Al Gore: Nobel Laureate

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Al Gore:

Nobel Laureate
President-elect, of the American people 2000
Oscar Award winning Film maker
Twice Vice President of the United States
Two Term U.S. Senator
Emmy Award winning Television producer
Best-selling Book writer
Leading Environmental and Technology Advocate: years, if not decades ahead of almost all other political leaders on the internet, climate change, iraq.
 
As much as I like Gore -- and I do: for a technocrat, he's quite good -- I'm inclined to Damo's distaste for the peace prize selection process on this one.

He's a politician, not a saint, people. He may be a politician more honest than most -- and I think he is -- but he's still a politician.

This is kind of like His Holiness recognizing Steven Seagal as a tulku, I'm afraid. Something of an embarrassment in hindsight.
 
ib1yysguy said:
Actually, he's not a politician anymore, is he?
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Well, he's a bureaucrat. It's close. :)

Honestly, I think he's still living that life. Even Jimmie Carter, for whom I have far greater respect and who actually deserves said prize, in my view, is still largely a politician. Both of these men are turning that profession toward something quite positive, which is unusual, but they're still politicians.
 
OrnotBitwise said:
Well, he's a bureaucrat. It's close. :)

Honestly, I think he's still living that life. Even Jimmie Carter, for whom I have far greater respect and who actually deserves said prize, in my view, is still largely a politician. Both of these men are turning that profession toward something quite positive, which is unusual, but they're still politicians.
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You use the word politician as if it's exclusively negative, but politicians have done good things before. Politics is just the flawed extension of the character of a person. No better. No worse.
 
Gore pollutes at a rate near 50 times the average person.
So besides being disgustingly fat he's distustingly destroying the environment.
 
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