Gore said what needed to be said

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http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/column/index.php?ntid=69834&ntpid=0

Gore said what needed to be said
By Dave Zweifel

Al Gore, the man who the majority of American voters chose to be president in 2000, created one big stir last week with his Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech in which he called on the people to take back the Constitution.

The buzz is still buzzing, including some calling for the former vice president to run for president again in 2008.

"We are looking for a leader! Someone to lead us out of the wilderness. And today Al Gore sounded the bell. A call to arms that hit a nerve. It's time to get them back. It's time to be unafraid. It's time to take on these right wing zealots and push back harder than they expect," opined Cenk Uygur on HuffingtonPost.com.

There's speculation that Gore is indeed determined to make a comeback, dismayed by the lack of any real front-runners at this point to lead the Democratic Party against the Republicans......

[Olney Blue]

1. I love the last lines in the article:

Give Al Gore, candidate or not, credit for standing up to this flagrant and unlawful behavior. It's time that others did, too.

[tatertop]

3. shhhhh, the democrats might wake up

[sarcasmo]

2. Kick and Nom. Being a Man I don't cry often since it was a learned

Behavior. The Al Gore speech made me cry happy tears, it was just a passionate speech, the best I have heard in my adult life. Gore/Clark or Gore/Boxer 08.

[Olney Blue]

5. I cried too- what a speech. I have the pdf on my desktop and

have read it many times.

[ClayZ]

4. K and R for Al Gore!

Take the lead, Al!
:kick:

[rodeodance]

6. yes. take the lead.

[Uncle Joe]

7. He sure as hell hung the bell on the cat.

Kicked and nominated.

:kick:

[byronius]

8. That speech knocked me down.

I love Al. Always thought he was the smartest, straightest EVER. I still do. I hear him savaged for giving in in 2000, but I don't think that way. It was a tough spot, he held out, but the Bloom Of Criminality That Is Conservatism was bursting at the seams. Kerry rolled over. Gore got bulldozed.

I'll vote for him anyday. That speech was a very emotional moment for me.

[rodeodance]

9. 'The buzz is still buzzing'==nope--seems like a long time ago.

The buzz is still buzzing