the war with no justification or reason, the first pre-emptive strike the U.S. has ever made (Remember how We felt after Pearl Harbor?) Do you really expect me to believe that it was a coincidence that the company that Dick Cheney worked as CEO for, got a no-bid deal for Iraq's oil? Did it never occur to you that we could have kept Hussein a prisoner in his own country for about $80 mil/year, versus the ridiculous borrow money and wage war tactic that Bush insisted we take? I don't even have to mention that Bush is easily one of the worst public speakers ever right? Or that his lies have cost this country soo much more that any of Al Gore's programs would?
Conservatism today seems to be just a vile negative opposition to progress in the Real World, a desperate clinging to a past that was filled with racism and oppression. Real conservatives would turn Bush out as a borrow and spend, warmongering moron.
C5000..
Yup I agree...this is really just supposed to be funny ..and it is!
:)
Comic relief--important stuff.
light,
Comic relief--important stuff.
I totally agree. Some people just don't have a sense of humor! :-)
"Throughout the entirety of his 2000 campaign, never once did Gore mention the tragedy of 9/11, or our conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan," Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) said. "Does he not care about our national security? Does Al Gore plan to ignore the needs of our brave men and women on the ground? What kind of world does Al Gore think we still live in?"
you just gotta love the onion :}
"Gore then delivered the first of seven consecutive State of the Union addresses."
His first attempt at universal health care .... a cure for insomnia
FYI reddirthippy,
9/11/01 happened AFTER the 2000 campaign and we didn't go into Iraq until around 2003 so how could Gore talke about these events before they even happened?
libertiesgirl you do realize the onion is satire and your question is the point of the joke.
Psst: that was the joke.
Oops. Too late.
I was hoping her post was satire and I just missed it.... maybee not
Wow-I wonder if it ruffled her hair as it passed right over her head? :-)
Pretty well written, though. I could almost imagine it happening. Gore as president for 40 days or so would have been ... uh ... fascinating.
Alot can be accomplished in a 40 day boat trip.
A lot of people on drugs here, won't mention their names, you know who you are, idiots that don't know what year 9/11 took place, typically American.
yeah some drugs do alot to deaden the sense of humor and make it impossible to recognize satire.
dementia tends to do the same thing.
Let Al Gore to review his wardrobe and continue traveling in private plane burning jet fuel.
"... you can't possibly blame Bush for the financial collapse of the World. He just doesn't have THAT MUCH impact" .-conservativevoice5000
Honestly, that sounds just like something out of the mouths of Rush Limbaugh and/ or Sean Hannity. It is exactly what they would have most Americans believe.
Also, the President of the United States has tremendous global impact for the worse if he is "intellectually incurious" as some have termed the incumbent president, or for the better if he is brilliant and possessed of sound judgement as some have described the president elect.
Not by might,
President Bush has no impact on the finances of Russia, China and we have NO control over the Middle East! But you and all the Libs will blame Bush no matter what. I suppose once Obama actually takes office and starts making his own mistakes, that will be Bush's fault too!
Oh, and for the record, I think Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh are some of the WORST examples of Conservatives along with Ann Coulter.
we have NO control over the Middle East!
ha, I think that's the point. The jerkoff did choose to invade the desert...during the summertime. But whatever, it was a nice mantra of shock and awe and all that.
I will at least say that the American economy probably drives the economy of the rest of the world, at least right now. I am not so sure the President of same has much control over it. Maybe. Maybe not.
I guess if he does, our new one will have it fixed soon....
"President Bush has no impact on the finances of Russia, China and we have NO control over the Middle East! "
ROFL. Sure. Aside from invading Iraq and interfering with what was once a stable balance of power, let's talk about the finances of China. Are you aware that China is now our biggest creditor, bar none, thanks to the massive deficit spending of Geoorge W. (no new taxes, but borrow 'til the cows come home) Bush?
And don't even start up with Democratic complicity. It's true. They didn't filibuster each and every thing Bush did. And in a few of the cases, they certainly were complicit. But as a "conservative," I wonder why you, and other self-proclaimed conservatives so strongly supported clear financial mismanagement.
Please tell me that Ann Coulter's mouth is still wired shut. I'm begging you!
Wake up people, Bush/Cheney have everything to do with where this country is, and rightfully so.. Greedy hypocritical Capitalist bastards are getting their just desert, nothing but common crooks.
"Albert Arnold Gore"
I didn't know that was his name.
Just for fun try saying that 5 times fast.
(Warning: Asian people do not attempt.)
(Warning: Asian people do not attempt.)
why not?
oh, come on.
oh dear lord. this is so dishonest. Not even funny.
The Onion is a fake news article, usually for the purposes of social commentary through being ridiculous.
the republican party want to get this monkey of their backs
The Onion is a must read! Love this one! And it's free!
THIS ONION HAS APPEAL!!!
So funny it made me "cry". ;-)
It certainly was a Tragedy and needless strain on our country and only onion could bring this back to the reality of where we would be today had Gore taken the helm..?
Wasn't that just before the article about peace breaking out in a remote corner of Africa?
An Inconvenient Truth; Gore should have been President...
It is also reported that Gore in his last days will be:
#1) Installing solar panels on the White House roof.
#2) All light bulbs are replaced with energy savors
#3) Windmill farm on the White House lawn
#4) White House is painted black in the Winter to create extra warmth, and then White again in the warm season to help keep it cool
#5) New Limo with electric engine, and rest of staff vehicles will be hybrid.
#6) Chimneys are sealed to eliminate smoke and CO2 emissions
#7) Pardons for Bill and Hillary, Obama, Biden, Nancy, Bush, Cheney.
#8) Bailout TARP money fully spent for Detroit on condition only green cars are built and sold starting on Jan 20th, 2009.
#9) Executive Order closing and sealing all coal mines in America.
#10) All illegals are granted amnesty and $1,000 each illegal as a bailout package for recompense for America's damage to their life and pursuit of happiness while here in the USA.
#11) Executive order mandating all tobacco farming to cease and prohibition on any cigarette and cigar smoking in the USA to stem CO2 emissions.
#12) Executive Order that every home in the USA in foreclosure is titled to the USA, with lease backs to the owner/occupiers, resulting in the recession immediately ending and $3,000,000 new jobs created practically overnight. Best prosperity in America in the last 50 years. By January 20, DOW is up to 16,000.
Yes...Two inaugurations in two weeks. We're partying in DC folks.
Will this effect my collection of Presidential Trading Cards and my Franklin Mint plates?
replytoj001
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Not that it means anything, even if this article was true. This is what Presidents say with their hand on a Bible. King George either has very little ability, or he has no comprehension of what he The Oath of Office means, nor does the Supreme Court. I know what it cost Americans to appoint Bush, but I wonder what he and his Dad had to pay.
but I wonder what he and his Dad had to pay.
Probably as much as Joe Kennedy Sr. did when he put John in the White House.....
replytoj001
One of the proposals Gore has in mind is to build a super huge Nuke plant in Greenland, where that plant pumps out of the ocean zillions of gallons of sea water and makes a huge Mt Everest at the upper latitude of greenland.
That new Mt Everest and some surrounding mountains of ocean ice water, will replace the melting ice elsewhere in the world, to offset the rise in the oceans.
Gore's main problem with global warming is the idea of flooding of beaches around the world. So, that is one way, along with others, to store ocean water, not only in Greenland, but Antarctica and other Northern locations.
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