Al Bore invented the Internet.
Posted on 07/03/2007 12:28:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former US Vice President Al Gore appeared on BBC television today, and thanked Apple CEO Steve Jobs for proposing him as the next President of the United States.
In May Jobs stated that Gore - also an Apple board member - would win the presidency if he ran for election.
"If he ran, there's no question in my mind that he would be elected," Jobs told Time magazine. "But I think there's a question in his mind, perhaps because the pain of the last election runs a lot deeper than he lets most of us see."
Today, appearing on the BBC's Breakfast programme, Gore answered a viewer's emailed question about whether he'd consider standing again for the post of US President.
He didn't categorically refuse to stand but said that today he is more interested in "moral" rather than "political" issues, referring to his popular environmental campaign started with his movie 'An Inconvenient Truth'.
Gore did however thank Steve Jobs for his "kind" words, and said that he was a "good friend".
A Gallup poll of August 2006 showed that 48 percent of Americans currently view Gore favourably. In a recent California Field poll, Gore is second at 25% - behind Hillary Clinton by 6 percentage points. However, in the California Bay Area, Gore is the leading candidate. Gore also has the highest approval rating when compared to other Democratic nominees.
This would be a great opportunity for Al to get his ass kicked in his home state again!
“In May Jobs stated that Gore - also an Apple board member - would win the presidency if he ran for election.”
In other news, Steve Jobs was involuntarily committed today.......
I wouldn’t even buy a phone from Steve Jobs.
This is why the Apple Macintosh never made it....fuzzy thinking at the top.
How about letting Al Gore run Apple for a few years instead?
Well, of course, he is.
There is much more $$$ and fame to be made milking the Global Warming BS than running for a real job.
“How about letting Al Gore run Apple for a few years instead?” Yeah, didn’t he invent the Internet and all that? C’mon Steve, hand over the reins! LOL
I knew I hated Macs for some reason, now I know.
“”If he ran, there’s no question in my mind that he would be elected,” Jobs told Time magazine. “But I think there’s a question in his mind, perhaps because the pain of the last election runs a lot deeper than he lets most of us see.””
Deeper than he lets most of us see? After he lost the election, he went into hiding, got fat, grew a beard and sulked for months. Then he came out and yelled until his eyes bugged out about the President betraying the country. He did not deal well with the stress of losing. I can imagine that actually being President for 4 or 8 years is quite a bit more stressful.
How poorly would Al Gore have handled that?
Hey, give Jobs a break...maybe he's just trying to get rid of Al by encouraging him to run.
Either that, or Jobs adds weight to the theory that most techies and scientists should be kept locked in their labs and not allowed to comment publicly on political issues, because it makes the rest of the techies and scientists look stupid.
It’s amazing a man with such forethought is stupid enough to think Al Gore is capable of being POTUS.
Al Bore invented the Internet.
Apple puts “Made in California” on their products, as opposed to the conventional “Made in the USA”, a more than subtle dig, in my opinion, at the USA as a whole.
Let the smug Jobs enlist his idiot pal Gore to run for President of Freakifornia, and leave the rest of sane America alone....
Does anyone else remember the huge donation Jobs made to the first Clinton campaign in 1991 or so? Shortly after Clinton was elected, he lifted the ban on some sensitive computer equipment allowing Apple to sell nearly a billion bucks in hardware to China.
I remember the news reports from that time, but no one made a big deal about it (of course). Anyone have any info on that time period and incident?
Better for Algore to suffer the pain of losing than it would be for the rest of us to suffer the pain of him winning.
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