The Wrong Man is President -- opinion from The Age (Australia)

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The wrong man is President

Jonathan Freedland
September 18, 2006

Al Gore's film reminds us how the US Supreme Court changed the world.

I AM ashamed to say it took a movie to make me realise what, above all others, is surely the greatest political question of our time. An hour and 40 minutes in the cinema watching Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is what did it.

I had heard the warnings and read the reports: for two decades environmental activists have been sounding the alarm. But, I confess, none of it had really sunk in the way it did after seeing An Inconvenient Truth. I can think of few films of greater political power.

It should be a perfect yawn. A souped-up lecture delivered by a middle-aged, thwarted politician who was best known for being dull and wooden. Yet the film somehow gets right to your gut. Methodically, using graphics, photographs and the odd bit of computer animation, the former US vice-president sets out the case that the climate is changing, with human activity the most obvious culprit. By the time he's done, you accept that we're facing a planetary emergency, you agree that global warming is the greatest threat confronting the human race and you desperately want to do something about it.

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The range of emotions this prompts begins with shock, then anger, directed by Gore at those corporate interests that, with their political servants, have sought to keep this inconvenient truth from the public, especially in the United States.

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[AussieDave]

1. It only took 5 corrupt, partisan Justices - how different

things might have been.

How's that retirement workin' out for ya, Sandy ??

How good is it being the "swing" vote now, Kennedy ??

The other three are a waste of space - one is now worm food and the other two are soulless turds anyway.

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2. Al Gore's film

Well I guess it proves just how dumb we are.
I saw a TV spot today advertising a Ford Mustang. We are led to believe that it was something special but it wasn't new to us guys back when I was young. 500 horsepower, if that bitch gets four mpg you'd be lucky. I know there must be a thousand guys that can afford a bitch like that and I ask why.
Our car manufactures still sell speed and power and they wonder why they can't move their product. Are they as dumb as we are.