GORE: Impeachment Is Well Deserved-Says Bush "Is A Lawbreaker, Liar & A Man With Blood On His Hands"

[kpete]

Gore writes, incompetence rules the day and Bush has pushed for Orwellian powers a la "1984."

In the book, Gore is accusatory, passionate, and angry. He begins discussing the president by accusing him of sharing President Richard Nixon's unprincipled hunger for power -- and the book proceeds to get less complimentary from there. While Gore stops short of flatly calling for the impeachment of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, he certainly gives the impression that in his view such a move would be well deserved. He calls the president a lawbreaker, a liar and a man with the blood of thousands of innocent lives on his hands.

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"History will surely judge America's decision to invade and occupy (Iraq)&as a decision that was not only tragic but absurd," Gore writes.

............

"President Bush has repeatedly violated the law for six years," Gore charges, regarding the warrantless surveillance program. He argues that the president does not need the enhanced domestic surveillance powers he has sought and received, often in secret, but that the competent use of the information already available would have been sufficient. Such as, for instance, the fact that Sept. 11 terrorists Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almidhar were already on a State Department/INS watch list.

He does not flatly state that Sept. 11 would not have occurred during a Gore administration. But, he writes, "Whenever power is unchecked and unaccountable, it almost inevitably leads to mistakes and abuses. In the absence of rigorous accountability, incompetence flourishes."


more at:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3195676&page=1

[Phredicles]

1. Run, Al, run!

Can't you see the country needs you?

[Poiuyt]

2. It's nice to see that our Democratic leaders have stopped mincing words

[blm]

10. Takes going thru corpmedia gauntlet to realize they ARE NOT reporting the truth

and not INTERESTED in reporting the truth and you have to prepare for that reality.

This isn't 1992 anymore. The corpmedia serves its fascist masters' and their agenda, not the public.

[krkaufman]

44. Al's approach is hardly common among Dem leaders.

Let's hope that he and Carter are making room for more aggressiveness, though.

[whopis01]

70. It would be nice if some of the ones in elected positions would stop as well. n/t

[BOSSHOG]

3. A lawbreaker, a liar, a man with blood on his hands - in other words

a conservative icon spreading conservative values. The man is in a league with ray-gun.

[BlooInBloo]

4. What part of your subject is a quote, and to whom is it attributed? Just curious.

[kpete]

11. this part

He calls the president "a lawbreaker, a liar and a man with the blood of thousands of innocent lives on his hands."

[BlooInBloo]

12. Your subject leads the reader to believe that Gore uttered that quote...

... and I didn't see the linked story supporting that idea. (Else *they* would've used quotes.)

[supernova]

5. Is Al a DUer?

Hmmm.... He sure sounds like it here. :think:

[Xenotime]

6. Al tells it like it is.

[RevCheesehead]

7. It sure sounds like Al is running to me.

:bounce::bounce: Mr. President!!! :patriot:

[wtmusic]

18. We're in big trouble if our next prez is anyone BUT him

too many wrongs to right

[krkaufman]

Or just doing the same thing he did in 2003 & 2004, voicing his criticisms ...

... to sway the conventional wisdom and to set an example for other Democrats.

Maybe... if no one else steps up with the same vision and degree of criticism... Al will feel compelled to run.

[YOY]

8. Did anyone catch Family guy last night???

It was perfect. Won't go into details, but imagine an alternative world where Al Gore won in 2000.

[kestrel91316]

22. I know somebody who works on Family Guy. We have had some

conversations about Bush. Heh.

[YOY]

23. Whoever and whatever they do for Seth McFarlane

they are doing it right!

I swear that Brian is the liberal voice in society that is constantly screaming "What the f***?!?!?"

[Connonym]

35. I imagine that alternate world all the time

I'm sorry I missed it. I think Seth Green is brilliant.

[samsingh]

9. wow - Gore - an intelligent and honest man

it's heartbreaking how the media companies and the MSM have lied for the repugs and insulted all those who have fought and died for liberty. So many people have sacrificed for freedom and these media owners, media whores and repugs have perverted very check/balance and law to destroy America.

[Rob H.]

13. Wow.

There are some remarkably ignorant right-wing posters making their opinions known in the comments on that article.

[Clark2008]

36. They're really ignorant everywhere, aren't they?

Look at this one:

I am thorougly convinced that if Gore were president today, we would be fighting terrorists in the streets of Buffalo and Philadelphia instead of Basra and Fallijah. I do, however, agree that TV has turned minds to mush and that is why John Kerry got 51% of the vote.

