Most Overstated Headline of the Day
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
According to the Times Online, the Gore separation is pretty much the BP oil spill of love for America (all drilling suspended pending investigation):
Several commentators noted last week that the bleak announcement by the Gores did not preclude future revelations about affairs. But countless Americans were still facing the unpalatable possibility that perhaps, after four decades, the Gores were simply sick of each other.
“The truth is we almost hope there’s an affair involved,” noted Andrew Cherlin, a columnist on The Washington Post, one of an army of sociologists wheeled out by the media to explain the inexplicable. He wearily concluded: “It’s more threatening to us if we see a couple who we thought were happy just drift apart … some of us will worry what our own marriages will be like later in life.”
Actually I’m too busy worrying about Al Gore and his willing and/or unwitting accomplices successfully pilfering the entirety of the rest of my kids’ lives to think, “If Al and Tipper can’t make it, how can my wife and I?”
Forget that divorce apparently contributes to global warming (as if we needed yet another reason to call Gore a hypocrite), but if Gore’s predictions for our future are correct, who cares if our faith in love is shaken when it’s going to be too hot for hugging anyway?
Call me crazy, but I wasn’t very shocked by the separation announcement. Al’s UT commencement speech wasn’t exactly fraught with optimism. Maybe that’s the afternoon he discovered that Tipper moved out and took the Internet and the Paul Ehrlich limited edition bed sheets with her.
Perhaps like many Americans, I tend not to put all my emotional eggs in one basket, especially not one as large as Al Gore. If I allowed the actions of Al Gore to control how I felt about love, then his other actions would influence my life and soon I’d be out there on cloudy days cheating kids out of their lunch money by telling them, “Give me $2 and I’ll bring the sun back!”
If anything shakes my faith in love, it’s the fact that the Clintons are still married. But Gore? He hasn’t shaken my faith in anything — because I never had faith in Al Gore to do anything other than try to pick my pocket in the first place.
All I know is that, given the rapid increases in Al’s financial take over the years, in divorce court, Tipper’s attorney is going to have an income graph to justify his client’s demands, and that’s one hockey stick that Al’s not going to like.
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
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So the faithless lose faith. Not gonna lose any sleep, as it has no effect on me whatsoever.
Anyone seriously thinking they’re headed for divorce because Al Gore is, is a lunatic.
Wow. Tony Allen-Mills, if an 18-wheeler truck driver were to drive with the same level of competence that you report the “news,” he’d be arrested for reckless driving. Who pays you for such crap? And, why?
I sure wouldn’t gauge the state of marriage based on liberals like the Gore’s. Their worldview is antithetical to pretty much anything that builds a strong family and set of positive moral values. Their views and actions are more geared toward the breakdown of a cohesive family unit. The love of money and power sure isn’t conducive to a strong marriage.
Dog Gone that there global warming!
Maybe he should demand recounts, re-recounts, and re-re-recounts to see if he should divorce
This is what people get for putting their “faith” in liberal institutions and liberal people.
Only morons like the columnist look to people like al-Gore for guidance.
Liberals are sick, vile LOSERS. Why don’t you all just go to hell? Thank you.
CIFY
This is what happens when one party in a marriage GOES INSANE AND POWER MAD.
I think Tipper is not a Global Warming true believer and wants to get out of the cult before the whole insane scam falls apart. We will soon start hearing statements from her (or leaked court documents) statements that include the phrase “Al’s increasingly erratic behavior…”
Sure, it’s ‘blameless’ now.
But, Al just might ‘un-concede’ and hire an army of lawyers.
Who cares, other than reporters with nothing better to write about? This is gossip column stuff.
I’m thinking Al’s going to take a puck in the teeth.
If it turns out there was an affair, I doubt it was Tipper’s. I mean, after you’ve had a ManBearPig, anything else is just mundane!
As we learned years ago from the Gore biopic “Love Story”, love is never having to say you’re sorry. Then somebody dies, everyone’s girlfriend/wife has a good cry and the guys go bowling.
Who cares is a good start. The media and the socialogist who think science can explain away marriage dynamics have way too much time on thier hands.
Enough already. So some liberal columnist goes all cosmic consequences on us, and we are supposed to treat that seriously? No. Stop.
