Brains
May 20 2006, 21:11
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Mr Gore, who is donating his proceeds from the film towards a new environmental charity, said there were "some powerful polluting interests that have way too much influence in the American political system".
He said President George W Bush had missed an opportunity after 11 September terrorist attacks to declare that the US should be independent of oil and coal.
"Leadership can make a difference," he said. "What I can most valuably do is try to change the minds of the American people and elsewhere in the world about this planetary emergency."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4998856.stmdamn. if it weren't for that rigged up 2000 elections, we could actually have an intelligent person attending the most powerful position on earth. instead we got war and global instability.
so sad.
Sinbad
May 21 2006, 17:40
WE'VE GOTTA KILL MANBEARPIG. I'M TOTALLY SERIAL.
Sorry couldn't resist.
Brains
May 24 2006, 20:11
QUOTE(raum @ May 24 2006, 14:56)
what rigged election?
err... oh yeah. these must be the 2000 ones. you know. bush-gore. florida. recount after recount. gore eventually admitting defeat. the rigged ones!
or... to cut to the point. we could actually have had an intelligent guy in office (rigged or regular is not really relevant. sorry to have been suggestive) instead of one who wages a war on terror which very efficiently creates more of it.
Brains,
WE ELECT PRESIDENT BY ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
The vote that was flubbed was a by popular vote.
the vote in Florida's electoral seats was clearly in GWB's favor.
that is why Gore conceded he lost the election... because he did not get the majority in the electoral college, which is the determination for presidency. Even if he would have gotten the popular vote, that doesn't mean he would have worn the election.
but no one seems to know that, which you learn in fifth grade.
Brains
May 25 2006, 05:17
good job on cutting to the point raum!
face it Gore was in office as VP for two terms, and noone still knows what he is about. His actions contradicted every stand he verbally takes.
his family comes from Big Oil like the rest, and his environmental platform was so wobbly, the friggin SIERRA CLUB refuses to endorse him.
He voted for the first Gulf War, opposed leaving before Saddam was no longer in power, supported the attack on Afghanistan, and said in his own words we shouldn't attack Iraq because it maes us look bad.
Never once has he spoken of war as a neccesary act, he speaks of it only as bad pr to go in without a huge coalition of forces and a more narrow vision of what we are trying to accomplish. he also completely opposed us scaling back in Afghanistan, and forcing the Afghanis to fight for their own freedom.