For instance, Gore starts out saying that, "here in the United States, patriotism doesn’t mean keeping quiet. It means speaking out and standing up for a stronger, more secure nation."

Anyone following the Clinton-Gore administration those eight long years knows what kind of baloney that is. Not only did both Clinton and Gore ask for and receive illegal campaign funds from many communist Chinese related sources, they took money from American industries and then approved the transfer of military related products to China that directly threaten the security of the American people today. That’s why, today, China has nukes targeting our major cities. Clinton and Gore allowed the transfer of the technology to China necessary for China to build ICBMs.

One would think that "standing up for a stronger, more secure nation" would also include protecting our borders against the massive onslaught of illegal aliens and tons of illegal drugs. But, the Clinton-Gore administration did absolutely nothing about that. Even when the FBI and CIA warned the administration that all sorts of despicable characters -- terrorist types -- were taking up residence here, the Clinton-Gore team didn’t care. Instead of taking action, they actually defunded some of the programs that were to apprehend known terrorists.

What the Clinton-Gore administration did do was to work to insure that illegal aliens could receive taxpayer funded medical care and education. Today, many aliens find it a lot cheaper to attend universities than citizens. Again, subsidized by the American taxpayer.

Out here in fly-over country, we do not call that building a "stronger, more secure nation." Most of us would label that negligence -- and cheating the taxpayer.

Remember the arsenic scare of a while back? That was proven a major fallacy. But, Gore is at it again: "Instead of ensuring that our water is clean to drink, they tried to increase the amount of arsenic in our water."

There is no information proving that the little arsenic we receive is anything but good for us. There were only a couple small water supplies in the nation that had arsenic levels that were high enough to warrant watching and they were quickly handled.

Instead, through pseudo-science and feel-good mismanagement programs, Gore himself helped to pollute the groundwater in thousands of areas throughout the country. Also, Gore was responsible for getting Carol Browner the position as honcho of the EPA. Together, they inflicted on us a fuel additive called methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE).

Because of the uninformed like Gore, the federal Clean Air Act requires that regions that don’t meet their so called "air quality standards" must use either MTBE or ethanol to reduce vehicle pollution.

They were warned many times, but did not listen. MTBE acts like a type of solvent. It travels faster in the ground and groundwater than gas and takes a lot longer to break down. Along the way, it picks up all sorts of impurities and brings them along -- right into our water supplies. Consequently, millions of folks around the country now have water that tastes like paint thinner. Worse, MTBE is also a carcinogen.

That’s what happens when we allow people with zero common sense to make law.

Gore and Browner would not listen to the science of the matter. They wrongly forced MTBE on the American people. Others are listening, though. Two weeks ago, a San Francisco jury found that gasoline with the additive MTBE is a "defective product" and that two major oil companies were aware of the chemical’s dangers but withheld the information when they put it on the market.

A "very significant" decision, said Scott Summy, an attorney in the Dallas firm of Baron and Budd, which has MTBE cases in California, New York, Florida and Illinois. "The jury was presented with ample evidence that these companies had early knowledge that predicted these problems. They failed to disclose the information they had and also promoted the additive in gasoline despite the fact that it had inherent problems."

Richard Drury, a lawyer with Communities for a Better Environment, agreed. "It was proven that the companies’ own scientists for almost a decade were saying, ’Don’t put MTBE on the market, or you’re going to create a big environmental disaster.’ The companies put it out anyway. It wasn’t an innocent mistake."

The problem should be dropped right back in the lap of Al Gore and Carol Browner. Unfortunately, they had immunity and so also had a free pass to go forth and harm as many people as they wish in the name of feel-good environmentalism. And so they did.

Now, the estimate is that the punitive damages for MTBE contamination could reach billions nationwide. Of course, the oil companies will just pass that along in the price of our fuel.

Meanwhile, Al Gore is still out talking about clean water. The big shame of it all is that he can still find people stupid enough to listen to him.