MORE GORE PLEASE (Chicago Tribune Opinion Piece)

[kpete]

Originally posted: January 16, 2006
More Gore, please
Posted by Frank James at 5:31 pm CST

Witnessing former Vice President Gore's speech today in which he basically accused President Bush of criminality for warrant-less eavesdropping on Americans was fascinating in part because it demonstrated just how spicy a Washington speech can be when the person giving it has nothing left to lose.

Typically, a big Washington speech is usually nuanced to the nth degree in order to be the least offensive to the greatest number of people.

But Gore, whose active career in the political career arena really appears to be over (that premature "Howard Dean for president" endorsement probably put the last nail in the coffin) didn't pull any punches, blasting the president in saying "What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping virtually compels the conclusion that the president of the U.S. has been breaking the law repeatedly and insistently."


For someone who had the reputation as a presidential candidate of always trying to have it both ways, of not even being able to choose his wardrobe without a consultant, it's striking to hear him make bold, declarative statements.

more at:
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/01/more_gore_pleas.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Who was it who said they'd rather be right than President?

Maybe we need to get back to the old fashioned notion of calling a spade a spade-if our ideas and ideals are really important, we shouldn't give them up just so we can obtain elective office.

[Talismom]

4. I wish a few more establishment dems would think like this! n/t

[linazelle]

2. WTF? "...reputation...trying to have it both ways..."

That's an outright lie. The labeled Clinton that way. OMG, can't they ever be honest?

[ramapo]

5. Gore was rather nuanced

His campaign wasn't marked by decisive speak.

[glitch]

6. No. Because then they would have to admit they'd been bamboozled by a

wannabe cowboy and his sidekick slug.

[ramapo]

3. How true

I often wonder how the election would've turned out had Gore (or any candidate) actually spoken their mind. No canned spam answers, no bs.

I figure such a candidate would either win or lose by the largest historical margin. I don't know which way it would go as I'm not sure how Americans would react to the unvarnished truth.

[peacetalksforall]

7. Damn, they're doing it again. Does the Chicago Trubune write about

the orangutuan arms of George and reference his trite bs in the company of oother leaders or do they ever say anything about his arranged audiences? NO!NO! They are doing exactly what the did to Gore during the campaign - attach his humanness.

At least the author if this article didn't give 90% to Gore, the human and 10% to the speech. But, if this is all this author writes about this the speech, he is acting unpatriotically and with partisan disdain.

I believe this was the most important speech of my lifetime (long).

This speech will be written in history, if for nothing else, than to mark the day a speech was elegantly delivered by a Dem that said what needed to be said - and with accuracy, truth, conviction and passion (which was all genuine according to be credibility meter).

Bravo. Al Gore!