Bush To Meet Gore In Oval Office Today
Al gets to sit in the office he wanted.
Forget the Mideast peace talks. A meeting that may require even greater diplomacy will take place Monday in the Oval Office, when President Bush receives America’s Nobel Prize winners — including his one-time rival, Al Gore.
A lot has happened to both men in the seven years since the 2000 election.
The president has faced terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and war; the former vice president left politics to campaign against global warming.
But while Bush saw his popularity plummet, Gore’s star has been rising of late — with his Oscar-winning movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” and the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change.
So, when they meet in the Oval Office on Monday, will they finally bury the hatchet? Don’t bet on it.
“This is going to be a very uncomfortable moment for both of them,” says Gore’s former campaign manager Donna Brazile. “I think after the president looks at Al Gore and says ‘congratulations,’ Al Gore will probably depart the room.”
The two men were dismissive of each other from the start, in a campaign that was fought as much over personality differences as policy.
But their rivalry was sealed by the election’s historic outcome — a split between the popular and electoral vote, and a bitter fight over vote counting that went all the way to the Supreme Court.
There was a brief truce after 9/11, when Gore publicly called Bush his commander in chief, and pledged his support.
But in recent years, Gore has not hesitated to criticize the president’s leadership. He was an early and vocal critic of the war in Iraq, and he has called Bush the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon. In his latest book “An Assault on Reason,” he accuses the president of repeatedly breaking the law.
Bush, reflecting the stature of his office, has been more restrained. But his spokesmen have taken shots over the years, calling Gore a hypocrite, and saying, “it’s not an effective use of time to pay much attention to what he says.”
(ABC)
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How funny would it be if Bush just gut-punches Gore? Maybe Bush gives him an offer he can’t refuse? Who knows, but I’d like to think he’d tell Tubber Gore to go fuck himself.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:42 amIm with you Ted..wish i could see that
November 26th, 2007 at 10:29 amI hope Man-Bear-Pig doesn’t attack while he is there.
November 26th, 2007 at 10:31 amIm super serial Man-Bear-Pig is real!!
November 26th, 2007 at 10:41 amSniff the big chair you POS!
November 26th, 2007 at 10:57 amYou were more of an under the desk kinda guy anyway.
USMC BEANS: I hope Man-Bear-Pig doesn’t attack while he is there.
John: Im super serial Man-Bear-Pig is real!!
LMAO. Oh damn I forgot about that..hahaha..freaking South Park.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:34 amHalf man, half bear, half pig….. Sound reasoning from our friend Al, lol.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:16 pmPlease get the Limbaugh/Shanklin parody of their encounter, I was able to listen to part of on ride home!
November 26th, 2007 at 12:22 pmOh and a few weeks ago, AlGore nuked imagination land in hopes of killing MBP, now if that isn’t hilarity, then nothing is! Oh Jesus on Ice skates!
November 26th, 2007 at 12:24 pmSorry… I know I’m late to the party… but someone please clue me in on the ManBearPig story. The not knowing is killing me. I laugh like hell everytime I see it and I don’t even know why. Like the punk told Dirty Harry… “I gots to know”.
November 26th, 2007 at 7:36 pmSeason 10 of south park has an episode making fun of al gore, South park is awesom because the creators matt stone and trey parker are not liberal hippies at all and make fun of all the hollywood crazies. Matt Stone is accutally a registered republican and Trey Parker is a libertarian.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:07 amI forgot to mention the best part about the creators of south park…They hate Michael Moore
November 27th, 2007 at 12:08 am