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Originally posted by geoschmo:
By honest accounts what Gore did during his time in Congress was help to spur the growth of the internet by encouraging government agencies that he was involved in create and maitain a presence on the world wide web. But the fact is he had absolutly no part in creating the internet as he was still attending Yale university at the time it was created. So no matter how you massage the words he said or the context he said them in it was one of two things. A lie, or a significant verbal gaffe. It can't be neither, no matter how much Gore supporters would like it to be neither.

Seems to be a misunderstanding about the word create. You maintain that the word create can only mean one thing. Namely the initial construction of something. I don't think that is correct. (and further I don't think that you maintain that except when it is politically convenient for you to slam someone you already don't like with it). Say at some point in the future that Space Empires takes off and becomes the biggest game since Monopoly and further assume that I give substantial assistance to its growth. I might then say in perfectly natural language that "I took the initiative in creating the Space Empires phenomenon." Now the Space Empires phenomon certainly existed before I came along but that does not make my statement either a verbal gaffe or a lie. It is just me using natural language to express the idea that I helped something to rise in stature. The analogy is almost perfect. The internet existed before Gore came along but wasn't very big and he did provide some assistance in its growth. Whether this assitance merits the self congradulation he gave himself is another question but humble politicians tend to go nowhere fast and I would challenge you to find one. It was neither a lie or a verbal gafe but an honest, if somewhat overly proud, statement that had the unfortunate trait that it was easy for unscrupulus and willfully destructive people to take out of context much like the crazy Michael Moore likes to do.

Your welcome to try again with another one of Gore's so called lies. I think we have exhausted the internet one clearly in Gore's favor.