Thursday, June 29, 2006

An inconvenient truth

During the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore never once uttered the "e" word.

posted by Diane at 9:42 PM 4 comments

4 Comments:

He says he did, in every speech he gave, but the media didn't see it as an issue, so they ignored it. Even more, he says then-governer Bush agreed with his position on the environment in 2000--at least he claimed to. So it wasn't seen as a dividing issue between the candidates.

But I still don't think Gore is ready to be a candidate again. His name on a ballot seems to turn him into Mr. Non-Controversial.

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:07 AM  

I never heard him mention it. And if he did, as he says he did, it must have been in the vaguest way. And anyone with half a brain (that obviously excludes the media) knew that Bush's policies as governor had caused Texas to have the most pollution of any state in the U.S. If Gore didn't know that, he wasn't fit to be a candidate. If he did know it--and of course he did--by not mentioning it, he wasn't fit to be a candidate.

By Blogger Diane, at 7:37 AM  

So, doesn't this count?

By Blogger Avedon, at 4:16 AM  

Yes, it does, Avedon, and I'd forgotten about it. But when it came to speeches and debates, and all the opportunities Gore had to expose the horrors Bush had perpetrated in Texas, he stayed silent. Bush's very existence as a candidate was sponsored by pollutors, but that was not an issue in the campaign.

By Blogger Diane, at 12:15 PM  

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