Did Al Gore actually ever invent anything?

Answer 1

Al Gore invented Global Warming.

Answer 2

Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, teacher and businessman, who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001. Previously, he had served as a Representative and Senator from Tennessee.

Gore was the Democratic nominee in the 2000 presidential election. He was defeated by the Republican candidate George W. Bush on an electoral college vote of 271-266 in one of the most controversial elections in U.S. history. Gore conceded after the recount of the votes in Florida was stopped by the U.S. Supreme Court in the five to four Bush v. Gore decision, which effectively secured the election for George W. Bush. Gore won a plurality of the popular vote, with over half a million more votes than Bush.

Gore currently is President of the American television channel Current and Chairman of Generation Investment Management, a director on the board of Apple Computer, and an unofficial advisor to Google's senior management. He lectures widely on the topic of global warming.

Although speculation about a possible presidential run in 2008 still continues, he has been quoted as recently as June 4, 2006 as saying "I have no plans to run for president again,"[1][2] but hasn’t ruled out a future in politics.[3]

Answer 3

There is the cool web site called Snopes.com. Maybe you've heard of it. It tells you if "urban legends" are true, or false and gives you the evidence. Why don't you go there, look up Gore, and find out for yourself where that false statement came from?

And, no. Gore didn't invent anything (or claim to, either.)

Answer 4

I think Gore said he took the INITIATIVE in creating the internet. Which means he probably said it was a good idea in a committee or gave a rubber stamp of approval for a bill with hundreds of green light "oks."

Did he ever get his hands dirty? No.

Be prepared to laugh at what he actually said on video, and other hilarious gaffes!

Answer 5

i see your repeating something the president said in debate....repeating over and over doesn't make it true......


Al Gore said

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

which through legislation he did....whats the problem.
he didn't say he invented....

if you listen to all the attacks its sad, thousands of parrots reapeating the same misinformation.........
where does that leave the truth.....






Although Al Gore never claimed to have invented the Internet, he did discuss his role in Internet development in an interview with Wolf Blitzer of Cable News Network. The interview took place on March 9, 1999 during CNN's "Late Edition" show. Specifically, what Gore said was "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

A cynic might observe that "creating the Internet" and "inventing the Internet" are tantamount to the same exaggeration. But let's look at the entire quote in the context of the colloquy with Blitzer. Here is Blitzer's entire query to Gore:

BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.
Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?

Clearly, Blitzer is asking Gore to offer an explanation of how he differs as a politician from other politicians in general, and his rival at the time, Bill Bradley, in particular. Here is Gore's entire response to Blitzer's question:

GORE: "Well, I will be offering - I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.
But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. 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.

During a quarter century of public service, including most of it long before I came into my current job, I have worked to try to improve the quality of life in our country and in our world. And what I've seen during that experience is an emerging future that's very exciting, about which I'm very optimistic, and toward which I want to lead."

Here Gore appears to have been caught off guard a bit by the question, rambling a bit as he seeks to vocalize a responsive answer. He emphasizes his work during his years in the Congress - Gore served in the House and later the Senate - as well as his leadership on various issues. Perhaps not showing the most elegant variation in words, he mentions "initiative" three times. Clearly his overall message is that he worked hard on a number of issues, and took a leadership position relative to others - presumably including his rival Bradley. The overall thrust is that Gore paints himself as a forward-looking legislator and political leader.

Answer 6

He never claimed to have invented anything. As a Senator in the 1980's, he drafted legislation that led to the creation of the internet, and that is all he claimed.

Answer 7

Al Gore is a total jerk and the biggest loser on the face of the Earth.

Answer 8

He never invented anything, but he sure has
used the "flip-flop" method in his political career.
He changes his mind on very important issues
more often than a clock changes time.

Answer 9

Not sure, but he did facilitate the sale of nuclear triggering devices to Pakistan less than 90 days after Congress passed the law that he himself wrote making it illegal. You or I would have gone to prison for treason for that, but Clinton was in the process of being impeached, so it got brushed aside by the press.

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Answer 10

He invented DEFEAT in 2000!