Gore’s meeting with Bush was ‘very cordial.’
Gore’s meeting with Bush was ‘very cordial.’
After his Oval Office meeting with President Bush, Al Gore described their exchange as “very cordial” and “substantive,” confirming that they had spoken about global warming. The Swamp’s Mark Silva reports:
In his private Oval Office meeting with President Bush, the former vice president insisted that they had spoken about global warming “the whole time.” It wasn’t clear if the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, who shared the honor for his work on climtate change, was serious. [...]
But Gore, calling the meeting with Bush “very cordial” and “substantive,” declined to elaborate on their meeting. “I’m not going to do an interview here,” Gore said in his walk down the streets outside the White House. “I don’t want to comment more.”
UPDATE: The AP adds:
The two men stood next to other, sharing uncomfortable grins for photographers and reporters, who were quickly ushered in and out.
“Familiar faces,” the former vice president said of the media. Bush, still smiling, added nothing.
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Predictably, the conservative chattering class and its amen corner in the right-wing blogosphere are apoplectic about the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore. But their rage and angst about the Nobel Committee’s “politicized awards” for “mass exaggerators” and “deceptive rhetoric” isn’t merely a function of the inconvenient truth of the success of Gore’s global warming campaign. No, the rugged individualists of the right are just hopping mad that they never win prizes designed to recognize contributions to, well, the rest of humanity.
To remedy this perpetual slight, then, here are:
November 26th, 2007 at 4:52 pm“Conservative Nobel Prizes We’d Like to See.”
Gore didn’t want to comment more. He needs to go hit his boxing bag for a few minutes first.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:52 pmSince when does a conservative care about the rest of humanity?
November 26th, 2007 at 4:53 pmI guess we all know who contributed to the “substantive” part of this whole photo op.
Hint: It wasn’t Chimpy.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:54 pmI don’t think there’s really much story here except for two men basically performing out of obligation and forcing smiles as they did so. I bet they were both glad when it was over.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:57 pmPunch the dumb one in the mouth AL
November 26th, 2007 at 4:57 pm“Bush, still smiling, added nothing. ”
What else is new?
November 26th, 2007 at 4:57 pm“Bush, still smiling, added nothing. â€
Thank goodness. No telling how he would have bothched it if he did.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:01 pmSure ‘w’ wasn’t a cardboard cut-out??
November 26th, 2007 at 5:03 pmAngryOne
To remedy this perpetual slight, then, here are:
“Conservative Nobel Prizes We’d Like to See.â€
Ha, thanks for that one.
I heard Gore tried to bring up the Hockey Stick but Bush said he was a football fan.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:03 pmAnother conservative president liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Comment by Manslagt — November 26, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
Oh? When did that happen?
November 26th, 2007 at 5:05 pmThis is a non-story. Bush and Gore didn’t care that they met. Why should we?
November 26th, 2007 at 5:05 pmA conservative president ended the Cold War. Another conservative president liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Comment by Manslagt — November 26, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
The amount of ignorance and the total lack of knowledge about that is currently going on in Iraq/Afghanistan in this statement is utterly astounding.
You are aware we are losing Afghanistan, that the Taliban has control of 50% of the country now, right?
Moron!
November 26th, 2007 at 5:07 pmWow – big surprise… One rich son of an oilman got along with another rich son of an oilman.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:08 pmAnother conservative president liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Comment by Manslagt — November 26, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
November 26th, 2007 at 5:09 pmDo the 1 million dead Iraqis count as liberated?
“knowledge about that is currently going on” should have been knowledge about what is currently going on”, Doh
November 26th, 2007 at 5:10 pmDamn, I was hoping for a cage match with blood and guts and the use of decorative pieces as weapons.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:10 pm“Since when does a conservative care about the rest of humanity?â€
That’s an odd comment. A conservative president ended the Cold War. Another conservative president liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Comment by Manslagt”
Right…What ended the cold war is the conservative president funding the freedom fighters in Afghanistan who fought the Evil Empire to a standstill, remember? Those freedom fighters included a guy named bin laden. the evil empire is our current conservative president’s ally in the battle against democracy. good job conservatives!
November 26th, 2007 at 5:13 pmAl Gore Rocks!
