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Senate says no to Gore statue
the Chattanooga Times Free Press ^ | Tuesday, June 16, 2009 | Andy Sher

Posted on 06/16/2009 1:10:14 PM PDT by presidio9

A resolution urging that the state Capitol Commission erect a statue on the Capitol grounds in honor of former Democratic Vice President Al Gore for winning the Nobel Peace Prize failed on the Senate floor today.

The resolution, which also urged a statue be erected for Nobel Peace Prize winner Cordell Hull, failed on a 15-14 vote with most Republicans voting no. It needed 17 votes to pass.

Earlier, the sponsor, Sen. Andy Berke, D-Chattanooga, said the measure had “broad bipartisan support in the House.”

In the Senate, Sen. Ken Yager, R-Harriman, removed an amendment he had previously attached to the resolution that would have included the name of libertarian economist James Buchanan Jr., who won a Nobel Prize for economics.

Sen. Yager also noted that Mr. Gore had not actually been born in Tennessee.

Mr. Gore, Democrats’ unsuccessful 2000 presidential nominee, won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for “informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change.” That was based in large part for his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, for which he won an Oscar.

The late Mr. Hull, a one-time U.S. secretary of state, won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping found the United Nations.


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To: NMEwithin
A Gore statue? I’m at a loss for words it’s so absurd..

Is that anything like a gut wagon????.

41 posted on 06/16/2009 1:33:40 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: pissant

LOL! too!


42 posted on 06/16/2009 1:34:07 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: presidio9
al gore Pictures, Images and Photos
43 posted on 06/16/2009 1:35:46 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: org.whodat

LOL!


44 posted on 06/16/2009 1:36:01 PM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: EggsAckley

I stopped swaying today ,, finally.

We had pretty smooth seas and great weather at all the stops!

I loaded up on jams/jellies and syrup,, wifey bought lots of stuff and we hardly gained any weight to boot. Pretty good trick considering there was no shortage of food. Most of it was pretty good. No major outbreaks of anything but we did have a gent medivaced by a Coast Guard helicopter.. quite a scene. never saw one of them up close before.


45 posted on 06/16/2009 1:37:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: al_c

Ahhh, the Mighty Bavahd. Still waiting to see some of those SNL clips on YouTube.


46 posted on 06/16/2009 1:37:58 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: NMEwithin

Al Gore will do anything to stay in Washington.


47 posted on 06/16/2009 1:38:27 PM PDT by RC2
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To: presidio9
Cordell Hull, stopped being Secretary of State when he was caught doing the evil deed with a Black Porter in a sleeper train. This may be incorrect because my Grandfather told me this and he hated FDR, then again I have seen it Published, but I can't remember where.
48 posted on 06/16/2009 1:42:17 PM PDT by Little Bill (NH the Sixth Gay State.)
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To: presidio9
What more does Al want? There's already a park dedicated to him.


49 posted on 06/16/2009 1:43:06 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (When you put Democrats in charge, stupid things happen)
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To: jdub

Maybe they could erect an outhouse in his honor and call it “Gore’s Hole.”


50 posted on 06/16/2009 1:43:11 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: presidio9

Wait a sec...I thought Al Gore WAS a statue.


51 posted on 06/16/2009 1:44:09 PM PDT by diplomatic_immunity
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To: presidio9
Before he became Veep, that gasbag came to a nearby Borders bookstore to flak his first enviromental pack of lies, Earth in the Balance. Since I was already in the store, I went up and mingled, eventually speaking directly to him. Couldn't help seeing that Big Al's wedding ring was missing, with a shiny, dented white mark where it had been. I heard from friends later that night that he was separated, and was partying with the Sierra Club members while he was in town (not DC).

Whoops! A few weeks later he was nominated for VP, and all of a sudden there was that pesky ol' wedding ring again, back on his left hand, and he was planting big juicy public displays of affection on poor long-sufferin' Tipper.

Moron.

52 posted on 06/16/2009 1:45:56 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Shouldn't there be equal time for our Bill of Responsibilities?" -- Justice Clarence Thomas)
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To: NormsRevenge
I'd rather they model it on the picture of Gore in Viet Nam leaning over and pointing his military rifle at his own head.
53 posted on 06/16/2009 1:46:42 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Little Bill
Cordell Hull, stopped being Secretary of State when he was caught doing the evil deed with a Black Porter in a sleeper train. This may be incorrect because my Grandfather told me this and he hated FDR, then again I have seen it Published, but I can't remember where

That would actually be his Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles.

54 posted on 06/16/2009 1:47:50 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: presidio9

Maybe a statue for the Gore of Gore-Tex, but never one for the Gore of Gore-Tax


55 posted on 06/16/2009 1:51:34 PM PDT by Youaskedforit
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To: Youaskedforit

Gore Mountain, in upstate New York. Some of the best skiing on the east coast, but man is it cold.

56 posted on 06/16/2009 1:58:07 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Snickering Hound
I searched that, I may or may not stand corrected, Welles was a Poofter. It was strange though that FDR replaced Hull in 1944, after Welles got the boot.

The queer underground in the UK had webs and ladders through out the Government at the time, so maybe I could be right, after all the first pres of the UN was a spy.

57 posted on 06/16/2009 2:10:19 PM PDT by Little Bill (NH the Sixth Gay State.)
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To: NCC-1701
I forgot about the "enhanced" photo of Al Gore.

That was just soooo pathetic.

58 posted on 06/16/2009 2:31:50 PM PDT by TheThinker (America doesn't have a president. It has a usurper.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Actually I’m kind of disappointed as I was planning to pull a prank and replace the statute and see how long before anyone noticed.


59 posted on 06/16/2009 2:46:52 PM PDT by jdub (A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.)
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To: presidio9

They could just erect a pedestal and have Al Gore himself stand on it.


60 posted on 06/16/2009 2:53:42 PM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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