Tweet
After 40 years of wedded bliss (or hell perhaps).
Remember <span style="font-weight: bold">the kiss</span>?
Remember <span style="font-weight: bold">the kiss</span>?
-
-
Al and Tipper split after 40 yrs
Never saw that coming- they were always seen as the odd couple- he was the stuffed shirt, she was the live of the party. If they tolerated each others' foibles for 40 yrs! what could possibly make them break up now?!
Maybe its the empty nest- arent all their kids grown and out of the home now? I know we dont mostly care about Al Gore, but can you believe 40 yrs just down the drain like that! -
Re: Al and Tipper split after 40 yrs
you just never know what gos on behind closed doors...no matter what the public persona...
Comment
-
Re: Al and Tipper split after 40 yrs
Divorce court has been really busy as of late.Comment
-
Re: Al Gore & Tipper Split
after 40 years?!?
yea that kiss was the beginning of the end
ring poppishow tingComment
-
Re: Al Gore & Tipper Split
Why bother?Comment
-
Re: Al Gore & Tipper Split
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Compray</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why bother? </div></div>
Why bother what Compray? Get divorced?Comment
-
Re: Al Gore & Tipper Split
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Curmudgeon_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">After 40 years of wedded bliss (or hell perhaps).
Remember <span style="font-weight: bold">the kiss</span>? </div></div>
they look like 2 puppets
Comment
-
Re: Al Gore & Tipper Split
in reading various articles on di split, it would seem dat dem supposedly were mismatched from di getgo..he is supposedly veddy selfish an she is a more social sort...for him it is about juss him n he is to always be in the forefront...so i guess afta di politics done, dere was not much to keep either interested in the other...
mek u wonda if any of the Bushes soon come wid fi dem bruk up...afta all, if u believe di gossip, ole man Bush cheats an ascawding to one gossip mag covah mi see eena si supamarket, son George been drinking like a fish since leaving officeComment
-
Re: Al Gore & Tipper Split
why do any a wi even care?
boring day pan de bbs huh
Comment
-
The Odd Couple Finally Splits Up
<span style="font-weight: bold">Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, always seemed slightly mismatched.</span>
Justin Sullivan Newsweek
They were an odd couple from the start, a teenage romance that tried—and, after 40 years, failed—to bridge the divides that were inherent in it from the start: political versus nonpolitical Washington; pure, driven ambition versus another day at the beach; a need to internalize and intellectualize versus the drummer in the band.
I've known Al and (less well) Tipper Gore since the early 1980s, and always thought that their marriage was the quirky, unstable leftover of their youths in the capital. Gore was as "federal" as you could get, the princely son of a senator living at the Fairfax Hotel and commuting up Massaschusetts Avenue to prep school at St. Albans. Tipper was all local, the fun-loving daughter of a well-to-do Arlington, Va ., businessman (and who gave the young couple the suburban house they lived in). It had to have been thrilling—and an act of teenage rebellion for them both—when they literally crossed the river for each other.
But the driven Gore—whose father reared him with the expectation that he would be president—was, after a fitful start (reporter, theology student)—focused intently on a political life. His wife, by contrast, always seemed unsettled in the role of the Good Wife, the dutiful, careful, and absorbed political spouse.
She did her best. In the old days, the Gores used to have a Christmas party at their Arlington home when their kids were young; Gore staffers would dress as Santas and elves. Al tried to enjoy these events (even though he wasn't much for easy social chatter), but I always thought that Tipper, genial as she was, seemed a bit nonplussed by the use of her home for such a mix of public, political, and private life.
Tipper loved to take photographs at events—a way to express herself artistically but always a way to distance herself from them.
The two sometimes could seem yoked together like the figures on a wedding cake. When, as vice president, they hosted Halloween parties, they dressed in elaborate costumes (provided by the Walt Disney Co.) that some years completely hid their identity as individuals. It was a kind of goof on the whole enterprise: guests had their pictures taken with "hosts" no one could identify. I didn't think the Gores were enjoying themselves in the heavy armor of costumes.
A visit to the vice presidential mansion in the Clinton-Gore years—I went there a couple of times for interviews—never yielded much if any time with Tipper. You were there to talk politica and policy with Al, and Al only. It's not that Tipper was hidden away; she just wasn't part of the equation.
The Gores had more than their share of challenge and tragedy. Al lost his beloved sister to cancer; Tipper had depression issues; their son Albert III was nearly killed in a traffic accident in front of his father's eyes.
Al Gore is a worthy, earnest guy. He was ahead of his time on many issues, and right about much more than he was wrong
But no one would ever call him spontaneous; you always got the sense with Tipper that she was one eye roll away from giving up on the whole enterprise of living a public life.Comment
-
Re: Al Gore & Tipper Split
Sorry about this news They met in high school. They have four children and grandchildren (I think). There are stresses in all marriages and theirs have included their young son's life threatening accident, her depression, his presidency that was stolen by the Supreme Court ... and these are just public stresses!
Comment
-
Re: Al Gore & Tipper Split
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Shine_Eye_Girl</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Compray</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why bother? </div></div>
Why bother what Compray? Get divorced? </div></div>
Yes. Married fi 40 years. Might as well juss stick it out.Comment
-
Re: Al Gore & Tipper Split
I always regret when ever a marriage ends.. quick tell our Kanadian cousins so they can send down their matuire single women to trap al...Comment
-
Re: Al Gore & Tipper Split
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Compray</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Shine_Eye_Girl</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Compray</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Why bother? </div></div>
Why bother what Compray? Get divorced? </div></div>
Yes. Married fi 40 years. Might as well juss stick it out. </div></div>
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison and never complained.
After being released and spending 6 months with his wife, he divorced her.Comment
Comment