Colombia radios keep playing this song.For the U.S.A.

goin_south says on Apr 21, 2007, 19:12:

No worry....still If you are gringo, and you treat people respectfully in Colombia, then you will be given same in return. What any of the citizens think of 'the leaders' of the USA is not equivalent to what they think of us as individuals, if you are a respectful individual.

Why Colombianitas? Personally... I just don't like pink areolar tissue.

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Robert Jorge says on Apr 21, 2007, 22:51:

Yep, I would say what el feliz said is probably true. And I hope they (Colombians) don't consider Gore a "leader" of the EEUU. Most people think or know he is an ass clown here - yes, even liberals. I would assume most Colombians don't even pay him anymore attention than gringos do ... probably much less. My wife doesn't even know who he is, for example. But what el feliz said is correct: Treat people with respect, try and speak the language, be humble, and I would think 99% of people anywhere - not only Colombia, will reciprocate friendliness. I wouldn't worry about the masses being down on a person, because the person happens to be a Norte Americano: And because Gore, a dick that is worthless (though he did invent the Internet), was rude.

He who farts in church, sits in his own pew.

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Mononoke28 says on Apr 21, 2007, 23:16:

Al Gore... ... is a joke and no, nobody pays attention to him here in the States either, especially after he won an Oscar for talking about the planet. Pffffffffffffft.

Diana

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miamimike says on Apr 21, 2007, 23:31:

Yep If Al Gore is a Joke ,,,, what is that Chimpy looking Clown named G W Bush who is sitting in the White House presently,,, LOL

Bush has to be given "equal Air time" on the Joke Circuit, I'll susbsitute a Link instead of a Song,,,
http://bushorchimp.com/

On Sept 17, 2008: Senator John McCain said, as he had many times before, that he believed the fundamentals of the economy were "strong."Hours later he backpedaled, explaining that he had meant that American workers were Strong.

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adrimm says on Apr 21, 2007, 23:35:

Sorry , I don;'t see reference to Al Gore in the lyrics at all, it's a farcical song about Osama Bin Ladin (Colombian farce extends into music, think musical SNL meets Wierd Al).

As for Al Gore being a joke, I think that alot of people would beg to differ. By turning film-maker, he's managed to spotlight an important issue far more effectively than any politician in the US could - by using entertainment. I'm not sure what that says about what populace pays attention to.

As for Gore snubbing Uribe, well I have no idea, I haven't been reading much news lately. If that is the case and Uribe is clean, it is unfortunate - but just another reminder that Colombia has lots of problems that still are not resolved.

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scotty says on Apr 22, 2007, 00:17:

al gore is a joke, he is embarrassing himself and this country. he snubs Americas friend the president of Colombia. he flys around the world burning tons of fuel while telling everyone else that we are causing polution and green house so we the average folks should drive out cars less and buy special light bulbs, etc. gore is a hypocrite.
he is your typical liberal hypocite hollywood elitist phoney, he has no right to snub the president of Colombia. if i were Bush i would invite Uribe and his wife to Washington as a special guest and give him the royal treatment just to show him and Colombians that we arent all like that jackass gore. as for the statement of gore being a filmmaker, please give us a break, this is his way to get back into politics, he is not a film maker nor is he an expert on the global warming, its all politics its all showbiz. if gore really wanted to do something about global warming he had 8 years to do something and he didnt do a damn thing. he's a fake!

Get Rhythm, when you got the blues. Johnny Cash

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Miguel says on Apr 22, 2007, 00:53:

¡Qué elocuente! PBsH at it's best or worst. Oye scotty, tienes que mejorar tu inglés.
Y como se dice Don Gringo...JAJA

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raulinho says on Apr 22, 2007, 02:58:

the word is hallar not f**king jayar.. if you want to learn spanish don't learn it from your girlfriend!

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Titan says on Apr 22, 2007, 04:06:

Al Gore, along with G.W. Bush are all a bunch of F**cking Criminals. The funny thing is that they put up this big phony face of righteousness on and some people beleive it. They are nothing but a bunch of hippocrites who cite wrongdoings on others when their wrongdoings are much deeper and more Criminal than anybody could fathom. The sad part is that, the American populace isn't well respresented by these politicians who have their own agendas and who could give a damn about the regular citizen. It's all a power trip.

