Comment Re:Al? (Score 1) 211
"Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development."
Quoth an open letter by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn, both of whom must be considered "founding fathers" of the Internet.
The full file is here: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/misc/funny/gore,net.txt
He did not do the engineering bit, nobody would think so. But... the internet was a government research project, FFS. If a politician said he took initiative to the creating a road, would he ever be confronted with people insisting on interpreting his statement to mean that he claimed to have built the road?
Giving the line that significance is frankly stupid. This trend of purposefully misunderstanding people is doing some serious damage to the intelligence of politics.