I mean, let's get real here... Many people of Al Gore's age get involved in helping aging parent manage stock portfolios... But there are different levels of management... The fact that Al Gore's mothers portfoloio had stock in Occidental Petrolium should not come as a major surprise... Lotta folks of her generation invested in Occidental because it was considered a safe (conservative) investment... Big deal...

CorpWatch could better use it's time investigating the real petrolium crooks who actively and personally have been involved in wrong doing... I mean, they put the blast on Al Gore as if he was Dick Cheney... There's somethin' dishonest here...

Al Gore helps his mom with some paperwork and gets the bigass Al-is-a-crook charge from CorpWatch and Dick Cheney gets a pass??? I mean, even if CorpWatch did a piece on Cheney it's completely incongruent that CorpWatch would elevate Al Gore to Cheney's "crook level status" for helpin' his mom with her investments...

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