Al Gore is at it again??????

[Daisy]

Originally posted by SpiritualMadMan:
Also, if I am not mistaken, the VP casts the Tie Breaker Vote in the Senate

So which tie did he break that you consider significant?

Originally posted by Revmitchell:
As of Jan this year the minimum seer(Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio) rating that can be manufactured is 13 which is a step up from 10.

That's an encouraging big step in the right directions.

 

[SpiritualMadMan]

Originally posted by Daisy:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by SpiritualMadMan:
Also, if I am not mistaken, the VP casts the Tie Breaker Vote in the Senate

So which tie did he break that you consider significant?
</font>[/QUOTE]I didn't say that any VP had cast any tie
breaking votes of significance to this thread.

Only that The VP, whoever he may, does have the responsibility to cast the tie breaking vore in the Senate...

I was merely trying to add to what appeared to be a deficient knowledge base...

SMM

 

[emeraldctyangel]

Yes and if Fmr VP Gore wants labels he should prob be required to wear one himself. P for pretender.

The internet was not an invention of the Congress.

Leonard Kleinrock, J.C.R. Licklider, Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, Radia Perlman...all persued ideas that propelled the internet into existance.

Here is the quote where he really gets into his propensity to overstate: (CNN Transcripts, March 1999, first interview as a Presidential Candidate after filing)

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?

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.

He can however be credited with the first to use the phrase "information superhighway". A far cry from inventing the highway or information, he basically talked about it in the Congress when nobody knew a thing about computers.

Now you can call that imprecise phrasing, but that quality is something best left to screenplay writers and makers of movies - certainly not something I want in a government official or someone telling me about the ozone layer. I am of the opinion that if your cause needs a spokesperson, Fmr VP Gore should not be it.

 

[Daisy]

Yes and if Fmr VP Gore wants labels he should prob be required to wear one himself. P for pretender.

The internet was not an invention of the Congress.

Leonard Kleinrock, J.C.R. Licklider, Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, Radia Perlman...all persued ideas that propelled the internet into existance.

What do some of those you've cited have to say concerning Al Gore's role in taking the initiative in creating the internet?

Link to Leonard Kleinrock on Gore's role

Link to Bob Kahn & Vint Cerf's discussion

Here is the quote where he really gets into his propensity to overstate: (CNN Transcripts, March 1999, first interview as a Presidential Candidate after filing)
He can however be credited with the first to use the phrase "information superhighway". A far cry from inventing the highway or information, he basically talked about it in the Congress when nobody knew a thing about computers.

Now you can call that imprecise phrasing, but that quality is something best left to screenplay writers and makers of movies - certainly not something I want in a government official or someone telling me about the ozone layer. I am of the opinion that if your cause needs a spokesperson, Fmr VP Gore should not be it.

You have absolutely no idea, do you, what Gore actually did to help create the national information infrastructure? Hint: he did a quite bit more than "basically talk" about computers to an ignorant crowd. Unfortunately, some people find it more gigglesome to join in the ridicule of an accomplished man than learn something about what he has done in his long and distinguished career.

As for imprecise phrasing, see link to catalog of Bushisms