Being Green

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Did he have to travel? Was there some ugrency in getting him to Iowa? This was just one, big, expensive photo op. And it was stupid to do in the name of being green. As Brian would say, text book hypocrisy.

You can bash Gore all you want for his insistence that we all be green while creating a large carbon footprint, and though I completely believe his cause is noble, I wouldn't waste breath trying to disagree with you on it.

But I can't quite sign on board with the idea that it's "textbook hypocrisy" for a President of the United States to travel like....the President of the United States, no matter what he is going to be talking about. Unless all business for his term will be conducted directly out of the White House with no travel...it's not really realistic to expect the President of the entire United States to not be out travelling the entire United States.

Though as others have said, expecting the President of the United States to show up for work? That's reasonable (though while typing...not quite sure how we ended up there in this thread).