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Topic started on 16-6-2008 @ 06:13 PM by jhill76

Al Gore Endorses Obama


rawstory.com
Now that the Democratic primaries have ended, the party’s biggest name is officially coming out in support of the it’s presumptive nominee.

Al Gore says he is backing Barack Obama and will do whatever he can to help him get to the White House.
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reply posted on 16-6-2008 @ 07:23 PM by Sublime620
reply to post by Zepherian




Nothing spineless about it. He backed a candidate. The race isn't over yet... he still needs to win the general election. lol?


reply posted on 17-6-2008 @ 03:45 PM by seagull
reply to post by yankeerose


A nice sharp chedder would go well with the white. Thanks.

Al Gore is an oppourtunist of the first order. Jumped on board the Global Warming express, and now he's all for Mr. Obama. I ask again, where was he during the fight?


reply posted on 17-6-2008 @ 07:19 PM by Sublime620
reply to post by Zepherian


That shows how knowledgeable on the subject you are. Al Gore never "duct taped" his name to the Internet, nor did he ever say he created it.

He said he helped bring it about through legislation... which is absolutely true. While he did not think of the Internet, you can certainly thank Al Gore for helping it's beginning.

And again, he backed Obama. The election is not over. In fact, it is just now starting. He is putting his name behind Obama over McCain. Contrary to your beliefs, sometimes democrats back republicans and vice versa. Not everyone is as partisan as you may be.



reply posted on 17-6-2008 @ 08:41 PM by Zepherian
Originally posted by Sublime620
reply to post by Zepherian


He said he helped bring it about through legislation... which is absolutely true. While he did not think of the Internet, you can certainly thank Al Gore for helping it's beginning.


This is where politicians usually do the taping, take some existing phenomenon and legislate it. The internet was an international organic phenomenon based on a convergence of technologies, from the IP protocol to HTML. Even if there were no legislation it would have grown up organically through the existing communication network. He piggybacked on the back of the internet, as he has done his whole career.

And no, he would never ever back McCain, that is totally against his script, he is completely partisan, at least for public consumption. So yes, he waited untill the nomination was done for and backed the winner. Opportunistic and shallow.

And I am not partisan, I have no sympathy for either democrats or republicans, with a few individual exceptions, or even the messed up american electoral system fiasco.


reply posted on 18-6-2008 @ 03:45 AM by Sublime620
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Correct, I don't think he would back McCain either (what right-minded person conservative or liberal would - he wants to go to Iran). That doesn't mean there won't be other republicans and liberals who will back McCain.

The election is just beginning and people are now starting to choose sides. I believe you are failing to grasp that.

And I suggest you read into this a bit:

Al Gore, the Internet, and Gullible People Who Believe What They Hear on the News
Second Source

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."


Now whether or not you, in your infinite wisdom, believe that Al Gore was not necessary in the beginning times, can you honestly refute his statement? Did he not take the initiative to help create (not invent, but create) the internet? He is not saying he thought of the idea, however, that he took the initiative in Congress to help CREATE it.

But the real question is what, if anything, did Gore actually do to create the modern Internet? According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of the Internet, "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."

The inventor of the Mosaic Browser, Marc Andreesen, credits Gore with making his work possible. He received a federal grant through Gore's High Performance Computing Act. The University of Pennsylvania's Dave Ferber says that without Gore the Internet "would not be where it is today."

Joseph E. Traub, a computer science professor at Columbia University, claims that 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?"

The Love Canal canard distorts a story Gore told to a high school class in Concord, New Hampshire. In answer to a question about how students could get involved in politics, Gore described a letter he'd received from a girl in West Tennessee while he was a congressman. Based on the girl's complaint about a poisoned well, he organized an investigation, which in turn led to other pollution sites, culminating in the expose of Love Canal. Referring to the well in Toone, Tennessee, Gore said, "That was the one you didn't hear of--but that was the one that started it all."

The media was quick to misquote the line as "I was the one that started it all." Seemingly dissatisfied with Gore's style, the Republican National Committee improved the line thus: "I was the one who started it all." When the Concord Monitor and the Boston Globe exposed what had really been said in that high school class, the New York Times, the Washington Post and U.S. News offered grudging corrections of their reportorial errors.


Now do you see what you are basically taking a part of? You are promoting an old media smear campaign. They misquoted him, and then took a phrase, "I was the one that started it all", that had to do with a completely different subject, out of context.

I'm not asking you to like Al Gore, but honestly, can you at least leave the "internet" out of it. I don't believe I need to explain any further why it's spineless to continue discussing something that NEVER happened.

[edit on 18-6-2008 by Sublime620]


reply posted on 18-6-2008 @ 10:52 AM by seagull
reply to post by yankeerose


Sorry, but I'm perfectly within my rights to question his motives...

Neither Presidential candidate has my vote, in fact at this point no candidate, however minor, has it. Neither Mr. Obama, nor Mr. McCain. Mr. Gores presence only lessens Mr. Obama's chances of getting my vote. But then I'm one of those people clinging to my guns, so he probably doesn't really care....

I'm still waiting for my chedder.
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