HBO's "Recount" Rips Open 2000 Wounds

New York Times:

Wounds from the Florida recount, still healing for many Democrats, are being ripped open again for some prominent former advisers to Al Gore. They say that a coming HBO film dramatizing the ballot battle after the 2000 election unfairly blames them for the Democrats' failure to secure the White House.

Warren Christopher, the former secretary of state who served as the public face of the Gore team in the early days of the recount effort, said this week that he believed the film, "Recount," was "pure fiction" in its portrayal of him as a weak strategist unprepared to stand up to the aggressive tactics of James A. Baker III, the former secretary of state who was the chief Republican adviser.

William M. Daley, Mr. Gore's campaign chairman, who helped to lead the Democratic recount team in Florida, said the film created misperceptions about the Gore team's decision-making process. Mr. Gore, who oversaw the team from Washington, is largely absent from the film.

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Comments

[RGKahn]

"Wounds from the Florida recount, still healing for many Democrats, are being ripped open again..." am not sure about anybody else, but I have not been healed by time. After the schrub leaves office in eight months the healing might start at that point. I want impeachment hearing for both the President and vice-president. I won;t tell you that is not to punish these people but to make sure another Presidents doesn't try the same thing. That would be partially correct. Of course it would be to punish the president and vice president for their criminal and corrupt actions that have done for the past seven years. It also to draw the proverbial line in the sand for future american dictators to have to cross in their quest for power. We have lost over 5,000 men and women in our armed forces because nobody in Congress had the courage of their convictions. I could go on for pages and days about my feelings and thoughts about this president and this Congress. I was hoping to see this man impeached and thrown out of office and then tried as the criminal that he is.

[kellygrrrl]

I personally have only grown more angry and wounded with time

I cannot think of any possible way the Bush Admin could have been any worse

[hip dibler]

it's a joke. our democracy, i mean..

[Pquilson]

Maybe so, but it is the best one around.

[DennyCrane]

The only thing I remember about Warren Christopher is he wore really nice suits and he looked like he was dead or dying.

[KyleCope]

Oh, give it up already.

And watch this, it's funnier than rehashing a sore loser's story:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wGMgxFE6bms

[rini]

Sore loser?

Gore could have pushed further, but exited gracefully when it was obvious that W had a lot of powerful people on his side, including a relative in Fox news and his brother. He has even made humourous and self deprecating comments about the election.

It has been people around him and others who are devastated by the horrific direction that this country has taken since that election that may not have been fair.

[racetoinfinity]

Gore should have fought harder, and objected to the SCOTUS being involved at all. He wimped out.

[WilburM]

"Gore could have pushed further, but exited gracefully when it was obvious that W had a lot of powerful people on his side, including a relative in Fox news and his brother."

you're kidding, right? Gore inflamed a lot of damage with his refusal to see the facts for what they were:

both sides cheated
ballots were a mess
recount was a joke
there was virtually no scenario under which Gore was going to win office.

yet, he pushed all the way to the supremes. granted, they turned the case into a political vote instead of justice of any sort... but Gore brought that shit on himself so to speak and he dragged all of us with him.

[colossus]

That youtube video sucked. Thanks for nothing.

[jesthefaxman]

Who is playing Theresa LePore?