Son is Gore's Al-batross (Semi-barf alert)

New York Daily News ^ | July 8, 2007 | Michael Daly

[2ndDivisionVet]

With Al Gore in the news for battling global warming and Al Gore 3rd in the news for getting toasted, my favorite NYPD detective recalled a story that helps explain how father and son each became a particular kind of loser.

The story was told to the detective by a Secret Service agent some years back as they worked security for a dignitary visiting New York. Such details largely consist of just standing there for as long as 12 hours and the talk turned to a day when the Secret Service agent was assigned to then-Vice President Gore.

The detective recalls the agent saying that he was outside a room where Gore was loudly berating Al 3rd for something to do with school. The agent then overheard the senior Gore say to his son something truly stunning.

"What, do you want to end up like those guys standing outside the door?"

The guys being the agent and his partners, highly trained and intensely dedicated individuals who remain ever-ready to take a bullet for whomever they are assigned to protect.

You would think that such selfless and motivated people would be perfect role models for a teenager having a little trouble staying on track.

You have to wonder if the son might have turned out differently if the father had asked the agent to take his boy under his wing.

"Now [the senior Gore] is probably wishing his son did end up like those guys outside his door," the detective said yesterday.

The detective is the first to say he himself was not actually present when Gore is said to have uttered those words. The agent's outrage when telling the story sure seemed genuine. And Gore's remark reflected an arrogance that was entirely in character.

That same arrogance managed to make being smart seem a liability in Gore's presidential debates with George Bush. Gore still might have won had he not distanced himself from Bill Clinton. Gore apparently would have felt too much like someone just standing outside Clinton's door if he had said that things were going pretty good in America, that the best thing to do was simply to keep going the way we were going, but with our zipper zipped.

Gore wanted to be the Big Guy with the Big Ideas. He ended up the loser in an election so close the Supreme Court stepped in. The winner then demonstrated to the whole world just how much had really been at stake.

The war in Iraq is such a bloody disaster that we sometimes forget George Bush's other great failures, notably in the environment. But, the weather has seemed to become increasingly wacky and the warnings from scientists regarding global warming have become harder to ignore.

With a movie and a book, Gore has made himself the Big Guy on this issue. He was on "Larry King" last year, talking about the climate crisis, making complete sense and reminding you what his arrogance cost everybody when he lost that election.

"Our future is at stake," he rightly said.

He noted that he and his wife do their bit by driving a Lexus hybrid.

"We have a couple of Priuses in the family with the children," he added.

A Prius being what 24-year-old Al 3rd was driving on July 4, when he was pulled over in California for going 100 mph while high on pot, endangering everyone on the road. He was charged with possession of marijuana and prescription pills. He has a prior pot arrest and prior citations for speeding and drunken driving.

The father was already scheduled to go on "Larry King" again on Friday to speak about yesterday's Live Earth concerts he helped organize on seven continents. Gore said he would be at the "giant mega-concert" at the Meadowlands. He went out of his way to say the event was not his idea, as if he were consciously trying to fight off that arrogance.

"Some of the best things I've been involved in have not been my idea at all," Gore said.

King asked about the son's arrest and Gore would only say this was "a private family matter." But, if there now seems just an outside chance the father might end up becoming President after all, one thing that can now be said for certain about Al 3rd is that he will never end up like those guys outside the door.

The Secret Service does not hire people with criminal records.

"He should be so lucky," my favorite detective said.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The arrogance jibes with what I've heard about former Vice President Gore. Not too surprising that the reporter agrees with Mr. Gore on "global warming" and Iraq.

[elli1]

Yeh but--It's a 'He said that the other he said that he overheard' story. And none of the he's have a name. And, in the event that there is a grain of truth buried somewhere, we don't know who all of the guys "standing outside the door" were.

Algore is pond scum but I gotta' cry Foul on this 'story'.

OTOH, it would be interesting to know if algore & the author of this piece shared JSchool alma maters...

[OKIEDOC]

Sorry but alGore is nothing more than a scam artist fruitcake.

[Shimmer128]

Yeah, the kids have a couple of Prius’. And a Maserati too, from what I hear.

I want my kid to grow up to be like the guy outside the door. A hero.

[xzins]

A Prius being what 24-year-old Al 3rd was driving on July 4, when he was pulled over in California for going 100 mph while high on pot, endangering everyone on the road. He was charged with possession of marijuana and prescription pills. He has a prior pot arrest and prior citations for speeding and drunken driving.

Reckless driving with many priors while high again.

Throw the book at him.

