Hands down, the ’00s were the worst political decade at least since the 1990s.

Reason.tv celebrates the (lack of) personalities, the scandals, and the screw-ups that made us all want to forget the first 10 years of the 21st century.

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Today, in 2000, Al Gore gave up his campaign to steal the Presidential Election.

A Nobel Peace prize, an Academy Award, a temporary fixation on a bogus issue and hundreds of millions of dollars to Al because of all this, are small prices to pay to keep this man away from the levers of real power. Al’s father ultimately expressed remorse for his efforts to block the Civil Rights Act, perhaps Al the Lesser will one day atone for his own ‘inconvenient’ sins.