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OrionTheWolf -> RE: Dems are now party of the rich (11/23/2007 9:24:03 PM)
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Mr. Liberal Rush,
I posted from a few different sources. Some of the ones from below are from various sources as well, a few are from CNN, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, and just AP stories. I suppose it is all a conspiracy right?
Here is some more facts for you:
" For thousands of years, the Kitanemuk Indians made their home in the Elk Hills of central California. Come February 2001, the last of the 100 burial grounds, holy places and other archaeological sites of the Kitanemuks will be obliterated by the oil drilling of Occidental Petroleum Company. Oxy's plans will "destroy forever the evidence that we once existed on this land," according to Dee Dominguez, a Kitanemuk whose great grandfather was a signatory to the 1851 treaty that surrendered the Elk Hills.
Occidental's planned drilling of the Elk Hills doesn't only threaten the memory of the Kitanemuk. Environmentalists say a rare species of fox, lizard and the kangaroo rat would also be threatened by Oxy's plans. A lawsuit has been filed under the Endangered Species Act. But none of that has given pause to Occidental or the politician who helped engineer the sale of the drilling rights to the federally-owned Elk Hills. That politician is Al Gore."
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Gore senior first met long-time Occidental CEO Armand Hammer at a cattle auction in the 1940s. When zinc ore was discovered on some of Gore's land, Hammer and Oxy bought it for twice the amount of the only other bid. Hammer then sold the land back to Gore while retaining the mineral rights. The elder Gore then sold the land to his son, Al Jr., who has received $20,000 yearly in mineral royalties from Occidental ever since. Two years after Gore Sr. was defeated in a bid for re-election to the Senate, he joined Occidental as a member of its board of directors and was rewarded with a $500,000 a year job working for an Oxy subsidiary. "
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It doesn't seem unreasonable to suggest that Gore, an heir, has considerable interest in Occidental's success. And there is at least the appearance of conflict. Has there been a quid pro quo? "Most Americans don't know that Occidental tripled its domestic oil reserves overnight because of a historic reinventing-government decision announced by Vice President Gore," Lewis tells Insight. "Oil companies have been lusting after the Elk Hills land in California for 70 years, but it was not until Bill Clinton and Al Gore that it was opened up, with Occidental the high bidder."
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Traditionally a Republican firm, Occidental was linked to the Democrats for many years primarily through Gore's father, Senator Al Gore Sr. The elder Gore was such a loyal political ally that Occidental's founder and longtime CEO, Armand Hammer, liked to say that he had Gore "in my back pocket." When Gore Sr. left the Senate in 1970, Hammer gave him a $500,000-a-year job at an Occidental subsidiary and a seat on the company's board of directors. At the time of his death in 1998, Gore the elder's estate included hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of Occidental stock. The Vice President is the executor of the estate, which still includes the stock and whose chief beneficiary is his mother. "
Now some quotes from a speach to Saudi's:
"The worst thing we can possibly do," Gore told the Arab audience, "is to cut off the channels of friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States."
" Despite an apparent conflict of interest that this column reported in 2000, the Clinton-Gore administration in 1997 allowed Occidental Petroleum to buy 47,000 acres of the U.S. Navy's Elk Hills strategic oil reserve near Bakersfield, Calif., for only $100 per acre. This purchase tripled Occidental's corporate oil reserve and boosted the value of its stock by about 10 percent – and Gore family shares by about $100,000. (Interestingly, Elk Hills was also involved in the Teapot Dome scandal, which erupted because Republican President Warren G. Harding's interior secretary in 1921 sold access to it to private oil interests.) "
" Still, the rivals do have one thing in common. As the sons of politicians, both grew up around money and power. They understand how these two things are intertwined--and have cashed in on that to make themselves wealthy. Indeed, Bush owes much of his business success to his impeccable connections: Family friends, prep school buddies and college fraternity brothers have all been key investors in his various business ventures. As for Gore, he's benefited richly from his father's financial savvy and was even his partner in a number of deals. "
"Once again, it seems, Al Gore--the man who never cared much about making money--will quietly profit from the trickle-down effect. "
Refute these facts!
Hell I have not even gone into the Iran connection with Gore and the Clintons.
Face it, democrats are often just as dirty as republicans. You just can't stand it when someone can actually prove you are wrong, and not being entirely honest.
Orion
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ORIGINAL: Owner59
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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf
Here is the original that I responded to. Notice the part in bold. I was responding DIRECTLY to that. You wanted the information, and now you got it. I understand that you do not like to admit when you are wrong, but you are borderline dishonest just dodging the information I gave you.
I never said anything about Al Gore other than he is involved in business, and probably has done less than angelic things. Do you need me to bullet point and footnote it for you, so you can follow along?
Orion
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ORIGINAL: Owner59
Dont you understand that Al Gore's family fortune was made primarily from dirty oil money? His father was a big friend of one of the world's biggest oil tycoons.
Do some research on your own and you will find out that Gore's family was about as crooked as the Bush family.
Can you show a link or newspaper article showing this?
We know about Nazi money and Prescott Bush,we know about Chinese money and Bush Sr,and jr.I don`t think there is anything quite like that in Gore`s family.
Can you show that Gore`s family has anything like that in it`s history?
You didn`t post crap.The Free Republic site is a kook site.I wouldn`t trust anything from them.
That`s ok,smear away.....
Trust? You just call it smear or lies when you don't agree with it, kind of like how you claim Rush does. How do we define hypocricy again?
Orion
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