Ugh. Not now, Al.

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“Ugh. Not now, Al.”

– Everybody

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  1. Jason330 says:
    July 27, 2011 at 3:22 pm

    One is default on loans and one is da fault of loins.

  2. donviti says:
    July 27, 2011 at 3:34 pm

    welcome back DD!

  3. Delaware Dem says:
    July 27, 2011 at 3:39 pm

    Hi Donviti. Yeah, I saw your little post and rest assured nothing is amiss here at DL. I have been slammed at work and then I took a much needed vacation. But I am back.

  4. Delaware Dem says:
    July 27, 2011 at 3:39 pm

    Be sure to come out tonight. The PDD is precisely where you should spend your time politically.

  5. jason330 says:
    July 27, 2011 at 3:43 pm

    It is comforting to have a blog dedicated to the comings and goings of this blog. Blogging about blogging is my favorite!

  6. anonone says:
    July 27, 2011 at 3:54 pm

    It is wonderful to see that your first post back is to slam a dem who is actually trying to do something to help the planet, unlike the corporate sycophant in the White House.

    Welcome back!

  7. Delaware Dem says:
    July 27, 2011 at 3:57 pm

    Hahahaha. Saying “not now” to Al Gore while we are in the middle of a life or death struggle on the debt ceiling is the same thing as “slamming” him?

    I had forgotten how insane Anonone the Firebagger really was.

  8. apathetic ben says:
    July 27, 2011 at 4:00 pm

    a1, Al Gore’s hypocrisy of flying a gas guzzling jet from for-profit event to for-profit event is just the type of thing you’d be all over Obama for. Why the double standard? Does Al Gore get a pass because he’s… you know….

  9. anonone says:
    July 27, 2011 at 4:03 pm

    You say that “we are in the middle of a life or death struggle on the debt ceiling” and then say that I am the one who is insane?!

    Oh, and the “Firebagger” name makes it just like old times.

  10. anonone says:
    July 27, 2011 at 4:21 pm

    Because he is not the President, Ben? Sure. But, like Sean Hannity, I am glad that you found something to criticize Gore about.

  11. John Manifold says:
    July 27, 2011 at 5:46 pm

    Love how the Naderites now love Al Gore [as do I].

    http://www.thenation.com/article/not-one-vote

  12. Unstable Isotope says:
    July 27, 2011 at 6:21 pm

    It is comforting to have a blog dedicated to the comings and goings of this blog. Blogging about blogging is my favorite!

    I’m pretty sure I just got sucked up into a meta-vortex

  13. anon40 says:
    July 27, 2011 at 8:26 pm

    Al Gore is the son of a wealthy Senator. He is the epitome of what the Teabaggers would call a “limousine liberal.”

    He fucked up my commute to work MANY times when he was VP. All those cars idling in traffic, while he took a limo ride up I-95 (with SS Agents and DE and PA State Troopers sitting in their cars, making sure no one dared travel his “private” road) so he could bitch about climate change or raise money for the ’96 or ’00 election campaigns from wealthy democrats & liberals.

    Sorry Al. Good message, but you’re a shitty messenger.

  14. John Manifold says:
    July 27, 2011 at 9:13 pm

    Calmes-toi, Anon40.

    1. Al Gore, Jr., is the son of a Senator, not a “wealthy Senator.” His Senate pay averaged $25,000 during his three terms, 1953-70. That got you a house in Bethesda, not Chevy Chase, especially if your kid’s going to St. Alban’s. If you’re going to resent the rich, aim at the right target.

    2. Gore had nothing to do with your inconvenience. The Secret Service’s budgetary and logistical requirements have been expanding with little control for the last 30 years. Neither Biden nor Gore nor any other VP can do anything about the bubble. If he was traveling via I-95 [the previous grump was complaining that he traveled by air; Gore still can’t get a break], it had nothing to do with fundraising.

    Get some rest. Read a book.

  15. anon40 says:
    July 27, 2011 at 10:50 pm

    @JM–

    $25k was far more than chump change when Gore Sr. was in office. Hell, it was more than my starting salary (in a union shop) in 1990!

    Feel free to blather on about the Secret Service–Gore (and Clinton, to a lesser extreme) were free to fly directly to PHL or simply take the fucking train, but they chose to do otherwise & fuck up the commute of thousands of their supporters. That’s a great way to to win the hearts & minds of the faithful.

    Don’t even get me started on my neighbor Joe Biden. He’s a Wall Street WHORE if ever such a whore existed. Have a nice day.

  16. John Manifold says:
    July 28, 2011 at 10:32 am

    Whether he travels by car, plane, train or surfboard, a President or VP is surrounded by an increasing bubble, whether he wants it or not. Your criticisms of Gore are vapid.

  17. Dana says:
    July 28, 2011 at 11:12 am

    Double D wrote:

    we are in the middle of a life or death struggle on the debt ceiling

    Life or death? Will you perish if the debt ceiling is not raised?

  18. Dana says:
    July 28, 2011 at 11:34 am

    Anon 40 wrote:

    Feel free to blather on about the Secret Service–Gore (and Clinton, to a lesser extreme) were free to fly directly to PHL or simply take the fucking train, but they chose to do otherwise & fuck up the commute of thousands of their supporters. That’s a great way to to win the hearts & minds of the faithful.

    Loathe as I am to defend Mr Gore, when you are vice president of the United States, no, you don’t get to just take the train or fly commercial. If Joe Biden decided to take his old Amtrak train ride home these days, the Secret Service would clear out an entire car for him, if not the whole train.

  19. John Manifold says:
    July 28, 2011 at 6:23 pm

    Al Sr. passed gut-checks that few others had to face: http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/A-0321-2/excerpts/excerpt_3139.html.

    He loudly and eloquently opposed the Vietnam War. His wife was among the Deep South’s first practicing lawyers. He had the grades, but not the money, to attend an elite college, so he worked his way through what we now know as Middle Tennessee State. He was a fine country music fiddler. Pat Buchanan choreographed his swift-boating, starring Spiro Agnew, in the 1970 election. Al Jr. volunteered for the Army after graduating from Harvard that spring. The War Criminal-in-Chief made sure that young Al was kept from ‘Nam during the campaign. Venom and lies have been lobbed at Al Jr. ever since, generally from the Nader-Koch axis.

    http://www.thenation.com/article/159770/fox-liars-network

  20. anon40 says:
    July 28, 2011 at 10:24 pm

    @ Dana–

    No one said to fly commercial. My point was that Gore had written Earth in the Balance in 1992 and blathered on about how the internal combustion engine was, “a mortal threat . . . more deadly than that of any military enemy.

    As VP, he had countless IC engines running on his behalf & far more idling in traffic, waiting for him to pass so we “little people” could get to work.

    Dear Al,

    Practice what you preach or STFU.

  21. John Manifold says:
    July 29, 2011 at 8:44 am

    If Al Gore goes to the Girl Groups Extravaganza tomorrow, http://www.ponderosastomp.com/lincoln-center-2011_shes-got-the-power.php, he will be a Wicked Person unless he bikes there via the Princeton Junction local.

    Some day A40 will actually read Al’s book all the way through.

  22. anon40 says:
    July 29, 2011 at 10:21 am

    JM–

    I really couldn’t care less where Al Gore goes or how he gets there, so long as he’s not preaching to me about conservation while he wastes resources and pollutes the air.

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