The Goracle

[eridani]

http://consortiumnews.com/2007/082607.html

Having written several books that span periods of years, I’m often surprised how patterns emerge that aren’t apparent to me in day-to-day news coverage. In Neck Deep, our new book about George W. Bush’s presidency, one of those surprises was how often former Vice President Al Gore turned up making tragically prescient comments.

Gore, whose admirers sometimes call him “the Goracle,” comes across more as a Cassandra, warning the nation of looming disasters and finding himself either ignored or mocked by the dominant politicians and media pundits.

Time and again – from Campaign 2000 to the post-9/11 “war on terror” to the invasion of Iraq to Bush’s expansion of presidential powers – Gore pointed to grave dangers when nearly all other national political leaders and media bigwigs were either running with the herd or keeping silent.

In our daily coverage of those political developments at Consortiumnews.com, we’d run stories citing Gore’s speeches, but it wasn’t until we pulled together the book that Gore’s extraordinary role jumped out.

Though there were a few other political leaders who made prophetic comments, such as Sen. Robert Byrd in his pre-Iraq War speeches on the Senate floor, none was as consistently on target as Al Gore.

Indeed, a poignant aspect of Neck Deep is the recognition that a less hostile press treatment of Gore during Campaign 2000 or a full-and-fair recount of votes in Florida after Election 2000 might have put the United States on a very different track.

[AtomicKitten]

1. nice endorsement of Gore

I hope he's listening.

[Lucinda]

2. This isnt surprising...

I've always paid attention to him...even prior to his Veep days....He just always seemed to know what the hell he was talking about.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

3. Mr. Gore, please run to be our President...

We need you!

[Uncle Joe]

4. I always thought the first and preeminent betrayal against the American People

was committed by the corporate media, when they chose to slander and trash our best and brightest while exalting and glorifying corrupt incompetence to the most powerful position in the land! They sold us out and I'll believe until the day I die, their primary motivation for doing so, was precisely because Al Gore empowered the people when he championed the Internet, thereby threatening their monopoly on information and they didn't want him in power.

I'm looking forward to checking this book out, thanks for the heads up eridani.

[ms liberty]

5. K&R - Now if he'd just run for President! n/t

[Scriptor Ignotus]

6. Gore's speech on Iraq and WOT in 2002....

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/gore/gore092302sp.html

[RestoreGore]

7. Now if only his warnings and prescience were heeded by those who need to listen...

He's been doing it for thirty years.

[returnable]

8. Now if he'd only run...

Saw his daughter on Lettermen the other night and she basically repeated that he's much happier working his issues from the sidelines, which I can understand.

But it's obvious he'd trump the current field.

:kick:

[ourbluenation]

9. I so wish he would. But alas....

I don't think it's gonna happen.