>>>>>>>>>>Not sure how responsible it is to put such an idiot on a national TV news show though....
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>>>>>>>>>Al Gore seemed to do well with his extra publicity, and he's a pretty big idiot.
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>>>>>>>>Al Gore is Nobel Laureate and also a Harvard Grad - so I think I'd trust his intelligence a tad more than Palin's.
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>>>>>>>We weren't talking about book smarts. We were talking about being an idiot.
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>>>>>>Fine. Gore has said some dumb things. Plain IS dumb....huge difference.
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>>>>>Dumb enought to be elected a Mayor and a Governor... not toooooo shabby !!! (and almost Vice-President too)..... and now working for FoxNews.... so not tooooooooooooooo dumb.. I'd say!
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>>>>>And a major best-seller, too ???
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>>>>Mayor of a town of what, a few thousand? And governor of a state of a million? That's not the big leagues.
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>>>>And if she wrote that book herself, I'm a monkey's uncle.
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>>>She's far more successful than more than a few folks (who are insulting her) here... :o) Not such an idiot or a dummy I'd say...
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>>More successful than the man on the street .... that's a pretty low bar to be President, isn't it?
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>I wasn't referring to qualifications to be President. I was referring to accomplishments to date in life and income. Mayor, Governor, author, speaker, and now commentator... I didn't read specifically for President in any of the comments I responded to...

Fair enough. Are you suggesting people can only be criticized by those at least as successful as them?