Gore: I Don't Plan to Run for President

[ELVIS]

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Clueless nobody sits waiting to be nobody...


STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday he had no intention of ever running for president again, but he said the United States would be "a different country" if he had won the 2000 election, launching into a scathing attack of the Bush administration.

"I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again," Gore told reporters after giving a speech at an economic forum in Sweden.

When asked how the United States would have been different if he had become president, though, he had harsh criticism for Bush's policies.

"We would not have invaded a country that didn't attack us," he said, referring to Iraq. "We would not have taken money from the working families and given it to the most wealthy families."


(AP) Former US Vice President Al Gore speaks at an economic forum in Stockholm, Sweden,Wednesday Oct....
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"We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media. We would not be routinely torturing people," Gore said. "We would be a different country."

Gore did not elaborate. But last year, he blamed Bush administration policies for the inmate abuse scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Mike Feldman, Gore's spokesman, did not immediately comment on Gore's remark when reached by phone in Washington.

Tracey Schmitt, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, called Gore's comments "fictitious rants that border on dangerous."

"To accuse Americans of participating in 'routine torture' is absurd and reveals that while Al Gore may no longer be a leader in his party, he still embodies the maniacal anger that guides Democrat leaders in Washington today," Schmitt wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

Gore also reiterated his criticism that the Bush administration was too slow in responding to the crisis in New Orleans after the city's levees failed during Hurricane Katrina. He said that should have been predicted.

"There were specific warnings that the levees might break," he said. "But for whatever reason those warnings were not acted upon in a timely way."

He said the United States and other countries are similarly ignoring the threats that global warning pose to the environment.

"My country is extremely attentive to the slightest increase in a risk from terror, and that's appropriate," he said. "But why should we be so tolerant of risk where the future habitability of our planet is concerned?"

Gore, who now runs a cable TV channel and is the chairman of an investment company, did not completely shut the door to future political endeavors.

"I don't completely rule out some future interest, but I don't expect to have that," Gore said.

He declined to comment on New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's possible run for the White House in 2008, but he said he believes the country is ready for a female president.

"Of course a woman could get elected president," he said. "I am not going to make any comment on individual candidates. It's quite premature."


Associated Press reporter Donna Cassata in Washington contributed to this report.



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[ELVIS]

"It's quite premature."

[ELVIS]

"It's quite premature."


:elvis:

[FORD]

Originally posted by ELVIS
"It's quite premature."


:elvis:

Was that your explanation to the hottie nurse last night? ;)

[ELVIS]

He's a real nowhere man...


;)

[scamper]

Bush is a fuckup, but Gore is a puss he'll never be president because of that reason.

[DrMaddVibe]

"IF he had won"!

Fucking priceless!

You hear that ford?

Even algore figured out he was beat...time for you to get on board!

[scamper]

Got to give Gore credit for one thing, he has the Democratic propaganda manual memorized.

[Warham]

Gore's off giving anti-American speeches in foreign countries.

Sounds about right.

[The Scatologist]

I thought good Christians were not supposed to use profanity?:confused:

[4moreyears]

Originally posted by ELVIS
http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/ap/SWEDEN_GORE.sff_STO803_20051012111442.jpg
Clueless nobody sits waiting to be nobody...


STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday he had no intention of ever running for president again, but he said the United States would be "a different country" if he had won the 2000 election, launching into a scathing attack of the Bush administration.

"I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again," Gore told reporters after giving a speech at an economic forum in Sweden.

When asked how the United States would have been different if he had become president, though, he had harsh criticism for Bush's policies.

"We would not have invaded a country that didn't attack us," he said, referring to Iraq. "We would not have taken money from the working families and given it to the most wealthy families."


(AP) Former US Vice President Al Gore speaks at an economic forum in Stockholm, Sweden,Wednesday Oct....
Full Image


"We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media. We would not be routinely torturing people," Gore said. "We would be a different country."

