What was your favorite lie told by Al Gore?

Question

Mckenzie I have had hear nothing but Bush bashing for 8 years now from your party. AL Gore also stated that his dad lost his re-ecelction bid because he voted for the civil rights act. (he voted against it and the republicans actually made it happen). Clinton/Gore's people also wanted to address terrorism in the late 90's, but that was an issue to be decided by the next president. Clinton wanted to invade Iraq when they kicked out the inspectors in the 90s but his advisors told him he would lose popularity (they were right now Bush suffers from it). Your party has picked a fight so get your dukes up because you are in one now.

Answer 1

He told himself he could win the presidency by pandering to the most extreme elements of the democratic party. If he had stayed true to himself he may very well have won the electoral vote as well. No VP has ever been as well set up for a presidential run as he was.

Answer 2

as for gore's claim to have "invented the internet" - he never said it. he said, "during my service in the united states congress, i took the initiative in creating the internet." which happens to be utterly... true.

vincent cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the father of the internet, had this to say about the issue: "the Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the vice president in his current role and in his earlier role as senator."

marc andreesen, inventor of the mosaic browser, credits gore with making his work possible. he received a federal grant through gore's high performance computing act.

dave ferber of the u of pa says that without gore the internet "would not be where it is today."

joseph e. traub, a computer science professor at columbia university, claims that gore "was perhaps the first political leader to grasp the importance of networking the country. could we perhaps see an end to cheap shots from politicians and pundits about inventing the internet?"

this is a lie that is so easily debunked... i'm amazed that people are still swallowing it all these years later.

i literally can not count in one sitting all the REAL lies to come out of the gw white house. though i'm sure there are some things that gore has said which are not-totally-the-truth, this can be said of ANY politician.

i'm not a gore apologist, but when the biggest liars to ever grace us politics are sitting in the white house, i think any fibs by gore are less than irrelevant.

Answer 3

Unless you are actually going to present evidence that he lied, your question is seditious. This is a former Vice President of our country. He is due the respect that post has earned him.

Oh, I'm not saying he hasn't, or that you shouldn't disagree or dissent or even protest his statements or goals, but because I have ethics, and am a U.S.A. citizen first, I must tell inform you that this is seditious and spreading rumors without proof for political purposes.

Oh, I am a Democrat who supports our President and our country and does not undermine our government or it's officials (past or present) for political purposes, or worse, as this question does, to pass time.

Yes, you have free speech. So do we. Democrats and Republicans who truly appreciate it will probably say the same thing, whether this tactic is used against President Bush or Former President Clinton, or First Lady Hilliary Clinton.

I respect the Republicans for pushing for ethics in politics. Don't ruin it.

Answer 4

"We know where they are, they are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north of that" - Al Gore on WMD's

"No one ever said that we knew precisely where all of these agents were, where they were stored," - Al Gore again, back-pedaling on his previous statement

"Al Gore proclaimed that a report by leading economists concluded that the economy would grow by 3.3 percent in 2003 if his tax cut proposals were adopted. No such report exists."

One example of misinformation, according to physicist and former weapons inspector David Albright, was the Gore family's leak to the media in September about Iraq's attempt to import aluminum tubes which administration officials claimed were headed for Iraq's nuclear program.

Al Gore, speaking to the nation this month about the need to challenge Saddam Hussein, warned that Iraq has a growing fleet of unmanned aircraft that could be used "for missions targeting the United States."

Answer 5

I'm especially fond of the Internet story. The military had the genesis of the Internet in the early 1960s, the colleges had it in the 80s, and it grew into the public device it is now. Al Gore? It is to laugh!

Answer 6

Global Warming.

Has Al ever understood that the polar ice caps have advanced and receded repeatedly over the last few hundred thousand years. Mother Nature is only doing what she has for eons.

The span of recorded history is so miniscule. Al is making up his own theory and believes there are enough nimrods out there who will buy into it. The word "gullible" comes to mind.

Answer 7

We're totally at fault when it comes for global warming. We're still coming out of the last ice age (it only happened 10,000 years ago which is just a second in geological time). Granted it is warmer than it should be, but it's not entirely our fault.

Answer 8

Paul, the whole thing was a joke - I still can´t get over it.
For me, it was 'paralysis by too much analysis. This person is way out touch with reality. It's scary. How did Yahoo allow it? I´m still in paralysis mode! You think Global Warming can get me back to normality?????

Answer 9

Global warming, and the claim that the election was stolen.

Many other famous "lies" are actually lies not needed to be taken out of context so they haven't been.

Answer 10

He never claimed to have invented the internet. If you actually PAID attention to what was going on you would know that.

Just sayin'