Does anyone agree with Mr Gore??

[reeb]

About him stating that Pres Bush is more interested in capturing Saddsam than worring about the current probelms in the USA!!!!!!!

enough............

[Boats]

Well kinda sorta - thats a political question and as much as I'd like to say to the contrary I will have to stick with the President for now saying we've gotta commitment to get this rascal and get to some kind of closure - I hope you all agree in part.

[39mto39g]

Why would you thing Bush is not worring about the current probelms in the USA. Just because Gore said it. I liked it a bunch when Bush landed on that aircraft carrier. I remeber when I was in Dominican Republic, Vice Pres Humphry came to town to vist. The 82 did a jump for him. Was nice to have the government back home know your out there.
I think Bush is doing both and more.

Ron

[SuperScout]

Am truly shocked that you would doubt anything that Gore told us. After all, wasn't it him that invented the Internet, created the Interstate Highway System, single-handedly wrote the Encyclopaedia Brittanica, and mentored Thomas Edison about making the first light bulb? All this from the man, who if he had his way, would probably put 95% of Detroit out of work by outlawing gas-burning autos? He's a has-been who hasn't had an original thought since he was weaned.

[Seascamp]

It would seem that Al is an answer to a question that no one is asking. His own party told him to go stand in the corner and shut up. I don?t know how Pres Bush spends his day and most likely Al doesn?t either. But I somehow doubt that the Pres is sitting around moaning and wringing his hands over the whereabouts of Saddam. I would expect he gets briefings on the larger issue of Iraq and no doubt Saddam gets a few words. So Reeb, I would just view what Al says as being part of the seasonal political blather and rhetoric and someone just filling the air with words, and stupid ones at that. And Col., wasn?t big Al that invented gravity, seems likely I?d say.

Scamp

[MORTARDUDE]

I could easily post 10 outrageous things that "Mr. Ozone" ( or was it "Ozone Man" ) ( as Daddy Bush called him in 1992 ), has said, but it is not worth the cyber-effort. He said he "invented" the Internet and meant it. His book ( "Earth In The Balance"... must have been co-ghost-written by Al Franken and Michael Moore... ) is a joke....His credibilty is below zero. 'Nuf Sed !!

Larry

[melody1181]

I admit I don't like Bush one bit but.......

Mr.Bore is the biggest walking boob I have ever seen......no wonder Clinton picked him.

[reeb]

I am GLAD that yall are argreeing,

after all Gore cant even spell potato!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

enough..............

[revwardoc]

Status: False.

Origins: No,



AlGore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he sayanything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The derisive "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs are misleading distortions of something he said (taken out of context) 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 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 for helping to create the environment (in an economic and legislative sense) that fostered the development of the Internet. Al Gore might not know nearly as much about the Internet and other technologies as his image would have us believe, and he certainly has been guilty of stretching (if not outright breaking) the truth before, but to believe that Gore seriously thought he could take credit for the "invention" of the Internet ? in the sense offered by the media ? is just silly. (To those who say the words "create" and "invent" mean the same thing: If they mean the same thing, then why have the media overwhelmingly and consistently cited Gore as having claimed he "invented" the Internet when he never used that word? The answer is that the words don't mean the same thing, but by substituting one word for the other, commentators can make Gore's claim sound [more] ridiculous.)

However, validating even the lesser claim Gore intended to make is problematic. 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, and it's hard to find any specific action of Gore's (such as his sponsoring a Congressional bill or championing a particular piece of legislation) that one could claim helped bring the Internet into being, much less validate Gore's statement of having taken the "initiative in creating the Internet."



It's true that Gore was popularizing the term "information superhighway" in the early 1990s (when few people outside academia or the computer/defense industries had heard of the Internet) and has introduced a few bills dealing with education and the Internet, but even though Congressman, Senator, and Vice-President Gore may always have been interested in and well-informed about information technology issues, that's a far cry from having taken an active, vital leadership role in bringing about those technologies. Even if Al Gore had never entered the political arena, we'd probably still be reading web pages via the Internet today.

Reeb, it was that great Republican genius, Dan Quayle, who was humiliated by a middle school student who pointed out that Quayle misspelled "potato".

[Jerry D]

Nope not here. Al Gore was that "Fortunate Son" CCR sang about and I guess S.Vietnam wasn't too bad sitting in an airconditioned office typing up Army propaganda stories with a couple of Senator "Daddy" Gores bodyguards watching out for him so LBJ didn't have a senators son come home in a coffin .When Al talks at least you can tell he is still alive and hasn't took root yet