Guardian: Gore launches bruising attack on Bush

[Surya Gayatri]

Gore launches bruising attack on Bush over wiretapping

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Tuesday January 17, 2006
The Guardian

The former vice-president Al Gore launched a withering attack on the White House yesterday for authorising wiretaps without court oversight, and accused President George Bush of repeatedly breaking the law.

The strongly worded speech makes Mr Gore the most prominent political figure in America to weigh in on the wiretapping scandal. Mr Gore, who lost the 2000 election to Mr Bush following the intervention of the supreme court, also went further than other Democratic critics in accusing the president of wrongdoing.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/

[rodeodance]

1. someone on DU just pointed out that Gore's speech is how we want

to live as Americans--rather than bush bashing (paraphase). Headlines like this lead to shutdown of conversations about the real message Gore was getting at. My opinion.

[flordehinojos]

2. mine too. i was just thinking, that was not an attack on bush. that was

truth being simply spoken out. good for gore. and good for you for pointing it out.

[rodeodance]

4. credit goes to this poster on DU--Here is the original post. I was in a

state of jubilee yesterday, but this message is sobering.


Tue Jan-17-06 05:30 AM
Original message
Challenge a repug to READ Gore's speech

I know that a number of us here are signed on as DU activist corps

We should print a copy of Gore's speech and ask our repug friends and neighbors to READ it. I know that I for one cannot listen to B* without cringing but I faithfully read what B* says - it's tough but in order to be informed I feel I have to at least read what he says

Ask them to do the same. Tell them he stands up for the Constitution and that this debate is not about B* but about what form of government we want to live under. Or rather, what form of government we USED to live under and the one that we are confronted with now

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x161444

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Excellent argument...

Hadn't seen this thread. SG

[Surya Gayatri]

5. The headline is the Guardian's

not mine. Not saying I agree with the framing, but showing that the foreign press once again surpasses the US CORP MEDIA in candor and directness. SG

[Moosepoop]

3. I love this paragraph

"Since the 2000 presidential elections, Mr Gore has occasionally used his peculiar position in American politics - he was defeated by Mr Bush despite winning more votes - to advance an agenda that is more liberal than the Democratic party leadership. He has been a far more outspoken critic of the Iraq war than most senior Democrats."

We don't see that little factoid mentioned in the so-called media here, do we?

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Precisely, and that's why

I especially appreciate the Guardian. They mince no words & "don't beat about the bush"! SG

[wakeme2008]

8. I like this one too

following the intervention of the supreme court