Eisenhower would have had a better argument. They even call it the "Eisenhower" Interstate highway system. Also, the actually did create it in his administration, the Internet had been around for decades when Al Gore invented it.NOPE Tootsie, you and the entire right wing, are WRONG on your claim....but sadly, it is par for the course for conservatives and their propaganda lie machine...no. the fact that you think there is the slightest basis for thinking anyone could have been a worse president than bush is funny.
so like I said
The inventor of the internet as President? That would have been the bomb!
he never said that. he said he was responsible... which he was since he led that charge in the senate. but clearly you wouldn't know that.
baby bush... sub literate .... crashed our economy... destabilized the entire mid east.
yeah, anything would have been better.
again, no one expects you to either understand or be honest.
Sorry toots, Gore did say he invented it. The quote is all over the internet. You can't word parse your way out of it. Gore is one of the Democrat Dan Quayle's when it comes to stupid quotes. Kerry and Hillary being two of the others.
I like how you chastise me for agreeing that W was worse. Still a stupid bitch I see
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Origins: Despite the derisive references that continue even today, former Vice-President Al Gore never claimed that he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Although Vice-President Gore's phrasing might have been a bit clumsy (and perhaps self-serving), he was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet in the sense of having designed or implemented it, but rather that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development the technology that we now know as the Internet. To claim that Gore was seriously trying to take credit for the "invention" of the Internet is, frankly, just silly political posturing that arose out of a close presidential campaign. Gore never used the word "invent," and the words "create" and "invent" have distinctly different meanings: the former is used in the sense of "to bring about" or "to bring into existence" while the latter is generally used to signify the first instance of someone's thinking up or implementing an idea.
(To those who say the words "create" and "invent" mean exactly the same thing, we have to ask why, then, the media overwhelmingly and consistently cited Gore as having claimed he "invented" the Internet, even though he never used that word, and transcripts of what he actually said were readily available.)
If President Eisenhower had said in the mid-1960s that he, while president, "took the initiative in creating the Interstate Highway System," he would not have been the subject of dozens and dozens of editorials lampooning him for claiming he "invented" the concept of highways or implying that he personally went out and dug ditches across the country to help build the roadway. Everyone would have understood that Ike meant he was a driving force behind the legislation that created the highway system, and this was the very same concept Al Gore was expressing about himself with his Internet statement.
That's quite a spin job there. All that work and you still aren't fooling anyone.
A better analogy would have been if Gerry Ford claimed to have invented the Interstate Highway system decades after Eisenhower actually created it. I'll give Trixie that one, Al Gore claiming to invent the internet is like Gerald Ford claiming to have invented the Interstate Highway system