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Posted by Bill on 10/13/06 17:28
Colin McFadyen wrote:
> Didn't Al Gore invent the Internet?
I think this bullshit has circulated long enough. The Republicans
inserted the word "invent", and amused themselves to death with it, but
Al Gore never used the word (check the original interview with Wolf
Bitzer) Al Gore did, in fact, play a large role in making the Internet
accessible to the public.
From Wikipedia:
"A second development occurred around this time, namely, then-Senator Al
Gore, a strong and knowledgeable proponent of the Internet, promoted
legislation that resulted in President George Bush signing the High
Performance Computing and Communication act of 1991. This Act allocated
$600 million for high performance computing and for the creation of the
National Research and Education Network [13-14]. The NREN brought
together industry, academia and government in a joint effort to
accelerate the development and deployment of gigabit/sec networking"
The most astounding thing about this all was Karl's Rove's ingenious
idea of attacking his opponent precisely in one of the many areas in
which he was stunningly superior to his own candidate. Al Gore was an
intelligent, astute supporter of the development of the internet, he
wrote books, he worked hard on committees, and exercised appreciable
leadership in every area of governance. And Rove still managed to sell
the idea that Bush, who probably reads as many books as Gore writes,
would be a better president. To top it off, Gore turned down an
opportunity to serve in the National Guard because, though he opposed
the Viet Nam War, he felt it was his duty to serve, and he did serve in
Viet Nam for four months, which is four months more than almost any
other person in this administration served.
I realize most people seem to vote for some vaguely defined charisma
over intelligence and experience, but I think Gore might well have been
the best president we never had.
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