I guess you showed us. Now go do your victory dance at DU.
Posted on 09/19/2005 10:48:15 AM PDT by larry elders
Doug From Upland's siting Arianna Huggington and Al Gore exiting large vehicles at a conference on the environment in San Francisco has set the blogs afire. But there are legitimate uses for large vehicles. Really there are. The I just don't think one person driving the LA freeways in one because the want to win a collision contest at the expense of the unfortunate person they might collide with isn't one. Neither is having bigger, always spinning wheels than your neighbor. Neither is because you get a tax writeoff for a vehicle you use only for commuting and driving to the convenience store for ciggaretts and Cheesy Puffs.
The Sierra Club is an organization that uses large passenger vehicles wisely, it's the nation's number one outdoor activity organization - the Sierra Club. They use their large vehicles to take people hiking, rafting, etc. When they go afield fill the vehicles with people and gear rather efficiently, using much less gas than if they all drove individual vehicles in groups of 2 or 3. The Suburban they picked Arianna in may well have been the Sierra Club's designated airport vehicle - with features for handicapped (something the Sierra Club is known for) and perhaps airport parking sticker.
As for Gore driving an Escalade. Is that the Escalade that coverts from open-bed truck to enclosed bed (SUV?). And isn’t Gore from an Agricultural state. In fact, if I recall he’s a farm boy; probably lives on a working farm. Sorry city boy but low-ground clearance, two-wheel drive freeway flyers just get stuck in that Iowa mud down on the farm. Once again, if you nail Gore for driving an “SUV”, the BS you smell emanating as he exits his vehicle may be real and I for one am not about to tell farmers and ranchers, or people that have to drive on farm or ranch roads, they can’t have a truck or other large, high wheelbase vehicle.
It's amazing the hunger for fresh liberal blood. But just like the Swiftboat Vets before him. By the time the undamming truth of DFU's charges comes out, the little weasel will have moved on to the next unsustinable smear campaign.
You need a nap.
You're THEE BEST, Doug. You exposed them. I am still doubled over laughing.
Great picture!
I guess you showed us. Now go do your victory dance at DU.
Arrrr..is that in honor of National Talk Like a Pirate Day?
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Viking Kitty/ZOT ping list!. . .don't be shy.
Can't you just see Gore out there riding a tractor and shoveling bullsheet?
Well, at least the second part is correct.
Who are you?
A few years later, when candidate Al Gore recalled pitching manure during summers on his father's Tennessee farm, the political press hooted as delightedly as if the vice president had claimed as his birthplace a log cabin on K Street.
Could you please use spell check or learn how to spell? All trolls seem not to know how to constuct a sentance or how to spell. Are all liberals uneducated?
Don't forget Gores nanny that was always left in the car when they stopped to eat cause his daddy couldn't be seen at table with one of "those" people. I hear farmers always have nannys.
LOL, aren't you embarrassed to post this list of rationalizations? There is absolutely no conceivable reason Arianna (I'm going to do everything I can to conserve" Huffington needs to be carted from the airport in a Suburban. Calling a cab would probably be cheaper than the gas used for goodness' sake. As far as handicapped acces, ever hear of a minivan?
If I'm going to be criticized for carting my three kids around the snowy hills of Pittsburgh in the only four wheel drive vehicle large enough to carry us, sorry, Arianna, Al, and the Sierra Club don't get a pass.
Aye me hearty the kitties are hunting fer scallywags today! arrrrrrrr
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