[sgtbono2002]

Gore wanted to be the Big Guy with the Big Ideas. He ended up the loser in an election so close the Supreme Court stepped in. The winner then demonstrated to the whole world just how much had really been at stake
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Al was a loser long before that election and we are lucky he didnt get elected or we would probably all be wearing burka’s and carrying prayer rugs now. Having the same choices I had then I would still vote for Bush.

[SkyPilot]

That same arrogance managed to make being smart seem a liability in Gore's presidential debates with George Bush.

Memo to the MSM:

Gore isn't "smarter" than GW Bush and never was.

Gore's grades at Harvard were not good, and Kerry's grades at Yale were worse than Bush's.

It is another myth the MSM has taught itself, as in "Kerry would have won had the Swift Boat Veterans not 'lied' about his heroics."

Tommy Lee Jones (Gore's roommate at Harvard) wasn't too impressed with Al's studying habits. Jones was a Varsity tackle on the school's undefeated team, and graduated Cum Laude from Harvard. He once remarked that Al devoted most of his time to watching Star Trek, playing pool, and eating cheeseburgers.

The basis for the media's unfair attacks on Bush's intelligence is his 30-year-old Yale College transcript (purloined last fall and published by The New Yorker). Yet The Washington Post's subsequent revelation of Gore's unimpressive academic record has done little to alter the media's false portrayal of Gore as "the smartest kid in the class." It is a record that is worth reviewing, if only to debunk the myth of Gore as a serious student. Gore's undergraduate transcript from Harvard is riddled with C's, including a C-minus in introductory economics, a D in one science course, and a C-plus in another. "In his sophomore year at Harvard," the Post reported, "Gore's grades were lower than any semester recorded on Bush's transcript from Yale."

[OKIEDOC]

same here.

The teacher at school asked my daughter what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said a mother like my mommy and a nurse or a school teacher.

I want my kids to grow up and be what makes them the most happy, wether it be doctor, Indian Chief or fireman.

I love my kids and do not want to project on them my ambitions for the future and their happiness.

I have two sons who are contractors doing finish work in the housing market.

Their happy and so am I.

[don-o]

The arrogance jibes

I witnessed it. When my wife and I challenged our Senator on his flip flop on pro-life, I thought he was going to spit in our faces.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

This type of arrogance is typical of almost all elected Demcorats.

[don-o]

[Smokin' Joe]

With such a shining example as a dad the wonder is not that the son has a criminal record, but that the Dad doesn’t.

[Cricket24]

AND to think that this kid almost died and is lucky to be alive. He still abuses his body. I am NOT surprised that Al Gore said that about the Secret Service. The Clintons felt the same way not only about the secret service but also about the military. That woman may become the commander in chief! Think how great the morale will be then!
The Islamic terrorists can’t wait!

[norwaypinesavage]

" it would be interesting to know if algore & the author of this piece shared JSchool alma maters..."

They couldn't. In order to claim an alma mater, you have to graduate. Flunking out doesn't count.

[T-Bird45]

Al was a loser long before that election...

Agree wholeheartedly with this and I think we should stop to consider how close it came in 2000 could have gone the other way. Scenario: Clinton decides to resign rather than face the Senate impeachment trial, Gore becomes President, runs in 2000 as the incumbent, and that is enough to push him over the top in the Electoral College. Viewed from this perspective, Gore is a loser and another victim of Clinton's hubris.

[sodpoodle]

“””Gore said he would be at the “giant mega-concert” at the Meadowlands”””

CORRECTION: giant EGO-concert OR Me-Gore concert

[Marauder]

My thought is that if I had a father like Algore, I too would need to do drugs.

[R.W.Ratikal]

Members of wealthy political dynasties, as the Kennedy dynasty proved, always get a pass in one way or another. Al Gore III will go into “treatment” for his unfortunate addiction to “prescription” drugs and all will be well.

In a year or two when AlGoreIII makes his first run for the Senate it will be “mean spirited” to bring up his youthful playful indiscretions. His wild youth will be pointed to as just another proof that he is just “one of the folks.”

But don’t you try it.

[F.J. Mitchell]

It is obvious that Al the younger is desperately trying to escape his ties to a family of world class kooks, anyway he can.

Pity the poor kid.

[jmaroneps37]

The author is a known liar. He once worked has a correspondent for the NY Daily News in Northern Ireland to report on the civil unrest. His reports were such obvious lies that the British government took the time and made an unusual step. They proved the lies to the NYDN and forced him out of the country. The NYDN being the slimy POS that it is, suspended him for two years then brought him back as if nothing happened. I know of at least two other important lies Daly has written. This guy is just another lying bastard writing crap that attacks America every day.