Thread: the movie great global warming swindle

Originally Posted by scarface

(...sorry...got a little carried away, here....)

-whatever

-Lou

No ---- I think you hit it spot on Lou. What makes Louisiana interesting and unique is invariably its down fall --- especially when politics is concerned. Louisiana , I think, is the closest thing to a third-world country (especially in politics) that you might find in these here United States (don't mean to disparage any third-world countries). People come here --- N.O. especially --- to let their hair down and experience a little debauchery -- but it doesn't end when they leave --- the same debauchery oozes into and exudes from the political landscape of Louisiana life. Just do a little history read up on old Huey Long and you'll get an idea of the cronyism that still corrupts Louisiana politics --- hell, Mr. Long was the closest thing to a dictator this country has ever known ---- might of been why he was assassinated (side note: John B Fournet was Huey's right hand man and Speaker of the House and was by him when Long was assassinated -- he was also my great great ? uncle).
We've elected and relected (?) people like Governor Edwin Edwards -- corrupt playboys and swindlers --- Edwards is serving a 10 year sentence for racketeering and he is probably the most popular politician in modern Louisiana history -- should give you an idea. Any straight lace politician that doesn't fit the mold has an ice cubes chance in hell to get elected --- but this might be changing (Republican Bobby Jindal for ex.).

A final example of Louisiana political ineptness : I believe on 60 Minutes (CBS) , when asked if the new levee walls would hold for the next major hurricane, Mayor Ray Nagin (God help us) replied and I'm paraphrasing here: "Look at this wall it ain't going nowhere" as he casually knocked on it. Maybe, just maybe, people in Louisiana and other states might want to have a little bit more of an objective, engineering, type reassurance on the stability of the levee walls --- just maybe.

Justin

Originally Posted by jaegerhund

Poor Al Gore --- he so much wants to be cool and liked.

He just wants to be President, I think. And you cannot be President without being liked.

Originally Posted by Kees

He just wants to be President, I think. And you cannot be President without being liked.

I believe it's more than that --and I'm not the only one (recent South Park episode with the whole "man-bear-pig" thing pointed this out). Plus you can stand up for time honored values that have nothing to do with being "cool" and get elected --- he's chosen to hop on the global warming band wagon ---- which to me shows how cool and hip and with it and enlightened he wishes he was --- he'll be living in a commune soon, listening to Phish, and smoking doobies --- and if something else cool comes along he'll hop on that too.

Justin

Plus: If you really want to get elected in this country, you stay towards the middle ground --- you don't alienate a reasonable size of your voters by swaying too far left or right or by having one (some may say extremest) view point that you're labeled with --- now for me, global warming and Al Gore are linked --- what else does he stand for? Really ,I don't want to know.