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Posted on 05/13/2014 2:40:51 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Al Gore: ‘Our democracy has been hacked’ By: Roger Simon May 13, 2014 03:34 PM EDT
CHICAGO — You think Al Gore is upset about global warming? You ought to hear him on American politics.
“The American political system is an utter catastrophe,” he said. “Our democracy has been hacked. The country is utterly and completely paralyzed. Hog-tied. And on a measure that will mean countless deaths in the future.”
“Why?” Gore asked. “The influence of money. The average member of the House and Senate has to spend five hours per day begging rich people for money. Begging rich interests for money!”
And those rich people and rich interests don’t give you money with no strings attached. No way. In return for their money, they want votes that will benefit them. “The piper is paid,” Gore said.
Gore served eight years in the House, eight years in the Senate, and eight years as vice president under Bill Clinton. When Gore ran for president in 2000, he beat George W. Bush by 543,895 popular votes, but the Supreme Court gave the presidency to Bush by a 5-4 vote that some (including me) considered nakedly political.
By the end of his 2000 presidential campaign, Gore had become an accomplished speaker and his old joke no longer seemed to apply: “Al Gore is so boring, his Secret Service code name is Al Gore,” he used to say to reliable laughter. (It was actually “Sundance”).
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Hey algore!
It’s a Democratic Republic!!!!!!
Oh help us. Right out of the hog’s mouth!
Gore, you’re in real need of a chakras massage. Get one now.
It is dominated by leftists who are moving it ASAP to fascism.
Fixed it
So says Thorsten Howell III
Hey Al, this is not a democracy, ya putz!
Time to put you on an ice floe.
Pot, meet kettle.
This, from the guy caught walking around with $200,000 of Chinese bribe money.
Sun-dunce? That’s kind of funny and disrespectful at the same time. What’re his views on “happy endings” and “full service” I wonder? That’s where he actually seems to be something of an expert.
Believes in global warming SO MUCH and reviles oil SO INTENSELY that he sold his TV channel to rich oil sheiks for a billion bucks.
AND his PALATIAL house (20 times larger than the US average) lacks even the very most basic energy-saving features.
HYPOCRITE of the HIGHEST order.
An insect.
It’s a Democratic Republic!!!!!!
No, it’s a Constitutional Republic.
(this is ONE of his houses)
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