BLAST FROM THE PAST: 35 Reasons Not To Vote For Al Gore Jr.

News/Current Events Opinion (Published) Keywords: NO TO GORE Source: National Anxiety Center Author: Factoid Posted on 08/13/1999 11:10:45 PDT by Lonnie 35 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR AL GORE, JR.

1. Gore thinks "human civilization is now the dominant cause of change in the global environment." Nevermind the sun, the oceans, volcanoes, and other natural phenomena that actually do control the environment.

2. Gore believes that "industrial civilization" is engaged in a "terrible onslaught against the natural world." Of course, without industrial civilization, we'd all be riding horses and growing our own food. Forget about cars, computers, air conditioning, television, telephones, plastic, pharmaceuticals, et cetera.

3. Gore’s "strategic goal" is to "eliminate the internal combustion engine" by the year 2020. This particular kind of engine can be found in automobiles, trucks, vans, and a whole host of labor saving devices.

4. Gore believes that the "cumulative impact" of automobiles "is posing a mortal threat to the security of every nation more deadly than that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront."

5. Caught making campaign finance calls from the White House, something that is against the law, Gore declared that there was "no controlling legal authority" regarding this improper behavior. Like any longtime legislator, he knew federal law prohibits soliciting campaign funds in a federal building.

6. Gore favored a government crackdown on the tiny trickle of electricity used by devices like television sets, whether they are on or not, because it results in a steady emission of carbon dioxide. All his talk of greenhouse gases and global warming ignores the fact that 95% percent of all carbon dioxide produced annually comes from the evaporation of water from the oceans, decaying organic matter, and the respiration of human beings and animals.

7. In October 1997, Gore told television weathermen gathered at the White House that global warming could be eliminated if the over-population of Third World nations could be controlled. This is a kind of Final Solution approach. The entire population of the world could live in Texas. Populations in industrialized, prosperous nations have steadily decreased.

8. Gore was responsible in having Timothy Wirth named Undersecretary of State. Wirth is on record saying, "Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we are doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy." Since there is no global warming (the earth hasn't warmed in over 50 years), this is a justification for a bad policy based on bad science. Wirth now administers Ted Turner's billion-dollar gift to the United Nations.

9. Gore has pushed hard to make environmentalism the basis for our foreign policy. He called it "a turning point in US foreign policy." A turn for the worse since national security and the advancement of our economic growth is widely regarded as a sound basis for foreign policy.

10. While the economy of Japan remains stagnant, Gore advised them in 1997 to agree to "limit carbon monoxide and other greenhouse gases" by supporting the much-disputed UN Treaty on Climate Control. This treaty exempts nations that include China and India. The US Senate is on record saying it will never approve it.

11. Gore attended an April 29, 1996 campaign fundraising event at the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in Hacienda Heights, California and then called it "a community outreach" program. Three months earlier, his own staff had told him it was a fundraiser.

12. During his Democratic nomination speech, Gore told of his grief over the death of his sister caused by her having smoked cigarettes. He neglected to mention that his family's fortune had been based on raising tobacco in Tennessee and that the family farm continued to do so for years after her death or that he continued to accept tobacco industry political action committee money through his re-election as Senator in l990.

13. Gore once told reporters that Eric Segal's novel, "Love Story", was based on the romance between himself and his wife Tipper. When Segal said this was nonsense, he disclaimed his statement calling it "a miscommunication."

14. Gore has compared the "struggle to save the environment" to "the struggle to vanquish Hitler" adding that this time "the war is with ourselves." Apparently, the entire human race is now the enemy.

15. Gore advocates that the United Nations consider "the idea of establishing a Stewardship Council to deal with matters relating to the global environment." In other words, give the UN total control over the actions and decisions of sovereign nations worldwide. Meanwhile, the UN already has a plan for "global governance" complete with the ability to tax nations, set up its own permanent army, and now has an international court which can indict and convict American citizens.

