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Title: Rick Perry backed an already-climate-crusading Al Gore in '88
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Politico
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61428.html
Published: Aug 16, 2011
Author: Bob King
Post Date: 2011-08-16 07:31:58 by A K A Stone
Keywords: None
Views: 43
Comments: 8
Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have forgotten a thing or two about the Al Gore presidential campaign he helped lead in 1988. In an interview with an Iowa radio station on Monday, the Republican presidential contender explained his role as the Gore campaign’s Texas chairman by saying that “this was Al Gore before he invented the Internet and got to be Mr. Global Warming.” But in fact, global warming was already a significant theme for Gore in 1987 and 1988 — long before his activism led to several books, a Nobel Prize and a part in an Academy Award-winning film. It was also well before the right gave him the "Mr. Ozone" nickname and talk radio heaped endless mockery on the future vice president. Gore, then a young Tennessee senator trying to break out in a crowded Democratic field, mentioned the warming planet as one of his priorities for his presidential campaign in April 1987, according to news coverage at the time. “He laid out a broad list of national objectives, from combating AIDS and Alzheimer's disease to curbing the ‘greenhouse effect’ — the threat to the Earth's atmosphere from the burning of oil, gas and coal,” The Los Angeles Times reported in covering Gore’s announcement. In May 1987, according to The Washington Post, his stump speeches included a call for the nation to “confront the emerging problems of the greenhouse effect and the threat to our ozone.” Later that summer, Gore joined Republican Sen. John Chafee in calling for urgent action on climate change and the threat of coastal flooding. Such was his reputation for green wonkery that, in a January 1988 profile in the Christian Science Monitor, an attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund said of Gore: ''I think it would be safe to say that he goes to bed at night worrying about things like stratospheric ozone depletion and global warming.'' So was all this unknown to Perry, who at the time was a Democrat trying to put Gore in the White House? No, Perry spokesman Mark Miner said Monday. They just disagreed. “The governor has always been a conservative and didn't agree with Al Gore on every issue, global warming being one of them,” Miner said in an email to POLITICO. Perry has, of course, broken with Gore before. In a December 2009 speech to builders in Dallas, Perry said a lot had changed in the years since he worked on Gore’s campaign: “I certainly got religion. I think he’s gone to hell.” In a 2007 speech to Californian Republicans, Perry said: "I've heard Al Gore talk about man-made global warming so much that I'm starting to think that his mouth is the leading source of all that supposedly deadly carbon dioxide."
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
Last nite, the first time ABC Diane Sawyer called Climate Change the reason behind our Totally out of control weather. Like everything else, the politics/diplomacy/propaganda keeping their silence....;} Something's on the verge of going Non Linear.
Then Diane Sawyer is a stupid nutjob.
In Perry's defense,everybody agreed with Goober at one time or another because his firm stands on any and all issues were always subject to which direction the wind was blowing. I'm old enough to remember when he used to BRAG about being pro-gun and pro-tobacco. Hell,he even bragged about growing tobacco while lying about it at the same time. Goober probably grew some whacky tobaccy at one time or another,but it was the serfs on Armand Hammers farm that did the actual work.
"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)
Yeah, record heat, record storms, all the things that climate scientists have been predicting coming true, means of course there's no such thing as global warming.
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So it never got hot before? Nutjobs. That is ok. When the tea party takes over you guys can sit and cry like babies.
Not in many places. And much of the country is seeing record rainfall, exactly what you would expect from a warming climate holding more moisture.
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Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
And ABC? And Disney? When you see the first Carrier Group in the Arctic. Will that do it?
#2. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
#3. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#4. To: A K A Stone (#2)
Then Diane Sawyer is a stupid nutjob.
#5. To: go65 (#4)
#6. To: A K A Stone (#5)
So it never got hot before?
#7. To: A K A Stone, *Ron Paul for President* (#0)
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"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#8. To: A K A Stone (#2)
Then Diane Sawyer is a stupid nutjob.
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