Uhhh... if Kerry got 51 percent of the vote, why is BushCo. in the White House? :shrug:

[krkaufman]

48. Hey, maybe the guy is admitting that Bush stole the election.

("fighting terrorists in ... Buffalo and Philadelphia"... Just damaged.)

[Rob H.]

49. LOL, yeah

There are also some who are genuinely glad that Bush is in the White House instead of Gore. :crazy:

There was at least one poster who early on was posting some moronic Dan Quayle and W quotes and attributing them to Gore. ("What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is," is one of the ones he cherry-picked and attributed to Gore even though Quayle is the one who said it.)

[Peace Patriot]

14. Gore directly addresses the core Constitutional issues. The others do not.

In addition, he also directly addresses the core environmental/financial issue of our age: global warming, a phenomenon so important that it could well indicate that we are the last human generation, unless we are able to solve it.

And the two things are related: Solving global warming is critically dependent on Constitutional government/democracy--as I'm sure Al Gore knows. If you do not have lawful, democratic government, and responsive leaders, you can neither face nor solve such a crisis. The current fascist leadership, which operates in defiance of the will of the people, has sought to profit from the crisis, to benefit the rich elite at the expense, quite possibly, of all life on earth. We have an insane, panicked, hyper-greedy elite that has seized power undemocratically, and thus the greater wisdom of the collective will of the people, and its best potential leaders, are stymied. And this is especially important because of who we are--the USA is both the biggest polluter on earth, and also the most potentially powerful leader for saving the planet.

I don't like the "presidential sweepstakes" game much at all. I think we have to learn that no "knight in shining armor" is going to save our country, or our planet. Further--and most importantly--it distracts from the most important electoral fact of all: that all of our votes are now being "counted" by voting machines and central tabulators, run on "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations, concerning which the Democratic Party leadership has maintained a mind-boggling silence--not to mention their active, positive support for this secret, privatized, corporatized, non-transparent vote counting. It may be simply irrelevant who we want for president. With such power over election results--in both the primaries and general elections--by rightwing corporations, especially combined with the power of filthy money and the war profiteering corporate news monopolies, I think it highly likely that we will have a candidate shoved down our throats who will continue doing to bidding of global corporate predators and the fascist elite.

However, I do understand presidential politics as a sort of symbolic game with regard to the issues. And in this game, the core issues Constitutional government/democracy and global warming are NOT being directly addressed by ANY of the candidates. Except Gore, who has said he is not running (although he has not said that he will not serve, if drafted).

I noticed this about Gore--his ability to get to the heart of the matter--about three years ago, when he began making major policy speeches. The one that caught my attention was his speech on torture. "How dare they?!" he said. "How DARE they?!" His points were its illegality, its inhumanity and its disgrace of the USA. His formulation, "How dare they?!" was exactly right. It both called their legitimacy into question, and expressed the anger and passion that we all feel about policies of torture and death, and this gang in the White House who have perpetrated them.

No other political figure in the country was saying this. Oh, some said they oppose torture. But not this way. Not to the heart of the matter: illegal, illegitimate power. And certainly not with passion. The political establishment was more into covering it up, fuzzing it over. (They have yet to release the worst of the photos and tapes from Abu Ghraib--one of them reported to be the rape-torture of a child.)

Gore won my heart, then. And he has since further honed the core issues--the issues that will define the USA for the next hundred years (if we have that long): Constitutional government/democracy in the U.S., and global warming, addressing all its impacts, and finding a way to stabilize the climate and save the planet.*

If he would only add a third plank--a demand for vote counting that everyone can see and understand--I would join the "draft Gore" movement. He would be the one to rally around, the one who would make the "presidential sweepstakes" more than a game, more than a symbolic batting around of the issues, while global corporate predators decide who are candidates are going to be. It would be a real battle. Cuz I'm pretty sure they don't want Gore.

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*(Many people don't realize that the crisis involves more than radical climate change. We have had a global corporate predator-inflicted COMBINATION of environmental impacts--catastrophic loss of biodiversity, deforestation, flooding/drought, vast pollution of air and water, loss of ocean fisheries, mass stress on remaining components of earth's biosphere (such as disruption of bird and other migration routes, frog die-offs, bee die-offs)--that have greatly damaged the earth's natural self-healing abilities. Additional corporate-inflicted damage to food supplies and human physical health, as well as their propaganda impacts on our ability to think rationally, and destruction of community cohesion, weaken OUR natural ability to solve problems. Global warming--out of control climate change--is the RESULT of all of these many impacts. It's not a simple problem of too much CO2 in the atmosphere, although--as with the many ways that our elections are stolen--we need to start with the most obvious problem: mitigating CO2; restoring transparent vote counting.)

