Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

Al Gore isn't running from what I've seen (especially since his kid just got busted). When he was VP, obscenity prosecutions were at a low point. Republicans have had a history of going after obscenity cases much more strongly then Democrats. That is fact, not fluff.

For a guy who is so "small government", he wants the government to ban our ability to buy prescription drugs from other countries, ban how much we can donate to a candidate, ban our ability to speak out against a candidate, pumping more money into medicare, banning our ability to sue insurance companies, not allow us to opt out of social security, wants to add internet taxes, fund abstinence education from the government, limiting what self-employed people can deduct for health care, voted against reducing the marriage penalty, and increase spending on drug control.

As for science, he still doesn't believe what the majority of scientists believe on warming, he is against types of stem cell research, and against a separation of church and state in school.

I can understand the view of not having the judicial branch make laws(although if they didn't, blacks would be slaves and drinking out of different water fountains, women wouldn't be voting, different races couldn't marry, our country would end at the Mississippi, you could be convicted of getting a blowjob in your bedroom, wouldn't be able to buy contraceptives if married, have to learn the Bible in science class, no one would have a right to a lawyer, police would have limitless ways of interogation, death penalty would be mandatory, and so on). When I meant he was anti-justice system, I was also referring to the fact he doesn't support the decisions made by them in enforcing the laws. He also doesn't believe we should be allowed to file lawsuits against big companies.