Gore Helps Airlift New Orleans Victims

[kma3346]

FINALLY! Mainstream media decides to cover this important story!

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050909/D8CGUEFG8.html

[EC]

1. Yeah, waited a week so ** didn't look bad..

people will just read headline and think he just went down there. And excite isn't actually MSM....

But I don't think Gore wanted it public...

[MasonJar]

2. What a lovely, capable man! If only he hadn't been cheated out

of his election as president, how many innocents would now be alive?

[truthpusher]

3. Gore Helps Airlift (270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5267257,00.html

Gore Helps Airlift New Orleans Victims
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Friday September 9, 2005 8:46 PM
By DUNCAN MANSFIELD
Associated Press Writer
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president's son.

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An account of the flights was posted this week on a Democratic Party Web page. It was written by Greg Simon, president of the Washington-based activist group FasterCures. Simon, who helped put together the mission, also declined an interview.

On Sept. 1, three days after Katrina slamed into the Gulf Coast, Simon learned that Dr. David Kline, a neurosurgeon who operated on Gore's son, Albert, after a life-threatening auto accident in 1989, was trying to get in touch with Gore. Kline was stranded with patients at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.

``The situation was dire and becoming worse by the minute - food and water running out, no power, 4 feet of water surrounding the hospital and ... corpses outside,'' Simon wrote.

Gore responded immediately, telephoning Kline and agreeing to underwrite the $50,000 each for the two flights, although Larry Flax, founder of California Pizza Kitchens, later pledged to pay for one of them.

More details here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5267257,00.html

complete story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5267257,00.html

[Emillereid]

4. When will the real President Gore take his rightful place and

rout the evil imposter out of the People's House?
Gore in '08!!!!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. God bless you President Gore

[Lisa]

6. "If Gore promised to pay, it was good enough for them"

Great line! So despite what the Bush smear machine tried to do, evidently some people still value Al Gore's word -- and believe that he keeps his promises.

[AlGore-08.com]

10. This is probably the best version

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/12604461.htm

Al Gore blasts Bush; personally airlifted Katrina victims

From The San Jose Mercury News
By TERENCE CHEA, Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore urged Americans on Friday to hold the Bush administration accountable for failing to adequately prepare for and respond to Hurricane Katrina.

"When the corpses of American citizens are floating in toxic flood waters five days after a hurricane struck, it is time not only to respond directly to the victims of the catastrophe, but to hold ... the leaders of our nation accountable," Gore told environmentalists at the Sierra Club's national convention.

(snip)

"What happened was not only knowable, it was known in advance, in great and painstaking detail. They did tabletop planning exercises. They identified exactly what the scientific evidence showed would take place," Gore said.

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[Endangered Specie]

7. Im glad to see our President actively helping people

:)

[blonndee]

8. Will the real US Prezzzdent please stand up? Please stand up?

Please stand up?

Hi, my name is President Gore.

[AlGore-08.com]

9. Also on CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/09/katrina.gore.ap/

Gore airlifts Katrina victims out of New Orleans
Former vice president chartered 2 private aircraft

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of the former vice president's son.

Gore criticized the Bush administration's slow response to Katrina in a speech Friday in San Francisco, but refused to be interviewed about the mercy missions he financed and flew on Sept. 3 and 4.

However, Dr. Anderson Spickard, who is Gore's personal physician and accompanied him on the flights, said: "Gore told me he wanted to do this because like all of us he wanted to seize the opportunity to do what one guy can do, given the assets that he has."

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