16. Gore has written that the "deforestation of Haiti, perhaps as much as the repression of the Duvalier regime" was the cause of Haitian immigration, numbering over a million, legally and illegally, to the US. Sure, they all left because trees were chopped down.

17. Gore once claimed that, if the Republicans didn't go along with the Clinton Administration's environmental legislation, "our drinking water would be dirtier; (it) would make more people sick, and would kill more people." This is typical of his habit of over-statement and harsh attacks on opponents of his beliefs.

18. Gore has claimed during a 1999 interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer that "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." The preliminary discussions for the creation of the Internet took place in 1967 and, in 1969, the Defense Department commissioned the creation of the "Arpanet." Gore was 2l years old at the time and it would be eight more years before he was elected to the US House of Representatives.

19. Gore was a supporter of the creation of the so-called "Superfund" to clean up toxic sites. It was supposed to be a short-term program costing $1.6 billion. The program still exists and has cost more than $30 billion without having successfully cleaning up more than a fraction of sites.

20. Gore was an advocate of the "V-chip" to permit parents to block out programming they considered inappropriate for their children. It is widely regarded as a complete failure.

21. Despite the viewing public's disenchantment with the television show, "Ellen", starring Ellen DeGeneris, an outspoken advocate of the lesbian lifestyle, Gore lauded the star for "forcing" millions of Americans to "look at sexual orientation in a more open light." They stopped looking and the show was cancelled.

22. A comparison between the statements found in Gore's book, "Earth in the Balance", and the "Manifesto" of the Unabomber, demonstrates that it is impossible to determine which one is the author of which statement. (See "How to Tell the Difference Between Al Gore and the Unabomber" on this site.)

23. Gore is on record declaring William Jefferson Clinton as one of the greatest Presidents of modern times.

24. Gore has placed some of the most radical advocates of environmentalism in posts throughout the Clinton Administration, first of whom would be Carol M. Browner, director of the Environmental Protection Agency. The bad science, bad laws, and lies coming out of this single agency will impact the US economy for years to come. Another Gore appointee, the former director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen McGinty, has resigned to play a role in his presidential campaign. There are others too numerous to name.

25. Gore was put in charge of "reinventing government" in the Clinton Administration, but not a single union job was found expendable. Nearly three-fourths of the positions that were eliminated came from the Defense Department, which lost 16% of its civilian jobs. Many other jobs that were supposedly eliminated were "privatized", using government contracts. Other reductions came from retirements. The Federal Register of new laws and regulations has increased dramatically during the term of the Clinton-Gore Administration.

26. During the 1992 campaign, Gore said that the government should fund the "information highway", but reversed himself the following year saying the private sector should pay for it.

27. The Gore family had close, personal ties to oil magnate, Armand Hammer. After his defeat as Senator, Al Gore, Sr. was given a $500,000 a year job to head up the Occidental Petroleum's coal division. Hammer, however, was a longtime Soviet agent, a personal friend of Lenin and the only American to receive the Order of Lenin from the then Soviet government. Today, Al Gore, Jr. serves as co-chairman of the US-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technical Cooperation, better known as the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission.

28. Despite being provided with evidence in 1995 by the Central Intelligence Agency of the personal corruption of Victor S. Chernomyrdin, Gore dismissed the findings and did not want to receive further reports.

29. Gore's advocacy of the widely disputed global warming theory led him to blame it for everything from floods in North Dakota, droughts in Texas, and forest fires in Florida. One would think that floods, droughts and forest fires had never occurred before, but history reveals they are a common annual occurrence.

30. Gore did serve briefly in Vietnam, but his assertion that he came under enemy fire is false. He served as a journalist behind the front lines and never saw combat.

31. While a journalist in Tennessee, Gore said that his reporting "put people in prison." An examination of the record shows this did not occur and he admitted that he lied about this.

32. Both Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have admitted to being "recreational" marijuana smokers when he attended Harvard. The Clinton-Gore Administration is notorious for having failed to stem the flow of drugs into the country.

