Reply #10: My LTTE to MTP...

[YvonneCa]

...today:

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Thank you for your interview this morning with former Vice President, Al Gore. It was a good discussion, and an important topic for our country. While I have a lot of respect for both the Vice President and Tom Brokaw (whom I have watched for many years, and who did a good job representing the talking points for the other side on EVERY issue he raised), I completely agree with Al Gore’s position in this morning’s discussion.

I believe Al Gore to be a visionary leader. He looks at problems currently faced by our country and sees long-term, transformative solutions, and he sees the opportunity these problems also present to our nation.

On the issues of high gasoline/oil prices, our faltering economy, and our current shaky level of national security… he is able to see the connection between these events, and the solutions needed to address them simultaneously. He argues for big change…and he is right that now is the time to begin.

Our infrastructure (electricity grid, water systems, rail and freeway systems, many downtown areas, etc.) needs a major overhaul and modernization. We are threatened by the current system of energy in two ways…it may be manipulated or cut off (which affects both our economy and our national security, if we go to war to retain it), AND we are ruining our life sustaining planet. To use Al Gore’s words in “An Inconvenient Truth”… it’s our only home.

If we, as a country commit to the former Vice President’s plan, we will never again have to go to war for oil. Our national security will be enhanced. Our environment will also become more inhabitable for a longer period of time (and this is true, whatever you believe about global warming). Building the new infrastructure…transportation, energy grids, green buildings, new solar/wind industry, etc… will get our economy back on track because of the jobs it will create. It’s the kind of ‘stimulus package’ we really need to do the job.

But more important to our future than all that, I believe, we will once again have the chance to be seen as a leader for something positive in the world… and without that, our future looks pretty dim.

So I agree with everything Al Gore had to say this morning on Meet the Press. And, despite Mr. Brokaw’s best effort to sting him with questions about every right-wing talking point currently out there in the media and cyberspace, the former Vice President only made one mistake. It’s a statement with which I completely disagree. When asked about whether he was interested in a position in an Obama administration, or future position as President himself, Al Gore quipped that he had already been elected… but that he did not serve.

Mr. Vice President… I absolutely agree that you were elected. And what a loss for the country that you were not permitted to be in the White House. But I’ve been watching and listening to your many (mostly uncovered) speeches. You did serve after 2000… and, to this grateful American, you are continuing to serve today.


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