americans opinion on Al Gore

[vikk]

do you think this guy is fo' real with this tree-hugging thing? or its just politic talk?


also, i had an yummy hot-dog yesterday (am i doin' it rite?)

 

[Lord Foul]

Hotdogs should be consumed on Fridays to maximize the number of religious laws you are violating.

 

[~Lynn~]

He is a complete and utter douche bag. Let us not forget we could not answer your question without Al Gore inventing the internet.

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

Hey, if he won president instead of Bush we'd definitely be better off right now. It doesn't take any brains to figure that out.

 

[Karmic]

He is a complete and utter douche bag. Let us not forget we could not answer your question without Al Gore inventing the internet.

elaborate

 

[Malergion]

He is a complete and utter douche bag. Let us not forget we could not answer your question without Al Gore inventing the internet.

Douchebag or not, he never claimed to have invented the Internet. I don't have the audio right here, but that which is quoted says something like "along with others I took the initiative in creating the Internet," which actually is true.

He supported the arm of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency), which created the network in the late sixties that eventually became the Internet.

My own opinion of him varies. I think he's gotten way too much publicity from the global warming controversy by making a film which grossly oversimplifies a very real problem.

On a personal level, think he's just downright boring.

 

[Enemy242]

I just don't care. He's not president, won't be, and people worship him for his stupid movie so I just ignore him.

 

[Dead Winter]

elaborate

He's a Republican. That's just about the extent of an explanation you'll get from them.

 

[Malergion]

Someone's cranky today...

 

[Dead Winter]

No no not at all...I'm just stating that's usually how Republicans view Al Gore, with total disdain and not much to back it up besides him being quite a boring person and usually (as you can see) taking the internet quote completely out of context.

I fail to see how he's a douchebag, though. Maybe he's boring, a bit stiff, not very charismatic, etc., but a douchebag?

 

[EricT]

My opinion is that he's one hell of a swindler.

 

[Brooks]

Genius.

 

[Dead Winter]

Could be, but he was/is/always will be the least of Americans' worries on Capitol Hill.

All he's done to make all Republicans hate him is lose (even though he actually won) a presidential race, helped make the internet into a commercial entity, and make a movie about climate change. I haven't seen the movie so I can't say one way or the other whether it's bullshit or not, but the consensus seems to be that while he hit on something significant, he oversimplified the solution for it. That said, most of his detractors about the film have been well-to-do business owners and CEOs...not surprisingly the same people who would lose the most to see aggressive actions taken to combat climate change.

Al Gore may be a dullard and if you want to stretch things maybe a bit of a shady salesman, but there are waaaaaaayyyy worse people in Washington.

 

[Dead Winter]

This made me chuckle

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nixOL7u2474&feature=player_embedded[/ame]

 

[Lunar Still]

Hey, if he won president instead of Bush we'd definitely be better off right now. It doesn't take any brains to figure that out.

But he did win....

 

[Dead Winter]

But he did win....

This thread has just ended. Classic.

 

[EricT]

Could be, but he was/is/always will be the least of Americans' worries on Capitol Hill.

All he's done to make all Republicans hate him is lose (even though he actually won) a presidential race, helped make the internet into a commercial entity, and make a movie about climate change. I haven't seen the movie so I can't say one way or the other whether it's bullshit or not, but the consensus seems to be that while he hit on something significant, he oversimplified the solution for it. That said, most of his detractors about the film have been well-to-do business owners and CEOs...not surprisingly the same people who would lose the most to see aggressive actions taken to combat climate change.

Al Gore may be a dullard and if you want to stretch things maybe a bit of a shady salesman, but there are waaaaaaayyyy worse people in Washington.

I dunno, how many people in washington positioned themselves perfectly to become (very close to) a billionaire via various "green" market stocks and enterprises (like carbon credits!)...

The global cooling dudes from the 70's are staring in awe at this megadouche.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

he's a tool

 

[Shpongled]

But he did win....

HAHAHAHA shit

 

[neal]

he was a major backer of ethanol, which doesnt cut down on pollution since you have to truck it everywhere anyway, and it also created a food crisis because everyone started turning food into gas and drove up the price of corn so people in poor countries like mexico couldnt afford to eat. so that sucks, unless you're a corn farmer...

global warming/man made climate change/whatever its called this week is in fact not wholly agreed upon as real by 'the scientific community' no matter how many times people want to say it is. these stupid carbon credit things will ruin american business with ludicrous costs and rules, and make no global impact since big polluters like china wont do anything to cut down on their industry...

if he had become president im pretty sure we would not be in iraq, but the economy still probably wouldve got shitty because of the housing bubble, and all the crazy environmental taxes/legislation he wouldve pushed through. Obama surely wouldnt be president now, because the voters wouldve rebelled against the democrats instead. 'cause thats how we do.