Hi,
We wanted to share this personal news with you because we care so much about you as a friend:
We are announcing today that after a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate.
This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration.
We ask for respect for our privacy and that of our family, and we do not intend to comment further.
Hope to see you soon.
– Al and Tipper
With that, the Gores announce their separation after 40 years of marriage. No affair, supposedly.
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Wash Post Reliable Source: "I'm shocked -- beyond shocked," said Chris Downey, a close friend for many years who said she spoke to Tipper last week. "This is the least likely course of events I could imagine."
Chris Downey has experienced this shock before - when her former NY Dem congressman husband Tom dumped her and later married now-EPA Administrator Carol Browner in 2007 (#3 for Carol).
I ran into Tom and Carol in 2006 at one of Washington, DClandmark power restaurants - The Palm. Tom was as effusive as ever to me. Carol wondered how I looked so good for my age (Tom's my age - Carol has to be a few years younger.) I can't recall whatI told her ...
As you can imagine, the Washington press is using more wattage than Al Gore's Nashville manse.
MSNBC talking head - Wash Post editorial whiz Jonathan Capehart - laments the news: 'Ok, you're not going to believe this, but Al and Tipper Gore are cool.' And in Jonathan's world, cool people prevail!
I think she just could not stand to live with this arrogant, conceited, eliteist man anymore. I mean just the way he carries himself who could like someone like that, much less live with him,disgusting man.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Gore's a bore in bed, Sandra...
ReplyDeleteHey! The mere fact that she used to practice her drums while they did it doesn't necessarily mean that!
ReplyDeleteIn any event, should they divorce, she'll probably name "mankind" as corespondent.
Could it be that John Edwards was really covering for Gore and that it was Al who had Rielle Hunter as his baby mama? Was this the inconvenient truth? Nah, I guess not.
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that sex and arguments with your spouse increase your carbon footprint. Maybe that's why they're separating.
ReplyDeleteAl Bore's reputation has finally hit home.
ReplyDeletelooks like "global warming" stopped at the Gore bedroom door.
ReplyDeleteAl's heads just got too big to fit through the bedroom door.
ReplyDeletePerhaps part of the problem was that he was never home. From what I read, she was never a fan of him being in politics. She was not a fan of his house and senate careers with frequent trips back for consituency work, leaving her home alone with the kids. Gore seems like he is on the road constantly. First he had a teaching gig at Harvard, then he had is slide show, then the movie, then the production company. That all puts him away from home nearly constantly over the past 10 years. I can see how that might wear on a realationship.
ReplyDeleteAnon Last,
ReplyDeleteTen years away from Tipper may have been the only way the relationship lated as long as it did. He is no house-a- fire. If speech is any indicationb, foreplay could last days for big Al.
But how do you stay apparently happily married for *40* yrs and then say, "Eh, that's enough of that" -- without an affair.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe they were just trying to wait until the kids were dead. Thank you very much. I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
Joe