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can someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE post a vid clip of AL GORE sayin that. that was the funniest thing ive ever heard, even if its true (which i believe so) i cant stop laughing.

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:D it is true he said it about 6 years ago...you just now heard about it??? If that's the case your going to be shocked when you find out OJ Simpson killed his ex-wife... :D :woot: :D

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http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_10/wiggins/

read that page if you are really interested in this.

What Gore Said

Although Al Gore never claimed to have invented the Internet, he did discuss his role in Internet development in an interview with Wolf Blitzer of Cable News Network. The interview took place on March 9, 1999 during CNN's "Late Edition" show. Specifically, what Gore said was "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

A cynic might observe that "creating the Internet" and "inventing the Internet" are tantamount to the same exaggeration. But let's look at the entire quote in the context of the colloquy with Blitzer. Here is Blitzer's entire query to Gore:

    BLITZER: I want to get to some of the substance of domestic and international issues in a minute, but let's just wrap up a little bit of the politics right now.

    Why should Democrats, looking at the Democratic nomination process, support you instead of Bill Bradley, a friend of yours, a former colleague in the Senate? What do you have to bring to this that he doesn't necessarily bring to this process?

Clearly, Blitzer is asking Gore to offer an explanation of how he differs as a politician from other politicians in general, and his rival at the time, Bill Bradley, in particular. Here is Gore's entire response to Blitzer's question:

    GORE: Well, I will be offering - I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.

    But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

    During a quarter century of public service, including most of it long before I came into my current job, I have worked to try to improve the quality of life in our country and in our world. And what I've seen during that experience is an emerging future that's very exciting, about which I'm very optimistic, and toward which I want to lead.

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Gore was staring he invented the Internet, but what he was talking about was this so called Internet 2

which was a network that link Universities and colleges and schools together by a similar network like the internet. I dunno if this ever got off the ground and/or if it's still in use.

Another was similar to the CNN transcript where he helped create the internet, Yes he Did in fact, he voted in favor of some bills that helped form the internet.

Just as much as if you voted for George W to be president you helped him become president of the USA

so if ya voted for George W , be sure to add it too your resume, that you assisted in the development of a political candidate become President of the USA. :whistle:

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ya, what he said was blown out of proportion, i remember in an interview what he said or meant was that he helped pass laws and legislations which further enhanced the progress or something of the intenret

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I know this is off topic but i didnt want to start a thread but....

Didnt governer Davis say the people of California are so diverse that they come from every country in the world and every planet......

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I know this is off topic but i didnt want to start a thread but....

Didnt governer Davis say the people of California are so diverse that they come from every country in the world and every planet......

I read it was apparently on David Letterman tonight, along with Bush not knowing his right hand from his left hand, too. Sounds like funny stuff.

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Didnt governer Davis say the people of California are so diverse that they come from every country in the world and every planet......

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...18/MN253560.DTL

"My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state. We have the sons and daughters of every, of people from every planet, of every country on earth."

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