When Al Gore thought up the name 'An Inconvenient Truth' was he thinking of his failed presidency?

Question

Because he can't seem to get over the fact that Americans aren't grateful that he invented the internet and that's why he lost?

Answer 1

that and his failed parenting attempt with Junior the junkie

Answer 2

Now you sound like you are just trying to ruffle feathers. But I do agree with you that Gore's film was his attempt to keep himself in the public eye, with the possibility of another presidential run at some point. He is a politician, after all. He may believe what he's selling but I do get the feeling it is more about his ego than anything else.

Answer 3

Of course, Al Gore was never the president -- he was just Slick Willie's lap dog and the loser to Dubya.

But yeah, that seems to fit.
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Oh, and hichefheidi -- the double speak continues. Pay attention and see how it works -- you argue the right shouldn't say bad things about Al Gore's doper offspring, but it's okay for the left to blame Dubya for the boozing and carousing of his adult daughters (who are now 26)? What a bunch of hypocrites!

Answer 4

Al Gore is a digrace and I'm glad that he lost the election

Answer 5

Actually, we ELECTED him as president. The f***ing electoral college elected Bush. The EC is one of the worst ideas in history, the PEOPLE should elect the President.

Answer 6

Huh? Al Gore didn't invent the Internet, nor did he ever claim to. He was also never the president.

Answer 7

He has never had a failed presidency, you would have to be president for it to fail. He was elected president in 2000, before the Supremes appointed George Bush, but he has never actually been president so he could not possibly fail. I find it funny that, as a Canadian I could figure that out, while you as an obvious conservative American could not. How's your education system down there?

Answer 8

Hes just a bitter angry man, angry at a failed political career, his son just got busted, his global warming scams arent working, etc.

Wouldnt you be angry if YOU were Al Gore?

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Answer 9

What are you talking about?
We get it he lost the election against Bush.
He moved on and so should you.

Answer 10

We must all refer to him now as The Goracle. If not,he will sic manbearpig after us. We must. The Goracle. Must. Must. Must.

Answer 11

THIS IS THE REAL INCONVENIENT TRUTH:

Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. "Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb," warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. "We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin."

Graciously, Gore tells consumers how to change their lives to curb their carbon-gobbling ways: Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs, use a clothesline, drive a hybrid, use renewable energy, dramatically cut back on consumption. Better still, responsible global citizens can follow Gore's example, because, as he readily points out in his speeches, he lives a "carbon-neutral lifestyle." But if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.

For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. He says he recycles and drives a hybrid. And he claims he uses renewable energy credits to offset the pollution he produces when using a private jet to promote his film. (In reality, Paramount Classics, the film's distributor, pays this.)

Public records reveal that as Gore lectures Americans on excessive consumption, he and his wife Tipper live in two properties: a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, and a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va. (He also has a third home in Carthage, Tenn.) For someone rallying the planet to pursue a path of extreme personal sacrifice, Gore requires little from himself.

Then there is the troubling matter of his energy use. In the Washington, D.C., area, utility companies offer wind energy as an alternative to traditional energy. In Nashville, similar programs exist. Utility customers must simply pay a few extra pennies per kilowatt hour, and they can continue living their carbon-neutral lifestyles knowing that they are supporting wind energy. Plenty of businesses and institutions have signed up. Even the Bush administration is using green energy for some federal office buildings, as are thousands of area residents.

But according to public records, there is no evidence that Gore has signed up to use green energy in either of his large residences. When contacted Wednesday, Gore's office confirmed as much but said the Gores were looking into making the switch at both homes. Talk about inconvenient truths.

Gore is not alone. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has said, "Global warming is happening, and it threatens our very existence." The DNC website applauds the fact that Gore has "tried to move people to act." Yet, astoundingly, Gore's persuasive powers have failed to convince his own party: The DNC has not signed up to pay an additional two pennies a kilowatt hour to go green. For that matter, neither has the Republican National Committee.

Maybe our very existence isn't threatened.

Gore has held these apocalyptic views about the environment for some time. So why, then, didn't Gore dump his family's large stock holdings in Occidental (Oxy) Petroleum? As executor of his family's trust, over the years Gore has controlled hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oxy stock. Oxy has been mired in controversy over oil drilling in ecologically sensitive areas.

Living carbon-neutral apparently doesn't mean living oil-stock free. Nor does it necessarily mean giving up a mining royalty either.

Humanity might be "sitting on a ticking time bomb," but Gore's home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine. Gore received $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc, which operated a zinc concession on his property until 2003. Tennessee has cited the company for adding large quantities of barium, iron and zinc to the nearby Caney Fork River.

The issue here is not simply Gore's hypocrisy; it's a question of credibility. If he genuinely believes the apocalyptic vision he has put forth and calls for radical changes in the way other people live, why hasn't he made any radical change in his life? Giving up the zinc mine or one of his homes is not asking much, given that he wants the rest of us to radically change our lives.