Look who invented the "resignation."

[dd74]

Here's the...um...story.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/26/gore.iraq/index.html

.........lock box

[woodman]

Originally posted by Mark Wilson
.........lock box

...put him in one!

[djmcmath]

Well, I'll certainly grant the Democrats are generally better at public speaking than the Republicans.

[SRISER]

Look at me, reading a story on the Internet!!! Al would be so proud that I am using his invention to read about him.

What a freakin psychopath...thank GOD he is not the president.

[Sonic dB]

Gore is a psycho and a known pot head

I had a friend who worked on Gore's campaign for Tenn. Senate....he said that Gore used to always joke about growing his own dope back in college. His nickname was Mr. GreenThumb

[fintstone]

What a dork! Looks like he invented the greasy comb-over too. I listened to his speech..LOL he must be doing some serious drugs.

Someone needs to tell him that you have to be elected president before you can select the cabinet.

[cowtown]

From the CNN story:

Gore said soldiers who abused prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal were acting on policies "designed and insisted upon by the Bush White House," including attempts to evade the Geneva Conventions' rules on the treatment of prisoners. The scandal, he said, has dragged America's reputation "through the mud of Saddam Hussein's torture prison."

I don't even know what this means, but it must sound good to the reactionaries that still believe in him.


Gore speech was sponsored by the MoveOn.org Political Action Committee, which has said it hopes to raise $50 million to beat Bush in November.

...

two ads -- out of more than 1,000 -- submitted to MoveOn's anti-Bush advertising contest last year compared the president to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

How anyone, right or left, can take these jokers seriously is beyond me.

[fintstone]

I agree. Moveon.org is just a vehicle for the demoncrats to avoid the election spending laws.

[woodman]

Remember that Moveon was initiated to get people to "move on" and get over the then current Prez who was impeached for lying under oath. Yeah, fo'get a bout it! Morals don't matter...

[djmcmath]

Easy, guys -- there are still people on this board who believe that Al Gore is the rightful president of this country. Before you tear him apart, please recognize these other people's views.

[RickM]

[SRISER]

The Geneva convention DOES NOT apply to terrorists! Only to UNIFORMED soldiers that represent a COUNTRY.

[Superman]

In what speech, or in what document, did Gore claim to have invented the Internet? I know he worked pretty hard to get funding to provide the communication infrastructure so that it could become a world-wide, real-time information source, but when and where did he say he invented it, and what was the precise quote?

[fintstone]

Originally posted by Superman
In what speech, or in what document, did Gore claim to have invented the Internet? I know he worked pretty hard to get funding to provide the communication infrastructure so that it could become a world-wide, real-time information source, but when and where did he say he invented it, and what was the precise quote?

To be fair, those were not his exact words. This is what he said in an interview on CNN.

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

[Superman]

That's consistent with what I know. He fought for its funding in Congress. If that's all we can come up with, then some might say his remarks have been twisted and widely-broadcast in a smear campaign. In fact, I expect the Bush administration to engage in the most pathetic smear campaign in American political history. Not just because that's the conservative modus operandi, but also because he has to. His big accomplishment as "president" has been this Iraqi situation.

[RickM]

I seem to recall him speaking at a "Town Hall" meeting where he used the word invented.

I'll try to find documentation to substantiate.

IMO he was mocked by the technical world and media....more so than by politicians.

[Staylo]

see the exact statement in it's context here:
http://www.sethf.com/gore/

As you will see, there is of course more to the story than the soundbite. While many scoff at the statement when taken out of it's context, it is interesting to note that Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf give him a lot of credit for his early support. If you do not know who they are, then you are not qualified to comment on the subject. See their POV here:
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200009/msg00052.html

...or you can just perpetuate the tired rhetoric. It's a lot more fun than than facts, for sheep at least.

[fintstone]

I guess the point is that it is still a huge stretch. He created nothing. The internet was created before he was even a member of congress. he was an advocate of some technology in the '90s and a good friend of some of the internet's true creators.

I disagree. Bush has yet to smear anyone. the Internet joke about Gore was a media invention, not Bush's. Bush does not even question Kerry's military record. The only thing he questions is Kerry's voting record..and some of the things Kerry has said in his speeches...which is fair game and what should be items of scrutiny. Bush has taken the high road (which has cost him significantly), but since he will win handily, he can afford to.

[fintstone]

Originally posted by Staylo
As you will see, there is of course more to the story than the soundbite. While many scoff at the statement when taken out of it's context, it is interesting to note that Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf give him a lot of credit for his early support. If you do not know who they are, then you are not qualified to comment on the subject.

Of course you leave out the fact that they were Gore supporters trying to help him out in the election after he put his foot in his mouth. Funny they did not give him credit for his creation prior to the election. In fact, his "suport" is clearly generalities and outright fluff. You could say the same about almost anyone. Who did not "support" technology. For someone who would have been president if he could have just carried his home state...he makes a lot of wild, but unsubstantiated claims.