Gore did not elaborate. But last year, he blamed Bush administration policies for the inmate abuse scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Mike Feldman, Gore's spokesman, did not immediately comment on Gore's remark when reached by phone in Washington.

Tracey Schmitt, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, called Gore's comments "fictitious rants that border on dangerous."

"To accuse Americans of participating in 'routine torture' is absurd and reveals that while Al Gore may no longer be a leader in his party, he still embodies the maniacal anger that guides Democrat leaders in Washington today," Schmitt wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

Gore also reiterated his criticism that the Bush administration was too slow in responding to the crisis in New Orleans after the city's levees failed during Hurricane Katrina. He said that should have been predicted.

"There were specific warnings that the levees might break," he said. "But for whatever reason those warnings were not acted upon in a timely way."

He said the United States and other countries are similarly ignoring the threats that global warning pose to the environment.

"My country is extremely attentive to the slightest increase in a risk from terror, and that's appropriate," he said. "But why should we be so tolerant of risk where the future habitability of our planet is concerned?"

Gore, who now runs a cable TV channel and is the chairman of an investment company, did not completely shut the door to future political endeavors.

"I don't completely rule out some future interest, but I don't expect to have that," Gore said.

He declined to comment on New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's possible run for the White House in 2008, but he said he believes the country is ready for a female president.

"Of course a woman could get elected president," he said. "I am not going to make any comment on individual candidates. It's quite premature."


Associated Press reporter Donna Cassata in Washington contributed to this report.



:elvis:

WOW What a shock? Can someone check and see if Dukakis and Mondale have plans as well? I guess you can't top inventing the Internet!!!:D

[ELVIS]

Now get it right...

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


:elvis:

[Mezro]

Thanks Al. I enjoy porn at high speeds.

Mezro...too bad Al couldn't create a way to find a site that sells Propecia...

[ELVIS]

Here's another algore quote:

"A zebra does not change its spots."


:elvis:

[4moreyears]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Now get it right...

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


:elvis:

Thanks for the Help Elvis:D

[FORD]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Here's another algore quote:

"A zebra does not change its spots."


:elvis:

Source?

[Nickdfresh]

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Internet of Lies

Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet.

Status: False.

Origins: Despite the derisive references that continue even today, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Clearly, although Gore's phrasing was clumsy (and
perhaps self-serving), he was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet (in the sense of having designed or implemented it), but that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development the I also invented the microphone technology that we now know as the Internet. To claim that Gore was seriously trying to take credit for the "invention" of the Internet is, frankly, just silly political posturing that arose out of a close presidential campaign. Gore never used the word "invent," and the words "create" and "invent" have distinctly different meanings — the former is used in the sense of "to bring about" or "to bring into existence" while the latter is generally used to signify the first instance of someone's thinking up or implementing an idea. (To those who say the words "create" and "invent" mean exactly the same thing, we have to ask why, then, the media overwhelmingly and consistently cited Gore as having claimed he "invented" the Internet, even though he never used that word, and transcripts of what he actually said were readily available.)

If President Eisenhower had said in the mid-1960s that he, while President, "created" the Interstate Highway System, we would not have seen dozens and dozens of editorials lampooning him for claiming he "invented" the concept of highways or implying that he personally went out and dug ditches across the country to help build the roadway. Everyone would have understood that Ike meant he was a driving force behind the legislation that created the highway system, and this was the very same concept Al Gore was expressing about himself with his Internet statement.

Whether Gore's statement that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" is justified is a subject of debate. Any statement about the "creation" or "beginning" of the Internet is difficult to evaluate, because the Internet is not a homogenous entity (it's a collection of computers, networks, protocols, standards, and application programs), nor did it all spring into being at once (the components that comprise the Internet were developed in various places at different times and are continuously being modified, improved, and expanded). Despite a spirited defense of Gore's claim by Vint Cerf (often referred to as the "father of the Internet") in which he stated "that as a Senator and now as Vice President, Gore has made it a point to be as well-informed as possible on technology and issues that surround it," many of the components of today's Internet came into being well before Gore's first term in Congress began in 1977.

