How Blatant Was THAT!

The election just passed and the first 100 days of the new administration upon us I thought about another election that took place at the dawn of the century. Yes the Bush -Gore election of 2000 . We all remember how contentious it was but I’m not going into that . Except to say there was any indication just how bad it would be …at least I saw an indication and perhaps you did too . It was during the campaign that I saw it and it couldn’t have been any clearer if it was a button hook in the well water.

I was just walking down the street one day when a bumper sticker caught my eye – Teamsters For Gore it said. Which took me aback. I mean even though is quite well known how violent the Teamsters have been over time For them to come out and openly declare that they were in favor of bloodshed – what is Gore after all if not bloodshed – seemed not only brazen but unsettling. A veiled call to violent discord should their candidate, Al Gore, fail to achieve the Presidency. I mean, really…chilling, yes, chilling is the proper word here. Why couldn’t they have exercised a bit more civility? Like: Teamsters Vote Gore – He’s Al We Got. Something like that – pithy, clear and absent the blood lust of the bumper rant I found so unseemly.

Anyway, that’s how we all should have seen the Fracas in FL 2000 way ahead of time.

And that’s all there is to that.

SmokeDragon

I remember that election. I wrote a parody song, “The Vote That Doesn’t End” … after the Lambchop Singalong song “The Song That Doesn’t End”. I was young. Like, 12 or 13 at the time. Don’t remember all of it. Also currently drunk. But here is what I remember:

“This is the Vote that doesn’t end / Yes, it goes on and on my friends /

They started recounting / not knowing what they’d done / and they’ll continue recounting / forever just because /

This is the Vote that doesn’t end / Yes, it goes on and on my friends /

Ladies down in Florida doing lunch / discovered that Buchanan / was the hole that they had punched… (repeat chorus)”