Dear Tejek:
And you are doing the same to Bush. Hypocrite! From the debate, Gore's own commercials, interviews, etc., he has been shown to take liberties with history, and facts. He is not the father of the internet (it started as the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) funded by the DOD (Military Research) well before he contributed anything), the school girl did not have to stand for the entire class (hey it happened to me last year when I went to a late afternoon course at UWM (not very crowded by any sort of standard) and was fixed by moving the class to a bigger room), and various other exagerations too numerous to mention here.
He lied to us Midwesterners when, we had our gasoline shortage crunch in May, June of this year and stated then, that the SPR should never be used to bring down high prices. Now, less than 3 months later, a price spike in the Northeast, and still no problems in supply, he promotes the opposite. Now, if he can not keep his convictions for 3 months, why should we trust him ever again? He does not even point to the real problems with heating oil. There is not sufficient refining capacity for heating oil (environmentalists stop us from increasing the capacity of the ones we have) and those in the NE should convert to cleaner and cheaper natural gas (or do like we do in Milwaukee, heat buildings with "waste" steam from coal or natural gas fired power plants (its called cogeneration now (its a very efficient use of facilities))).
Any promises made by Gore, have a high likelyhood of being unfulfilled (much higher than Bush). Also, Gore has a real tendancy to go for the quick fix, rather than the good repair really needed. Just the kind of person you do not want to fix long term problems like health care, social security, energy, and defense.
Pete |
