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 Al Gore’s Nobel SpeechPosted on Dec 12, 2007
Why did Al Gore waste eight years of his life as America’s vice president? He’s much better at trying to save the world. Watch his Nobel Prize acceptance speech and see for yourself. Watch it: Elsewhere: . CommentsAre you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig. Add Your Comment
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By ted, December 22, 2007 at 7:08 am #
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aLGore is a delusional lunatic! Comparing himself to Winston Churchill is like slick willie comparing himself to Jesus. There is hard science behind the sun’s cycles causing what little global warming there is here on earth, and that also seen on mars. There is also hard science indicating that this same warming will soon retreat, and some climatologists claim it has already begun to retreat.
Report thisBy Thomas Billis, December 16, 2007 at 5:39 am #
Boys and Girls Al Gore did not lose in 00 we did.He lost an election we lost our country.I dare say many millions of Americans now realize that and would like to recast their 00 vote but alas morons who voted for Bush you cannot.
Report thisI cried like a baby at Bush’s recent speech when he won moron of the year award.When he told the assembled moron’s do not give up, look where perserverance and Karl Rove have gotten me.Then when all the moron’s got up to clap and tried to find the other hand pride welled up in my breast as I watched a President give hope to moron’s everywhere.
By Andrushka, December 15, 2007 at 8:19 am #
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At least Al Gore speaks good English, and that helps!
Report thisBy troublesum, December 15, 2007 at 7:50 am #
Only if global warming is the result of human activity will these efforts have any effect.
Report thisBy troublesum, December 15, 2007 at 7:44 am #
Bandaids
Report thisBy Douglas Chalmers, December 15, 2007 at 6:41 am #
#120355 by troublesum on 12/15: “Gore couldn’t save his own ass in 2000 after winning the popular vote by half a million votes and with countless voting irregularities. How’s he going to save the world…?”
The USA has just had a “roadmap” imposed upon it by the G77 (the new “new world order”) at the Bali climate-change conference, uhh.
“The U.S. has been humbled by the overwhelming message by developing countries that they are ready to be engaged with the problem, and it’s been humiliated by the world community. I’ve never seen such a flip-flop in an environmental treaty context ever,” said Bill Hare of Greenpeace.
The European Union, which dropped earlier objections to the draft text, was pleased with the deal…...
The Bali meeting approved a “roadmap” for two years of talks to adopt a new treaty to succeed Kyoto beyond 2012, widening it to the United States and developing nations such as China and India. Under the deal, a successor pact will be agreed at a meeting in Copenhagen in late 2009.
The deal after two weeks of talks came when the United States dramatically dropped opposition to a proposal by the main developing-nation bloc, the G77, for rich nations to do more to help the developing world fight rising greenhouse emissions…. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1412327320 071215?sp=true
Report thisBy troublesum, December 15, 2007 at 5:25 am #
Gore couldn’t save his own ass in 2000 after winning the popular vote by half a million votes and with countless voting irregularities. How’s he going to save the world?
Report thisEver hear of a book entitled THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST? There is nothing in our recent history that suggests that a smarter person would done a better job managing the various train wrecks we are involved in around the world today. In fact, he may have done a lot worse.
By troublesum, December 15, 2007 at 5:09 am #
Gore couldn’t save his own ass in 2000 after winning the popular vote by half a million votes and with countless voting irregularities. How’s he going to save the world?
Report thisEver hear of a book entitled THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST? There’s nothing in our recent history that would suggest that a smarter person would have done a better job managing the various train wrecks we’re involved in now. In fact, he may have done a lot worse.
By Douglas Chalmers, December 15, 2007 at 4:46 am #
#120342 by troublesum on 12/15: “Gore directed all democrats in the senated not to sign the petition and they complied. That’s what Gore thinks of democracy….”
The Democrats were that weak back then already, troublesum? And Gore would have been a mean guy if 9/11 had happened “on his watch”, too….....
Report thisBy troublesum, December 15, 2007 at 4:27 am #
Gore could have challenged the vote in Florida and
Report thisOhio based on Blacks being denied their voting rights in those states. The Black Caucus in the House petitioned to have the vote challenged on those grounds. It would have required the signitures of two senators to have the matter investigated. Gore directed all democrats in the
senated not to sign the petition and they complied.
That’s what Gore thinks of democracy.
By Douglas Chalmers, December 15, 2007 at 1:14 am #
#119961 by Mudwollow on 12/13:“But for all those pining for Al Gore and wishing we could turn the clock back eight years and have him as our president, be reminded of one thing. We would have always been one bullet away from having Joseph Lieberman assume the presidency of the United States….”
Maybe he was “advised” to take a dive back then, Mudwollow?
Report thisBy troublesum, December 14, 2007 at 7:39 pm #
Sorry to dsagree with the general consensus here, but I think that the best thing that can be said for George Bush is that he saved us from eight years of being hectored by Al Gore. Given the choice again, and knowing all that we know now, I would choose Bush.
