The Al Gore Thread
 

Well just in case he does decide to run, here's a thread for him.

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/...4_archive.html

He'd probably have a better chance then Hilary or Obama or any other democrate for that matter.

As I posted previously, though, Gore himself has stated that he will not run this time. But, of course, that doesn't necessarily mean anything. I do, though, think that if he was even possibly considering running that he would have made an appearance at the DNC winter meeting. And while there is still 326 days until the first primary, he would have a lot of ground to make up - this is especially true because he no longer has a strong base of support in Iowa, he lost New Hampshire, and Nevada and South Carolina were not early, important states when he ran last time. While there's no doubt he has popularity and appeal, he needs to have those things in the first four states and he doesn't (but, again, there is of course time to build that - he is, though, already behind as the other candidates have been doing that for months now). He would also have to get away from his current image of being the environmental guy and show that he is about more issues than just global warming. I really don't think he is going to run.

he looks like he's on pregnazone.

Could Gore's road to the Oval Office begin in Hollywood?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/...ore/index.html

I think BlueStar wakes up with nightmares that Gore might run

Gore ran, Gore won, and Bush fucked up the world.

Except that Gore didn't win.

You're both right and wrong.

It depends.

If the limited recount specifically ordered by the florida supreme court (and halted by the federal) were completed, Bush would have won.

If there was a statewide recount (that Gore never requested), Gore would have won.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_election_recount

Al Gore is an idiot.

that's great, i was just wondering what Vaclav Klaus thought of global warming

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wow omega concern, you totally swayed my opinion, great post

Obama will eventually win the country over. The man is absolutely contagious ! (not literally of course!)

turns out this bastard has a $2300 monthly power bill. i think he should be impeached.

yeah that's also an unfounded claim by an unaccredited conservative think tank

What a pathetic attack that evaporates when you get all the facts.

Gore voluntarily pays almost 50% more expensive "green" power from renewable sources like wind and solar.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/0...cord-straight/

He also purchases carbon offsets to reduce his carbon footprint to zero.

:rofl:

http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/...article_id=367

What a jackass.

Part of the justification for the increased use is "He has 20 rooms in his house, and a guest house, and offices!" Pardon me while I shed a tear for the fact that Al Gore has an overly large house that he has to waste a lot of energy on.

If he's really as gravely serious about the environment as he claims he is, why doesn't he reduce his own energy usage by living in a more modest home and then still pay out the same amount of money each month to help friends, neighbors, etc. afford clean energy for their households? (spread the "green" around, literally and figuratively) As it is, he's still one guy using 20 households worth of energy for himself when he doesn't have to, no matter how much he pays for it. The message he's sending right now is "Its fine to use more energy than you really need, as long as you can afford to cover your own ass so you don't feel guilty about it." That sort of thing is probably not going to inspire the masses out there to go out of their way to reduce their energy usage and carbon footprints.

Politicians in hypocritical positions? pushaww, not in the U.S.

it was refreshing to see Michael Crichton, who knows and likes Al Gore, jump off the global warming bandwagon and question Charlie Rose on how unified scientist really are on this issue.

Charlie Rose played the typical lap-dog liberal while Crichton tactifully claimed the research from the IPCC shouldn't and couldn't be trusted and this notion that the debate is over is disconcerting.

"Consensus science is not science..." was one quote.

also, I guess in the documentary it makes the claim that sea-levels will rise 20 feet and the author mentioned that went against the IPCC's own report of 50 centimeter's...which itself is a figure that's been downgraded from the IPCC's report on the climate about 5 years ago because their projections of how quickly the planet would warm were wrong.

As usual, Corganist swoops in and makes the game/set/match point to close the thread.

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What ever happened to personal responsibility?

Wow, Corganist arguing that nobody should have an "overly" large house, despite the fact that Gore is a former vice president that needs the extra rooms for his offices, staff and security detail. Shall we set up a govt dept to determine exactly how big a house every family in America is allowed to get?

In every single major state of the union speech Bush throws bones out there calling for a serious change in energy consumption and addressing climate change. Let's go find out the exact size and energy usage of Bush family houses then.

Who the fuck is this worthless poster?

I could really care less about how big Al Gore's house is. I'm not the one on an Oscar winning global environmental crusade going around telling people to be more energy efficient or whatever. I'm just saying if I were, then I'd probably go a little further to save the earth than merely making sure my own extravagent energy use had no ill effects before I go around asking regular middle class people to turn down their thermostats and use clothelines to dry their clothes.

So you admit that you don't even mean what you say. Partisan hackery to the fullest.

Al Gore voluntarily spending 50% higher cost on his electricity bill just for green energy and his carbon offsets are already doing a lot more towards his cause than what he's asking everybody else to do.

That's not what I said. The issue is not the size of Al Gore's house, but rather the hypocrisy the guy is showing by using so much energy while at the same time lecturing everyone else to conserve.

The point is that he could do a lot more before asking anyone else to do anything. There's nothing wrong so much with the guy putting out money to keep his high energy use while keeping the environment at status quo. It keeps him in his huge mansion without causing more harm. But the guy could make some personal sacrifices, maybe only live in a 10 room mansion for instance, and actually improve things. But it appears right now he wants to have his cake and eat it too. You can't live the good life and save the world at the same time.

For a guy who's always so big on having the rich do their "fair share" about problems, you sure seem to be quick to give Gore a free pass. I can just imagine what you'd say if some rich Republican started saying that all people need to do volunteer work to solve the poverty problem, and then when it's revealed that he only did half the volunteer work the average American does, he says "I'm really busy, so I just don't have time. But I wrote some checks to charity, so that makes up for it, right?" You'd be all over him for hypocrisy.

And what exactly is wrong with this? Unless you're one of the holdouts that still doesn't believe in global warming that is.