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Al Gore: ‘Our democracy has been hacked’
Politico ^

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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1 posted on 05/13/2014 2:40:51 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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2 posted on 05/13/2014 2:41:11 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey algore!

It’s a Democratic Republic!!!!!!


3 posted on 05/13/2014 2:42:25 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh help us. Right out of the hog’s mouth!


4 posted on 05/13/2014 2:42:28 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: Sub-Driver
Here comes his old "blame the manbearpig" thing again.


5 posted on 05/13/2014 2:43:11 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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6 posted on 05/13/2014 2:43:17 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Sub-Driver

Gore, you’re in real need of a chakras massage. Get one now.


7 posted on 05/13/2014 2:43:20 PM PDT by lbryce (Barack Hussein Obama:The Worst is Yet to Come)
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To: Sub-Driver

It is dominated by leftists who are moving it ASAP to fascism.


8 posted on 05/13/2014 2:43:22 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: trisham
‘Our democracy Republic and Constitution has been hacked’

Fixed it

9 posted on 05/13/2014 2:43:29 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Sub-Driver

So says Thorsten Howell III


10 posted on 05/13/2014 2:43:39 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Al, this is not a democracy, ya putz!

Time to put you on an ice floe.


11 posted on 05/13/2014 2:46:02 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Sub-Driver

Pot, meet kettle.


12 posted on 05/13/2014 2:46:41 PM PDT by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This, from the guy caught walking around with $200,000 of Chinese bribe money.


13 posted on 05/13/2014 2:47:17 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


14 posted on 05/13/2014 2:47:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


15 posted on 05/13/2014 2:47:39 PM PDT by gaijin
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Democratic Constitutional Republic
16 posted on 05/13/2014 2:48:38 PM PDT by Bikkuri (Molon Labe)
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To: mabarker1

It’s a Democratic Republic!!!!!!

No, it’s a Constitutional Republic.


17 posted on 05/13/2014 2:48:38 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Sub-Driver
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18 posted on 05/13/2014 2:49:27 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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Al Gore totally HATES rich people:

(this is ONE of his houses)

19 posted on 05/13/2014 2:50:37 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin
Here is one of this OTHER houses, in Montecito (outside Santa Barbara) near where Oprah lives:


20 posted on 05/13/2014 2:52:48 PM PDT by gaijin
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