[malaise]

16. Gore is presenting the issues above the fray

This is beautiful to watch. Fuck MSM. He KOed Diane Sawyer this morning.
He will define the terms of the discussion. Tweety, Russert and Fugger better run for cover.

[Mandate My Ass]

She was disgusting

But he wouldn't let her get away with calling everything he said "political" and he wouldn't let her or the Bushies continue to frame the debate. :thumbsup:

[earth mom]

67. AL WAS AWESOME-but they didn't bring him back later as promised.

:grr:

Looks like the powers that be at ABC weren't happy with him-the jerks! :argh:

[Straight Shooter]

24. Peace Patriot, I bet Gore would respond personally to your letters.

You always write the most cogent, persuasive posts.

:thumbsup:

[proud patriot]

59. He's the best

:patriot:

[Tellurian]

69. ...

[Occulus]

15. Well, THAT'S rather unambiguous.

Gee, I wonder if there's any bad blood between the Gores and the Bushes...


....naaaaaaaaaaaaaaah....

[kiteinthewind]

17. Have I mentioned that I LOVE this man?!?!

:patriot: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[pat_k]

19. Flatly accusing w/o flatly demanding impeachment. . .

. . .is irreconcilable.

Would you respect a prominent public figure who flatly accused someone of murder, but refused to demand the required action -- prosecution of that murderer?

Bush is murdering the constitution -- a crime more devastating to our nation than any act against an individual. And yet he, like our other so-called leaders refuses to declare their intent to Do SOMETHING about it by taking up the fight to see Bush and Cheney impeached.

When Gore leads the way by declaring his intent to act, I'll applaud. Until then, his accusations -- accusations we are even hearing from beltway boobs like Feinstein -- are nothing more then complaint.

By refusing to stand up for We the People and by demanding impeachment, our leaders have created a national crisis graver than any natural disaster or social ill. It is bigger than any international crisis. By tolerating the intolerable, our leaders are surrendering our capacity to recover from disaster with humanity, solve our common problems in ways that reflect our common values, and serve as a force for good in the world. When the good will of the American people is cut out of the loop, no peoples, not our fellow Americans, not other nations, can look to us for help.

When Gore accuses, he is seemingly telling us he "gets it." But if he really "got it" he would see that the intolerable horror of the war Bush and Cheney are waging on the Constitution demands emergency and immediate action.

[Truth2Tell]

63. It's still not politically "safe"

to support impeachment. That's how you can tell he's running for President.

[frogcycle]

85. sigh

He is stating facts as he sees them. Much as not being a candidate frees him to pursue the climate issue without it being patently political (except to those who choose to say it is anyway), stating the case without including a "demand" has more credibility. It is how truly successful movements are born. Make the point emphatically, let it sink in, if it does not, then make it again. When it becomes "conventional wisdom" then the "demands" are unnecessary - the masses take over.

We have all had the experience - or at least I have - of being accused of ulterior, selfish motive when trying to make a point - "oh, you are just trying to..." "oh, you want..."

By NOT demanding impeachment in the same breath, and NOT announcing a candidacy, which would then have people going "oh, its just sour grapes" he can make the points of the truth of his assertions. It may be frustrating to those who want mobs in the streets, and I can be counted amongst those who would welcome them, but unseating a cabal as well-entrenched as this one is a VERY complicated process. Like brain surgery for an advanced, decentralized cancer.

[mmonk]

86. He is speaking to what others are not.

So if he hasn't demanded impeachment yet, it's more of a technicality than a political position. What other dems are talking about the constitutional abuses (other than DK)? They are all getting bogged down in the polical circus of "plans" where Al is talking about fixing the country. Seems he isn't playing the media game but addressing things on his terms.

[autorank]

20. He's running.

[disndat]

21. No two ways

No ifs, ands, or buts! Wow, wow, wow!

[autorank]

76. Always ifs, but it all lines up

Wins Oscar, has huge concert in summer, wins Nobel Prize in the winter, declares in Florida just before the deadline. Sure is going to happen, it's too good not to.

