Re: Is she toast?

On Thu, 08 May 2008 21:24:30 +0000, "Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique
allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )"
<tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Rod Stiffington wrote:
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>> On 08 May 2008 20:44:52 GMT, Opus the Penguin
>> <opusthepenguin+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> >Rod Stiffington (invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
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>> >> For instance, the biggest lie of all was "Invented The
>> >> Internet".  Gore never said it.  Yet it was repeated over, and
>> >> over, and over again.  You know what happens when a lie is
>> >> repeated over and over, it becomes true.  But it NEVER happened.
>> >>
>> >
>> >He used the word "creating" rather than the word "inventing". If that
>> >was "the biggest lie of all" then Gore was not lied about ever and
>> >misrepresented only very slightly.
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>> He was referring specifically to his CONGRESSIONAL accomplishments.
>> Here is the full quote:
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>> GORE: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the
>> initiative in creating the Internet.
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>Of course the Congress didn't create the Internet.
>
So I guess Newt was off his rocker to?  The Guardian article?  Those
computer scientists lobbying congress?
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>> I took the initiative in moving
>> forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be im****tant
>> to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection,
>> improvements in our educational system.”
>> 
>> The Internet needed Congress to turn it into a commercial entity. Gore
>> was the one who pushed for this legislation to happen. 
>>
>So basically, Gore destroyed the Internet. It's about time someone
>admited that.

That is the attitude I am talking about.  It does not matter if he
really had a hand in providing congressional framework for creating
the Internet.  He is still a big fat joke to some people. Gore must be
ridiculed at all costs!  Thanks to this clowning, we are in Iraq
today.