Al Gore's Epic Hypocrisy

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He apparently sees himself as a 21st century Ben Franklin. But while the founding fathers risked their lives and fortunes in the pursuit of political freedom and self-government, Gore risks just a small part of his vast fortune in pursuit of potentially huge profits that will come at the expense of our pocketbooks and freedoms.

He can hardly be called heroic. Even more grandiosely, Gore sums up his slideshow by stating, "I think we ought to approach this challenge with a sense of profound joy and gratitude that we are the generation about which a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying 'they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future.'"

Move over, Achilles and Hector. Make room for Gore-acles, the hero of the future epic "The Iliad (Global Warming Edition)."