GORE, BACKING OBAMA, SAYS MCCAIN VICTORY WOULD HURT ENVIRONMENT
08.29.08 - Leído 25 veces. Enviar esta notaJonathan D. Salant
Al Gore, the former Democratic vice president turned environmental activist, said Republican presidential candidate John McCain is beholden to energy companies and would hinder efforts to ease global warming
INTERNATIONAL; August 29, 2008.- “Big oil and coal have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it’s worth,'’ Gore told a Democratic National Convention audience at the Invesco Field football stadium in Denver.
Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential election to President George W. Bush, said voters should back Democrat Barack Obama because McCain would continue Republican policies that “have led our nation into one calamity after another.'’
“I believe in recycling, but that’s ridiculous,'’ said Gore, who won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his fight to raise awareness of climate change.
Speaking before Obama’s speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination, Gore invoked the example of Abraham Lincoln in defending Obama against Republican charges that the first-term Illinois senator doesn’t have the experience to be president.
“The experience Lincoln’s supporters valued most in that race was his powerful ability to inspire hope in the future at a time of impasse,'’ Gore said, noting that Lincoln had served one term in Congress before winning the White House. “He insisted on reaching past partisan and regional divides to exalt our common humanity.'’
(Bloomberg)
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