[Rhodes22-list] Supreme Court Gives Gore’s Nobel to Bush (Political humor)

[Eric Sandberg]

Big Al ..... You're out of line.

We talk about what ever we want here. Have for years. That includes 
politics if the mood strikes.

Somebody want to post the charter??

Rik

Alan Robertson wrote:
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>   Stunning Reversal for Former Veep
>
>   Just days after former Vice  President Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize 
>   for his efforts on global  warming, the United States Supreme Court handed 
>   Mr. Gore a stunning reversal,  stripping him of his Nobel and awarding it to 
>   President George W. Bush instead.  
>
>   For Mr. Gore, who basked in the adulation of the Nobel committee and the  
>   world, the high court’s decision to give his prize to President Bush was a cruel  
>   twist of fate, to say the least. 
>
>   But in a 5-4 decision, the justices  made it clear that they had taken the 
>   unprecedented step of stripping Mr. Gore  of his Nobel because President Bush 
>   deserved it more. 
>
>   “It is true that  Al Gore has done a lot of talking about global warming,” 
>   wrote Justice Antonin  Scalia, writing for the majority. “But President Bush 
>   has actually helped create  global warming.” 
>
>   Even as Mr. Gore was being stripped of his Nobel, he  received strong words 
>   of support from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary  Clinton, who said 
>   that the former vice president’s Nobel win “shows that he is  devoting his life 
>   to the right thing and should definitely stay the course.”  
>
>   In an interview with reporters in Iowa, Sen. Clinton said that “Al Gore  
>   should remain dedicated to the cause of global climate change, at least through  
>   November of 2008.” 
>
>   Sen. Clinton suggested that Mr. Gore could further  research the source of 
>   global warming by immediately boarding a rocket ship to  the sun. 
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