On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:54 AM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote:
> I remember all the pillars of the
> Democratic establishment who started
> calling upon Al Gore to throw in the
> towel. And when Jesse Jackson threatened
> to organize street demos in Florida to
> protest the Republican shenanigans concerning
> the recount, all of a sudden the media
> was running with stories about Jessee's
> "love child." Needless to say those
> street demos never happened.
Gore told Jackson's people to go home. He didn't want to provoke a constitutional crisis. You can be damn sure that if the roles were reverse, the Reps would have provoked a constitutional crisis.
Doug