An Inconvenient Truth: Gore's Mansion and Energy Drain

Last night, former US vice President Al Gore won an Oscar for a Leading Documentary for his role in raising global warming awareness and advocating the course for energy conservation. But as it turns out, Al Gore is actually preaching water and drinking wine. It became apparently clear that Al Gore's Mansion, located in the top-tier Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes TWENTY TIMES (20X) more energy than the average American household. It was also revealed that Al Gore's energy use sky-rocketed the minute he began to advocate for energy conservation. Talk about the messenger and the message. How much different can they be. Gore's message was for the world. Not For Him! He's not part of this world. His actions on this world don't mean a thing. His is a mission to spread the word of the dire dangers of global warming and how a surge in energy consumption can adversely increase the level of global warming. And the message is for the world, not for him. Or at least that is what we can deduce from Al Gore's extravagant energy use. Al Gore is the embodiment of the contemporary politician, the kind of politician this nation is trying to rid. The politician whose message is different from what he practices. This breed of politician crosses party lines. Last year, we saw a congressman, whose stern advocacy for the protection of kids against child predators, brought him fame and recognition. Yet, it was later learned that this same Florida congressman was indeed contributing to the vice of lewd acts against a child...he was indeed a child molester. This irony in life, this clear contrast between the messenger and his message, is not only constrained in the realm of politics. In the religious right, we had a renown Christian Evangelical, who was an influential leader of a major US faith-based organisation, confess that he was gay and taking illegal drugs. What has come of our leaders? Why have they mastered this art of deceit, mere hypocrisy? We need a change in our core values within our society, and such a change has to start from the top. But we, the voters, have the moral responsibility and the power to effect this change by instituting accountable leaders who have been proven to adhere to our social values and who not only talk the talk, but indeed walk the walk. This should be the message we ought to be sending our would-be leaders in the polls. The Two Al Gores