Gore was right

[Nono]

Another article that's worked its way to the top of the pile...

Quote by: Al Gore, 2002 "(...) We could very well be much worse off than we are today. (...)”

I'm glad someone took the trouble (Gore's Other Global Warning: Iraq War) to look up the contents of the Gore speech thanks to which the guy was hooted at by the ever-sheep-like lap-dog US media.

Well, who's hooting now?

[Scribbler1]

When you're proven to be right the hooting stops. At that point you're ignored, or they focus on trivial things to attack you with in an effort to discredit you.

The idiot sheep eat that stuff up.

[Sonart]

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Please, don't stop there...

"No one in public life has been more intellectually engaged in helping to create the climate for a thriving Internet than the Vice President. Gore has been a clear champion of this effort, both in the councils of government and with the public at large.

The Vice President deserves credit for his early recognition of the value of high speed computing and communication and for his long-term and consistent articulation of the potential value of the Internet to American citizens and industry and, indeed, to the rest of the world."
-- Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, "Fathers of the Internet"

Al Gore ranks among the most visionary, most far sighted minds ever to wander the halls of the Beltway. Conservatives love to dismiss the Clinton economic boom as more a result of the dot.com explosion than any particular Clinton policies. Dot.com refers to the Internet, right? Therefore, to be fair, we should be calling it the Al Gore Boom since, as it turns out, while in Congress he really did take the political initiative to create the modern, www Internet.

But do we elect such visionary men to the White House? NooOOOooooo.... we much prefer mule-headed, intellectually shallow Peter Principle case studies who get to the top through charm, their family name and other people's money.


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[Technosoul]

Hmm, noticed a ad on this topic page called "Al Gore: Taking Action" and I wonder what our visionary is saying in that Ad? My computer will not provide me with the sound to hear what he is saying. I should have gotten a better computer like Gore advocated the government to do.

Jimmy Carter was also one of our most educated Presidents but he did not really get his act going until he left public office.

Computer useage is also important relative to the budget because you use little or no paper and less room for storage of information. In other words computers save time, space, resources, and that saves money.

It is clear he kept his self knowledgable about science and technology as well as factual data concerning budgets and so forth. I do not see him as a visionary in the religious sense or because of some philosophy, he used more pratical evidence to formulate his future projections. And he must have collected the correct knowledge about the culture of Iraq as well as knowledge about our military situation before speaking.
As far as predicting what Bush will do or what the outcome will be, that is easy as eating pie and no crystal ball is needed. Bush is SO predictable it is not even funny.

[gr8fuldaniel]

I predict he will announce this month.

Thats a week and a day.

Re-Elect Gore!!

[Scribbler1]

And with the entire Congress bought and paid for, just how far do you think President Gore would get with any proposals that cut into the corporate bottom line?

[Nono]

Well that's the whole problem, ain't it? The president is simply the most powerful single individual in the system. The president proposes, but congress disposes.

And how many thousands of dollars is it again that a US senator has to raise every day to purchase his re-election?

[Scribbler1]

Exactly. This bullshit occurs ever time we come up on a presidential election. Candidate X promises the world, while at the same time knowing Congress is unlikely to allow anything radical. But we all rally around "our man" thinking he's going to get things done. It's pathetic, really, the way it happens this way EVERY single time.

It's the same problem with the Libertarian Party. We all yammer about how great it would be to have a Libertarian in the White House, but we can't get it together enough to even elect local and state candidates. Even Ron Paul wasn't taken seriously until he turned Republican.

[Sonart]

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Gore isn't running for President. Period.


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[xyzer]

Gore isn't running for President. Period.

All I can say is thank God for that sonart.
There is no evidence that Gore did anything about, or to, the internet..except think about it!
Gore andhis boss Clinton, dispatched the military overseas 44 times in 8 years. Bombing pill factories in Sudan and Serbian civilians was their modus.Theirs was really a placid foreign policy!
Gore reinvented government by cutting military spending and not much else. Then when we didn't have armoured vests for Desert Storm or armour to support our troops in Somalia he and his boss blamed the Sec Def?. Gore and his boss presided over the murder of US civilians at Waco and neither even acknowledged or apologised for that?
Gore spent 3 months in Vietnam(an unheard of short tour in a war) Why? Because he chickened out? Because he had political influence through his father? Gore quit the Army early to go to Grad School. He then promptly flunked/dropped out? Do you suppose he tried or was it just a ruse to get out of the Army early?
Gore repeatedly lied about his youth, claiming he was a tobacco farmer and other such rot. He has also told whoppers about 'global warming' He claimed that if we didn't do something the oceans were going to rise 17 feet in 50 years though even the IPCC said their estimate some small fraction of that. The guy is as big a liar as his ex boss though not as ithyphallic.

[Scribbler1]

I wouldn't be too quick to say Gore won't run. The year is young and he IS a politician, after all. I know he said he wasn't running, but if enough people tell him he should and the polls look right, you might want fries with those words.

[Slevin57]

Thank you Mr. Gore for predicting the obvious and doing absolutely nothing about it.

[Scribbler1]

Quote by: Slevin57 Thank you Mr. Gore for predicting the obvious and doing absolutely nothing about it.

In all fairness, global warming is not something a single person can affect in any way. That's kind of why they call it "GLOBAL" warming.
And if it's that obvious, how come the oilman in the White House doesn't seem to share Gore's view, but most of the scientists on the planet DO?

The only way to deal with such a huge problem is to mobilize a LOT of people into at least a LITTLE action. On that point, compare what Gore has done to highlight the problem against what ANY other candidate or anyone in Congress or the Bush administration has done.

[Slevin57]

Quote by: Scribbler1 In all fairness, global warming is not something a single person can affect in any way. That's kind of why they call it "GLOBAL" warming. And if it's that obvious, how come the oilman in the White House doesn't seem to share Gore's view, but most of the scientists on the planet DO? The only way to deal with such a huge problem is to mobilize a LOT of people into at least a LITTLE action. On that point, compare what Gore has done to highlight the problem against what ANY other candidate or anyone in Congress or the Bush administration has done.

I wasn't referring to Global Warming. I do not yet blame the Democratic party for Global Warming. (Give it time )

[Scribbler1]

Quote by: Slevin57 I wasn't referring to Global Warming. I do not yet blame the Democratic party for Global Warming. (Give it time )

Then what WERE you referring to when you said, "Thank you Mr. Gore for predicting the obvious and doing absolutely nothing about it?"
I must have missed a post along the line.