Gore's Nobel Win Greeted With Cheers by Europeans

[cal04]

News of Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize was received with delight Monday across Europe, where President Bush is deeply unpopular, climate change is generally accepted as undisputed fact and the former vice president is widely seen as a welcome anti-Bush.

"He's the evidence that America is still capable of intelligent discourse," said Peter Kellner, who heads the British polling firm YouGov. According to Kellner, opinion polls show that British people generally admire America and Americans but strongly dislike Bush. He also said surveys routinely find that more than 80 percent of Britons agree with Gore that climate change exists and is man-made.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Gore "inspirational," and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said he hoped Gore's honor would encourage world leaders to "approach this challenge even more swiftly and decisively."

John Noach, 69, a Dutch citizen who was sitting in a London Starbucks on Friday, said that in Europe, "most reasonable people" think of Gore as "a lifeline to sanity."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101201763.html?nav=hcmodule

[SeattleGirl]

1. ..."most reasonable people think of Gore as a lifeline to sanity."

You said it, sir. You said it!

[flyarm]

2. received with delight Monday ( ?????) across Europe

its not monday in Europe..is this for mondays paper i wonder??

but they are 100% right..and they see our leader ..clearly!!

we need Al Gore..the world will love him as our president!!

as will we!!

fly

[TankLV]

3. And the silence from bunkerboy is - DEAFENING!

[The Count]

6. Thanks for reviving this favorite name! How could I forget it? And true - can you

imagine the envy? The acrimony in that family?

[Uncle Joe]

4. I'm happy to send this to the greatest pages.

Thanks for the thread cal.

[The Count]

5. But in US, CNN polls if "he deserved it" - what a despicable nation we've became!

The level of discourse is back in the stone age - grunts and bats.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. K&R