Posted on 12/18/2007 7:21:08 AM PST by Ooh-Ah
I may be old fashioned, but I think it's wrong to publicly attack and criticize your own country overseas. It is doubly wrong to do so in the presence of those who hate the United States.
Al Gore,....said, he is "not an official of the United States," he is free to attack his native country anywhere.
This month in Bali, Indonesia, the United Nations held a conference on global warming for the purpose of extending the Kyoto Protocols, which will formally end in 2012. The United States -- concerned about Kyoto's effect on economic growth -- has refused to ratify the Protocols. On July 25, 1997, the U.S. Senate rejected then Vice President Gore's advice and voted 95-0 to reject the Kyoto Protocols.
...Al Gore appeared at the Bali conference and said, "I am not an official of the United States and I am not bound by the diplomatic niceties. So I am going to speak an inconvenient truth. My own country, the United States, is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali. We all know that."
Oh, really? And just how do we all know that? Is it true that the U.S. is "principally responsible for obstructing progress" in Bali? The New York Times, which applauds the former Vice President, reported on December 14 that "[t]he emerging economic powers, most notably China and India, also refuse to accept limits on their emissions, despite projections that they will soon become the dominant sources of the gases." The same Times article stated while the U.S. opposes an agreement that would include numerical targets, so do "a few other countries, including Russia."
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Unregulated emissions from China, India and other developing countries are likely to account for most of the global increase in carbon dioxide emissions over the next quarter-century.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Read my tagline. It’s an actual Gore quote.
“Long answer, since Al stands to reap huge profits from selling cabon credits through two companies he is a principle in, he needs Kyoto quotas to drive a demand for carbon credits.”
Bingo. This gutbag Gore is enabling polluting industries by brokering carbon credits from clean companies to dirtier companies so the polluters can keep running at status quo. AND making money from being a part of polluting our earth.
Only in America..........
I hope this means he's given up his life-long honorifics of Senator and Vice-President. Because he's certainly given up his honor.
U.S. Senate 95
Algore 0
This is sort of like asking if a dog knows what he's looking at when he sees a ceiling fan. When it comes to Gore and the truth or facts, he knows there's something there, he just doesn't have a clue what it is.
“Is it true that the U.S. is “principally responsible for obstructing progress” in Bali? “
Hey, some of the credit belongs to Canada, thanks to P.M. Harper.
Gore knows what he is talking about because he was the guy who worked the Kyoto Treaty negotiations and made sure there were plenty of loopholes for carbon credits.
Makes you wonder if Mayor Koch wonders if his party knows what they stand for anymore.
Agree 100%. Well said.
He never has and never will. But Mr. Wood is good at saying what he doesn’t know over and over again until stupid people thinks he does know and go running for the Kool Aid.
Trick question, right? Okay, when he's talking about donations from Buddist monks, yes. On matters of law, science, arts, taste, ethics, mathematics, linguistics, semantics, music or literature, almost certainly no.
“I am going to speak an inconvenient truth”
An inconvenient catch-phrase. Buzzword. Slogan. Call it what you want.
I’m sick of it.
No, he doesn’t.
Who decided he is an expert in climatology, ecology, geology, and all the other appropriate -ologies, anyway?
This guy never did anything related. Except write books pretending to know.
Unless the topic is deep-dish pizza, no.
What happened to him? He sure got fat since the Klintoon years.
He’s not exactly a paragon for that other of leftist icons, outlawing obesity.
Has he ever knew what he was talking about?
To refresh your memory - hunt down and listen to GORLERO again. It holds many of his lies and is quite good for a laugh.
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