The questions are choreographed, so it was “asked” by the interviewer because the campaign is putting this idea out there.
The questions are choreographed, so it was “asked” by the interviewer because the campaign is putting this idea out there.
Full statement from Carter Center:
https://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/2024/venezuela-073024.html
Not mentioned in the article is that these systems are still illegal in the US.
Gore voting for Iraq I was hardly a surprise, as he championed it regularly on TV. He then chastised Bush I for ending the war too early.
In the Clinton Administration, he was among the staunchest hawks. He would give speeches calling for removing of Saddam (“finish the job”). You can probably find some of those speeches with Google…cover the name over and you’d think you were seeing something from Rumsfeld or Cheney.
Contrary to myth, Iraq II was not invented by a small group of neocons. It had full bipartisan backing in Congress, and there are some who were close to Gore who believe he would have also been in support.
Perhaps should have put quotes around “notorious”. I figure most here knew it was another just another media-generated controversy.
“Too centrist”
You young ones won’t know this, but Gore had a very different persona as Congressman and VP. Note that the only reason Clinton, a notorious draft-dodger, picked Gore as his running-mate was because of Gore’s reputation as the top Pentagon-hawk. As well, Gore led centrist wing of the party that wanted to eliminate welfare and implement austerity measures.
People who say Gore would have kept us out of Iraq, or not done all the other dumb shit Bush did, don’t seem to recall that politician Gore was complete polar opposite of post-political Gore we know today.
This new policy will definitely get overturned by the Supreme Court. As such, it is a stupid election-year gimmick.
It is actually much worse than that. The problem they are having is that street-running LRT trains get stuck in traffic, causing bunching and other scheduling issues. The obvious solution is to get cars completely out of the way of the trains. But despite an official “transit first” policy, the SFMTA won’t do that. So instead they will spend >$100 million on a new signal system, which will map train locations in real-time simply to tell dispatchers what they already know – that the trains are stuck in traffic.
Joe Lieberman has entered the chat