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aztec says on Apr 22, 2007, 05:30:

Rodadero Don't understand the reference to the song posted. It seems to refer mainly to Osama Bin Ladin. Colombians have no reason to glorify him since so many of their countrymen perished on 9/11.

Of course there are unlettered people in Latin America who only get their information from CNN, BBC or El Tiempo. Those people employed by these Media's worship at the Gore alter.

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panthdave says on Apr 22, 2007, 05:40:

True what does Osaman Bin Laden have to do with Gore... Gore is a jackass and was probably told by the Democratic Party what to say and do..Osama wants the Democratic Party to take control so they will pull out of Iraq quickly and he can start breeding again..without the pain in the ass USA being there. Isn't Gore married to the Heinz family which is loaded..Uribe did the best thing showed up and really did not make a big thing about it and only had a few words for that and concentrated on the real purpose while in Miami.
Viva Uribe screw the FARC...Uribe is doing a great job based on what environment he has to deal with in Colombia...
Politics should not mix with personal lives..or tells the character of person that lives in that country...



panthdave Miami

panthdave Miami

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aztec says on Apr 22, 2007, 05:45:

Isn't Gore married to the Heinz family which is loaded No, that is Kerry.

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panthdave says on Apr 22, 2007, 05:59:

Thanks Aztec....Was mixing those guys up.. panthdave Miami

panthdave Miami

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aztec says on Apr 22, 2007, 06:07:

Understandable... ...there is not much difference between them. Except, of course, nearly a billion dollars.

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David in Idaho says on Apr 22, 2007, 07:24:

So when a movie has too much gore ... we shouldn't let little kids see it, lest they have nightmares.

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scooby_1781 says on Apr 22, 2007, 12:51:

Some interesting Facts About Al Gore Tobacco Hypocrisy
At the Democratic national convention in 1996, Gore gaving a moving speech about his only sister's painful death from lung cancer. And since then he has pushed the administration's aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

What Gore didn't mention is that he grew up on a tobacco farm, worked on it, and continued to accept checks from that farm for years after his sister died. In 1988, while running for president, he defended tobacco farmers while campaigning in Southern tobacco states (and made the quote up above: 'I've raised tobacco ... I've shredded it, spiked it,... and sold it.') He accepted contributions from tobacco companies as late as 1990.

Gore claimed that "emotional numbness" led him to defend and profit from the tobacco industry. "Sometimes, you never fully face up to things that you ought to face up to."

Gore himself smoked during college. "Peer pressure played a factor," he said, "stress in college." We should have guessed that the guy who said "Tobacco addiction ... is just as powerful of an addiction as heroin or crack addiction" was an ex-smoker.
"Gore talks smoking with Sealth students", by Gloria Kruzner, West Seattle Herald, December 24, 1997
"'Numbness' Let Gore Accept Tobacco Help," San Francisco Chronicle, August 30, 1996

Drug Use
Gore has long admitted that he smoked pot, both during his stint in Vietnam and for a "brief while" after his return. He claims that it was only a few times.
Here again he seems to be lying. Former drug buddies of Gore's have come forward to say that he was a heavy smoker, right up until his first run for Congress in 1976. In college, Gore was said to be hanging out in the basement of his dorm, getting high and watching TV most of the time. After his return from Vietnam, friends such as John Warnecke say that got high with Gore as often as 3 or 4 times a week, listening to Grateful Dead albums and talking about what they would do if they were president. "Al Gore stoned was a mix of expansiveness, melancholy and paranoia," Warnecke said.
"Magazine Watch", Media Research council, Tuesday February 8, 2000 (Vol. 2; No. 6)


Environmental Trendiness (and Hypocrisy)
In the past, Al Gore has made his environmental positions a big part of his message, notably in his book "Earth in the Balance", which sold well. We don't critique candidates' policy positions, but some of that may come back to haunt him by making him look extreme, trendy or hypocritical.

Gore runs the risk of being shown up as a hypocrite, the way Mike Dukakis was in 1998 after Boston Harbor's pollution problem was exposed.

