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RestoreGore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-19-07 01:01 PM
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19. It's much more than that...
Edited on Tue Jun-19-07 01:20 PM by RestoreGore
And excuse me, but had it not been for An Inconvenient Truth this crisis would in NO WAY be in the consciousness of the people globally as it is now, so I think you just proved yourself wrong on that. It wasn't just some documentary. How sad that his work which actually brought about the truth that this media and BS political system would never tell us is dismissed as unworthy. And he was already in the WH for eight years and the system STILL choked regarding this on all sides. He then can and is most definitely having a great influence on events from out here, but you have to have vision (and I don't mean tunnel) to understand that.

And last I checked, Martin Luther King Jr. was the catalyst for changing history with the civil rights movement and he was never president. Alice Paul and Susan B. Anthony got women the vote and they certainly were never presidents. I think some place entirely too much emphasis on being president as the ONLY way one can effect change as if the rest of us are insignificant.

You tell me what President in the last thirty years including Clinton did anything on this for all their talk now. And again, "the most powerful person in the world" doesn't sound like the leader of a Democratic country. It is absolutely arrogant in my view to think that anyone else in this country with the correct approach and resources, conviction, support, and heart can't have an even greater effect on historcial events. Have we become what we originally came here to get away from? People who put more trust in "Kings" than in ourselves?
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