[WI_DEM]

25. I don't think so, he also said on GMA that he is not a candidate and is happy

with his work without being a candidate. Many people who are not running for president say the same things Gore says about Bush. But we will all know for sure by this fall because if he is running he would have to get into it by then because of filing deadlines, ect.

[autorank]

73. He's running but w/out being a candidate, being in the muck.

Can you blame him :shrug:

[mod mom]

30. Sure hope you are right!

I just ordered Al Gore '08 tees for myself and my hubbie from Huff Po. Let's hope we can get fair enough elections to overcome the "rove math" effect, but seeing he won big in 2000 (despite what the DLC says) and he is WAAAAY more popular now, I don't think kkkarl can even count high enough in the # of votes needed to steal '08.

[autorank]

75. They'd have trouble stopping him.

Bet he starts in Florida...holds sway on the Supreme Court steps in Tallahassee and grabs strong majority, demanding to keep the delegates.

[Kurovski]

52. You wouldn't lie to me, would you?

:bounce:

[autorank]

74. Oh princely one...

...I wouldn't lie but I could be just ahead of my time with this pre-cognitive thing going...

[Kurovski]

81. Madame Kurovska tells me the gift is strong within you.

All signs point to yes!

[lies and propaganda]

26. for the love of Gore!!!

please run, we need you so bad!!!!

[OnyxCollie]

27. "President Bush has repeatedly violated the law for six years,"

Gore charges, regarding the warrantless surveillance program. He argues that the president does not need the enhanced domestic surveillance powers he has sought and received, often in secret, but that the competent use of the information already available would have been sufficient. Such as, for instance, the fact that Sept. 11 terrorists Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almidhar were already on a State Department/INS watch list.

If Marion "Spike" Bowman and FBI Director Robert Mueller had listened to Special Agent Harry Samit when he tried 70 times to get a warrant to search Moussoaui's computer, 9/11 may have been prevented.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x757860

[socretes73]

28. America NEEDS Al Gore!!

draftalgore.com

[road2000]

38. It's draftgore.com

More than 80,000 have now signed.

[Triana]

29. Dayum - I'm gonna HAVE to get that book! (n/t)

[Blue Belle]

62. I pre-ordered it through Amazon.com...

and its already number 14 on the best sellers list - ITS NOT EVEN OUT YET!! I think its going to be a HUGE seller.

[speedoo]

31. K&R for PRESIDENT Gore.

This will be the next book that I read.....

[mnhtnbb]

32. Can't wait for book to arrive (pre-ordered on amazon)

[Raksha]

56. My copy is also pre-ordered, so that makes two of us.

I'm also getting Earth in the Balance and An Inconvenient Truth. I'm sure Amazon is tracking all the Gore books ordered over the past few months, and their record is probably one of the more accurate "polls" out there.

[annabanana]

58. Three!. . . . n/t

[indepat]

33. This will be one pissed-off DUer were Gore ever to back off, soften, or apologize for any of his

written/softly-spoken, much-too-kind, words.

[rateyes]

34. That makes two of us! nt

[sam kane]

37. Gore 2008!

I can't wait to read the book...

[Dudley_DUright]

39. If there ever was a "must read" book, this is it

Welcome to DU Sam! :hi:

[SharonRB]

40. We need you, Al

I'm going out at lunchtime tomorrow to buy the book. I can't wait! I sure hope he comes to Detroit on his book tour.

[Senator]

41. "Gore stops short of flatly calling for the impeachment ..."

Thereby providing the war criminals in the never-elected, never-legitimate regime the only firewall they need.

Gore fails us yet again.

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[me b zola]

Speak for yourself

[Generator]

42. Suck it up Du'ers and watch CNN tonight

"Al Gore: is he running?" Was the teaser for tonight's Larry King. Read every subtle twitch of the eyebrow, "his face says YES, while his words say I haven't ruled anything out, Larry."

[NYCGirl]

43. Gore is the guest TOMORROW (Tuesday).

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/larry.king.live/

[AspenRose]

45. Hot damn....first Carter, now Al Gore

Mr. Clinton, are you taking note?

[closeupready]

46. Al's honesty and boldness are so refreshing!

n/t

[Gman]

47. My avatar would switch to Gore real fast if he runs

[Kurovski]

50. ANGER IS BAD AL! DON'T BE JUST LIKE THEM!!!

:evilgrin: K&R

[Guaranteed]

72. .....

I don't see Gore rejoicing in or calling for anyone's death.

