Slog - Comments on Al Gore http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/al_gore (Prologue: During the Q&A, a woman got on an audience microphone, said she'd seen An Inconvenient Truth and wrote Al Gore a letter the next day, offering to quit her job and work for him. She never heard back, but wondered if Gore would accept her letter then and there. He did. Would that young woman please email brendan@thestranger.com? We want to know if Al Gore gives you a job.) The crowd at Key Arena seemed big, everybody primed to cheer on their Ezekiel, their doom and gloom prophet come from the wilderness with a message of repentance. Gore seemed... Copyright 2008 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:45:16 -0800 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:09:57 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by SDA in SEA I continue to be amazed at the difference between the painfully boring wooden Al Gore on the campaign trail and the charismatic smart articulate Al Gore on the global warming war path. It makes me want to choke his presidential campaign handlers. It makes me cry that this man is not right now our president as he should have been.

]]> SDA in SEA http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/al_gore#c480355 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/al_gore#c480355 Politics Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:12:24 -0800 Comment by Keven I did not attend the Key Arena event but my take on "An Inconvenient Truth" was not the teachings of a "doom and gloom prophet" but rather a message of hope. We know the problem, we know what we have to do to correct it, and we know what leaders we need to elect to effect the necessary changes. That's a message of hope. This blog and many individuals misinterpret the message; we aren't doomed according to Gore, we are in a position to effectuate encessary change. That's empowering iof you ask me. What's depressing is people who heatr the message and remain convinced we are doomed. It's your own self-fulfilling propehecy.

]]> Keven http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/al_gore#c480487 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/al_gore#c480487 Politics Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:40:18 -0800 Comment by DARWIN The early months of the Gore seffort were about as bad as it gets.

During that period I saw him a rally in mid town Seattle - all the difference in the world.

And his failure to turn Clinton soose in the south was also stupid. Bill can tell more tales with those folk than we can shake a stick at.

So sad, and look what Amedrica has instead.....

]]> DARWIN http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/al_gore#c480534 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/al_gore#c480534 Politics Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:53:12 -0800 Comment by Brendan Kiley I take your point Keven. Gore—like Ezekiel—stressed that we can turn the problem around if we learn to straighten up and fly right, but the bulk of the lecture concerned current and future disasters, from mass extinction to catastrophic hurricanes—in other words, doom. It's a rhetorical device and it's very effective.

]]> Brendan Kiley http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/al_gore#c480709 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/al_gore#c480709 Politics Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:09:57 -0800