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There are cynical people, and you know who you are, who believe Al Gore has no business receiving a Nobel Peace Prize. They say he can’t be trusted, hasn’t advanced the cause of peace and really doesn’t deserve anything more than to have his mouth taped shut with a racquetball inside.

How any of that makes him different than Nobel Laureates Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, Yassir Arafat or Rigoberta Menchu Tum remains unclear. An examination of his Curriculum Vitae shows him to pretty much par the course when compared to the other prize winners I’ve mentioned above.

The online advocacy site DraftGore.Com describes their patron saint as The Conscience of the Democratic Party. They describe him as “eloquent, passionate, relentless, undaunted, bullet-proof, smarter than Wile E. Coyote; Supra-Genius..”

I was joking about the bullet-proofness, he isn’t stiff enough to have Kevlar skin grafts. Also, nobody can outsmart Wile E. Coyote. However, only Chuck Norris could really beat this guy in an election. Mere mortals require the votes of The Dastardly Electoral College.

Al Gore has compiled a truly phenomenal resume. Not many people can claim both an Academy Award and a Nobel Peace Prize. Both of these awards stemmed from the ironically titled documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

This title stands ironic because Al Gore knows better than most men alive how inconvenient the truth can really become sometimes. His list of exaggerations makes the typical post fishing trip drinking session look like a soul-bearing confessional. Let’s just say he could go into agriculture tomorrow and save money on fertilizer by using a sampling of his past public statements.

He moved quickly to claim the mantel of environmental heroism, based on exaggerated claims of his own significance. Without Al Gore, we wouldn’t all love, Love Canal.

"I called for a congressional investigation and a hearing. I looked around the country for other sites like that. I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. Had the first hearing on that issue," Gore said.

"That was the one that started it all. ... We made a huge difference and it was all because one high school student got involved."

Calling for a hearing several months after the place has been evacuated may even be deemed necessary, but hardly heroic. Even fellow future Nobel-Laureate and then-President, Jimmy Carter, had long since taken the initial remedial action to save lives, and the lawyers had already written the first drafts of their briefs against the now deservedly defunct Hooker Chemical.

The man even lies about the lullabies he was sung as a child, back when he worked on the tobacco farm. Gore unloaded this one on the ILGWU.

"I still remember the lullabies I heard as a child." Then, without missing a beat, the vice president sang in a bravely off-key voice, "Look for the union label."

As a junior senator in 1988, Gore was invited on a junket to Taiwan. He was told many interesting things by the Democratic fund-raiser Maria Hsia.

"If you decide to join this trip, I will persuade all my colleagues in the future to play a leader [sic] role in your presidential race," said the invitation from an aspiring Democratic fund-raiser in Los Angeles.

In 1996, Al Gore learned he should have known better than to trust what he read from inside fortune cookies. Gore’s attendance at a controversial Buddhist Temple fundraiser mysteriously coincided with $100,000 in illegal campaign contributions to the Democratic Party. Much to Al Gore’s misfortune, Maria Hsia’s case hit the courtrooms in Spring, 1998

Now having dredged up all of these anecdotes about the smarmy, sordid path Al Gore traveled to make it to the top, I’m left with one burning question. What took the Nobel Committee so long?

Gore is dishonest, supports left-of-center causes and beliefs, frequently distorts the truth to insult the current President of The United States and gets way more media attention than he truly deserves. This guy fits the portfolio to a tee. While Vietnamese winner, Le Duc Tho, couldn’t stomach these people and turned his award down, Al Gore has been hanging around with Leonardo DiCaprio. He has the necessary intestinal fortitude to stand neck deep in pretentious, self-aggrandizing smarm.

Al Gore believes in nothing that isn’t fashionable. He makes gauche and disgusting attacks against the leadership of his own country. He has been hyped and lauded far beyond any level of deserved merit, and will do absolutely nothing useful or meritorious to justify his selection as a winner. He fits in perfectly and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for everything false and insincere that this award has come to deeply symbolize.

Update: Another freakin' Denialist. Chech President Vaclav Klaus offers this statement.

“The relationship between his activities and world peace is unclear and indistinct," the statement said. "It rather seems that Gore's doubting of basic cornerstones of the current civilization does not contribute to peace.”

How this makes him somehow less qualified than F. W. DeKlerk for a peace prize, I'm still preplexed. Big Al's Da Man!