I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

Thank you Peter Christian for speaking truth to power. The Repugs are such liars claiming that Sandy Berger stole those documents. They cranked up their echo chamber, which includes CNN and the New York Times, and manufactured this “pure invention,” as you so accurately called it. Only smear merchants like the GOP would dream up something as unbelievable, and blatantly false this. I bet those librarians were Repug agents in league with Fox and taking orders from Karl Rove himself. I don’t know why anyone believed this made up story to begin with. Sandy Berger was probably the most trustworthy person in the Clinton Administration. How dare the Republipuke spin machine malign the best National Security Advisor that the Democratic Party has to offer?

so what you wingnuts are saying is that you want environmentalists to ignore economic realities and push for changes so radical that a massive upheaval could occur? and otherwise they’re hypocrites?

personally i hope for rational environmentalists that realize mining of almost all varieties is a crucial part of our economy and will be necessary for the foreseeable future. i tend to think al gore acknowledges this.

but your warped version of reality seems to be the only way you get to have a good old-fashioned smear campaign…so knock yourselves out.

cheney’s halliburton stocks were worth $241,498 in 2004, and now exceed $14 million dollars, an increase of over 6100%. mind you this is a company that has received several no-bid contracts since the start of the iraq war.

also interesting to note is that this article was published in 2000, well before cheney would begin reap these rewards which make gore’s windfall seem like chump change.

so cheney, the oil industry’s go-to guy, somehow equates to gore, the oil industry’s guy-they-wish-would-die, with respect to oil profiteering?

you people really are desperate.

Let’s look at BearManPig’s big gains in Oxy after making sure the oil company got the Elk Hills deal.

Public Financial Disclosure – 1998
Occidental Pet. Stock, Value of assets: $250,000-$500,000

Public Financial Disclosure – 1999
Occidental Pet. Stock, shares in process of transfer to trust. Value of assets: $500,000-$1,000,000

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=468

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Al Gore: The Other Oil Candidate

by Bill Mesler, Special to CorpWatch
August 29th, 2000

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For thousands of years, the Kitanemuk Indians made their home in the Elk Hills of central California. Come February 2001, the last of the 100 burial grounds, holy places and other archaeological sites of the Kitanemuks will be obliterated by the oil drilling of Occidental Petroleum Company. Oxy’s plans will “destroy forever the evidence that we once existed on this land,” according to Dee Dominguez, a Kitanemuk whose great grandfather was a signatory to the 1851 treaty that surrendered the Elk Hills.

Occidental’s planned drilling of the Elk Hills doesn’t only threaten the memory of the Kitanemuk. Environmentalists say a rare species of fox, lizard and the kangaroo rat would also be threatened by Oxy’s plans. A lawsuit has been filed under the Endangered Species Act. But none of that has given pause to Occidental or the politician who helped engineer the sale of the drilling rights to the federally-owned Elk Hills. That politician is Al Gore.

Gore recommended that the Elk Hills be sold as part of his 1995 “Reinventing Government” National Performance Review program. Gore-confidant (and former campaign manager) Tony Cohelo served on the board of directors of the private company hired to assess the sale’s environmental consequences. The sale was a windfall for Oxy. Within weeks of the announced purchase Occidental stock rose ten percent.

That was good news for Gore. Despite controversy over Dick Cheney’s plans to keep stock options if elected, most Americans don’t know that we already have a vice president with oil company stocks. Before the Elk Hills sale, Al Gore controlled between $250,000-$500,000 of Occidental stock (he is executor of a trust that he says goes only to his mother, but will revert to him upon her death). After the sale, Gore began disclosing between $500,000 and $1 million of his significantly more valuable stock.

Nowhere is Al Gore’s environmental hypocrisy more glaring than when it comes to his relationship with Occidental. While on the one hand talking tough about his “big oil” opponents and waxing poetic about indigenous peoples in his 1992 book “Earth in the Balance,” the Elk Hills sale and other deals show that money has always been more important to Al Gore than ideals.

(About the author. Bill Mesler is a Washington-based reporter. His work has appeared in the Nation, Mother Jones and the Progressive, among other publications.)

But of course the point of these smears is the *tone*. Wow, what a terrible guy he is! He’s practically a … … Republican!

Most of us need to drive cars, heat our homes, and use appliances – what we can do is press for change in the resource we use for those needs.
Economically, an entire industry focused on alternative and innovative methods for energy supply can employ Americans.

Remember his lame interview on the Daily Show where he completely dodged the question, “Do you ever think some people have a point when they criticize you for riding in private jets?” No answer.

He is a hypocrite.

He is a loser.

Please stop backing this man.

He will never be president, but if nominated will cause another disastrous Republican presidency.

There are 2 people, that if nominated, guarantee a Republican victory.
Hillary Clinton and Al Gore.
Only hardcore Democrats like these people, and not all at once.
Please stop supporting these people.

I was right. FOX is bullshit for those who need it.

Weaklings.
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