Why don't people like Al Gore?

Question

Seriously, what has the guy done to rile such criticism.
I think the guy is allright, he cares about issues and people and searches for solutions.
So give me your best. Dissuade me.

Answer 1

Because he has all the charisma of a block of wood and he's disturbingly effeminate. Also he did *not* invent the internet, no matter what he says.

Answer 2

Mr. Gore comes across as too wooden in his approach and many times is unconvincing. I'm sure he is a fine man but I think he lacks the skills to convince the folks that his point of view is the one to follow. Politically, I do not agree with him on most issues. That doesn't mean he is wrong. It just means that not enough folks like him for the presidential position. I think he reaped a political backlash from the country in time of war. People just hate to be told we are always wrong. It gets old and, over time, people tune out if they think the criticisms are primarily politically driven. Happens to both parties. Mr. Gore just seems to have a franchise on doing it.

Answer 3

He wants, like many idealists, to "change the world" to meet on a global scale an ideal that he cares about.

What he and other idealists fail to recognize is that the rest of the world is made up of 6.5 billion people, each of whom has his own ideals and has made his own half acre over to suit his own ideals.

You're not going to change many minds with respect to what is ideal - it is completely subjective.

So that leaves you with a choice - try to convince as many people as you can and leave it at that, or try to convince enough people that not only is your ideal a nice idea that might be tried on a voluntary basis, but that they should together use government to FORCE everyone ELSE to follow it.

Often in doing this, people convince themselves that their subjective ideal is objective 'truth.'

Gore is a LOT like Pat Robertson in this respect. Robertson says the world will come to an end if we do not repent and change our lifestyles to reduce our sins. Replace "sins" with "carbon footprint" and you have Al Gore.

I just want to be left alone. The Founders of this country thought I had this right. Robertson disagrees and I hate him for it. Gore also disagrees and I hate him for it.

Answer 4

Typically you can tell when youre an effective Democrat by how hard Republicans try to discredit you. The harder they have to work, the better a politiician you are.

With Al Gore, he must be the Einstein of Democrats.

He always supported preserving our natural environment, he was years ahead of his time, warning people two decades ago about the problems associated with elevated greenhouse gases and ozone problems.

Before Al Gore, the only Internet was the Interlink computer system the US MIlitary used. Al Gore's efforts to turn the taxpayer funded Interlink into the free enterprise Internet was nothing short of unprecedented and brilliant.

But MAN he was BORING in those 2000 Bush/Gore debates. He was boring, George was unintentionally hilarious.

Answer 5

I think only ultraconservative people don´t like him. I did start liking him when I learned he had an environmental agenda, and that`s realy rare in american politicians.

He outlouded his voice when the "official" position of thew american government was that global warming did not exist, and I think that still is their position. I haven`t even known that Hillary or other Democrats take this particular issue seriously and I think none of the presidential pre-candidates will either.

Answer 6

Well, maybe it's the whole claim that he invented "The Internet".

Personally, I don't like taxes or unaccoutable government bureacracies. He supported proposition 87 here in California. This was supposed to help fund alternative fuel research. But it effectively would have taxed drivers further and set up a government agency that had zero accountability to any of the branches of state government.

That Warren Beatty also came out in support of it told me that it needed defeat, since Mr. Beatty clearly does not need to worry about the price of gas at the pump in his day to day life.

This is part of why I don't like Al Gore.

Answer 7

He's not genuine. He comes off with a fake facade and one feels like they cannot trust him.

In 2000, before the recount debacle, he conceded the the presidential race and bowed out with class. The very next day, he is on T.V. roaring about how there is no way people could not elect him. After the recounts were finalized, and he still lost, he sued to try to get the supreme court to declare him president.

He's whiny, sniveling, and a crybaby.

I guess you could say he rubs me the wrong way.

Answer 8

He doesn't give out the good candy at Halloween. You know, the full sized bars of hersheys's...he can afford it, too.
And one time, he said "Santa is DEAD" at the mall. I heard him, I did too!
And my mom said her sister's husband's cousin Larry saw him pinch a baby once and make the baby cry and when the baby's momma said "Al Gore why did you pinch my baby and make my baby cry", he said "I did NOT pinch your baby, Lady, you CRAZY"!

So that's why people dont like Al Gore

Answer 9

I am learning that people with limited intellect are unable to differentiate between people just slightly smarter than they are, and people who are brilliant. I think that this has contributed greatly to the trouble in our beloved country.

Answer 10

I don't mind Al so much as Tipper. I H-A-T-E Tipper Gore (and anyone else who preaches censorshit). Never Forget the PMRC.

Answer 11

Not much of anything... Which, I suspect, is part of the problem.

Still, he does receive an unwelcome amount of hate, no? Most politicians do.