Posted on 05/22/2006 11:24:13 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Is President Bush likely to see Al Gore's documentary about global warming?
"Doubt it," Bush said coolly Monday.
Bush has had bitter disagreements with Gore about the environment and other issues. Bush defeated Gore, then the Democratic vice president, in a disputed presidential election that was finally settled by the Supreme Court in 2000.
Gore's documentary chronicles his efforts to bring greater attention to the dangers of climate change.
"New technologies will change how we live and how we drive our cars which all will have the beneficial effect of improving the environment," Bush said. "And in my judgment we need to set aside whether or not greenhouse gases have been caused by mankind or because of natural effects and focus on the technologies that will enable us to live better lives and at the same time protect the enviroment."
Gore's movie debuted at last winter's Sundance Film Festival and opens in U.S. theaters Wednesday.
Speaking Saturday in France at the Cannes Film Festival about global warming, Gore said, "I even believe there is a chance that within the next two years, even (President) Bush and (Vice President) Dick Cheney will be forced to change their position on this crisis," he said. "One can only attempt to create one's own reality for so long. Reality proper has a way of insisting itself upon you."
CremeSaver Not Likely to See Gore's Film, either! :0)
Then what on earth happened to you, Gore?
Gore is portly.
Do we still elect portly prezes? Who was the last portly???
Interesting question. Clinton seemed to qualify at times. Before him, do we have to go back to Taft?
You mean you have something better to spend your $10 on?
"One can only attempt to create one's own reality for so long. Reality proper has a way of insisting itself upon you."
Yeah, like your not President, and never will be.
Ouch!! LOL. He did ask for it, though.
"Doubt it," Bush said coolly Monday.
What part of "Fiction" doesn't the President understand? -sarc
Gore has now turned up in Cannes to flog his "documentary", having no doubt paddled across the Atlantic in his own homemade birch bark canoe.
Yes, Strawberry CremeSavers, of course! LOL!
"Bush Not Likely to See Gore's Film"
Well, that makes two of us.
From Drudge: "Gore & entourage took 5 cars to travel the 500 yards from hotel to screening of global warming pic in Cannes... "
And more news, Canada wants out of Kyoto!
Bush should have said: "My response is this: `Excelsior!'"
"Bush Not Likely to See Gore's Film"
Well, that makes two of us.
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that makes three of us - can I get a 4th?
“You lose.”
Wasn't that an Algore movie?
One Algore movie is enough for me.
"The zinc mining on [Gore's] land causes groundwater pollution...The plant that processes the zinc 100 miles away in Clarksville is a high-pollution Superfund site, and a previously unpublicized Environmental Protection Agency study cites it for dangerous contamination...Tax records show Mr. Gore gets about $227 in royalties per acre...The lease [became] a political problem for Mr. Gore; the Republican National Committee [ran ads in 2000] accusing him of hypocrisy on his environmental record. "Gore has allowed mining companies to mine zinc from his property," the ad states. "They have been cited for polluting the source of local drinking water, all while Gore has made a half a million dollars in mining royalties."
But a 1995 study for the EPA makes a more serious claim about the plant in Clarksville, Tenn., where Mr. Gore's zinc is processed, and which is run by the same company that pays royalties to Mr. Gore, Pasminco Inc. The area around the plant is contaminated with toxic substances such as cadmium and mercury, posing "a threat to the human food chain," the report says. The plant has been designated a Superfund site."
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