08-06-2004, 11:54 PM
I don't know what your point is. That doesn't address what I said at all.
I know there's a knee-jerk prove the conservative wrong because he must be bashing the liberal mentality here. I'm not saying that Gore wasn't an intellectual leader in the space, or denying that he was one of the leading supporters of the Internet's growth.
I had two points
1. That he said "took the initiative of creating the Internet" is a not close to accurate. If ANYONE can actually claim to have create it; it's not him. Maybe he simply misspoke, but it still doesn't make it less wrong. The original point of the thread was on speaking gaffes. This was a big one. He didn't say what he meant; he sounded foolish. "invent" "create" it's really not much different. He did neither.
2. That there was a bill in the 1993/1994 timeframe that specifically opened the Internet net up to allow copanies to actually transact business over the Internet. I thought Gore sponsored THAT bill, which he did not. And if ANYTHING can really be pointed to as the catalyst for Internet growth, it's that.
I know there's a knee-jerk prove the conservative wrong because he must be bashing the liberal mentality here. I'm not saying that Gore wasn't an intellectual leader in the space, or denying that he was one of the leading supporters of the Internet's growth.
I had two points
1. That he said "took the initiative of creating the Internet" is a not close to accurate. If ANYONE can actually claim to have create it; it's not him. Maybe he simply misspoke, but it still doesn't make it less wrong. The original point of the thread was on speaking gaffes. This was a big one. He didn't say what he meant; he sounded foolish. "invent" "create" it's really not much different. He did neither.
2. That there was a bill in the 1993/1994 timeframe that specifically opened the Internet net up to allow copanies to actually transact business over the Internet. I thought Gore sponsored THAT bill, which he did not. And if ANYTHING can really be pointed to as the catalyst for Internet growth, it's that.