Al Gore Wins Nobel Peace Prize

[Frodo]

This actually improves my opinion of Al Gore. 

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Looking at the list of people who have won the Noble Peace Prize (admittely this is a selective offering):

Woodrow Wilson
Henry Kissinger
Menachem Begin
Mohammed Al-Sadat
Yassar Arafat
Kofi Annan
Jimmy Carter
....

Clearly a list of political hacks, Murderers and madmen while Gore is certainly not any of the previous two (Yet! He may still become president.) it is clear that he belongs. Perhaps we should award two noble peace prizes - one for People who actually strive towards international peace and another for politicians who just pay lip service towards that idea.

[© tweed]

and the worst President of the 20th Century, Jimmy Carter.

joke?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

and the worst President of the 20th Century, Jimmy Carter.

joke?

[opebo]

The most interesting aspect of this thread is the Gore-hatred exhibited by the right-wingers.  He does get under their skin somehow.  I just read an interesting editorial about this by good old Paul Krugman.

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The most interesting aspect of this thread is the Gore-hatred exhibited by the right-wingers.  He does get under their skin somehow.  I just read an interesting editorial about this by good old Paul Krugman.

Krugman rocks. It's great that his voice is no longer muffled behind TimesSelect, and that you can read all of his old columns here:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/index.html?8qa

[opebo]

He's practically the only real liberal in the media, and he's a fighter.  I liked the way he ended that article:

Which brings us to the biggest reason the right hates Mr. Gore: in his case the smear campaign has failed. He’s taken everything they could throw at him, and emerged more respected, and more credible, than ever. And it drives them crazy.