Report thisBy BoDo, December 13, 2007 at 10:35 am #
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A fine and moving speech. As he said, he has found his metier, and I think he is better off staying out of elective politics. This is obviously a cause that is and has been of vast importance to him (as it should be to all of us). And while I do believe our world would be a better place if Bush & Co. hadn’t stolen the election (but then, an untrained pack of dogs would have done a better job), I think it is important to have someone like this, from the U.S., outside the system to make these points.
BTW, I think the scheme of carbon pricing is entirely wrongheaded and foully linked to the notion that every problem can be solved monetarily. Nothing’s worth a dime if we’re all dead of thirst and starvation, and shifting problems from region to region on paper (or through electronic pixels) is not a solution. But at least he has some specific ideas that can be built upon, or dismissed, as we learn more.
Report thisBy Mudwollow, December 13, 2007 at 7:58 am #
Yes indeed, Al Gore does present these points well. But for all those pining for Al Gore and wishing we could turn the clock back eight years and have him as our president, be reminded of one thing. We would have always been one bullet away from having Joseph Lieberman assume the presidency of the United States. One of those small factoids we seem to want to forget.
Report thisBy weather, December 13, 2007 at 5:09 am #
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rdv, Im w/you. Gore has taken the high road and given us a working example of an honorable and esteemable leader.
Given his privy to the Clinton’s first hand, his arms length to their camp is very telling.
Ron Paul 08
Report thisBy RdV, December 13, 2007 at 3:54 am #
Watched the speech on “Democracy Now” and was truly impressed.
Report thisWhat a class act Gore has become.
Wish he would reconsider politics sooner.
By Douglas Chalmers, December 12, 2007 at 2:53 pm #
It will be nice when we no longer have to hear “your majesties, your royal hignesses….. excellencies” etc etc and the speaker simply address ALL in the room as “ladies and gentlemen”, uhh.
Some of Gore’s words: “MAD - Mutual Assured Destruction. The thin shell of the atmosphere - we are the problem! Will we remain imprisoned by a dangerous illusion…..???”
Well, Tennessee is better than Texas for leaders - and so much more. “He’s much better at trying to save the world….” but he has been trying for quite some time. That has changed Al Gore for a better person.
We all must now be willing to make the positive changes within ourselves that will lead to right thought and action. In order to confront the challenge of climate change, peace around the world is a necessary first priority.
How will that happen while the warlike countries (mainly you-know-who!) continue to see nuclear war or nuclear pre-emptive strikes as any kind of option for the future survival of mankind? Its NOT possible!
As new Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told world leaders in Bali about climate change “...There is no plan B…” he said. “There is no other planet any of us can escape to…” Accordingly, Australia would work to “build bridges between nations” as the world pursued a new global pact by the end of 2009, Mr Rudd said.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/theres-no-plan- b/2007/12/12/1197135529869.html?s_cid=rss_news
Gore: “Penalties for ignoring this problem are immense and growing” - you/we are guilty!
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has told the gathering (in Bali) that a post-Kyoto agreement must include the United States….
“And we must ensure that the United States of America as the world’s biggest economy, world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gas and the world leader in technology is part of such post 2012 arrangement ... because otherwise we will not be able to effectively address the climate change issue,” he said….
The US is the only major industrialised nation outside the Kyoto framework. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/12/2117229. htm?section=world
Report thisBy chris, December 12, 2007 at 2:42 pm #
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Wow…how nice to hear an American politico-figure who speaks with intelligence and with a well thought out series of plans and ideas, rather than a arrogant gunslinger who shoots first and cleans up the dead later.
Report thisBy James, December 12, 2007 at 12:54 pm #
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Isn’t it refreshing to hear from a leader of society who embraces strong beliefs and eloquence? It goes without saying that those beliefs are grounded in diligent data gathering…..
James
Report thisBy GW=MCHammered, December 12, 2007 at 7:29 am #
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re: #119658 by digdug
Bush was elite selected, not people elected. Let’s not let that happen again.
Report thisBy digdug, December 12, 2007 at 5:22 am #
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He was VP for eight years so he could become President for another eight.
Unfortunately he was cheated out of that by unscrupulous conservatives.
Yes he’s doing good now as an agitator, organizer, and spokesperson on/for global warming. But imagine how different things would of been if Al Gore had been president on 9/11. Imagine the different path this country would of taken.
No invasion of Iraq.
Report thisNo breaking the bank to fund war-profiteering companies and mercenaries.
World opinion still largely in support of the U.S.
A military not misused and stretched to the breaking point.
A functioning FEMA (one not led by political cronies) during Katrina.
The U.S. a proud signatory of the Kyoto Protocols, instead of the lone and pathetically obstinate hold-out.