Agreed Wellstone would be loose cannon
I mean this is the guy who openly discussed ways to ban the GOP, and while he never tried those kinds of statements would be in a campaign ad overnight
While I think security would have moved quickly I think an airliner impacting any part of the South Lawn would have done a lot of damage in human terms
Actually that evening the White House was hosting a reception for Congress on the WH Lawn.
Most of the Congress, Cabinet and the POTUS/VPOTUS would have been there.
First off I did not say it WOULD lead to that but COULD lead to that.
Second, the original Campaign Finance Reform bills proposed by the Democrats would have placed major limits on business contributors (from mom and pop size on up) but exempted unions entirely.
In addition there would have...
Unless a Gore win brings along a Dem Congress.
Then they pass the bills it seems you would like.. to effectively ban opposition parties without actually saying so.
If, as some of the posts suggest, we have 2 Gore terms that could lead to some very interesting changes in American politics, potentially the imposition of a de facto one party state.
Assuming the liberal versions of campaign finance reform and fairness doctrine are passed by Congress and...
Could go the other way though.
Left attacks him for allowing suffering in Iraq, says it's because the evil Bush family is in bed with Saddam for oil.
You never know what will happen when you change things.
I like the idea of a 13 or 14 star flag.
13 stars for the original colonies of course plus possibly a larger 14th star to represent the growth of new states.