November 26th, 2007 at 5:15 pmBush can’t spell rocks!
gore should have spit in his face.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:15 pmAnother conservative president liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Comment by Manslagt — November 26, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
So when is some conservative president going to get on with liberating the Chinese? Do you really think these adventures were about bringing “liberty”? Now that is some stupid naive shit
November 26th, 2007 at 5:16 pmManslagt – time to get your sorry ass enlisted punk.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:17 pmAnother conservative president liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Comment by Manslagt
The sense of freedom must be incredible when liberated from one’s body via bombs and bullets.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:18 pmManslag is just one more in a long line of cut and run republicans. Just like his mancrush bush.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:23 pmAnd I look forward to Bush’s nomination and the winner of the Nobel War Prize soon…
November 26th, 2007 at 5:25 pmMy High school history teacher predicted the end of the cold war pretty accurately in the miid 1970’s. He predicted that Russia could not sustain a military spending spree with the US and it would lead to their downfall. This while the US was reeling from a severe recession.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:26 pmgore should have spit in his face.
Comment by Fan of Man — November 26, 2007 @ 5:15 pm
Nah — Gore has too much class to do that. Besides, he doesn’t have to. Bush has botched up so badly that his name will forever be associated with the worst presidency in history. There’s really nothing Gore can do or say that will make things any worse for Dubya.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:27 pmAl brought colored picture cards so GW666 could understand what global warming means.
Card
#1 – See the sun, it is bright.
#2 – See the smog, it is dark.
#3 – See the ice, it is cold.
#4 – See the ice melt, it is warmer.
#5 – See the permafrost, it is frozen.
#6 – See the permafrost give off gas.
#7 – See the gas and smog work together to keep heat in.
#8 – See the ocean, it is blue.
#9 – See the ocean heat up.
#10 – See the world go into complete and total chaos with millions dieing from crop failure and huge storms tear up the land and the coasts rise and well the general end of civilized man.
He lost GW666 at #4.
Bush/Cheney
Hague Trials ‘09
Buck Fush
November 26th, 2007 at 5:29 pmThere is nothing conservative about Bush, or any “neocon”. They are reckless, predatory, radicals; posing far more substantial danger than any, imagined, “Islamofascist”. They have gained power through the manipulation of the greedy, the bigoted, and the ignorant. They have betrayed this country and the trust of the World.
The Bush administration is no more “conservative”; than “secular progressives” are “anti-American”. Any claims that they are, in fact, conservative are bald-faced lies. It’s time the neocons stop insulting our intelligence with claims of “conservatism”.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:29 pmComment by Manslagt: That’s an odd comment. A conservative president ended the Cold War. Another conservative president liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Good grief! And I do mean grief for all the people “liberated” in Afghanistan and Iraq.
“Liberated” indeed! In Iraq we’ve liberated hundreds of thousands from the cares of this sinful world, I suppose. In Afghanistan we’ve liberated the people from the yoke of the Taliban only to turn around and give it right back
You Right Wingers are nothing short of shameless! How do you look yourselves in the mirror?
November 26th, 2007 at 5:30 pmmanslag: “That’s an odd comment. A conservative president ended the Cold War. Another conservative president liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Conservatives just love their myths. Actually, Reagan prolonged the Cold War by ending Carter’s santions against the Soviet Union and re-starting trade with the Soviet Union. Without Reagan’s help, the Soviet Union would have crumbled 8 or 9 years earlier. And, you probably missed it, but our own military says the Taliban controls possibly as much as two-thirds of Afganistan today so I’m not sure who you think was “liberated.” As far as Iraq is concerned, the vast majority of them now believe they were better off under Saddam’s rule than today. But, you go ahead and hold on to your conservative myths. You need them.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:32 pmYou Right Wingers are nothing short of shameless! How do you look yourselves in the mirror?
Comment by boreas — November 26, 2007 @ 5:30 pm
they don’t have to. they produce no image.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:40 pmThis was nothing but a carefully planned WH-planned puff piece.
Next, they’ll attempt to cast an unusual post-WH Bush-Gore friendship (taking from the Clinton-Bush 41 alliance) in a further effort to play down their unconstitutional “win” in 2000.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:45 pmCaption: The Tale of Two Men – One became a Nobel Peace Prize Recipient; the other became The Worst President Ever in the history of this country. What diametric opposite directions these two men have taken.
One took the high road; the other choose the trip through hell.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:51 pmOr better yet: The Tale of Two Men: One a Liar and a Fraud who stole the election resulting in the demolition of this country; the other who rose about the level of chicanery involved and did something “globally praised”.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:52 pmNow watch all the Gore-Envious trolls come out after they’ve drooled all over themselves.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:53 pmLividLib: The true definition of “shapeshifters” – that’s the current administration and GOP. Slimy shapeshifters.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:54 pmOh lord. Not only another troll – but a damned STUPID one at that.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:54 pmI see that bottom-feeding slagoshit is still littering these threads with inane commentary and pure drivel.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:55 pmBut, you go ahead and hold on to your conservative myths. You need them.
