"America’s Best Days Are Ahead": President Al Gore’s Inaugural Address

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/8860

"America’s Best Days Are Ahead": President Al Gore’s Inaugural Address
by Brent Budowsky | Jul 21 2007

snipping was hard to do-pls. read the whole thing//

"In the final analysis, our dream is your dream, our hope is your hope, our children deserve a peace with your children, your children deserve a peace with all children.

"When our shores are threatened we will destroy the enemies that threaten us; in a world of danger, we will always be prepared.

"But we will always lead the search for peace; we will always extend the hand of hope; we will always put the power of America in the service of ending ancient hatreds, preventing needless wars, banishing genocide from our planet, and ending torture in our world where human rights, and human dignity, are the birthright shared by good and decent people everywhere.

"Let us declare to the children of the world:

"Our earth is your earth; our future is your future; our world is your world; and our prayer is your prayer. In the end we will save the world together from the ravages that would otherwise someday destroy it; and if we fail, none of us will have ancestors alive
to condemn us.

"On this day of American renewal, when one era ends and another begins, let us think anew with Lincoln, and act anew to build a national spirit of great dreams, great expectations and great aspirations.

"Together let us lift our land, and light the world, as the beacon that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams dreamed we would be on July 4, 1776, and dreamed we would always remain on July 4, 1826, when they left this earth together, and bequeathed their legacy to us, in this great and magnificent land we call America."
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[MissWaverly]

1. I am confused, why is this being posted now?

[babylonsister]

2. The guy's a writer...and a dreamer.

;) It's just another article, but with a catchy title and content.

[MissWaverly]

3. He Posts on "The Hill" website

which is the Congress pundit/blog page, why now? It's cruel becuz we are waist deep in the big muddy of Bush's reign, with little
hope of improvement for the next 18 months, I find this reference painful. Esp. since I believe 2000 was stolen completely by
the loyal Bushies.

[babylonsister]

4. Really? I check out The Hill often but never noticed him there.

http://www.thehill.com/
Lots of r/wers, but Josh Marshall is representing...

I'm sorry you're pained; I'm sure it wasn't written in any kind of spirit to hurt anyone.
And FWIW, 2000 was indeed stolen imo.

[MissWaverly]

7. Link is here

check out this link it's the Hill pundit's blog section, you will see the article on Gore posted there.

http://pundits.thehill.com/author/brent-budowsky/

the saddest thing is not that 2000 was stolen but that those who stole it would do it again in a heartbeat, what right do they
have to decide who sits in the oval office?

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

Henry David Thoreau

[babylonsister]

8. Thanks for that link;

I didn't even realize there was another one to the blogs.

[MissWaverly]

9. It's interesting to see what they post there

It's probably the closest the congress critters get to the internets.

:-)

[saracat]

5. Yawn. Not gonna happen. We need to be reality based.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Not all dreams become reality, however all reality starts with a dream. n/t