Bush and Gore: An Inconvenient Reunion?
EmailABC News’ Jennifer Duck Reports: The man who hoped to win the White House in 2000 will finally be congratulated by the man who beat him in the end. George W. Bush and Al Gore will be face-to-face at the White House on Monday, November 26th.
Awkwardly, the President and former Vice President will meet at the place where Gore once thought he had enough votes to sit — the Oval Office. Bush is expected to congratulate Gore and other US Nobel Peace Prize winners in a ceremony.
It’s no secret that President Bush doesn’t see eye-to-eye with most of Gore’s talking points on the issue of climate change.
Gore, who also narrated a documentary about global warming called "An Inconvenient Truth," shares the Peace Prize with the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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If Al Gore can become more Green than Ralph Nadar after losing the Presidential race, then Gore should have no problem being gracious to Bush. I have $2 riding on the chance that Gore will make a joke about finally reaching the Oval Office when he gets there.
Posted by: Sean O'Brien | November 16, 2007, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
Gore should have a wet wipe to wash his hands immediately after shaking Bush’s.
Posted by: TJ IN LA | November 16, 2007, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
And Gore could add to his humor saying that he’s lucky that the Nobel Peace Prize wasn’t decided by the Electoral College.
Posted by: Roy | November 16, 2007, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
For a REAL RUSH, watch the 2000 debates, see who the liar is. Pick out the one who makes statements ONLY TO GET ELECTED, and see who has “morphed” into the opposite of what he claimed.
Posted by: ididit4u | November 16, 2007, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm
If I was Al I would gracefully decline to make the trip. Say he is going to do his part by cutting travel
Posted by: Mike | November 16, 2007, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm
They should just kiss and make up, and maybe sing a Christmas carol or two–to get everyone in the holiday spirit!
Posted by: Mikey | November 16, 2007, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm
bush should also congratulated gore for beating him in “2000″ and to say he was sorry for stealing the white house from him.. and the American people… greg
Posted by: gregory boone | November 16, 2007, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm
Correction: GORE HAD ENOUGH VOTES TO WIN IN 2000 — THE SUPREME COURT SIMPLY REFUSED TO ALLOW THEM TO BE COUNTED.
Posted by: Gore in 2008 | November 17, 2007, 3:56 am 3:56 am
Bush did not beat Gore…get a clue ABC and stop the propaganda.
Posted by: Truth | November 17, 2007, 7:45 am 7:45 am
Al Gore is a very intelligent man. It must be hard for him to accept defeat at the hands of our inarticulate cowboy, ape-like president.
Posted by: Eric | November 17, 2007, 7:46 am 7:46 am
Bush should ask Gore who has the most energy efficient home. Bush lives in an eco-friendly home that recycles rain, is made of scrap materials, and uses geothermal climate control. He built it before the current fad. Al Gore lives in a big, sprawling, and wasteful mansion that uses 20x the electricity of an average home. Ironic…yet the news media ignores it.
Posted by: Kevin Johnson | November 17, 2007, 8:48 am 8:48 am
The idea that Gore won was debunked by every study performed…including one by the liberal New York Times. Why do people spread propaganda on the web? No wonder liberals don’t think score should be kept at kid’s soccer games… they never learned to accept defeat graciously.
Posted by: Kevin Johnson | November 17, 2007, 8:52 am 8:52 am
What does cherry-picking environmental details some of which have proven to be false in a court have to do with nobel “peace” prize? Evidently there is a strong politically-correct group on the Nobel panel. I thank God that Gore was not the commander in chief on September 11.
Posted by: w(not bush) | November 17, 2007, 8:53 am 8:53 am
The Userper-chimp meets the legitimately elected-but-robbed real president of the US, Al Gore. Bush was inserted by the Supreme Court. He didn’t win Florida, that’s why Supreme court, his daddy’s buddies, had to stop the re-count. Bush never was legitimate president and he’s proved it by his complete piece of #hit performance while in office. And finger up to all you right wingers who hate Al Gore. You are the losers. Gore, whatever his faults is a better man than any of his right-wing-nutjob detractors.
Posted by: JL | November 17, 2007, 9:24 am 9:24 am
Al Gore is a class act. He knows how to act like a true gentleman.
Posted by: zabra29B | November 17, 2007, 9:34 am 9:34 am
I simply cannot believe ABC News. We have aleways watched ABC News. I am through. When Tim Johnson (suppose to be a doctor) was praising Hillary Clinton about Health Care, I thought what an idiot. Gore is most of the time off on some tangent that he knows nothing about. Goodbye ABC, along with a lot of other people who feel the same.
Posted by: Peggy | November 17, 2007, 9:51 am 9:51 am
I love the comment about “I thank God that Gore was not the commander in chief on September 11″. Ha! If Gore was President, September 11th would never have happened! At least his cabinet and national security advisor would have been competent, and *paying attention* to what the FBI, NSA, CIA, etc., etc. were saying!
Posted by: Jimmy | November 17, 2007, 10:18 am 10:18 am
Kevin, Won’t you please elaborate on those studies funded by questionable sources that ‘debunk’ the studies presented by Gore. BTW, I won’t keep score at a wus game like soccor either.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 17, 2007, 1:19 pm 1:19 pm
Bush and Gore holding hands. Finally the country can unite.