One example is the Pigeon River in North Carolina and east Tennesee. The Champion International paper mill has pumped tons of chemicals and byproducts into it for years, turning it the color of cofee and adding a sulfurish smell. Gore campaigned hard against this pollution and lobbied the EPA to crack down. But in 1987, as Gore started running for president the first time, he was pressured by 2 politicians whose support he craved for the North Carolina Super Tuesday primary. Terry Sanford (then a Senator) and Jamie Clarke (North Carolina congressmen) lobbied him hard to ease up on Champion. Gore did, writing to the EPA again and now asking for a more permissive water pollution standard. Sanford and Clarke endorsed him, and Gore won the state handily.

Another example is a Gore family property that has been mined for zinc and germanium for decades. The Vice-President and his dad, the late Senator Albert Gore, Sr., obtained the land in a very favorable deal with the late Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum. Gore, Sr. was heavily supported by Hammer financially, and carried his water in the U.S. Senate.

Back in 1972, when zinc was discovered across the river from the Gore family land in Carthage, TN, Hammer sent engineers out and offered $20,000 per year for a mineral rights lease on some property owned by a church that had been willed the land. Instead, they wanted to sell and Hammer won a bidding war to buy the land for $160,000. He then sold it to Gore Jr. and Sr. for the same amount, and immediately started leasing the land back from him for the same $20,000. Lynwood Burkhalter, who in the 70s was president of the company that assumed this lease from Occidental Petroleum, called the payments "extraordinarily large."

Mining is, of course, a very messy business environmentally. The mine itself hasn't been that bad. Republicans have claimed that it's polluting the local drinking water, but according to the Wall Street Journal those problems "are actually very minor." However, the Journal notes that the plant in Clarksville TN, which processes the Gore minerals, is a federal Superfund site contaminated with cadmium and mercury, posing "a threat to the human food chain."


There's also a damning quote about cutting down Yew trees to make a promising cancer treatment that we used to include in our Gore quotes section. Except that the really embarrassing part -- which we got from an editorial in the Austin, Texas American Statesman -- turns out to be distorted and out of context. The full quote, which is still a little odd, is:

"The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die. It seems an easy choice -- sacrifice the tree for a human life -- until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated, that only specimens more than a hundred years old contain the potent chemical in their bark, and that there are very few of these yews remaining on earth." - Gore, in "Earth in the Balance", p. 119

The distorted version puts a period after "for each patient treated," as if the ratio of trees to humans was what bothered Gore. In reality, his point is that treating all current cancer patients would destroy all of the trees, leaving none of the drug for future cancer patients.
"From Al to Zinc: Story of a Mine Shows How a Fatherly Favor Still Haunts Gore", by Glenn Simpson, Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2000 pA28
"Gore's Pollution Problem", Newsweek, November 24, 1997
"Earth in the Balance," by Al Gore (Houghton Mifflin, 1992) p119 (Yew tree) and generally. "How Would Gore fare if he were called on to serve?," by David Ridenour, Austin American-Statesman, August 16, 1998

"SEMPER FI"

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Robert Jorge says on Apr 22, 2007, 18:52:

"the word is hallar not f**king jayar.. if you want to learn spanish don't learn it from your girlfriend!"

Raulinho, why are you so upset? If you call somebody out for not spelling a Spanish word correctly, you better have a perfectly written post yourself. Your one sentence remark has 6 mistakes in English. But that aside, what is wrong from learning Spanish from one's girlfriend? I did, and am now still learning everyday from my wife. Here, I'll try a sentence out for practice: Cual es tu problema?

He who farts in church, sits in his own pew.

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Robert Jorge says on Apr 22, 2007, 18:56:

I made a mistake and used "from" instead of the correct word, "with" in my above post. See, everybody makes a mistake or typo now and then. jaja (was that the correct Spanish spelling for "ha ha?"

He who farts in church, sits in his own pew.

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scotty says on Apr 22, 2007, 20:32:

scooby that was an excellent post. thanks!

Get Rhythm, when you got the blues. Johnny Cash

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goin_south says on Apr 22, 2007, 21:49:

M-Rod Need to turn your radio to off, then.

Locombia; It's.... The Mad Tea Party!

Why Colombianitas? Personally... I just don't like pink areolar tissue.

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