Thursday, September 08, 2005
More Reasons To Love Al Gore
What's my latest reason to love Al Gore? When Katrina struck, he saw there were people who needed help, figured out a way to help them, and acted on it.In stories from Chattanooga as well as Knoxville, we see that Al Gore chartered a jet to fly to New Orleans and pick up evacuees. Not only did he just pay to charter the jet, but he flew along and helped with the effort. Better yet, despite the fact that he spearheaded this effort, he wouldn't take credit for it. From the Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Former Vice President Al Gore arranged the flight and was on board, but he declined to take credit for the airlift, fearing it would be "politicized."And from the Chattanooga Times Free Press:
Sunday’s flight was the second Mr. Gore chartered. The first landed Saturday in Knoxville with "a lot of wheelchair-bound patients," Dr. LaFon said. Darkness delayed the flight to Chattanooga until Sunday, he said.
The first passengers to disembark from the plane in Chattanooga had chronic medical needs — asthma, seizures and heart conditions — that needed immediate attention, and they were taken by ambulance to area hospitals.
Al Gore is a true statesman, and a Tennessee Volunteer in every fine sense of the word. He knew that the people of his home state would be there for the people who needed help, and he made it happen. Instead of giving speeches or issuing platitudes, he got the job done.Kinda makes you wish he was President, doesn't it?
UPDATE: Here's a blow-by-blow of how it came about.
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