Vote: Gore for President

[MarkG]

http://current.com/people/algore

I'm the chairman of Current TV, and also serve as chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. I'm a member of the board of directors of Apple and a senior adviser to Google. I'm a Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and chair the Alliance for Climate Protection, a non-profit organization designed to help solve the climate crisis. I was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980 and 1982 and the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. I was inaugurated as the forty-fifth vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years. During the Administration, I was a central member of President Clinton's economic team, and served as President of the Senate, a Cabinet member, a member of the National Security Council, and as the leader of a wide range of Administration initiatives. I am the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance and An Inconvenient Truth and am the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary. My wife, Tipper, and I live in Nashville, Tennessee. We have four children and three grandchildren.

the movie is about him? i thought it was about the climate

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Have you actually seen it? It's a documentary about his one-man climate show, so yes, he is the subject of the documentary.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by MarkG




gore needs to lose some weight first, and then run the country....

We've had obese presidents in our history before: Adams (2nd US President after Washington), Grant, Cleveland and Taft seem to fit.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs


We've had obese presidents in our history before: Adams (2nd US President after Washington), Grant, Cleveland and Taft seem to fit.

As does Clinton, who was our 3rd-heaviest president ever, iirc.

[Berzerker]

He's the world's leading spokesperson on climate change, the enviroment

Who doesn't even know the subject matter and has one pat answer whenever a critic challenges some claim he made - he's a lackey of the polluters. **** Gore, he's slime, has been for decades and will be until he assumes room temperature.

[Dinner]

His presentation of the science behind global warming has been basically supported by most of the major scientists involved in the topic. Despite the efforts to smear him the guy's record has stood up well.

[RGBVideo]

Originally posted by Berzerker
Who doesn't even know the subject matter and has one pat answer whenever a critic challenges some claim he made - he's a lackey of the polluters.

Not really. If we presume "challenge" means what you mean it means -- "creates noise not backed up by either logic or science" -- there are two answers: (1) you're a lackey of polluters, see this ; (2) you're a tool of the said lackeys, fueled by ignorance and motivated by smear campaigns such as the video above.

[Shrapnel12]

Anytime I start to feel regret at having voted for Bush, all I have to do is remember that this guy could have been president instead. I'd vote for Wiglaf or Agathon for president first.

[Arrian]

That's really funny. You think Bush > Gore. Hell, that you think Bush > anyone, still, after all you've seen and heard in the past 7 years, is ****ing hilarious. The man is an absolute trainwreck of a President.

I don't really have an opinion about Gore running. If he does, fine. If he doesn't, fine. American voters will probably elect a ****ing moron again regardless.

-Arrian

[Lorizael]

Do you need some coffee, Arrian?

[RGBVideo]

Originally posted by Shrapnel12
Anytime I start to feel regret at having voted for Bush, all I have to do is remember that this guy could have been president instead. I'd vote for Wiglaf or Agathon for president first.

it would be interesting to hear what this knowledge is based on

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Despite the efforts to smear him the guy's record has stood up well.

What attempts? The trips via private jet? The three (!) homes? Or the royalties he recieves from a mining company cited for polluting the enviroment?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Arrian
That's really funny. You think Bush > Gore. Hell, that you think Bush > anyone, still, after all you've seen and heard in the past 7 years, is ****ing hilarious. The man is an absolute trainwreck of a President.

I don't really have an opinion about Gore running. If he does, fine. If he doesn't, fine. American voters will probably elect a ****ing moron again regardless.

-Arrian

QFT

Even if Gore was simply a below average President, he'd be 10 times the President that Bush is.

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Do you need some coffee, Arrian?

Heh. No. If anything, a few stiff drinks.

-Arrian

[Dis]

The man is an absolute trainwreck of a President.

qft

I'm unsure what Gore would have done after 9/11 though. I still think the invasion of Afghanistan was a good thing. Sure we face opposition there, but nearly as much as in Iraq. Would Gore have done anything about Afghanistan situation?

As for Iraq, I think the best solution would have been to just let it die out and fall apart. I know that isn't a very good strategy. Hasn't worked for Cuba. Damn longevity of humans nowdays . Because some other dictator will claim power after the current ones leave. But sometimes you can't always get the leader you want in a country. This is only really bad if the case is an oil rich country.