Posted on 10/16/2007 7:46:28 AM PDT by NCDragon
Seeing Al Gore so deservedly share the Nobel Peace Prize, it is impossible not to note the contrast in his leadership and that of George W. Bush.
Gore and Bush each faced a crucible moment. For Gore, it was winning the popular vote and having the election taken away from him by a Republican-dominated Supreme Court. For Bush, it was the shocking terrorist attack on 9/11.
Gore lost the presidency, but in the dignity and grace with which he gave up his legal fight, he united America. Then, faced with what to do with the rest of his life, he took up a personal crusade to combat climate change, even though the odds were stacked against him, his soapbox was small, his audiences were measured in hundreds, and his critics were legion. Nevertheless, Gore stuck with it and over time has played a central role in building a global consensus for action on this issue.
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Maybe he has an enlarged prostate. We can only hope can’t we?
thirty pieces of silver.
Sometimes, it's difficult to discern the difference between comedy and tragedy.
I used to think Friedman was smart.... Gore displayed dignity and grace? Yes, maybe if he had conceded the election on election night and not put the country through an unprecedented four-week sturm-and-drang featuring the most ludicrous legal arguments. And even if he won the popular vote - YOU STILL HAVE TO WIN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE! Friedman you jagoff!
I believe Al Gore is insane and his insane rantings should be relegated to the trash bin.
Crap. This is just typical of a writer who admitted he got his jollies from that picture of an M-16 shoved in the face of a young child by a JBT when Clinton launched his raid on Little Havana.
Dignity and grace?
What was he going to do?
Physically attack the Supreme Court building?
The "Republican-dominated" Supreme Court is a lovely concept. Just as a "Democrat-Dominated" Supreme Court must be...
Yeah, right. Algore's little three month temper tantrum in the courts was the epitome of dignity and grace. LOL!
Gore may indeed do more damage as a private kook than he did as a public kook. I hope future generations don’t pay too high a price for his climate idiocy.
The President can’t afford to be as irresponsible as Al Gore. Gore has certainly made money out of office...but that is all he has done, proving that P.T. Barnum was right.
What did Gore do in all the years he was in office, either as Vice President or Senator?
Dignity and grace? Dignity and grace is Nixon not challenging the 1960 elcetion despite strong evidence of fraud so that the sort of shadow/delay that Gore caused in 2000 wouldn’t happen.
HAhahaha! GORE's legal fight was anti-Constitutional! He fought to have Military Votes discarded! he had his Polling places CALL Florida residences in a number of counties where votes were close and insinuate the voting was faulty. He is a sh** at best.
I don't remember this. If true it's a real bombshell.
Got any links?
Yep it’s a tragic comedy that Al Gore is given any relevancy in this world...*sigh*
I don't have to get snippy about it, but he did, in fact, concede the election on election night. It was a brief moment when he actually did exhibit the dignity and grace Friedman gives him credit for.
Of course, he then called Bush back and "unconceded," reverting to the self-centered, tantrum-throwing, jackass form Al Gore has trademarked.
“Gore is a nutcase and should be in a strait jacket”
P.T. Barnum would have loved this entire scam...
Americans are already paying the price. As usual, California is leading the fringe trend; as well as paying the price: Nutjobs, 1; Taxpaying Americans, 0.
Check this out...
Bush won fair and square. Give up the B.S. already. Gore lost the presidency, but in the dignity and grace with which he gave up his legal fight, he united America.
Like hell he did. He went to court, and LOST. Your first sentence contradicts the second. Typical leftist LOOSER crap.
As for Gore "uniting the country", what utter B.S. as well. Leftist loons have been whining, just like this piece, ever since. They have been doing everthing possible to "impeach Bush". They have been doing everything they can to "loose the war",including conspiring with terrorists to get troops killed. because they feel that will "bring down Bush"
As for Gore "deserving" the peace prize, nothing could be further from the truth, well except for Gore's "convenient lies" fictional documentary, a new Hollywood film making category. It wasn't even very good, but to Hollywierdo leftists, it isn't truth or quality that matters, it's all about Bush, and getting in a cheap shot no matter what.
You have to be kidding me...What color is the sky in Friedman’s world?
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