From Joel Kovel's critique of Al Gore:Gore did nothing to stand against the ruinous trade agreements, such as NAFTA, and the emergence of the WTO. Very modest efforts to improve fuel economy for American cars were shot down by the oil industry without a peep from the White House.
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What? You mean in his position to serve the President when he was VP for Clinton? (sic) Oh come one.
Find another one.
Even Clinton admitted last year.
"Clinton took the time to methodically take me through each law, citing facts, figures and circumstances of the time, telling me his regrets and allowing me to chime in when I had something to add or ask. Because I didn’t think I’d be talking to him, I wasn’t holding pen and paper, and I didn’t have my recorder with me. So I stood there, arms folded, trying futilely to absorb it all. I have to admit, much of it went over my head. I got some of it, but I couldn’t do the answer justice by trying to relay it to you here.
In a nutshell, he expressed regret over precisely what I didn’t like about those laws. He regrets the “social” impacts of NAFTA. The agreement, he told me, was a fait accompli, but he said he was certain Al Gore would beat George W. Bush and that Gore would fix it. He regrets the media-merger mania that resulted from the Telecom Act and seemed to blame it, at least partly, on the dot-com bust"
Funny, the opposition tries to blame Al Gore for something he had nothing to do with and then refuses to give recogniton for what he was responsible in accomplishing. Like the one thing the Clinton Administration did do right, when he charged Al Gore to get rid of waste and Al Gore reinvented government putting us on the path to growing the reserves and reversing the deficit.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. by Mahatma Gandhi."
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