Al Gore At ETSU

I respect your opinion vic but reading one of Gore’s books is the last thing I intend to do. Someone that says what he does and then flies around in a private plane like a Gulfstream Jet and lives in a house that takes more electricty in one month than the average house does in a year and then screams about global warming the way he does in my opinion is a HYPOCRITE and I refuse to listen to anything he says. You can lecture me all you want to I don’t care. Face it he is making millions of dollars from his stand and the awards he won has politics stamped all over them and I think the money that is being spent to bring this HYPOCRITE in could be spent at the college in a lot better ways to benefit the students.

I am looking forward to hearing former Vice President Al Gore next Thursday.  I shall be sitting in the auditoreum too, having made the proper arrangments before tickets ran out as they quickly did.  And the reality of the situation is that he is absolutely, positively no hypocrite.  His statements have been very consistent for many, many years.

Did you know, seawing, that after graduating cum laude from Harvard, Al Gore enlisted in the army.  The month before he got married, Gore earned the honor of being named ‘Soldier Of The Month’.  After his honorable discharge he went to the Vanderbilt University Divinity School while also working as an investigative reporter in Nashville.  The responsibilities of family, after his 1st child was born, saw him leaving school and working full time for a while.  Eventually, though, he began attending the Vanderbilt University Law School.

When the political situation changed in Tennessee, Al Gore began serving as a State representative to the U.S. Congress in 1976.  For 17 years, he continued to represent the interests of Tennesseans, changing the “hat” he wore from Congressman to Senator in 1984.  Then, of course, he began serving the country as Vice President in 2000.

Meanwhile, his wife & he had three more children. 

It’s not just for being a successful family man and for his political accomplishments, obviously, that Americans listen to Al Gore.  Last month he won a Grammy Award.  Before that, he won an Emmy Award & also an Oscar at the Academy Awards.  He was also a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize before he won his Grammy.

Former Vice President Gore’s investigative skills has allowed him to gather & assess information which he has used as the bases for numerous books & papers pertaining to ecology, global networking, “putting people first”, economics, science & technology, cyberspace development, “common sense government” & the American family.

He has also demonstrated successful business skills during his career.  Today he is, among other things, chairman of Generation Investment Managment, is actively involved in non-profit organizations (one of which - the Alliance for Climate Protection - he helped form in 2006) & is a partner in a company organized in such a way as to provide to companies, just starting up, with private equity.  These venture capital investments allow Al Gore to share his managerial & assimilated technical expertise with new businesses.

And although, seawing, you fail to appreciate the knowledge acquired by Al Gore and, too, the positive activites for which he is responsible, you would benefit from reading any of his books.