Gore’s Nobel Win Greeted With Cheers by Europeans

[babylonsister]

Gore’s Nobel Win Greeted With Cheers by Europeans
by Kevin Sullivan

LONDON — News of Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize was received with delight Monday across Europe, where President Bush is deeply unpopular, climate change is generally accepted as undisputed fact and the former vice president is widely seen as a welcome anti-Bush.

“He’s the evidence that America is still capable of intelligent discourse,” said Peter Kellner, who heads the British polling firm YouGov. According to Kellner, opinion polls show that British people generally admire America and Americans but strongly dislike Bush. He also said surveys routinely find that more than 80 percent of Britons agree with Gore that climate change exists and is man-made.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Gore “inspirational,” and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said he hoped Gore’s honor would encourage world leaders to “approach this challenge even more swiftly and decisively.”

John Noach, 69, a Dutch citizen who was sitting in a London Starbucks on Friday, said that in Europe, “most reasonable people” think of Gore as “a lifeline to sanity.”

Respect for environmentalism crosses political and social lines in Europe; the 27-country European Union views itself as the global leader in addressing such issues as warming and pollution. The choice of Gore for the honor, conferred by an independent committee appointed by the parliament of Norway, reflected mainstream thinking in Europe as a whole.

Last October, Gore’s Academy Award-winning film “An Inconvenient Truth” was shown to about 200 members of the French parliament to “sensitize deputies and senators” to environmental issues, according to the then-president of the National Assembly, Jean-Louis Debre.

Le Monde newspaper called the screening a “triumph,” and its columnist Dominique Dhombres hailed Gore as “the American hero of the fight against global warming.”

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/14/4530/

[aquart]

1. As opposed to the charming reception he received here at home.

A prophet is without honor in his own country, I suppose.

[earthboundmisfit]

2. Yet the squatter in our White House

reportedly "has no plans" to call Gore and congratulate him.

[murielm99]

3. But he will call whomever wins

the World Series.

[opihimoimoi]

5. Sour Grape LoserMan that Bush is....no Plans huh? So revealing of utter contempt/jealousy

No Class and a SMALL TINY MIND...Bush reps the PUB Mindset of Greed/Vainity

[malaise]

8. I'm sure Gore is happy with that

Who needs congratulations from a classless common war criminal.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

Kicked and recommended.

[malaise]

6. Bushie won't be rubbing Angela's shoulders

after this:
“Like no other, Al Gore has for many years through his personal commitment contributed to heightening global awareness of the need to develop effective strategies to counter climate change,” Merkel said Friday.
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“He’s the evidence that America is still capable of intelligent discourse,”
hahahaha

I wonder if Bush knows he's the laughing stock of the planet.

[Swamp Rat]

7. Here's the 5th rec!

:bounce:

[malaise]

10. You knew this would have been the planet's reaction

Be proud :D

[BuelahWitch]

9. Al Gore is a true hero

Why do the Europeans get it and we don't? Because two World Wars were fought on their soil?
Because they don't have organized religion shoved down their throats? They didn't grow up with phoney John Wayne-type cowboys as heroes on the tee-vee(and even more phoney politicos like Ray-gun and King George II trying to imitate them in real life)?
Why is it that Europeans seem to recognize and commend intelligence and our citizens scorn it?
I think my new .sig line will be "Al Gore-a lifeline to sanity..."

[DBoon]

11. You answered your own question

"Because two World Wars were fought on their soil"

Europeans know painfully well where political insanity will lead, having experienced it for most of the 20th century

[tsuki]

12. I wonder if Putin would keep Gore waiting 40 minutes? eoq

[Buns_of_Fire]

14. You mean Pootie-Poot kept Dummy-Dumb waiting for 40 minutes?

Whoa. When I was active in the business world, the surest way to express contempt (without openly expressing it) was to keep someone cooling their heels for a scheduled appointment.

I can see, shortly, standing in an antechamber in some world leader's office, while the Executive Secretary is telling him, "Boosh? Boosh? We don't seem to have that name on the Premier's schedule. Do you have an appointment?" (Picture David Spade doing it.)

[frebrd]

13. "a lifeline to sanity." Yes!

My feelings precisely.

Recommended.

[BelgianMadCow]

15. You effing bet!!!

another rec!! and thanks for the chance to express!

[DrDan]

16. what a shame. . . . more acceptance than here . . .

how unpatriotic can these neocons get . . . just absolutely green with envy . . .