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No question Al Gore still tasting sour grapes over his narrow loss in 2000. His theatrical, melodramatic statements (worst mistake ever) are meant not to clarify
or help the situation, but only to tweak Bush and salve his own pain from his defeat.

The fact is, going in to Iraq, a country that tried to assassinate a former U.S. President, a country had fired many surface to air missiles at our planes patrolling
the no-fly zone, was the right thing to do. Even the Clintons agree with that.

Eric,

Maybe you’ll like this statement better: Oil and water don’t mix, therefore they cannot be put in solution. You had a knee jerk reaction, thinking that I made a moral equivalence between Democrats and Islamists. That’s not my point at all. American politics are indeed polarized, but I don’t see that as intrinsically bad. If we have our differences let’s not pretend otherwise. Thank God we have our fights at the ballot box, not with bombs. You speak of ‘getting things done’ and by that you mean via the government. Well that’s just the problem: We conservatives want government to quit doing so much. So if you want to grow the government and I want to dismantle it we’re not going to just get along, are we? We’re going to have to fight for what we believe and may the best ideas win. Your side has been winning big time for fifty years or more. As to the bitterness of a conservative government: Well, put it this way – ‘conservative government’ is almost an oxymoron. Aside from the blankity-blank fools in Washington taking all our money we conservatives are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, thank you very much.

“What comes out of his mouth is crap, just like all left wingers. They make statements that they show no facts, or proof of, such as globle warmming.”

Globle warmming, are as literate people like to call it, global warming, has ample evidence to support it. That you do not understand the evidence is not the fault of people more intelligent than you. Not a single peer-reviewed, scientifically published thesis, dissertation, paper, or publication has ever contested global warming as a very real man-made phenomenon, ever. Rise in atmospheric CO2 results in a rise of mean global temperature. Lowering atmospheric CO2 results in a lowering of mean global temperature. This is a natural cause-and-effect that is easily provable. It is also easily provable that man creates CO2 emissions. Thus, man causes excessive global warming. It’s not even hard to understand.

“The earths climate is always changing, it has since the begining of time.”

Ah, the old “it’s cyclic!” canard. Your heart rate is also cyclic in nature. It goes from systolic (beating, or contracting) to disystolic (the period between beats, the relaxation). This is normal, just like the cycles of global heating and cooling. But the global cycles of heating and cooling are extremely out of whack. If your heart rate ever spent an extremely long time in a systolic state and beat at a rate of 500 beats per minute, I hope to God you’d have the good common sense to go to the hospital instead of saying “well, that’s happened since the beginning of my life, so it’s natural”.

Get it yet?

“What I would like to know is why the left wingers take what comes out of Gore’s mouth as the truth.”

Because when somebody tells me the truth, I believe it. If Adolf Hitler told me the square root of 25 is 5, I would believe him. If Joseph Stalin told me that Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, I would believe him. If Idi Amin told me that strawberries are the fruit of a vegetable, Rosaceae Rosoideae Fragaria, I would believe him.

Only a genuine fool will disbelieve a truthful message because of a messenger.

“After all, Didn’t he say he invented the internet?”

Not unless you’re completely stupid, no.

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” Al Gore to Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s Late Edition, March 9th 1999.

Now, did Al Gore meaning he created the TCP/IP protocol stack and hand-installed T1 lines from the Eastern Seaboard all the way Calee-forn-eye-ay? Or did he mean that as a Senator, he figured out the importance of what the internet would become and championed its existence — essentially taking the initiative in creating the internet?

Hmm. Let’s see what other, smarter people think, let’s see if they took it the way I think rational, non-partisan, non-idiots would take it:

“The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator.” – Vincent Cerf, MCI Worldcom

“[Al Gore] was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. Could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the Internet?” Joseph F. Traub, Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University, formerly of Bell Labs, formerly of Carnegie Mellon, formerly of Stanford, formerly of Berkely, &c.

Etc., etc.

Now, perhaps since you seem to hate lies so much, you’ll apologize about claiming Al Gore said he invented the internet and never repeat it, and actually go read up on global warming?