33. When President Clinton gave misleading testimony about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky to the Grand Jury and the tapes were shown on television in September 1998, Gore characterized his behavior saying, "My overall impression was that it was much ado about not much new."

34. On a visit to New Hampshire in 1998, Gore predicted that Clinton would end his term in office "with a distinguished record and will go down in history as a virtuoso performance, producing economic recovery and an American renaissance with new solutions to problems once thought impossible to solve." Most people believe Clinton has disgraced himself and the office of the Presidency. The nation’s economic success is attributed to the end of the Cold War and the former Soviet Union. Policies administered by Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve are also credited. By contrast, the Clinton Administration has been engaged in efforts to purchase more of the nation’s landmass to put it off limits to any development or the use of our natural resources. The Clinton-Gore Administration has attacked major industries that include tobacco and one of the most successful corporate enterprises, Microsoft.

35. Gore once accused then President Bush of having "taken our tax dollars and subsidized the moving of US factories to foreign countries", but omitted that the program he was describing, the Caribbean Basin Initiative, was one for which he had voted when he served in the Senate.

For these and many other reasons, Al Gore, Jr. is a proven, accomplished liar, an environmental fanatic, and co-equal with President Clinton in the cover-up of the Administration's scandals.

1. Gore thinks “human civilization is now the dominant cause of change in the global environment.” Nevermind the sun, the oceans, volcanoes, and other natural phenomena that actually do control the environment.

The liberal belief that man is his own god and can control nature.

2. Gore believes that “industrial civilization” is engaged in a “terrible onslaught against the natural world.” Of course, without industrial civilization, we’d all be riding horses and growing our own food. Forget about cars, computers, air conditioning, television, telephones, plastic, pharmaceuticals, et cetera.

Yet, liberals insist that Ted Kaczynski was not inspired by Gore, even though they found a copy of “Earth in the Balance” in his shack.

4. Gore believes that the “cumulative impact” of automobiles “is posing a mortal threat to the security of every nation more deadly than that of any military enemy we are ever again likely to confront.”

More dangerous than Islamofascism?

Hell, they banned plasma TVs in California.

Ever met a liberal who didn’t believe in population control?

11. Gore attended an April 29, 1996 campaign fundraising event at the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in Hacienda Heights, California and then called it “a community outreach” program. Three months earlier, his own staff had told him it was a fundraiser.

One of those fake white liberal Buddhist temples, no doubt.

12. During his Democratic nomination speech, Gore told of his grief over the death of his sister caused by her having smoked cigarettes. He neglected to mention that his family’s fortune had been based on raising tobacco in Tennessee and that the family farm continued to do so for years after her death or that he continued to accept tobacco industry political action committee money through his re-election as Senator in l990.

Why do liberals focus all their anger on tobacco companies? Why not go after the farmer who grew the tobacco in the first place?

14. Gore has compared the “struggle to save the environment” to “the struggle to vanquish Hitler” adding that this time “the war is with ourselves.” Apparently, the entire human race is now the enemy.

Anyone remember the idiot Time Magazine cover with the Iwo Jima soldiers raising a tree?

15. Gore advocates that the United Nations consider “the idea of establishing a Stewardship Council to deal with matters relating to the global environment.” In other words, give the UN total control over the actions and decisions of sovereign nations worldwide. Meanwhile, the UN already has a plan for “global governance” complete with the ability to tax nations, set up its own permanent army, and now has an international court which can indict and convict American citizens.

IPCC anyone?

16. Gore has written that the “deforestation of Haiti, perhaps as much as the repression of the Duvalier regime” was the cause of Haitian immigration, numbering over a million, legally and illegally, to the US. Sure, they all left because trees were chopped down.

Yeah, they have pretty bad soil erosion from deforestation, but I think the corruption and poverty of Haiti is also a factor.