It is true, though, that Gore was popularizing the term "information superhighway" in the early 1990s (although he did not, as is often claimed by others, coin the phrase himself) when few people outside academia or the computer/defense industries had heard of the Internet, and he sponsored the 1988 National High-Performance Computer Act (which established a national computing plan and helped link universities and libraries via a shared network) and cosponsored the Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992 (which opened the Internet to commercial traffic).

In May 2005, the organizers of the Webby Awards for online achievements honored Al Gore with a lifetime achievement award for three decades of contributions to the Internet. "He is indeed due some thanks and consideration for his early contributions," said Vint Cerf.

Last updated: 5 May 2005

The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

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[ELVIS]

"A zebra does not change its spots." - Al Gore, attacking President George Bush in 1992.
(Sources: The Toronto Sun, 11/19/95; May 13th page of the "365 stupidest things ever said, 1999 Calendar." ALL quotes from this calendar are from a book called "The 700 Stupidest Things Ever Said") The book and calendar are by a brother and sister team called Ross and Kathryn Petras. The original book "The 776 Stupidest things ever said" was printed in March 1993, and the calendar was printed August 1998.)


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[Warham]

We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Mr. Gore, God bless him.

[ELVIS]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
Whether Gore's statement that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" is justified is a subject of debate.

No it's not, it's sheer stupidity...

[FORD]

Originally posted by ELVIS
"A zebra does not change its spots." - Al Gore, attacking President George Bush in 1992.
(Sources: The Toronto Sun, 11/19/95; May 13th page of the "365 stupidest things ever said, 1999 Calendar." ALL quotes from this calendar are from a book called "The 700 Stupidest Things Ever Said") The book and calendar are by a brother and sister team called Ross and Kathryn Petras. The original book "The 776 Stupidest things ever said" was printed in March 1993, and the calendar was printed August 1998.)


:elvis:

OK. I would have thought that to be more of a Quayleism though.

[blueturk]

I'm no big fan of Al Gore, but...

"Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is — I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president." —George W. Bush, third presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000

[blueturk]

Or...

"If I become president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders." —George W. Bush, third presidential debate, St. Louis, Missouri, Oct. 18, 2000

[Warham]

Keep this thread on topic please. ;)

It's all about people scrambling to defend Gore in this thread.

[Guitar Shark]

Wow. Gore's not looking so hot, is he?

The years have not been kind.

[ELVIS]

What's it about ??

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by ELVIS
No it's not, it's sheer stupidity...

Did you actually read the article Elvis?

Did you know Elvis was made a (forerunner of the DEA) Agent while high as a kite?
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[ELVIS]

Oh, nevermind...:)

[blueturk]

:rolleyes:

[Guitar Shark]

Originally posted by FORD
OK. I would have thought that to be more of a Quayleism though.

I think our current president fills a bigger book with these sorts of things than Quayle ever did.

[ELVIS]

http://adweek.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/agore_1.jpg


:elvis:

[Guitar Shark]

Originally posted by ELVIS
http://adweek.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/agore_1.jpg


:elvis:

Please tell me that is photoshopped...

He looks like he's about to pop.

[ELVIS]

Nope...

[blueturk]

Originally posted by Warham
Keep this thread on topic please. ;)

It's all about people scrambling to defend Gore in this thread.

It looked to me like it was about dumb quotes by Al Gore.

[ELVIS]

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:elvis:

[ELVIS]

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:elvis:

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Guitar Shark
Please tell me that is photoshopped...

He looks like he's about to pop.

He needs the Clinton diet I think...

[ELVIS]

What, a good heart attack ??

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by ELVIS
What, a good heart attack ??

Ha ha, no the post heart attack slim down...

[ELVIS]

http://www.brownwoodjaycees.org/Fun%20Stuff/halloween%20scare.jpg

:elvis: