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• 1. hokumboy  |  March 10th, 2008 at 10:56 pm

  T. R.

  I can imagine the stories that man could tell!

• 2. Pat Cunningham  |  March 11th, 2008 at 9:03 am

  I gotta go with the greatest storyteller of them all, Lincoln. Big dude like him also could probably hold his beer pretty well. Another guy who’d be fun to have a few with is Nixon, just to pick his sizable, but warped, brain. Oh, hell, ANY president would be fun to drink with.

• 3. Kaus  |  March 11th, 2008 at 1:48 pm

  I can see how people wouldn’t mind having a brew with Clinton. He has all those funny jokes he tells like the one where his buddy Gore created the internet….hysterical.

• 4. hokumboy  |  March 11th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

  Kaus,
  lighten up!

• 5. Pat Cunningham  |  March 11th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

  Kaus: I keep telling you that Bush invented the Internet while he was AWOL from the National Guard during the Vietnam War.

• 6. Kaus  |  March 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

  Actually, you are almost right….it was his Father HW Bush…who served in the military with honor and valour in WW2. He is on record for being pro internet long before Al. Pat, I still like you. I want you to know that after reading more on the subject of Al Gore, he has done some really great things. Serving his country with honor unlike his boss Bill, ethical, and passionate about his country. If he hadn’t mispoke (horribly) on CNN that night, us Republicans wouldn’t have made such a mockery of his bragging. If he would have phrased his words more carefully he could have won Florida outright.

• 7. Kaus  |  March 11th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

  He Hokumboy….don’t tell me to lighten up. I find great happiness in disagreeing with Pat for the sake of arguing. My only request is that Pat get a spell check option for his blog….I get tired of seeing my typos plastered here for eternity.

• 8. Pat Cunningham  |  March 11th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

  Kaus: Two things: 1) Al Gore DID NOT misspeak on CNN. He correctly claimed to have been a leader in Congress in making the Internet what it is today. Knowledgeable people readily concede that point; dimwits don’t. The utter falsehood that Gore claimed to have invented the Internet was cooked up by the Republican Party — and swallowed whole by Limbaugh dittoheads and their ilk. 2) You’re the first person in the world to say that Gore’s loss in Florida pivoted on his claims about the Internet. (Actually, he lost Florida by only one vote — a vote cast by one of the five Republican appointees on the Supreme Court who shut down the recount in Florida and made the Bush boy president.) Class dismissed. Oh, for your homework, try reading a little American history.

• 9. Kaus  |  March 11th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

  It took 7 years after Gore’s gaffe by Kahn and Cerf to break down what he meant. Gore said he created the initiatives for the internet. However Kahn and Cerf say “There are many factors that have contributed to the Internet’s rapid growth since the later 1980s, not the least of which has been political support” from Al Gore. So I agree with you…Al Gore played a major role and should be commended. But he used very poor phrasing and never did correct himself till the 90’s because he liked being the Creator of the internet. You must admit that “creator” is more powerful than “inventor”. But you can win the argument cause it’s your website and you worship all democrats including Ted Kennedy and KKK Byrd….ha ha.

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