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.
The exact quote was "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Kinda flies in the face of all the tripe you just wrote down. Gore OFTEN promoted himself as a leader in the creation of the internet. He may not have said "I invented it" but your sugar coated version is off the mark.
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.
An, "aggressive animal that will jump on a weakness and lie through their teeth to blow a small fault into a huge one"? Oh brother. Your ultra left-wing bias is getting really annoying. Is possible for you be objective at all?
The left plays just as dirty as the right. They slander every Republican president as an idiot, where do you think that talking point comes from? Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1, Bush 2 were all attacked on intellegence. Whether you strongly believe one or two of them to be idiots it is unlikely ALL were/are.
Or how about:
Leaking a 24 year old sealed DUI case days before the 2000 election?
The Democratic parties sweetheart, the NAACP tying Bush to the dragging death of James Byrd Jr?
Continually saying "Bush lied", only to be thoroughly repudiated by both British and CIA intelligence? Intelligence upon which Kerry voted to support the Iraq war.
Continually trashing Bush's Guard service?
If you lean left thats fine but get your head out of the sand. Politics is politics. One side isn't a vicious animal while the other is a bunch of saints.
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