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper
Well done, Colonel.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:57 pmGore was probably laughing at pathic little Shrubbie who hasn’t one positive accomplishment during his entire two terms. The sheer contrast of these two men speaks for itself. One has class; the other is illiterate. These two men make for a beautiful ’study in contrasts’. Gore had to be laughing his ass off being next to an unaccomplished buffoon like Chimpy.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:58 pmStrat and Col: I second that!~ MythMan FecalSlag needs all the help he can get.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:58 pmThat’s an odd comment. A conservative president ended the Cold War. Another conservative president liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Comment by Manslagt
Nope, the Soviet Union caved in on itself and Raygun took the credit.
Yeah, and all those liberated (dead)folks in Iraq and Afghanistan are greeting us with flowers.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:59 pmAnd I look forward to Bush’s nomination and the winner of the Nobel War Prize soon…
Comment by SP Biloxi
LOL! What a jokester! Yeah, you go take care of that and we’ll wait right here. Geez…who knew the kool-aid was alcoholic?
November 26th, 2007 at 6:00 pmCan someone tell me why Gore would even make himself available for this?
November 26th, 2007 at 6:01 pmManslagt has obviously no idea what “slag” means in British slang, but the name is well chosen.
The myth of Reagan ending the Cold War needs to be exposed as the cartoonish over-simplification that it is. For one thing, the Berlin Wall was still standing when Reagan left office, and as far as anybody knew, the Soviet Union was still solid and was going to be around for a long time.
The Soviet Union fell because the system was rotting from the inside. Any external pressure was only incidental. If any one deserves the credit, it’s Mikhail Gorbachev or Boris Yeltsin. Reagan had very little to do with it.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:03 pmAnother conservative president liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Comment by Manslagt — November 26, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
When you say “liberated” do you mean, “free them to leave in droves to surrounding countries to desperately prostitute themselves”?
November 26th, 2007 at 6:04 pmCan someone tell me why Gore would even make himself available for this?
Comment by leftcoast
Because Al Gore has class. If he had refused to go, the jackals would have gone ape.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:08 pmleftcoast: “Can someone tell me why Gore would even make himself available for this?”
It was the classy thing to do. When the Whitehouse invites a Nobel Prize winner in for a photo op and congrats, the classy thing to do is accept with grace. Gore is a gentleman.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:08 pmCan someone tell me why Gore would even make himself available for this?
Comment by leftcoast
Hey leftcoast, how ya doin? To your question, as everybody else rightly indictated: Gore has class and knows how to comport himself – even if it means hanging around with a mental midget.
Does anybody else notice Bush seems kinda distracted lately?
November 26th, 2007 at 6:11 pmGore ‘08!
November 26th, 2007 at 6:13 pmIf Gore DID decide to run, the second he announced, the media would begin another gang-bang on him. He knows it and anyone who’s been paying attention for the last 15 years ought to know it.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:18 pmDoes anybody else notice Bush seems kinda distracted lately?
Comment by StratRat
He had to be heavily sedated in order to get him to go through with this.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:19 pmDoes anybody else notice Bush seems kinda distracted lately?
Comment by StratRat — November 26, 2007 @ 6:11 pm
November 26th, 2007 at 6:20 pmStratRat,
Doin’ well, thanks. Yes, GW seems less than himself lately, but I had just thought it was this whole Summit thing. You know, where he actually had to think for a moment before he spoke. But, then I thought, No, it must be gas, because when have we known George to think?
If Gore DID decide to run, the second he announced, the media would begin another gang-bang on him.
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper
Agreed. IMHO Gore can do more good being ‘outside’, than in the WH.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:20 pmPee/Sockpuppet 2008!
November 26th, 2007 at 6:23 pmJerseyboyblue: I agree wholeheartedly! Gore would win tomorrow, hands down, and he isn’t even in the mix.
Perhaps I’m a bit more jaded than most but I think Gore appeared with a Chimp due to a sophisticated level of pure class as well as to freak the reichwingnuts out by doing so. He’s also reminding each of us how “things could have been” had the election not be stolen from him. He’s reminding us how antiquated our electoral college system really is when THE PEOPLE elect one man by popular vote and the electors (and their little jackals who go to work on the computers while everyone sleeps) corrupt the election.
Al Gore’s appearance next to a Chimp/Chump is illustrative of the divergency of the path of two men vying for the same position – One acquired it by illegal means (corruption) and everything he touched turned to crap because the foundation was “unfirm”; the other turned the corner and decided to try to help save humanity from devouring itself and wins the Nobel Prize. No two lives could be more divergent and contrasting.
