[Terrapreta] Inconvenient Truth: Gore to meet Bush at the White House

[lou gold]

Our world is about to change greatly and very quickly. If we are to receive
the full blessing of a bountiful future, we will have to let go of our most
cherished and inconvenient past (all of us and all of it). I would like to
offer
a wish, a dream, a prayer that this symbolic event may become an emblem
of the day that the gates of hopefulness opened for many.

hugs,

lou



On Nov 17, 2007 11:52 PM, David Yarrow <dyarrow at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

>  who says god is a grumpy old man with no sense of humor.  last chance for
> gwbush to wake up and feel the heat?  u.s. climate policy will change 60
> seconds after the new president is sworn in.
>
> ~dy
>
>
> *Inconvenient Truth:
> Gore Won a Nobel,
> and Bush Will Host the Winners
> *By *Peter Baker*
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Saturday, November 17, 2007; Page A03
> Maybe he'll bring the slide show.
> Former vice president Al Gore plans to return to the White House after
> Thanksgiving, apparently for the first time since leaving office, to be
> honored by the man who beat him seven years ago.
> President Bush will host five American winners of this year's Nobel Prizes
> in the Oval Office on Nov. 26, including the winner of the Peace Prize, who
> fell 538 votes short of hosting the event himself. No word on whether the
> Supreme Court will be on hand to mediate in case of trouble.
> The president regularly invites Nobel laureates for a handshake and
> photograph and decided this year would be no different, even if they include
> his vanquished rival from 2000. The Gore camp said the White House went out
> of its way to accommodate the former vice president's schedule, even moving
> the event when there was a conflict with the first proposed date. Bush
> personally telephoned Gore yesterday to finalize the arrangements.
> "The president wanted to call him and lock that in and make sure he's
> going to be able to come," said White House spokesman Tony Fratto. "He also
> offered his congratulations and said he looked forward to having him here."
> A Gore adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity, acknowledged the
> awkward nature of the event. "It's unusual, that's for sure," he said. "But
> the conversations were good, and the White House has been very gracious
> about it."
> The situation is not entirely unprecedented. Bush invited Jimmy Carter to
> the White House to mark his Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, even though the
> former president had been lambasting the march to war in Iraq. President
> Bill Clinton honored defeated challenger Robert J. Dole with the
> Presidential Medal of Freedom three days before taking the oath of office
> for the second time in January 1997.
> But Bush and Gore, while together at events such as the opening of
> Clinton's library in 2004 and Gerald R. Ford's funeral last year, have never
> reconciled the bitterness from their showdown, and the adviser believes that
> Gore has not been back to the White House since leaving as vice president.
> Gore has been a vocal critic of Bush's policies, while the president has
> been dismissive of his former opponent's work against global warming. Asked
> once whether he would see Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," Bush had a
> curt response: "Doubt it."
> This could be the chance to change that. "I'm sure he would love to give
> the slide show to the president," the Gore adviser said.
>
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