The beast is hoping he doesn't. But should Gore run he'd find himself a cozy rock to lean on in Ft. Marcy Park.
Posted on 09/24/2007 6:59:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I am occasionally asked why it is that so many Europeans display reflexive anti-Americanism, and I force myself to choose from a salad of possible answers. One of these is the resentment that I can remember feeling myself when I lived in England in the 1970s: the sheer brute fact that American voters who knew nothing about Europe (and cared less) could pick a president who had more clout than any of our elected prime ministers could exert. America could change our economic climate by means of the Federal Reserve, could use bases in Britain to forward its policies in Asia or the Middle East, and all the rest of it. Americans could also choose a complete crook like Richard Nixon, or a complete moron like Jimmy Carter, and we still had to watch our local politicians genuflect to the so-called Atlantic alliance.
Nowadays, this bothers me slightly less than it used to do. (George Bush at his worst is preferable to Gerhard Schröder or Jacques Chirac—politicians who put their own countries in pawn to Putin and the Chinese and the Saudis.) But I can still feel the old pang gnawing away. And I can still sense the European instinct for revenge or, to phrase it another way, for the chance to influence U.S. politics in return. One of the ways in which this influence can be exerted is the award of the Nobel Peace Prize. (And not just the peace prize, either; the so-called "prize" for literature has been awarded quite openly to figures who earned their reputations as enemies of the American imperium, just as the laurels bestowed on Jimmy Carter were accompanied by explicit remarks from Scandinavia to the effect that this might put a spoke in Bush's wheel.)
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Friggin Libtard envirowacko. Butt buddies with Keith Olbermoann and Chrissy Matthews.
If Algore runs for President, you know he will stop flying on those private jets. Private aircraft and being in the Clintons’ way are a deadly combination.
Ping!
I know that this is not from DUmmieland, but it should be amusing.
Al, I am your biggest supporter.......
In other words, they do not see that they have made themselves an object of contempt to most of America, and cheapened themselves and the concept of the Nobel prize by adwarding it to terrorists and outright morons.
A spoke indeed, but it is a poor weapon that does not point both ways.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!! That PICTURE of him is SCARY!!!!
The beast is hoping he doesn't. But should Gore run he'd find himself a cozy rock to lean on in Ft. Marcy Park.
I read the whole thing. Thanks to Hitch and dictionary.com, I now know what the word “etiolated” means.
It would be a dandy thing if Prince Albert of Gore runs but I personally believe he has come to terms with the fact that he will never be Caesar. Furthermore, he is far too comfortable being the revered Pontifex Maximus of the Green Order. Only he knows what Hillary has on him from the “no controlling legal authority” days. A nasty primary mudslinging scrap would knock him of his celestial perch and make him a dirty old politician again.
Please, God. Please, oh please, oh please, oh pleeeeeeeease let Algore win the No-Bell Peace Prize and run for President.
Please, God. Please, oh please, oh please, oh pleeeeeeeease let Algore win the No-Bell Peace Prize and run for President.
But could he have some crap on her ?
What does global warming (even if it did really exist) have to do with “peace”? If Gore gets this it will settle all debate that the prize is really the Nobel Liberal Prize for the person who was most public in pushing the liberal agenda.
If Algore wins the Nobel Prize, it will solidify the Prize as nothing more than toilet-paper (which it already is, and is equivalent to the value of Hollywood-awarded trophies to Bush-Bashers).
I agree that Gore should run. If that happens, the Democrats won’t choose a nominee before their convention, since they’ll be almost equally divided among Gore, Clinton, and Obama. The delegates will argue, during the convention, and many of them will vote for the Green Party candidate, helping the Republican.
It is my fave.
Well, Hillary would be a bust if nominated, Obama doesn’t have the gravitas, and Edwards is way behind. I’d say the Democrats are in trouble — enough trouble to welcome Gore into the race, tho’ it’s probably too late now.
Most of the ‘unlucky’ ones were flying in smaller planes.
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