The humorous part of this whole discussion is that it started with my point that it is easy to take someone out of context and make them look stupid. Apparently, politicians deserve the benefit of the doubt unless they are Republicans.
I had never read Gore's comments about the Internet, and I assumed they were taken wildly out of context. It turns out they were more ridiculous in context than I had believed. Certainly, however one takes the comments, they were more indicative of poor judgment than:
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"{waves hello}"- G.W. Bush waves to the blind musician, Stevie Wonder, as reported by the Washington Post, March 6th, 2002
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I would wager that almost anyone on this forum would gesture to a blind person when greeting them, as it is an action that is ingrained, rather than premeditated. It is the same thing as making hand gestures while talking on the phone to someone. Yet that is used to ridicule the President. Surely people can find juicier material than that on just about anyone.