The Corn Beltway Boys

Much of Barck Obama’s candidacy is built around hope over fear. To punctuate that point he and other democrats generally reference the Bush administration and the GOP presidential candidates’ constant focus on Islamic extremism. Fine you want underestimate the threat…whatever. However I find it ironic that word fear is not used to describe Al Gore. No. In fact, the man heralded as a friggin’ genius:

Climate change is occurring far more rapidly than even the worst predictions of the UN’s Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change, Al Gore said on Thursday.

Recent evidence shows “the climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly than those on the pessimistic side of the IPCC projections had warned us,” climate campaigner and former US vice-president Gore said.

For those of you keeping track at home…focusing on terrorism is a policy of fear…focusing on all life dying on the Earth…hope.  Daily suicide bombs and murderous rhetoric equals overreaction; a couple decades of raising temperatures: proof.

Then for good ironic measure yesterday, U2 singer knelt before “father” Gore to confess his sins:

Having climate campaigner Al Gore round to your house is to open yourself to a self-flagellating guilt trip, Irish rock star Bono confessed Thursday.

“It’s like being with an Irish priest. You start to confess your sins,” he said. “Father Al, I am not just a noise polluter, I am a noise-polluting, diesel-soaking, gulfstream-flying rock star.

“I’m going to kick the habit. I’m trying father Al, but oil has been very good for me — those convoys of articulated lorries, petrochemical products, hair gel.”

Don’t worry Bono, confessing to Gore is also a lot like a pedophile confessing to a Catholic priest [yeah, I went there].  It’s good the both of you could talk, it’s that walking thing you’ll have to work on.