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Is Al Gore Jed Bartlett?

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They both have a nobel prize. They both represent an idealized President for millions of people. Is it possible that Al Gore is really Jed Bartlett come to life? Discuss, in the 65 minutes that remains before an event far more important than any election begins. Picture, and biographical details, credit Wikipedia.

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  1. Cool wife?  Check
    Machine-style rival?  Check
    Very smart?  Check

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    Pasted an idiot in a prolonged campaign?  Not so much

  2. My favorite Bartlet moment was when Rep. Matt Patrick killed a House citiation congratulating the troops on Iraq becasue it made reference to President George Bush.  He would only let it go through when it merely made mention of ‘the President’.  Doubtless, so he could present it to HIS personal President, Jed.

  3. I’ve met Al Gore.  I like to think I knew Jed Bartlet.  Al Gore is no Jed Bartlet.

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    My favorite Jed Bartlet moment?

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    blockquote>Today for the first time in history, the largest group of Americans living in poverty are children. One in five children live in the most abject, dangerous, hopeless, back-breaking, gut-wrenching poverty any of us could imagine. One in five, and they’re children. If fidelity to freedom of democracy is the code of our civic religion, then surely the code of our humanity is faithful service to that unwritten commandment that says we shall give our children better than we ourselves received. Let me put it this way: I voted against the bill because I didn’t want to make it harder for people to buy milk. I stopped some money from flowing into your pocket. If that angers you, if you resent me, I completely respect that. But if you expect anything different from the president of the United States, you should vote for someone else.

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    Al Gore’s problem isn’t his smarts, or his political skills, so much as it is he’s not capable of wholesale inspiration.  Not like the kind Sorkin could write, anyway.

  4. …Jed Bartlett is a fictional character–I guess.  I’ve never been able to sit through an entire snore-fest of West Wing.

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    Al Gore is a real person.  Somewhat different. 

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    BTW, Gore’s manner of speaking is not particularly boring.  In rhetoric, the proper way to get your point across is to (a) speak in complete sentences (b) speak moderately slowly, so that the audience will be able to understand what the speaker is saying and (c) speak so as to complete an argument. 

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    Gore does all of those very well.

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