Friday, January 27, 2006

Here's Al Gore on Canada's election and new PM

Americans have grown used to former Vice President Al Gore’s long, rambling, venomous speeches attacking people and organizations he doesn’t like. Typically, Gore begins by calling someone “dishonest” or “dangerous.” Then it gets worse.

While Gore remains popular with the “Democratic base,” most Americans have tuned him out. Even liberal MSM news organizations now pretty much ignore him.

That may help explain why Gore decided his latest screed would include an attack on the recent Canadian election process and warnings to our Canadian neighbors about their new prime minister, Stephen Harper.

Gore may have reasoned that Canadians, not as familiar with him as Americans, would be more likely to listen to him instead of rolling their eyes and clicking the remote.

Anyway, here's some of his latest, Gore accuses big oil of bankrolling Tories:

Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore has accused the oil industry of financially backing the Tories and their "ultra-conservative leader" to protect its stake in Alberta's lucrative oilsands.

Canadians, Gore said, should vigilantly keep watch over prime minister-designate Stephen Harper because he has a pro-oil agenda and wants to pull out of the Kyoto accord -- an international agreement to combat climate change.

"The election in Canada was partly about the tar sands projects in Alberta," Gore said Wednesday while attending the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.

"And the financial interests behind the tar sands project poured a lot of money and support behind an ultra-conservative leader in order to win the election . . . and to protect their interests."
You can read the rest here.

Every time I hear Gore I’m reminded how glad I am he lost the Florida election. Imagine him in the White House!

6 comments:

Malcolm said...

"Everytime I hear Al Gore, I'm glad he lost, imagine him in the white house."
Imagine, no 9/11, no afgani. war, no Iraq war, no stupid Bushisums, no Fear, no terror, no extra security, no wire taps, no tortured prisioners,no falling dollar, no excessive US hatred, no hugh increase of the price of oil, etc,etc,etc,etc.... Just imagine.

Anonymous said...

Malcolm -

Sorry, did you imagine that if Al had won FL that the Al-Q agents already working in the US would have just gone home for good falafal?

Or that Al would have stopped using hte rendition policy that Clinton devised?

I also guess you missed the good loving that we got when we went into Bosnia and Kosovo....

-AC

Anonymous said...

Does that sound like a confession on Al's part? I think if you were to look into his holdings you will find an lot of oil stocks. He and his father both have and/or had a large part of their fortunes tied directly to how well "big oil" didl. Still do.

I think we have a smoking gun here. A confession? Maybe, of course after he cleans the smoking gun, he shouldn't have any problem oiling it.

Now I know what Malcolm in the Middle means. The middle of a psychotic break. Talk about a total disassociation from reality.

Anonymous said...

Aww, now Fish, that isn't fair. Bomb two aspirin factories and call me in the morning.

Anonymous said...

StraightArrow - Excellent!

-AC

Tom said...

Figures Al "I Love Trees & Invented the Internet" Gore would give his expert opinion about another country just to get some attention. Perhaps he would like to emigrate to Canada & show the Canadian Liberal Party how it is supposed to be done (whatever "IT" is). According to my Canadian friends, the Liberal Party lost seats for an entirely different set of reasons - broken promises, arrogance, nonsensical social programs, and idiotic social engineering.