[Kurovski]

83. Anger is anger, anger is bad!

Run Al, run! :hi:

I hear you BGL, but I'm still glad JF is gone. Maybe I'll feel guilty after he's buried. It's not out of the realm of possibility.

[bamacrat]

51. He will be labeled a liberal nut by the media.

But he should RUN for the love of God, Allah, Buddah whatever. AL PLEASE SAVE THIS COUNTRY. You got screwed in 2000 and EVERYONE knows it, the same mistake will not be made again.

[StarryNite]

80. That's right.

We should stop letting the neocons pick our candidates by labeling or swiftboating them. We have let them get away with manipulating us. It's time to ignore their bullshit.

[rec_report]

53. Too bad he 'offered his concession' in 8 pico-seconds; we wouldn't...

have gotten stuck w. Dictator Bush for 8 years.
Polar Bear

[NYCGirl]

60. Six weeks is equal to 8 pico-seconds? I didn't know that. NT

[closeupready]

71. False. He did not just roll over, if that's what you are implying.

n/t

[Frank Cannon]

87. Bullshit. He fought it for weeks.

And it would have gone on longer if the Supreme Court hadn't defied the Constitution and selected Bush.

Not that there haven't been Democratic Presidential candidates who've folded like a cheese pita in the face of election theft. (Pointed glance at John Kerry.)

[FogerRox]

54. No no no MR Bush

[RestoreGore]

55. They must be impeached

I wish Mr. Gore would say those words. We need to get momentum on this because it is the moral and constitutional thing to do, especially if you belieive in everything he has written in this truthful book. We cannot make this Democracy whole again unless we do that.

[chervilant]

57. Impeach NOW

I am hopeful that We The People can soon count Gore among our number as we work relentlessly toward impeaching Bush and Cheney and bringing charges against all the criminals currently infesting our government.

Also, I cannot understand why Gore rolled over on the Florida recount debacle. I would want to hear from him about this.

If he satisfactorily clarifies his position on the above, I will devote all my activist energy toward getting him elected.

[Canuckistanian]

61. I'd like to hear Shrub call Al Gore "irrelevant"

They must be some pissed off.

Good.

[YvonneCa]

64. My book just...

...shipped today. Guess what I'll be doing this weekend??? :7

[Old and In the Way]

65. There's a man who's not mincing his words.

Good for Al. If he runs, I'll happily vote for him again.A shame the Republicans in Florida and on the Supreme Court stole the election from Al. Hope they like the results we've endured.

[libodem]

66. That guy is a true Statesman

His legacy will reign superior to Beanhead Bush's Tragedy of Errors, for the foreseeable future and beyond. Al is the man.

[Herman74]

68. Before Gore, '08!!! --> Pelosi '07!!! N/T

[L. Coyote]

89. Where can I get this succinct bumper sticker. Nine characters says it all. PELOSI '07

[lvx35]

77. Bush: Daddy! I crashed the car because it was a bad car!

I need a more expensive car, that's why it crashed!

and crash after crash, from 9/11 to Iraq to Katrina, the American people still keep giving him a better car.

[lovuian]

78. Love him

Love ya AL

[Lone_Star_Dem]

79. Look at how we react when we hear someone say the obvious

It shouldn't be like this you know. If our system were working we shouldn't ever feel as if we settling. If it were working we'd feel as if our leaders were an extension of our voice more often than not.


Oh, and for the record, I admire Gore and will follow him where he leads. If that just happens to be in the direction of a 2008 bid he can count on my hands, voice and feet to be there to support him. We need change and I'm willing to work for it.

[Swamp Rat]

82. Geaux Gore!!!!!!

AL Gore 2008!

:kick:

[MagickMuffin]

84. Let's Get Ready To Rumble

[L. Coyote]

88. The PARADIGM SHIFT is overdue. "Bush/Cheney a Disastrous Theatre of the Absurd."

Bush/Cheney used 9/11 to ingrain a new paradigm, one of superheroes fighting global evil in a black and white world. They wrapped themselves in red, white, and blue, then lied to start a horrid war for Iraq's oil. Well, the con has crumbled and the backlash will be a wholesale paradigm shift. We have entered a new era of political accountability, thanks to the voters seeing through their comic book fantasy and realizing we have been watching a disastrous theatre of the absurd.

Unfortunately, the United States will have to be accountable for their decisions after they are ousted. That's a difficult to accept aftermath, and it can only get worse if we wait any longer. Impeach NOW.