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

[Hank]

Little Al,

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Hank


On 10/15/07, Alan Robertson <bigal_61 at msn.com> wrote:
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> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Supreme Court Gives Gore's Nobel to Bush
> (Political humor)
>
>
>
> 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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