No… Bush would have invented the Internets.

"I hear there's rumors on the internets…"

–George W. Bush at the Presidential Debate

If President Bush had spoken those exact words, you would be insisting that he said that he invented the Internet

I can read just fine. This is from Snopes….

Internet of Lies

Claim: Vice-President Al Gore claimed that he "invented" the Internet.

Status: False.

Origins: Despite the derisive references that continue even today, Al Gore did not claim he "invented" the Internet, nor did he say anything that could reasonably be interpreted that way. The "Al Gore said he 'invented' the Internet" put-downs were misleading, out-of-context distortions of something he said during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's "Late Edition" program on 9 March 1999. When asked to describe what distinguished him from his challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey, Gore replied (in part):

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Clearly, although Gore's phrasing was clumsy (and perhaps self-serving), he was not claiming that he "invented" the Internet (in the sense of having designed or implemented it), but that he was responsible, in an economic and legislative sense, for fostering the development the technology that we now know as the Internet.

Talk about selective perception.

" I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Vinton Cerf is considered one of the founders of the Internet. He was given a Presidential Medal of Freedom

for his contribution to the creation of the Internet and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

in Akron in 2005 for that same work. At the same time Al Gore was honored by the the Webby Awards with a lifetime

Achievement award for "three decades of contributions to the internet". Gore "sponsored the 1988 National High-Performance Computer Act (which established a national computing plan and helped link universities and libraries via a shared network) and cosponsored the Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992 (which opened the Internet to commercial traffic)" .

Vint Cerf said of Gore, "He is indeed due some thanks and consideration for his early contributions,"

So Slope, would you say, "close enough for me" as you are "not looking to find fault…"?

Pronunciation: e-'klek-tik

Close enough for me but I am not looking to find fault as you are.

A tongue twister for many.

"GORE: Well, I will be offering — I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins. And it will be comprehensive and sweeping. And I hope that it will be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be.

But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."

Now you will say he misspoke. Well don't we all including the President.