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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
I don't care whether you agree with his underlying sentiment, or not. That's just plain damn funny. |
You have encouraged much more of the same.
Please explain to me how the VP of the Clinton administration is a "celebrity?" Gore dropped out of politics after the 2000 election, and he only reemerged as a person of note, when his work in addressing climate change began to get public recognition last year. Leonardo DeCaprio, a true celebrity, got instant recognition for his documentary on global warming this year. Identifying Gore as a "celebrity" is curious, at best.
Carter wasn't a "celebrity" when he received his Nobel peace prize, but was rather a "failed" president by some standards. He has worked long and hard to earn the "Elder" status that he carries today, but his work in the Middle East was worthy of the Nobel.
Did anyone else notice that the right's conservative talking points were prepared and distributed before Gore won the prize? All of the conservative talking heads and a few negative posters here, used the identical arguments to dismiss Gore, and the Nobel committee.
This topic says everything about what has become of our country. Rabid political rancour drives some people to tear down one of our own citizens who has won a well deserved international acknowledgement.
WE, as a country, are unable to celebrate the acknowledgement of one of our countrymen due to nothing more than trite internal partisanship.
We, as a country, have never been this polarized in the past, and I suggest to you that this current divisiveness is deliberate.