http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=1581 Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:02:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=1581&cpage=1#comment-67677 Al Gore Needs Some Happy Drugs « FITSNews For Now Fri, 25 May 2007 19:54:57 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=1581#comment-67677 [...] FITSNews - May 25, 2007 - We’ve always kind of liked Al Gore. He invented the Internet, after all, which is pretty much the only thing we’ve got going for us these days. He even told us one time that if we’d be his bodyguards, he could be our long lost pal. Then he told us he wanted to call us Betty, and say “Betty when you call me, you can call me Al.” True story. Anyway, that’s why we were sad when we read today’s fallout from an LA Times story featuring this quote from the former Vice President: “I don’t think I’m particularity good at politics,” he confessed in the interview at the Four Seasons. “There are a lot of things about politics as it currently exists that I don’t think I’m necessarily very skilled at. I’m not being falsely self-critical. I just find that I have less patience and tolerance for the contrivances and artifices that seem to succeed in the current political environment. The balance has shifted in American politics to reward an emphasis on means rather than ends, toward manipulation rather than reasoned discussion.” [...] [...] FITSNews – May 25, 2007 – We’ve always kind of liked Al Gore. He invented the Internet, after all, which is pretty much the only thing we’ve got going for us these days. He even told us one time that if we’d be his bodyguards, he could be our long lost pal. Then he told us he wanted to call us Betty, and say “Betty when you call me, you can call me Al.” True story. Anyway, that’s why we were sad when we read today’s fallout from an LA Times story featuring this quote from the former Vice President: “I don’t think I’m particularity good at politics,” he confessed in the interview at the Four Seasons. “There are a lot of things about politics as it currently exists that I don’t think I’m necessarily very skilled at. I’m not being falsely self-critical. I just find that I have less patience and tolerance for the contrivances and artifices that seem to succeed in the current political environment. The balance has shifted in American politics to reward an emphasis on means rather than ends, toward manipulation rather than reasoned discussion.” [...]

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