19. Gore was a supporter of the creation of the so-called “Superfund” to clean up toxic sites. It was supposed to be a short-term program costing $1.6 billion. The program still exists and has cost more than $30 billion without having successfully cleaning up more than a fraction of sites.

Just like the Obama stimulus. Accomplished nothing other than lining the pockets of those who donated to the DNC.

20. Gore was an advocate of the “V-chip” to permit parents to block out programming they considered inappropriate for their children. It is widely regarded as a complete failure.

V-chips lasted all of five minutes, IIRC.

22. A comparison between the statements found in Gore’s book, “Earth in the Balance”, and the “Manifesto” of the Unabomber, demonstrates that it is impossible to determine which one is the author of which statement. (See “How to Tell the Difference Between Al Gore and the Unabomber” on this site.)

See above.

23. Gore is on record declaring William Jefferson Clinton as one of the greatest Presidents of modern times.

Until Clinton cost him the election. The two apparently haven’t spoken since.

That was child’s play compared to Obama’s czars.

25. Gore was put in charge of “reinventing government” in the Clinton Administration, but not a single union job was found expendable. Nearly three-fourths of the positions that were eliminated came from the Defense Department, which lost 16% of its civilian jobs. Many other jobs that were supposedly eliminated were “privatized”, using government contracts. Other reductions came from retirements. The Federal Register of new laws and regulations has increased dramatically during the term of the Clinton-Gore Administration.

Only union workers need apply!

27. The Gore family had close, personal ties to oil magnate, Armand Hammer. After his defeat as Senator, Al Gore, Sr. was given a $500,000 a year job to head up the Occidental Petroleum’s coal division. Hammer, however, was a longtime Soviet agent, a personal friend of Lenin and the only American to receive the Order of Lenin from the then Soviet government. Today, Al Gore, Jr. serves as co-chairman of the US-Russian Joint Commission on Economic and Technical Cooperation, better known as the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission.

And then Armand Hammer became a big advocate of trade with China. Once a commie, always a commie.

29. Gore’s advocacy of the widely disputed global warming theory led him to blame it for everything from floods in North Dakota, droughts in Texas, and forest fires in Florida. One would think that floods, droughts and forest fires had never occurred before, but history reveals they are a common annual occurrence.

When there’s a drought, AGW did it. When there’s a blizzard, AGW did it. When it’s a beautiful day with temperatures in the 70s, AGW did it. No matter what the weather, you can never go wrong blaming AGW for it.

30. Gore did serve briefly in Vietnam, but his assertion that he came under enemy fire is false. He served as a journalist behind the front lines and never saw combat.

And we were subjected to eight years of ramblings about how George Bush was a draft dodger.

31. While a journalist in Tennessee, Gore said that his reporting “put people in prison.” An examination of the record shows this did not occur and he admitted that he lied about this.

Don’t matter. It’s not like Time, Newsweek, the NYT, CNN, ABC, NBC, or CBS are ever going to report on this. Heck, Time Magazine never mentioned Al Gore and the massage therapist, not even in passing.

34. On a visit to New Hampshire in 1998, Gore predicted that Clinton would end his term in office “with a distinguished record and will go down in history as a virtuoso performance, producing economic recovery and an American renaissance with new solutions to problems once thought impossible to solve.”

And yes, there actually are still idiots who believe this.

“The nation’s economic success is attributed to the end of the Cold War and the former Soviet Union. Policies administered by Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve are also credited.”

The economy didn’t really take off until Clinton’s second term, and mostly thanks to the Republican congress.

“The Clinton-Gore Administration has attacked major industries that include tobacco and one of the most successful corporate enterprises, Microsoft.”

And for some uncountable reason, Bill Gates is a good, AGW-obsessed liberal.

35. Gore once accused then President Bush of having “taken our tax dollars and subsidized the moving of US factories to foreign countries”

Both parties were in on NAFTA.

Oh, well. All of that was a drop in a bucket compared to what we have in the White House now.

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