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Feb 19, 2004 I have been holding this article on my desktop since January 15th because I fell in love with Amy Ridenour, who is the president of The National Center for Public Policy Research. She wrote a sort of rebuttal to Al Gore’s speech on global warming, which was given on the then coldest day New York had seen this winter. Ms. Ridenour stole my heart when she said, "From a scientific and environmental perspective, Al Gore's speech today should be ignored. No serious policy person could give the speech Al Gore gave today.” I love you Amy! We know Mr. Gore is a “Tree Hugger” because, after all, he has been compared to a tree many times. Gore believes all of the woes of the environment can be traced to SUVs and the Fundamentalist Christians that drive them. Ms. Ridenour has Mr. Gore’s number though, she said, "The speech is full of demagoguery, misleading statements, formulations intended to deceive, unsupported allegations of wrongdoing and hypocrisy.” In other words, it was typical Al Gore or [insert your favorite liberal demic-rat here]. I believe Al Gore still has delusions of grandeur, thinking he was the winner of the 2000 Presidential Election. He should have a party with Charley Rangel. He really believed his endorsement of Howard Dean meant something special. That could not break the force field of “Clintonista incredabilia” however. Dean was not in the Clinton’s plans, therefore his failure had to be forced. Al Gore is now forced to rant about Bush’s deceptions without support from the Clintonistas, the Deaniacs, or any other demic- rat entity. He has become a tree without leaves. Ms. Ridenour did not have the inclination to pick apart every bit of Mr. Gore’s speech, saying, "Time constraints forbid one from commenting on all the speech's inaccuracies. But if Gore believes the science [of Global Warming] is settled, why didn't the Clinton-Gore Administration submit the Kyoto global warming treaty to the Senate for ratification?…Gore condemns Bush for not supporting a treaty Bush believes is harmful and unnecessary -- yet Gore, holding the opposite view, didn't fight for it where it counted.” This is the only real question we need to look at. Willie Jeff and the Tree had every opportunity to act on their belief that Global Warming was a real threat. They could have saved the world by signing on to Kyoto, but did not, and did not give any reasons for that. Amy knows that Mr. Gore is trying, in a very desperate way, to maintain some kind of political relevancy. She said this speech was just one more effort by Mr. Gore to “troll for votes”. Does that make Al Gore a Tree Troll? She rightly identifies Gore’s hypocrisy. Mr. Gore was condemning all those who disagreed with him as being “bought by industry”. Gore himself has been “bought” by the special interest of the extreme environmentalist left. Ms. Ridenour concluded, "Gore didn't quite lie when he discussed mercury in his speech, but he intentionally deceived his listeners by leaving the most important facts out.” Amy noted, “The Clinton-Gore Administration DID NOT regulate mercury emissions from power plants, despite eight years in office. It just talked about doing so.” This was the ultimate “MO” of Clinton/Gore. They could always “appear” to be doing something special if they talked about it enough. Eight years of talk without action. Since President Bush was actually doing something about mercury emissions, Amy was able to make a comparison by noting, “Gore's actual complaint is that he would have written the rule differently. Why did he waste eight years?” Clinton/Gore wasted eight years busily raising illegal campaign cash from communists in China and special interests who were sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom for cash and access. They had no time to actually do anything about the environment other than talk. The bottom line is Mr. Gore has become just another voice of the extreme left. He speaks the lies that need to be spoken to keep him from total irrelevancy. He has broken his ties with the Clinton left, but cannot create his own niche. His alliance with Dean was a failure, and no other Democrat candidate wants him within 100 yards. Will Al Gore even be allowed to speak at the Democrat National Convention? Stay tuned. ------------ About the Author: Independent, Conservative, Christian. Married 29 years with 5 children raised and one grandson being raised. 30 year Army Veteran and published poet with www.poetry.com since Y2K. Email Michael John McCrae: michael.mccrae@us.army.mil Comment on this column in the forum. Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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