Posted by: Larry Thompson | November 17, 2007, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm
I am writting from Nigeria.
I can now see why America is looking the other way in the electoral fraud commited here in April 2007. Like Bush like Yaradua.
Posted by: Freddie | November 17, 2007, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm
About the election result, doesn’t the Constitution say that “if there is ANY question about the results, another election for that district is MANDATORY”? Therefore the 20,000 ballots thrown out would have been re-inserted. Gore by a landslide in that re-election”.
Posted by: ididit4u | November 17, 2007, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm
Al Gore is an intellectual who is too mature and intelligent to worry about “someone else’s mistake” -as I’m sure he didn’t vote for Bush-in either election.
Posted by: libertysouth | November 17, 2007, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm
Wow… people actually think Al Gore is an intellectual??? First of all, most of the people making those comments need a dictionary. “Userper”??? As for “Global Warming” and the UN B.S. Climate whatever they call themselves… do a little research. The scientists had not yet finished their analyses (that’s plural for “analysis”) when the UN politicians told them how to write the conclusion of the report. This is why so many scientists threatened to SUE THE UN if their names were not taken off of the report. And if you would like to re-hash the election, Gore couldn’t even carry his home state… the people who knew him best… and the Dems were the ones trying to disallow the absentee ballots of our military men and women. Why? People who serve the country know that Liberalism (Dems!) will destroy our country. If you hate a strong America so much, try living somewhere else and see if they tolerate your crap.
Posted by: Scott | November 18, 2007, 7:13 am 7:13 am
How anyone in their right mind could not recognize by now that America and the world would be so far better off if Gore had run the country the last 7 years is startling. Except when one considers that the “right” are not in their right minds. They’ve been conned by the Neocons and are no longer capable of an objective, reflective, critical minded view.
Posted by: GoodGod | November 18, 2007, 8:18 am 8:18 am
It is seven years later and as my mom used to say “turn the page” and that message is for both sides of Gore vs. Bush debate. Personally I hope Gore simply uses a good sense of humor at the ceremony and that Bush will be presidential. As for Scott’s comments a strong America can tolerate both conservatives and liberals–Republicans, Democrats and Independents. The “love it or leave it” attitude does absolute nothing for an enlightened argument. As Americans it is our birthright to be able to either agree or disagree with each other. Something that unfortunately so many are forgetting to remember these days.
Posted by: Kevin Scott | November 18, 2007, 11:43 am 11:43 am
GoodGod, what’s a Neocon? I’m a guy that uses common sense. Does Bush dissappoint me? Absolutely. He’s an absolute wimp on our borders and BIG, big spending government is what is ruining our country. I just visited Ukraine. Don’t tell me we have “victims” and terrible poverty here. You have no idea.
Kevin Scott, I don’t think “love it or leave it”, but work to make it better an if you’re going to live here, BE AN AMERICAN. Not a European or Hispanic or Asian who “just happens to live here”. And if you do hate America, why would you want to live here? (I don’t mean YOU, you… just the general term) My problem with the Liberals is that they ignore everything that made America great. In some cases because they are compassionate but do not think, in some cases because they do not have those quatlities and in some, sad cases (ie Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and any number of politicians on BOTH sides of the aisle) because they can personally profit from their stance. I work with a die-hard liberal. She is smart, funny, committed and she works hard. We disagree on many things, but we respect one another. Hard work, solving your own problems, not looking for a handout, relying on family, friends and yes church INSTEAD of government… those traits are what made America great. NOT government doing everything for you… tie your own shoes and make your own way…
Posted by: Scott | November 18, 2007, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm
Hillary for president Gezz will some body get a clue? Even George Stephanoplos says she can’t win
Posted by: gary | November 19, 2007, 11:41 am 11:41 am
Dear George,
I just wanted to express my opinion and I think that is Hillary Clinton is going to win the election in 2008. I think that it is time to have a new face and person in the White House and she has the experience of doing it because now she is the senator for New York and she has been working very hard for the United States going around like the other candidates and speaking. I do think that the United States needs a new person in the white house.
Sincerely,
Karen
Posted by: Karen | November 20, 2007, 9:59 am 9:59 am
1) I’m sure Gore will leave his huge house (using the electricity of 15 families, get in his Big SUV, Drive with a motocade to his waiting Jet and Fly to pick us meet the president who will congradulate him on how earth friendly he is.
2) Hillary could not even take care of her husband properly while he was in office. I find it hard to believe she can take care of this country.
Posted by: Joe | November 20, 2007, 12:57 pm 12:57 pm
Mr bush phoning troops, for thanksgiving and saying “it was the least I can do”
is sick, when he would not leave the country when in the national guard.( prior to disapearing )
edward
Posted by: edward magee | November 24, 2007, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm
George W. Bush….America’s version of Idi Amin.
Posted by: mindbogglr | November 24, 2007, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm
So get over it!
I expect that Bush will congratulate Gore on his Nobel Prize. Other than that, I expect very little to be said between the two.
Though I do disagree that Gore should have won the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize has turned into a bad joke.
Posted by: Mark | November 26, 2007, 10:30 am 10:30 am