How Many HitchHikers Can Gore Pick Up?

[ThomWV]

I have found it amusing over the last two days to see how many people want to get their own political hero's name attached to Gore's. It seems to be going something like this: "How's a Gore/Kerry ticket sound" or "...Gore/Clark ..." and so on.

Al Gore. The first Democrat to stand up and take a real stand, and make no mistake he has been doing just that starting with the whole series of speeches under the auspices of Move-On-dot-com and Monday's whopper of a wake-up call to the nation. Al's been there all along, but no one wanted to be associated with him. Everyone wants their own political favorite on board with Al now. I guess that's what real Leadership is all about isn't it?

[Sammy Pepys]

1. Excellent

FWIW, I've never really fallen off of the Gore bandwagon. He's really in his element at the moment, and I think uniquely positioned to perform well in 2008 if he goes for it.

[Beam Me Up]

2. Yes. I remember his speech of May, 2004 where he called for the resig-

nation of most of the Bush administration:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0405/S00247.htm

It, too, was a very powerful speech. There have been others as well.

[MADem]

3. Funny how the media have decided he is fashionable again

Ya gotta wonder, have they awakened from a soporific slumber, are they feeling ashamed that they hitched their wagons to a false star, have they been unmuzzled????

Gore never lost his "voice"--those bastards simply refused to hear him.

[PBass]

4. It takes boldness to be a leader

You can't be worried about hurting someones' feelings or offending someone's delicate sensibilities. America needs leaders who can get out IN FRONT on the issues, "ahead" of what public opinion might be. That's what leadership is!

Sometimes I think about how much better off America would be right now, if the election in 2000 hadn't been stolen.

I wish Gore's speech had gotten more mainstream coverage!

[Steve A Play]

5. I can't wait to see him give this speech again,

well at least a slightly updated version! :)

Read the whole thing, it's like we're stuck in a time warp. :crazy:

SPEECH BY SENATOR AL GORE

Center for National Policy

September 29, 1992

One of the most important questions in this campaign involves the
judgment of the candidates on foreign policy. The American people
know the world is full of unexpected surprises and dangers -- and as
a result they want to know whether or not a president can handle
these uncertainties, recognize unanticipated dangers, and realize
when national policy must be changed to reflect new realities. The
American people also want to know whether or not they can count on
their president to tell them the truth.

President Bush, in his handling of our policy toward Iraq, has failed
all these tests, and failed them badly. His poor judgment, moral
blindness and bungling policies led directly to a war that should
never have taken place. And because of his naivete and lack of
candor, U.S. taxpayers are now stuck with paying the bill for $1.9
billion President Bush gave to Saddam Hussein even though top
administration officials were repeatedly told Saddam was using our
dollars to buy weapons technology. Bush, of course, believes that
the war with Iraq was his finest hour as the organizer and leader of
a vast coalition of armed forces, united for the purpose of
frustrating the designs of an evil dictator.

But the war with Iraq had deep roots, and if George Bush's
prosecution of the war is part of his record, so too is his
involvement in the diplomacy which led to it, both in the Reagan/Bush
era, and far more so, during his presidency when he accelerated
foreign aid and the sale of weapons technology to Iraq -- right up
until the invasion of Kuwait -- in spite of repeated warnings that
anyone with common sense would have had no difficulty understanding.

The path leading us to that war, and the path which the President has
followed after, are deeply shadowed in profound error, in duplicity,
and in amoral disregard for our most basic values as a nation. There
is also substantial evidence that his administration intentionally
falsified export records, and reports to Congress -- and in the
process apparently violated a number of laws intended to prevent such
horrendous mistakes.

<more>

http://www.mit.edu/afs/net/user/tytso/usenet/nptn/campaign92/dems/15

Steven P. :kick:

[blm]

6. I like how many ignore the DSM actions and an Iraq withdrawal plan

and ANWR and LIHEAP and calling for Rove and Rumsfeld to resign from Kerry while saying how disappointed they are that he never speaks up.

I say BULLSHIT on every one who tries to divide Dems during a time of unity.

[Clark2008]

7. I beg to differ that he's the first.

He's one of many, but they don't get the coverage he did (and he didn't get a whole heckuva lot).

[Steve A Play]

9. Did you read post # 5 and can you point me to anything earlier?

So who are these "many"? :shrug:

Steven P. :kick:

[blm]

10. The roots Gore speaks of in that speech were uncovered by Kerry

during his IranContra and BCCI investigations. And Henry Gonzales worked to expose Iraqgate which was all part of the same agenda.

Too bad Clinton closed the books on BCCI, eh?

[Horse with no Name]

8. That's so "yesterday"

Today the ticket is Obama/Slaughter ;)

[blm]

11. Can you point me to thread pushing Gore/Kerry2008? Seems I missed it.

I only saw the Gore/Dean, Gore/Edwards.

[AlGore-08.com]

12. As long as we're all picking nits ;) if I had to pick "The Speech"

Where It All Started, and I was limited to 2001 and later, I'd pick 9/23/02: "Iraq And The War On Terrorism". It was Gore's first speech opposing the invasion of Iraq, and it was given a little more than two weeks before the Congress voted to authorize that same invasion.

http://www.algore.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=84

(j/k - - obviously I enjoyed your post a lot!)

[blm]

13. Still looking for threads you refer to, ThomWV. Can you point to them?

I only saw the 2008 Gore/Edwards and Gore/Dean threads.

[Horse with no Name]

14. There were several here yesterday

and no, I'm not gonna look them up.

[blm]

15. Funny how I missed those. Maybe someone has the threads on their MY Posts

list and can point them out.

[Horse with no Name]

16. I bypassed most of them

and figured it was just reactionary.