Part 3
The last man in the evil triumvirate is Al Gore. Whereas the first two villains had a hidden agenda to undermine the United States, his was simply to make money. That he did, because when he left office in January of 2001, Gore's net worth was pegged at about $3 million, nothing to be scoffed at, but not the current estimated of $300 million. Not bad for a guy with no real job. Profits from a movie, a book, insider information, and other related deals have allowed him to amass this fortune in a relatively short period.
For those of you who do not know much about Gore, I would like to provide a little history. He was the son of Al Gore, Sr., who served three terms as Democrat congressman and three terms as US senator from Tennessee. He was a well known bigot, and voted against the Civil Right Act. His attempt at adding an amendment that would have barred Federal funding for schools forced to integrate in the South failed by a large margin with only Democrat southern senators voting in favor including Bill Clinton's mentor Sen. Fullbright. After passage, he flipped his position, as he saw the writing on the wall for his electability and voted for the voting rights act. Eventually he was defeated by a Republican, Bill Brock, in the 1970 election and he went on to work for Armand Hammer at Occidental Petroleum. He was also an executive at a Tennessee coal company.
Junior grew up in the penthouse of the Fairfax Hotel, one of DC's finest, spending little time in his home state until he was a teenager and was able to work on the family estate that grew tobacco, in Carthage, Tennessee. His entire life was spent as a child and then a man of privilege. He attended St. Albans, an exclusive all boys school in DC and, despite being an average student but a good athlete and captain of the football team, was admitted to Harvard. He continued his mediocre ways for the first two years at Harvard, where he drank, smoked marijuna, and shot pool placing in the lowest 1/5 of his class. The last two years he avoided math and science, subjects in which he did poorly, and switched his major from English to government. His grades improved. In1969 he graduated from Harvard and his draft deferment ended. With his father running for his forth term in the US Senate, it was decided that he should enter the army as an enlisted man. Despite his appearances in uniform with his father during the campaign, his father lost. The day after his father left office, he was sent to Viet Nam, where he worked as a reporter for a company of engineers and saw virtually no combat. Five months later he was honorably discharged.
He entered divinity school in Nashville, but lasted less than a year (who flunks God?), worked part time as a reporter and then entered law school. He did not finish law school either as he found it much easier to run for a soon to be vacated seat from his father's old congressional district. In a hotly contested race with multiple candidates, he won with only 32% of the vote. One of his committee appointments involved the environment, but in the late 70s a new ice age was the issue due to acid rain. After serving two congressional terms he ran for the Senate and won. He ran as a southern moderate, opposed to federal funding for abortions and for a moment of silence for individual school prayer among other issues. He even favored Desert Storm. In 1988 he made his first run for the presidency and thought he would gain an advantage when twelve southern states were holding primaries on the same day. His aspirations came to a sudden and surprising end when he was beaten by Jessie Jackson in eight of the primaries, eventually loosing out to Michael Dukakis.
Although he claimed to always be an environmentalist, Gore did not become active until the 1990s. His acquaintance with Maurice Strong may have had something to do with that. He began making outrageous statements about human based global warming. If true, I would have been up to my 18th floor coastal condominium in rising sea levels by now. This didn't happen in Gore's original time frame, so he simply made the same stupid claim ten years later and again it won't happen. Meanwhile he is pulling in big bucks as the global warming guru and poster boy.
I'll not go into the awards and accolades that Gore received here, but in part 4 I am going to tie the whole thing together and show you why the Global warming hoax is really an anti capitalist plot aimed at major wealth redistribution both for the United States and you as individuals.
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