And then, just maybe, Gore is remaining front and center and in the White House just to tease us all – I think he’s considering a run in 08 myself.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:23 pmStratman, I agree that Gore does a lot of good outside, but he’d make a great president. It’s just too bad that our pampered, powdered media elites hated him.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:25 pmGore’s decision to appear had the effect of totally embarrassing Chimpy for his lack of accomplishments – it had to be sweet revenge for Al and “just desserts” for Chimpy.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:26 pmthe Chimp’s wearing his highest lifts today, and he’s STILL two inches shorter than AL Gore’s 6′1″…and not an eighth the man.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:26 pmCol Jack: The media whores hate him because he’s not for sale.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:26 pmComment by BARTLEBEE — November 26, 2007 @ 6:24 pm
Or wear an “I’m with Idiot —->” name tag.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:27 pmtookin librul: Doesn’t Bush look smaller than normal in this photo? And he appears to be about a decade older than Gore in it as well. Guess that’s what nearly 7 years of lying does to a human being – takes years off your life.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:27 pmBart: Shatterproof and spatterproof because their brains are in their anus’.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:28 pmThere is an exact moment in time when truly noble men and women rise to shape a generation. A presidency won or a presidency unfulfilled (as with Kennedy) does not take a nation or mankind to greater heights. It is the spark they place in each one of us to leave this world a little better place to live.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:30 pmThere is no spark in Bush. However, Gore and his vision for our planet has placed a spark in a whole new generation.
tookin librul: Doesn’t Bush look smaller than normal in this photo?
B*sh is one the few famous people who actually looks smaller on TV than he does in real life. He has negative charisma: whenever I see those simian features, I wince in revulsion.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:31 pmComment by BARTLEBEE — November 26, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
Or, “I’m with Loser, Year 2000 —–>”
November 26th, 2007 at 6:37 pmComment by BARTLEBEE — November 26, 2007 @ 6:48 pm
I’ll obey your order. I wouldn’t want to read your obituary before Cheneys.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:51 pmStratman, I agree that Gore does a lot of good outside, but he’d make a great president. It’s just too bad that our pampered, powdered media elites hated him.
Comment by Ret. Col. Jack Ripper
Gore would make a great president, but it could distract him from focusing on our ability to continue to live on planet earth. As an ‘outsider’ he can go where he wants and do what he needs to do. I believe his hands would be full trying to find the government that bush destroyed.
Heck, we might even want to elect two presidents: 1 to govern, the other to wander the hallways looking for leftover bush robots.
November 26th, 2007 at 7:09 pm“Bush, still smiling, added nothing”
From the cowBOY, more of the same. NOTHING!
Idiot
November 26th, 2007 at 7:48 pmBut…. Bush is the President!!!
How come people still insist that we have DEMOCRACY in America?
We don’t. If we had it, Gore would have been the President in the first time, not Bush.
This is all bushit… It’s the biggest cinicism I’ve ever seen: telling the World that they must have democracy in their countries when we DO NOT HAVE it at home!
What we have is a stupid, old fashioned COLLEGIOCRACY.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:59 pmAnd a lot of hipocrisy pointing the finger to other countries. We should be the EXAMPLE (i.e., a Democracy with a democratic process), and not the EXCEPTION (i.e., a Democracy without democracy…)
Bush might have the title and trappings, but he’ll never have the moral authority to lead this country. Gore, by his actions, shows us who is the real leader. Truly a shame that the Republican Supreme Court gave the election to Bush. I suppose Gore gets the last laugh…W will be forever branded and the Worst pResident ever selected.
November 26th, 2007 at 9:28 pmIn the photo, Bush’s smile is much faker than usual. Like the time he smiled when he married pickles.
November 26th, 2007 at 9:35 pmGore was obviously being very subtly sarcastic, when he described his talk with Bush as “substantive”. Bush has never initiated a substantive conversation in his life. Gore thought about elaborating on their meeting and telling the media that Bush also gave an extended talk on Quantum Mechanics, but his ridicule of the Chimp would have then been too obvious.
November 26th, 2007 at 10:10 pmSmile,chimpy, when you stand next to the president.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:28 pm“Bush, still smiling, added nothing.”
As succinct a summation of this presidency as could be hoped for.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:49 am“How do you look yourselves in the mirror?”
Manslagt has to regularly check the mirror to make sure that his pie hole, which is regularly hanging open and dripping sputum, has indeed been firmly shut. Furthermore, he quite justly blames the inadequacy of his nervous system to report such kinesthetic data to the hazelnut he calls his “brain” on either Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter or whatever random Democratic name comes first in the crayoned list he has pinned to his bib.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:54 amDo ya think that they made Al go thru a metal detector on the way in?
November 27th, 2007 at 11:38 amLike anyone with a brain, Gore pities Bush, because like most Americans, Gore knows where Bush is going to be spending his retirement: in prison.
November 27th, 2007 at 6:03 pm