[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
The man won an Oscar and Nobel prize. He has a bit of credibility to someone.[/quote]
I’m sorry, Zap, but anyone who still thinks Gore has credibility at this point is so far up his ass they’re not going to have their mind changed by the stats on his house.
It’s true – Al Gore is a hypocrite when it comes to the environment. You need not stop at describing the wastefulness of the mansion he lives in. He has turned himself into a poster boy for the environmental movement – but his actual story in the house, senate, and vice presidency is one of croneyism, corruption, and doubletalk when it comes to the environment. His very poor environmental voting record consisted of betrayal after betrayal of spoken promises and selling his soul to concentrated power and business interests.
Sadly, Obama’s story is very similar. He speaks of dreams and hope, but his story is one of degradation of principal. For example, he once supported single payer health-care, but over the years, his views degraded until this “dream” fell by the wayside. His plan preserves the central role of providing profit for insurance companies. In this vein, he has supported increasing subsidies for energy companies (which is already the most heavily subsidized industry and raking in record profits), as well as supporting legislation making it harder to file class action lawsuits. Asa “progressive” candidate, he has no excuse for this.