Al Gore: Tennessean of the Year

[Libby2]

By ANNE PAINE
Staff Writer


'07 accolades spotlight world-altering vision

"It's been an interesting year."

The understatement last week came from a man accused by his raucous critics of everything but understatement.

Al Gore, seated on the side porch of his Nashville home, couldn't be challenged on this one.

This year, the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, focusing on his efforts to educate people about global warming, won an Oscar. His television network, Current TV, picked up an Emmy.

He and an international panel of scientists shared the Nobel Peace Prize for alerting the world to the dangers posed by pollution-driven climate change.

And, one of his daughters got married.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071230/NEWS01/712300378

[lpbk2713]

1. Take that, Bill Frist.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Way to go Al.

[Kurovski]

2. K&R. (nt)

[ThomWV]

3. good.

[malaise]

4. How cool

Al Gore :yourock:

[WinkyDink]

5. Too bad they didn't vote for him, back when it mattered.

[Toots]

6. We truly will never know whether they actually did or did not..

The vote counts around America are quite suspect...

[Fly by night]

10. And in Tennessee, the vote counts are MOST suspect.

The greatest discrepency between exit polls and "reported" vote in 2006 was in the TN Senatorial race (Corker v. Ford). Corker was the ONLY Rethug to win an open seat that year.

Tennessee refused to provie a breakdown of that 2006 race to the EAC, providing only the final "reported" vote total.

Our State Election Coordinator is the only state election official on the Board of Directors of the Election Center (created by, and in the service of, DRE draculas).

We are rapidly isolating ourselves (in terms of election integrity) from the rest of the country.

Al Gore would win Tennessee handily in 2008 if the votes were counted as cast and he decided to run. At this point, neither seems likely.

If we had ham, we could have ham and eggs ... if we had eggs.

[DesertRat]

7. K&R

:toast:

[marmar]

8. World Citizen of the Year......

:applause:

[RestoreGore]

9. 5th Rec for Nobel Laureate Gore

Tennessean, American, and world citizen of the year. THANK YOU for all you do! :hug:

[spanone]

11. United States Citizen of the Year