To make this lamest of news stories go away, give both Gores a Nobel Peace prize for enduring each other’s company for 40 flippin’ years. Who among us could have done so for 40 seconds? Having done that, we can then move on to real news.
Yep,another non-story from “wanna-be,shoulda-been” news clowns. Al & accompanying performers have overstayed their 15 minutes on stage. I only hope they manage to take the Clintons with them when they exit stage far left.
My disagreements with Gore, Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, et. all are not personal, they’re business.
The media needs to leave the Gore’s alone, as they should with the Palin’s. This event, as opposed to Mark Sanford or Bill Clinton, has no impact on the lives of others. The death of any marriage is a tragedy. IMHO they deserve a respectful amount of privacy.
All these libs, getting divorced, destroying the institution on marriage. So sad.
Oh you know who else has been divorced?
REAGAN!
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This is one of the few times I am going to qualify my post with a
“/jk” tag.
Tipper hung in there until the money got “just right”. Now, she stands to make some real serious money on this deal. Of course, he’ll continue to soak GLOBULL and try to get more dough. But, trust me, there’s gonna be a fight over the money….just look at ‘em and, actually, 40 years is a long time…….heh.
Maybe he’s going to buy her out with Carbon Offset Credits.
Because when your GOD is the Earth, or Politics, or Money, really you dont have much to keep it together.
It’s NOT business. It IS personal. This jerk-weed is messing with my personal life! His insane policies are getting ingrained in society and now I have to have $6 curly-cue lightbulbs in my HOME when .47 cent Edison bulbs work JUST FINE!
I HOPE Gore’s life go to shambles and he falls off his indoor balcony into a pool of water ala Tony Montana.
I hope he becomes a fat drunk and people throws rocks at him when he walks down the street.
It’s VERY personal.
FIFY
Since everyone of us falls into that category, none of us are exempt or invulnerable. Political orientation is meaningless in this situation.
I never bought that those two loved each other. Their affection seemed forced and staged every time I saw them together. Phony as a three-dollar-bill.
The Democrats sold themselves on the fiction, so now they have to act shocked (SHOCKED!) when it all turns out to be a lie.
It was a lie from the git-go. That masher kiss on stage at the DNC Convention is nothing you would ever inflict upon the woman you love.
Ok, fine, throw MUD at him. I’m not a stoner.
Ha, ha, good one!
Rest easy and keep your faith in love, Doug.
It’s blatantly obvious that there’s no love in that “arrangement” you’re referring to.
Exactly.
Who gives a flying #@$*?
Sure there is. Love of power, love of the spotlight, love of money…
Oh…I see…you meant for each other.
Well then, no, of course not.
All those dance lessons. Kaput. No one did the “Wooden Indians In Love” fungus dance like the Gores.
I’m guessing that Tipper is getting her cut before the lawsuits for fraud kick in. My wife suggested that this may be their way of shielding some of their ill gotten wealth. Get divorced, big cash settlement for Tipper, lose everything in the lawsuits, then remarry the still rich Tipper.
Just crazy enough to work. Particularly in the Bizarro world we are currently living in.
Marriage for them is mostly about the love of power.
“Hillary Clinton knows her husband is a hound dog. She knew it before she married him. But they have their deal.”—Maureen Dowd
Gore always was unstable and when he ‘lost’ in 2K, he proved his instability with a meltdown, and then devising his Montezuma’s revenge by exploiting the scams of anthropomorphic global warming, carbon trading and green murdering our quality of life.
Give the man an umbrella and he could star in the next Batman movie, as the arch villain.
Tipper’s feed up with life in the asylum, we are too.
BINGO!! I too find it totally personal. He is in my face every time I hear that disgusting term “global warming”. Every time we are threatened with Crap and Tax, that is personal. I loathe and despise him and what he has done to this country and the rest of the world. I wish nothing good for him. Nothing.
The only reason why older men like Gore divorce older women like Tipper is the fact that Gore still has a strong sex drive and capability, so he sees greener pastures for him in this regard if he splits and puts some 30 year old ‘soul-mate’ on his arm.
His new lady, which we will see in the next four months, will likely have a smaller waist and larger rack than tipper.
Gore will talk about his deep respect and friendship for Tipper and how their fondness for one another has grown greater since their parting.
However, despite all this show-boating, every guy on earth with a working reproductive system will see through his proclomations and know why he left.
