Dec 15 2007
Who’s Afraid of Al Gore?
Just another note on Al Gore’s zany antics. As you are probably aware, our former Vice President has become a veritable “prophet” of Global Warming.
Vanity Fair in their Green Issue a few months back, literally had a semi-serious/ semi-humorous comic of the “prophet” Al Gore pacing on the breadth of the earth in monastic robes. Beneath him raged the fires of Dante’s nine circles of Hell.
Instead of people being tortured and eternally being devoured by their deadly sins, like greed, avarice, and so on, the “sinners” were guilty of polluting. They were the auto industry CEO’s, the non-recyclers, and those horribly selfish SUV drivers! Of course, President Bush and Vice President Cheney was down in there. I don’t remember, but I think they were the ones being devoured by the Devil at his frozen ground floor.
And so the eco-prophet is back at it again. Along with his usual sneer at the country that bred him, America, he added a little something extra this time at the Bali conference.
Al Gore savaged the US government’s “obstructing” attitude and urged delegates at the UN conference on climate change to ignore Washington if necessary to pursue the “moral imperative” of a new global regime.
“My country is principally responsible for obstructing progress here in Bali,” the former US vice-president told 2,000 of the 12,000 people attending the conference on Thursday. “[But] over the next two years the United States is going to be somewhere it is not now.”
The Bali meeting is trying to reach an agreement to start negotiations that will culminate in 2009 with a new global deal to tackle climate change. The US is due to elect a new president in November 2008 and the majority of the frontrunners have a more proactive attitude to climate change than the Bush administration.
What a disgrace.
A former Vice President of the United States and a former presidential candidate has to have lost a vital part of his humanity to hate his own country as much as he does. There’s a hole in him where Al Gore used to be. Rumors are that he declined to run for the office of the Presidency of the United States not out of any humility, but because it would be a demotion from his “prophet” status in the global world. It’s just a rumor, but from his recent actions, I can sense the objective truth in it. Isn’t being the President of the United States a serious step down from being the savior of the entire world? Al Gore thinks so.
Take a hard look at the way the media currently treats President Bush and how we view the office as a people. The office of President of the United States has lost much of its luster; we treat the office like how we used to treat our state governors. Whoever will sit in that uneasy office after 2008, Democrat or Republican, will know that being the President of the United States doesn’t hold the same weight it used to…
The Drudge Report has the headline of this report as, “Gore hits at USA over climate change… ” I love Matt Drudge’s news picks, but I think he’s missed the point entirely if that’s the most significant thing he derived from that article.
Gore said, and I repeat, “[But] over the next two years the United States is going to be somewhere it is not now.”
The article assumed that Gore meant a change in Presidents and, thus, a change in policy. But that’s a tall assumption.
Removed from a change in administrations, it sounds like Gore knows something we don’t. Veiled in his tirade against America is something akin to a madman who has a secret knowing smirk behind an iron mask.
The thing that leads me to believe that this is the case rather than a simple change in US Presidents how he said “two years” rather than one. One year from now, the Presidential race is over. Two years from now, we’d be well into the following administration.
The same article also had this to say:
European Union nations said they might boycott a U.S.-led climate meeting next month unless Washington compromises to achieve a deal on Bali.
‘No result in Bali means no Major Economies Meeting,’’ said Sigmar Gabriel, top EU environment official from Germany, referring to a series of separate climate talks initiated by President Bush in September. ‘‘This is the clear position of the EU. I do not know what we should talk about if there is no target.’’
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Mr Gore … said delegates must “find the grace to navigate around this enormous obstacle, the elephant in the room that I have been undiplomatic enough to name.”
Of course, that big elephant squatting in the middle of the room munching on his peanuts is the United States, and Gore is asking the world to ignore us. He’s saying to the world’s bureaucrats, Don’t worry about blessed a thing. The US won’t be a factor in the world soon, within the next two years, in fact.
In a more rational era, we had terms for this sort of behavior. It was called treason. We ran Benedict Arnold out on a rail, or that period’s equivalent, for such behavior, and to this day he’s know infamously as America’s Judas, the traitor.
Perhaps we’ve grown too clever, too cynical, and too full of ourselves to believe in such things anymore. How else can you actively undermine your country and still call yourself patriots?
If this is progress, then I’ll have to make myself well with watching the world leave the train station without me. I’m afraid I’m unforgivably old-fashioned.