wrote:

Sport Pilot wrote:

Gore said he "took the inititive to invent the internet". Which means
he claimed he invented the internet.

No, that doesn't mean he claims he invented the internet. It means
you do not understand or choose to misrepresent plain English.

Suppose Eisenhower had said that after observing the effectiveness of
the German Autobahn, he had taken the initiative to create the
interstate
highway system. Would you say that was equivalent to Eisenhower
claiming
to have invented highways?

Close - the correct analogy would be if President Carter said it...
which would be as silly as Gore's indisputably silly comment.

He could have said "I've consistently pushed for funding to develop
the internet" and been fine. But he didn't, so here we are.

Mark "but what's 20 years in political years?" Hickey