->  >> Alan Hess wrote:->  AH>> Take Mrs. Palin's claim
to have opposed the
->  J> "Bridge to Nowhere." Long
->  AH>>>> after it was exposed as false, she kept making it. The
assumption
->  AH>>>> behind the McCain strategy is that truth is irrelevant.
-> 
->  RS>>> She still claims this.
-> 
->  ->> Because it is true.
-> 
->  J> Say it often enough and some people will believe that.
-> 
-> 
->  J> ***********
-> 
->  ->> In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said,
"During my
->  ->> service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in
creating
->  J> the
->  ->> Internet."
-> 
->  J> Marc Anderson (Inventor of  the browser Mosaic)"Without Gore, the
internet
->  J> wold not be where it is today."
->  J> J. Traub, Computer Science Prof. at Columbia: Gore "was perhaps the
first
->  J> political leader to grasp the importance of networking the
country."
->  J> If it weren't for Al Gore, you might not be reading this post right
now.
-> 
-> Thanks for adding to the evidence Al Gore did not create the internet.
-> 
Create, no. Facilitate, yes. Understand it's potential, yes. 'Taking
initiative' Yes. Deserves credit for that? Yes.  
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