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Gore: Son's arrest is 'a private family matter'
AP ^ | 7/5/07

Posted on 07/05/2007 6:27:04 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside

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To: RightWhale
One thing is that this is between the young man and the state. He is of the age of majority and is on his own. The rest of the family might buy his lawyer, maybe even pay his fines.

The powerful Goreleones may indeed be able to successfully buy his way out of having to pay in any serious way for his crimes, but I'm not sure if they're going to be able to prevent him from eventually killing himself and/or someone else.

Clearly he's a drug addict, and a loser with serious personal issues.

161 posted on 07/05/2007 8:11:43 AM PDT by jpl
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To: Mr. Brightside

The Earth is dying, due to evil Humans. The only sane thing to do is party hardy in the few, desperate days we have left before the oceans cook. Who can balme young Gore?


162 posted on 07/05/2007 8:11:51 AM PDT by Jack Black
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To: Mr. Brightside

How does that boy keep gettin into that lockbox?


163 posted on 07/05/2007 8:12:53 AM PDT by crashthe24
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To: Mr. Brightside
I guess when the Bush girls drank and it made headlines nationwide, that did not qualify as a "private family matter". Hypocrites.
164 posted on 07/05/2007 8:13:27 AM PDT by I'm ALL Right! (THOMPSON '08)
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To: SoftballMominVA
That's funny. I said the same thing about Paris Hilton. When I was that age, I was caring for a husband, 2 kids and our own home. I certainly wasn't crying for "mom" to get me out of scrapes. I was mom, kissing the scrapes. In fairness, it does seem that men are settling down later these days, but sheesh!
165 posted on 07/05/2007 8:13:33 AM PDT by soccermom
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Endangering lives is not a private matter.

What I chose to drive is a private matter.


166 posted on 07/05/2007 8:14:40 AM PDT by Tigercap
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To: RightWhale
That is a fact, Rightwhale. And beyond what family money can provide in paying his fines, his bail and for lawyers and rehabilitation; success or failure in the end, is entirely in the hands of this young man himself.

My prayer’s for whatever they are worth, are with young Gore.

167 posted on 07/05/2007 8:15:52 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Give Libby ,our persecuted GI's and Border Patrol Agents, a full pardon, NOW, Mr President!!!)
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To: SoftballMominVA

Also, in fairness, GWB had drinking issues well into adulthood — though he did manage work a real job and care for a wife and kids.


168 posted on 07/05/2007 8:16:07 AM PDT by soccermom
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To: Mr. Brightside

Who cares? Al Gore is a hasbeen and this kid is a neverwillbe.


169 posted on 07/05/2007 8:16:19 AM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: jpl
prevent him from eventually killing himself and/or someone else

We'll be especially careful about crossing the street if he shows up here in his Priapus, although he would only be typical. Eight grizzlies killed so far, and lost count of drive-by shootings, car insanities, various armed robberies, knifings, and no idea if anybody is ever sober or married.

170 posted on 07/05/2007 8:18:18 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: Spruce
The kid even looks like a cake-eating prick.

Yes, he DOES look just like his wooden father--only with dyed hair.

171 posted on 07/05/2007 8:18:55 AM PDT by bannie (The Good Guys cannot win when they're the only ones to play by the rules.)
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To: Mr. Brightside
Al Gore the Third completed substance abuse counseling to settle pot possession charges in suburban Washington in 2003.

Well, then. As long as he learned his lesson...

< / snide >

172 posted on 07/05/2007 8:21:37 AM PDT by bannie (The Good Guys cannot win when they're the only ones to play by the rules.)
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To: OKIEDOC

If Miss Paris can do the time, so can he.


173 posted on 07/05/2007 8:22:14 AM PDT by pray4liberty
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To: F.J. Mitchell

Many young people his age are already contributing far more than he ever will. Somebody exactly his age is patrolling a street in Baghdad right now.


174 posted on 07/05/2007 8:22:46 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: Mr. Brightside

If a conservative’s kid screws up, it’s FUEL AND FODDER for smearing.

When a liberal’s kid screws up...


175 posted on 07/05/2007 8:24:28 AM PDT by bannie (The Good Guys cannot win when they're the only ones to play by the rules.)
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To: K4Harty
What about Dingel-Norwood?

Lockbox!

176 posted on 07/05/2007 8:25:02 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (To make a conservative angry, lie to them. To make a liberal angry, tell them the truth.)
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To: jmyrlefuller

I was impressed with his ability to get it to go that fast.

Guy probably wanted a sports car but wasn’t allowed to get one.


177 posted on 07/05/2007 8:32:35 AM PDT by art_rocks
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To: Mr. Brightside
Like father like son...

Drugs are the reason our culture has collpsed. A death penalty for all narcotics and marijuana is how prior civilizations (India, China) have turned around their social disease of drug abuse.

178 posted on 07/05/2007 8:36:43 AM PDT by x_plus_one (As long as we pretend to not be fighting Iran in Iraq, we can't pretend to win the war.)
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To: AxelPaulsenJr
APJ enters the thread with this comment at 53 about the WOD...

AxelPaulsenJr: Oh yep, that evil drug war, getting hopped up stone heads who are driving over 100 mph on the streets off the streets. Yup, that damn evil drug war......53

Zon enters the thread at 67, having noticed that APJ mentioned the WOD...

Zon: Speeding is illegal. So is driving while impaired. Has nothing to do with the substance used to impair the driver. Driving while impaired is illegal. You support a return to alcohol prohibition, right? You do want to be consistent, right? I mean, you don't want to be a hypocrite, right?67

AxelPaulsenJr: Alcohol is legal, pot and the opiates are not, get the laws changed then come back and try to turn this thread into a wod thread, other than that, go away.

Apparently your dad let you on the computer again. Your argument at 53 implied a cause and effect relationship between the WOD and speeding. I showed you the immaturity of your argument and in typical fashion your response was you avoiding answering to your hypocrisy. But hey, that's your problem, not mine. Deal with it. Or don't. Makes no difference to me.

179 posted on 07/05/2007 8:43:07 AM PDT by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Private family matter...tell that to Nicole Bush (Jeb’s daughter) and the Jenna and Barbara Bush.

MSM double standard strikes again...


180 posted on 07/05/2007 8:45:59 AM PDT by freedom4me ("Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom."--Ben Franklin)
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