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| <title>r0b1n h00d slu7 strikes again!</title> | |
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| <center> | |
| <img src="http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/3991/pics/robinhood/robinhood.jpg"> | |
| </center> | |
| <br><br><center> | |
| <font size="-1"><br><br><br> | |
| Good afternoon. I'm <b>Al Gore</b>, and I'd like to<p> | |
| tell you about myself.<p> | |
| I know a lot about hardship, because I came into<p> | |
| this world as a poor<p> | |
| black child in a tiny town in the backwoods of<p> | |
| Tennessee. I was born<p> | |
| in a log cabin that I built with my own hands.<p> | |
| I taught myself to read<p> | |
| by candlelight and helped support my 16 brothers<p> | |
| and sisters by working<p> | |
| summers as a deck hand on a Mississippi River<p> | |
| steamboat.<p> | |
| My mother taught me the value of education, so<p> | |
| every day, I would<p> | |
| walk 5 miles to a one-room schoolhouse. I was a<p> | |
| mischievous, fun<p> | |
| loving scamp, thought I never dreamed that one<p> | |
| day, my youthful<p> | |
| escapades would serve as the inspiration for<p> | |
| "Huckleberry Finn."<p> | |
| <br> | |
| Back then, black folks in the south were<p> | |
| second-class citizens.<p> | |
| One day, a traveling minister came through<p> | |
| town, and I asked him if<p> | |
| anyone was ever going to do something to<p> | |
| guarantee civil rights for all<p> | |
| Americans. Well, I guess I made an impression.<p> | |
| You see, the minister's<p> | |
| name was Martin Luther King, Jr.<p> | |
| <br> | |
| My father was a United States Senator. He once<p> | |
| perched me on his<p> | |
| knee and said, "Son, if you work hard and listen<p> | |
| to your mama, someday<p> | |
| you can live in a hotel in Washington, D.C., and<p> | |
| go to an exclusive prep<p> | |
| school." But life of privilege was not for me.<p> | |
| After getting my high<p> | |
| school diploma, I took a job in a hot, dirty<p> | |
| textile mill. I was so<p> | |
| appalled at the treatment of the workers there<p> | |
| that I organized a union.<p> | |
| Later,that experience inspired a movie - which<p> | |
| is why, to this day, my<p> | |
| close friends at the AFL-CIO call me "Norma<p> | |
| Rae."<p> | |
| <br> | |
| When word got out what an 18 year old factory<p> | |
| worker had done,<p> | |
| Harvard called and offered me a scholarship. I<p> | |
| captained the hockey<p> | |
| team to four consecutive national championships,<p> | |
| but I also played<p> | |
| football and was good enough to win the Heisman<p> | |
| Trophy. During my<p> | |
| college years, I lived in a housing project and<p> | |
| moonlighted playing<p> | |
| lead guitar for a little rockband. You may have<p> | |
| heard of it -- the<p> | |
| Rolling Stones.<p> | |
| <br> | |
| But there was a war going on, and I felt I had<p> | |
| to serve my<p> | |
| country. So I enlisted in the U. S. Army and<p> | |
| went to Vietnam. I was<p> | |
| deeply opposed to the war, but I did my duty as<p> | |
| a soldier and came back<p> | |
| home with the Medal of Honor and the Croix de<p> | |
| Guerre.<p> | |
| <br> | |
| When I got back, I took a long journey across<p> | |
| this great land of<p> | |
| ours. I've crossed the deserts bare, man, I've<p> | |
| breathed the mountain<p> | |
| air, man, I've traveled, I've done my share,<p> | |
| man, I've been everywhere.<p> | |
| And the people I met at truckstops and<p> | |
| campgrounds and homeless shelters<p> | |
| on that journey all said the same thing: "Al, we<p> | |
| need you in<p> | |
| Washington."<p> | |
| <br> | |
| I knew they were right, but first I had to take<p> | |
| care of some other<p> | |
| business---building the World Trade Center,<p> | |
| founding the Audubon<p> | |
| Society, doing the clinical research that proved<p> | |
| smoking caused cancer,<p> | |
| and coming up with the recipe for Mrs. Field's<p> | |
| chocolate chip cookies.<p> | |
| <br> | |
| Finally, I deferred to the demands of the people<p> | |
| of Tennessee and<p> | |
| allowed them to elect me to the House of<p> | |
| Representatives and the<p> | |
| Senate. And then one winter day nearly nine<p> | |
| years ago, for no particular<p> | |
| reason, I answered the call of the people once<p> | |
| again and took the oath<p> | |
| of office as Vice President of the United<p> | |
| States.<p> | |
| <br> | |
| Since then, I've been part of the most<p> | |
| successful administration<p> | |
| in American history. Many times Bill Clinton<p> | |
| has been pondering some<p> | |
| grave decision and has asked me what to do. And<p> | |
| when I would give him<p> | |
| my thoughts, he would invariable say, "Of<p> | |
| course. That's brilliant.<p> | |
| Why didn't I think of that?" During the darkest<p> | |
| days of the impeachment<p> | |
| battle, the president told me he only wished he<p> | |
| had listened when I told<p> | |
| him to stay away form that dark-haired intern.<p> | |
| <br> | |
| So after I decided to run for president, I sat<p> | |
| down with him and<p> | |
| asked if he had any suggestions about how to<p> | |
| conduct my campaign. And<p> | |
| Bill Clinton gave me a few simple words of<p> | |
| advice -- words I'll never<p> | |
| forget. He looked me in the eye and he said,<p> | |
| "Al, just tell the truth,<p> | |
| it's always worked for me."<p> | |
| </center> | |
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