Who's the bigger hypocrite - Gore or Edwards?

Question

Al Gore wants everyone to change the type of light bulbs they use to save a little bit of energy while he spends 500 dollars a month just to heat his private pool.

Con Edwards complains about the gap between the rich and the poor and says we need to even things out while he lives in a mega-mansion.

Before anyone yells at me for it, I'm well aware that hypocrisy is on both sides isle; we all know that Ted Haggard and Larry Craig would be perfect for each other.

Answer 1

Gore
Carbon offsets are a joke and a scam. In England you can buy a carbon offsets from farmers in India, paying them to pump water with human power instead of the engines that eases their labor.
Edwards is only doing what everyone does, that is to live well if you have the money. He is not a monk who has taken a vow of poverty or Mother Teresa, and he is not asking us to live in a shack. Bill Gates also lives in a mansion but he obviously cares about the poor, because he is donating 50 billion to help them.

I do think the party of family values is in more trouble than the democrats on hypocrisy issues, and talking about Gore eclectic bill is not going to be enough to save them from the voters.

Answer 2

while did we get a twisted togic that if a individual wealthy, he won't be in a position to care on the subject of the damaging? And why do you supply a damn approximately John Edwards' haircut fee and residing house length. A dose of Republican economics: while wealthy human beings spend, the financial device is enriched. the two way, John Edwards could desire to no longer tax the middle type, or the damaging, he is going to tax human beings like Bush, Cheney and himself. Please, what share billion funds do halliburton experts prefer in the past we supply returned somewhat to the damaging. as long as that funds continues to be out of persons like William Jefferson's freezers, tax the wealthy to alleviate the damaging will possibly no longer be a foul theory.

Answer 3

First of all Gore spends so much on his energy bill because he uses as much renewable energy as possible and that is more expensive then just regular electricity. Edwards has made good with his life and enjoys not living in poverty now, but do you know for sure what his life was like growing up? Because he was poor once, should he live in a shack the rest of his life? That is not hypocrisy that you speak of that is in one case someone who is paying more for the good of his conscience and his planet, and the other who has made good with his life and is enjoying a larger living space.

Answer 4

Al Gore purchases Carbon Offsets for the electricity it takes to heat his pool as he does for all the electricity he uses.
The effect of this is to source more electricity from environmentally friendly sources. So there is no hypocricy at all. He is doing exactly what he advocates - spending a little extra in order to reduce your carbon footprint.
Edwards points out that under Clinton poverty fell every year while under Bush it has been rising. He advocates a tax structure that he would have to follow - so again there is no hypocricy.

Answer 5

So you're saying that only poor people can talk about poverty? What a complete and utter joke! Edwards isn't against people making money, he just wants an equal playing field. By the way, he earned what he got, he wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth. His father worked in the mills when he was a kid.
He also donates a lot of money to various charities. If he were to become President the gap between rich and poor would decrease, under Bush the gap between rich and poor has increased.
You're typical, you just attack the messenger, not the message.

Answer 6

Both. This is way I would love to be at one of those question and answers While each one of them is yapping away.
Edwards... "Mr Edwards are you going to lead by example and give up your mansion so we can start evening out the gap between the rich and poor.
Gore... Mr. Gore shouldn't even start conserving fuel first like shut of the heat on the heated pools before the rest of us invest into lightbulbs. Gee If we did that then we might have enough fuel left so we won't need to purchase lightbulbs.

Answer 7

Toss a coin I bet it'll land on Edge.they both are awful,It will be so bad if Edwards gets his way .He wants you to pay for health care for all,and have mandatory physicals for all.Yet he won't be paying a dime out of his pocket towards this.I'm sure he wishes he had made up the Carbon offset scheme before Al did.He probably wouldn't be running now.They both have 20 room mansion 8 bathrooms a piece .You do need all those bathrooms for all the B.S. spewing out of their Big Mouths

Answer 8

since the microphone was not off when
mendacious johnnyboy was whispering
with killary, there is a clear champion...

although gore doesn't drive the correct car
and has to catch up still - with his ambitions -
some legends about his energy bill need level.

Answer 9

Why just democrat hypocrites. Have you not been reading Mitt Romney's voting habits, campaign promises? How about the "family values" of all the divorced republican candidates for president?

And why are you worried about Gore? He is not running and is a private citizen abet a democrat ? I don't get the bile that conservatives have for him. What does it accomplish???

Since when did either party not have two faced men that would do or say anything to get elected??

Answer 10

You can't have a serious hypocrisy debate without including the King, the Dubya.

Independent thinker.