10-12-2009, 01:53 PM
Quote:It is obvious that this award given by political hacks has become nonsensical, and giving it to Obama for charm, even tops giving it to Al Gore for flying around the world in his private jet telling people how much he cares about the environment.The award was given to Al Gore, but also to the IPCC - this was an award for raising global awareness of climate change. That's not a partisan political issue, and it's not an award for personal fastidiousness in reducing carbon emissions (which, as I argued with Zenda earlier, wouldn't have helped much anyway - fuel not used by Gore would be sopped up elsewhere). Given the constant rancor that has been spewed at Gore from the Right ever since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, whatever he did, it seems to have worked.
-Jester