Son of Gore
I’m going to guess the Toyota Prius ceases to be carbon-neutral long before it gets to 100 mph. Never mind the safety issue. All I have to say is we’re lucky the only gore in this story is Al.
Ed Morrissey wants us to leave Gore III alone. Tragic thing about pols, how their kids’ problems haunt them. Tragic for the kids. Here’s a deal. How about Gore II leaves us alone? It’s not like he’s president or a scientist or something. Well, OK, he is something.
Tigerhawk also wonders about the carbon tiretrack of a high-velocity Prius but counsels sympathy for fathers. I can get on board with that. It’s the hypocrisy and busybodiness I’m having fun with.
TBogg, a somewhat infantile blogger, wants us to be nice to the Gores. It’s wrong to laugh at the misfortune of famous people. Countdown to when he blames Gore III’s father starts now. Parenting issues, anyone? Anyone have any thoughts on what happens when you spend all your time jetting around telling everyone else what disaster awaits their children? Possibly too complex for Boggfellow, who is still working on his moral argument delivery and hasn’t figured out, for example, that trying to make one with excessive pottymouth is somewhat self-negating.
But maybe Bogg is right. It’s wrong to mock pols’ kids!
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:05 am on Thursday, July 5, 2007
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July 5th, 2007 at 8:55 am
The simple fact is, anyone’s child can get into trouble, even if they’ve had the best family life in the world. But too often, the children of the rich and famous have too much money and too little attention from the people who matter the most. I think it’s safe to say that Al Gore is a self-indulgent egotist, so why shouldn’t his son believe he can get away with anything?
July 5th, 2007 at 9:27 am
I have a Prius, it’s a fast little car. I bought it not because I’m some enviro obsessive but because 1) Chicago has the most expensive gas in the country and 2) most of the driving is exactly the start and stop kind the Prius excels at. I expected it to be like a golf cart but it actually has a lot of pickup. I don’t know about 100, I wouldn’t try that around here (maybe western Kansas where it’s flat and cop-less), but it does mid-80s with no problem.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Oh whoops, I took that to be another Prius-is-wimpy story, not that someone actually had gone 100 mph. Never mind.
I bet Gore’s kid loves knowing that Dad used his near-death as grist for a campaign speech. That’d drive me to self-medicate.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:43 am
The car that I drove when I was 24 (circa 1972), a 1967 VW Bug, would not reach 100 mph. Heck, it would not reach 80.
Kids these days. I am telling you.
July 5th, 2007 at 11:23 am
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July 5th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
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July 5th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
The Prius is trying to let people be faintly green without loosing too much of the push-in-the-back feel that sells cars. It uses almost as much fuel as my small car 25 years ago did -or my current small car (Mazda 121). I guess Al Gore’s at least able to know his son is only wasting 1/3 as much fuel than his mates in SUV’s and V8’s.
Many boys will be idiots and once they’re over 16 it’s very hard to stop that.
July 6th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
“Anyone have any thoughts on what happens when you spend all your time jetting around telling everyone else what disaster awaits their children?”
AlGore III has 2 priors before this, for marijuana and drunk driving.
And he’s 24 years old.
Prius is happy (besides every other car in CA already being one, just kidding).
Going 105 mph helps deflate any remaining wimp image hanging around for the car.