OT: the old bat helen retired per Drudge and others!
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All I can say is…you would have to be a complete gold-digger, blind and stupid to marry that a-hole. I don’t care how much money he has. Not.worth.it! Ugh. I have never been up close to that man, but for some reason, I am convinced he smells bad. And his breath would choke a horse. Just sayin…
Yeah, the Clintons have covered all the bases. They are a power couple.
On the reverse side, the only reason why women like Tipper leave men like Al is because she sees a huge pay day which she will have the freedom to spend on her own after the split.
She will have a large pot of gold without having to provide Al any physical or emotional attention.
Tippers future will be filled with extravagent shopping trips with the girls and exploratory growth projects that she will claim she always put off in favour of being the ‘good wife’.
The real question is….how many talk shows do we have to see with Al and Tipper separately discussing a love lost – Oprah, Larry King, The View etc.
Get your rage on.
Must be. I’m sick of them, and they have been on my radar for a helluva lot less than 4 decades.
Add to it the person scheduled to the the imam of the NYC mosque’s father was a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood.
Even Pat Cadell is asking if we Americans have completely lost our minds.
That piece of real estate was showered with debris and no doubt remains from the people who never got out of the towers. In that respect it is a gravesite. I am rhetorically at loss to understanfd what it would ever take to get the “enlightened elites” who live in NYC willing to defend their way of life, verbally or otherwise.
If you recall “LGM” lived in NYC and he was constantly supporting this kind of drivel. It never failed to amaze me.
Word on the street is that Tipper was tired of crumbs in the sheets.
After doing my taxes and seeing Big “O”‘s plans I expect there to me more divorces. For tax purposes….Complain about all the unwed mothers and make married couples pay more. Total Morons…..
Tipper tells ManBearPig, too late “the debate is over”.
Oh, pleeeeease. The Gores hardly set the standard for a good marriage. It never crossed my mind when he was VP that their marriage was good, bad or indifferent. They didn’t seem to be pretending to be “happily married” like the Clintons. Is Al using this to garner sympathy now that his global warming snakeoil sales are suffering? How many carbon offsets are needed for the separate households? Plant those trees Al!!!!
Dittos to that statement. That “kiss” reminds me of young couples who do aggresive Public Displays of Affection. Rather than impressing me with their love, I see it as a sign of insecurity in their relationship.
She’s definitely earned that golden parachute.
and nyc was another poster that regularly trolled here…
“I’m going back and clean the crackers out of my bed… I’m expecting company.” Groucho Marx
Or the John Edwards duo. Politics, like Hollywood, is filled with illusions.
Hey speaking of LGM-where is he? Maybe mom hasn’t checked the basement for a year and she’ll find him mummified in front of his PC.
Lots of data that shows there are 4 key times in a marriage that couples are vulnerable to divorce:
Very soon after the wedding
“Seven year itch,” or thereabouts,
Mid-life crisis for either, and for some strange reason…
…empty nest. That last one, thankfully, is less common. But, as Ann Landers demonstrated, it’s hardly un-known. The root cause, or so they say, is boredom. When the marriage was young, kids came along, etc. there was much to do. Now that it’s only the two of them… they find that they really don’t much care for each other’s company, or they aren’t united with a common goal, etc.
Not ultra-common, but certainly not “shake my faith” worthy.
What a stooge.
LGM (little green man) flapped his bat wings and flew back to the Moon.
Back in ’47 a friend’s parents split after children were grown. No problems just wanted to go separate ways. Marriage is much stronger than AlGore and what’s her name.
40 years of apparently rock solid marriage coming to an abrupt end, with not a whiff of discontent detected by friends or family!
Only last month, Gores bought $9 million mansion in California!
People who are unhappy in their marriage go on shopping spree of a multimillion Dollar home?
Smells like a rotten fish.
Seems more like financial management to me.
Al has amassed big fortune blowing Global Warming hot air, but the Nature has decided to call his bluff by getting cooler. Any loot given away as divorce settlement stays with Tipper even when a future lawsuit or two goes against FAT Gore.
Huh? Lose faith in love because these two split? Theirs was a political marriage, and neither of them was particularly attractive or inspiring.
Why should I lose faith in love?
My marriage is built on the love of God, Who does not stop loving.
Algore may have been raised in the church, but he does not worship the Lord. Algore worships Algore.