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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@Aug 5 2004, 04:58 PM
Thanks to Al Gore, we do have the internet!
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A nice right wing creation based on a bad misquote. I can't remember who he said it to, during what interview, but he did not say that "he invented the internet". Al Gore stated that he chaired the committee that was responsible for the developments that turned Arpanet into the tool that we consider the internet today. He never took credit for anything other than chairing a committee overseeing developments of a communication media. The right wing whackos (I believe it was Gingrich and Limbaugh that were responsible for getting this ball rolling) twisted the quote and made something out it that it was not. The real interesting thing about this, is that Gore never stood up for himself and defended what he really said. He allowed the loud mouth right wingers to team him to shreads over a mistake that THEY made.
This is the most interesting thing about American politics that just fascinates me. The Republicans paint themselves as this holy order bent on protecting all that is good in America, and paint the Democrats as a bunch of communists bent on destroying America. The funny thing is that Republicans are an aggressive animal that will jump on a weakness and lie through their teeth to blow a small fault into a huge one. They play dirty politics and play it well. The Democrats are goodie goodies who don't have a clue how to play dirty and when they try end up shooting themselves in the foot. Both parties have some good people and some great ideas. If they could get past the partisan bullsh*t they could return America to the head of the class. As it sits both parties are responsible for America sitting in the cirner wearing a dunce hat for the world to laugh at (although the Republicans have the original dunce leading the party and responsible for much of the hate that is directed at the US). As an interested impartial observer I think the whole process is fascinating. Broken, but fascinating all the same.