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Gore Rips Bush On Storm Response (this is news??)
AOL News ^ | 9/10/05

Posted on 09/10/2005 8:50:45 AM PDT by NRA1995

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 9) - Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president's son.Gore criticized the Bush administration's slow response to Katrina in a speech Friday in San Francisco, but refused to be interviewed about the mercy missions he financed and flew on Sept. 3 and 4.

However, Dr. Anderson Spickard, who is Gore's personal physician and accompanied him on the flights, said: "Gore told me he wanted to do this because like all of us he wanted to seize the opportunity to do what one guy can do, given the assets that he has."

In the speech, Gore urged that the Bush administration be held accountable for the government's inadequate relief response, particularly "when the corpses of American citizens are floating in toxic floodwaters five days after a hurricane struck."

Bush administration officials have said Katrina's damage could not have been anticipated, but Gore rejected that.

"What happened was not only knowable, it was known in advance, in great and painstaking detail," Gore told the Sierra Club's national convention. "They did tabletop planning exercises. They identified exactly what the scientific evidence showed would take place."


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1 posted on 09/10/2005 8:50:47 AM PDT by NRA1995
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To: NRA1995
Forgot to add HTML; happy captioning!


2 posted on 09/10/2005 8:52:10 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I hear the Vonage music playing.....woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo....)
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To: NRA1995

And of course, American react in their idiot fashion, again.

God help us.


3 posted on 09/10/2005 8:53:46 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: NRA1995
If HE actually paid for the flight..this probably cost him more than he gave to charities his entire 8 years as vice president!!!
4 posted on 09/10/2005 8:54:01 AM PDT by conservativehusker (GO BIG RED!!!!)
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To: NRA1995

Ah, Albert Arnold Algore Jr. rears his insane head! The man who was almost President, but never will be. From that pic, it doesn't look like Gore is getting a handle on his various mental illnesses. Call 1 800 GET THERAPY, Al!


5 posted on 09/10/2005 8:54:12 AM PDT by Astronaut
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To: NRA1995

Global Warming is caused by hot air.

6 posted on 09/10/2005 8:54:12 AM PDT by martin_fierro (_____oooo_( ° ¿ ° )_oooo_____)
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To: NRA1995
but refused to be interviewed about the mercy missions he financed and flew on Sept. 3 and 4.

He financed???? He flew...surely he jests.

7 posted on 09/10/2005 8:55:30 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: NRA1995

"It was this guy here what sold me this supposedly waterproof watch ... I know, I just tested it ...."


8 posted on 09/10/2005 8:55:58 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: NRA1995

I'll do some research, but I'm betting dime-one didn't come directly from Al's pocket for this.


9 posted on 09/10/2005 8:56:42 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: NRA1995

Get me some iced tea now, dammit!


10 posted on 09/10/2005 8:56:48 AM PDT by NautiNurse (The task before us is enormous, but so is the heart of America.)
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To: NRA1995

What happened was not only knowable, it was known in advance, in great and painstaking detail," Gore told the Sierra Club's national convention.

Of course he knew in advance... He invented hurricanes! Only problem is that this one escaped from his lockbox...


11 posted on 09/10/2005 8:57:18 AM PDT by RedFred In A Blue State (Keep your friends close & your enemies in the freezer behind boxes in the basement)
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To: NRA1995

So, what did Gore prove ?
That an individual, unencumbered by government restraints, can do more quicker, than the govermenment ever could ?


12 posted on 09/10/2005 8:57:25 AM PDT by stylin19a (In golf, some are long, I'm "Lama Long")
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To: NRA1995

That's too easy:

"Pull muh finger."


13 posted on 09/10/2005 8:57:31 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: stylin19a

Oooo! Very, very good! :)


14 posted on 09/10/2005 8:58:00 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: NRA1995

Gore. Wasn't she a pop singer in the sixties?


15 posted on 09/10/2005 8:58:19 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (My brain maybe tiny but it is quite accurate.)
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To: NRA1995
"Gore told me he wanted to do this because like all of us he wanted to seize the opportunity to do what one guy can do, given the assets that he has."

I hate my cynicism but I don't think Al Gore, raised in the Ritz Carlton in Washington, D.C., by a political family, has ever done anything that was not for political gain.

In the speech, Gore urged that the Bush administration be held accountable for the government's inadequate relief response, particularly "when the corpses of American citizens are floating in toxic floodwaters five days after a hurricane struck."

Isn't that the responsibility of the local government? They are being left there for the same reason the rest of this happen - to run off the riffraff and keep them from coming back and then blame the Republicans for it all.

16 posted on 09/10/2005 8:59:07 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government.)
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To: martin_fierro

Gee, But he sure made sure, the MSM "found out" about 'em...

Another whackbrain tag team leftie comes out
from under it's rock to try and sink it's fangs
in what it thinks is an Achilles heel for the
Republicans....Big surprise...Big Whoop...


17 posted on 09/10/2005 9:00:28 AM PDT by NickatNite2003
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Whatever happened to that so-called alternative news network he was backing?

Last I heard about it, the big thing on that day was some dorky Japanese kid who wanted to kill himself.


18 posted on 09/10/2005 9:00:51 AM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Cindy Sheehan, American Traitor)
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To: NRA1995
given the assets that he has

More correctly, given the ass that he is.

19 posted on 09/10/2005 9:00:59 AM PDT by melt (Someday they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: NRA1995

He looks like Mr Rooney from Ferris Buehlers day off.


20 posted on 09/10/2005 9:01:27 AM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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