Al Gore's new book is on sale today

[Seabiscuit]

The questions are simple:

[Seabiscuit]

1. Omigosh! We already have a Ditto-head!

[Deja Q]

2. Looks like two!

:wow:


BTW: You forgot the library and eBook options. :D

[Seabiscuit]

3. Do I hear 3? 3? 3? 3? Going, going...

[Seabiscuit]

6. We have 3, ladies and gentlemen! Do I hear 4? 4? 4? 4?

[Seabiscuit]

8. We have 4, ladies and gentlemen. Could we have 5 Dittoheads in the audience? 5? 5? 5?

[Seabiscuit]

24. What??? I leave for a few minutes and suddenly there are 7 Dittoheads???

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. What's it about?

[Seabiscuit]

19. I'm about to sink my teeth into it tonight. Then I can answer you.

Meanwhile, I can tell you it's entitled "The Assault On Reason" and it's 273 pages long (308 if you count the footnotes and index) in hardcover. The inside flap says it's about "A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism and blind faith has combined with the degradation of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason." Sounds like an all-out assault/expose on the neocons in power and the corporate asswipes that control the MSM.

[Mabus]

22. Imagine many of the complaints that have graced the pages of DU in a book form

along with insightful analysis of how the roots of our democracy (and its roots in reason) by Gore. But even then, this simplistic explanation does not capture the full depth of what I have read since purchasing the book this morning. btw, I'm on page 59 of chapter 2 "Blinding the Faithful". It is discussing the Founding Fathers' view of religion and government and how that has been perverted. I just finished the passages about Boykin's evangelical tour where he talked about the US being engaged in a war of Christianity against Satan and Boykin's part in the atrocities of Abu Ghraib.

[bleedingheart]

5. I bought it and am waiting for it to arrive...

[FVZA_Colonel]

7. I really, really want to buy one,

but right now I just don't have the cash for a new hard-cover book. I'll definetly take a look at it if I have the free time to go to a book store.

[blm]

9. ADD THIS - I will buy one for me and 2 for my local library.

I did this with Inconvenient Truth DVD - the library is always happy to get donations.

[Seabiscuit]

14. Done.

[blm]

29. grazie

.

[fishnfla]

10. Preaching to the choir

There's not a damned thing in that book I dont already know*

*DUer for over four years

[Seabiscuit]

26. You must be a fast reader to finish reading it already.

I don't think I'll find it to be the crashing bore you did. Then again, I'm not one to merely judge a book by its cover (including media coverage).

[RestoreGore]

11. And why do people want him to make the best seller list?

because they believe in his words, or just to make this another partisan contest? I had no doubt this book would make it regardless, but I find people buying multiple copies just to stick it to the other side to be juvenile.

[NYCGirl]

17. Because we want nice things to happen to people we like.

Is there some kind of problem with that?

[Seabiscuit]

20. And it would go nicely with his Oscar and Nobel Peace Prize, doncha think?

[NYCGirl]

21. I don't think he actually has an Oscar, and he's a longshot (IMO) for the Nobel,

but a best-seller is always a good thing when you work hard on writing a book.

[Seabiscuit]

23. The movie made about him and his global warming lectures won an Oscar.

He shared the stage with the producer when the award was presented.

[NYCGirl]

25. I'm aware of that. But he doesn't actually have an Oscar; it wasn't presented to him.

Sorry — I must've misunderstood your post.

[Seabiscuit]

27. Well, you're right - *he* didn't win an Oscar, but without him there would have

been no movie to begin with. The movie won an Oscar for best documentary.

[RestoreGore]

32. Then how about doing more here than waving pom poms?

Or do you have a problem with truth? It's all well and good to do something for somebody you "like," but I think this goes much deeper than just buying theh book to have something to talk about to get on the rec list here.

[Seabiscuit]

35. I put the option up just for the hell of it, and it only got 1 vote.

Apparently it's not something anyone's taking seriously.

In fact, the 1 vote it got was mine, just for the hell of it. In truth, I just bought one copy today for myself. So apparently, no one out there took the option seriously but you.

[RestoreGore]

38. I based my comment on other comments n/t

[mmonk]

12. It's in my home as I post.

[skorpo]

13. I'm 1st on the list.................

to read a copy from my library. Can't afford to buy books anymore. Health insurance, gas prices and utility costs have eaten up the cushion I had saved.

[Guaranteed]

15. Just bought a third copy today.

Got one for my dad for his birthday. Bought one for myself on Amazon, but they haven't shipped it yet (but they shipped my dad's, for some reason). So I went down to Borders today and bought a copy, figured I'd give the other one away if they ever actually ship it.

[Seabiscuit]

16. Maybe it's just such a hot book one of the shippers stole the copy that didn't arrive.

[helderheid]

18. I'm listening to it right now. Downloaded it from ITunes

[rosesaylavee]

28. Ordered it on Amazon today.

[Pastiche423]

30. Me too

As soon as his email about the book arrived in my inbox, I used his link to order his book.

[rosesaylavee]

31. Me too.

I don't usually do that. But if Al Gore asked me to walk down the middle of the highway, I'd probably do that for him... esp if he said he would then run for pres in 08.

[Seabiscuit]

33. Good for all of you.

I had the rare opportunity to stop by my favorite politically liberal bookstore (a Mom & Pop store in Del Mar, CA) to buy my hardcopy personally.

[Seabiscuit]

34. This is almost funny. The Limbaugh choice comes in SECOND!

Who are these 7 people??? DU Pransters or died-in-the wool FR Dittoheads invading our territory?

[Seabiscuit]

36. OK, shameless kick just for the hell of it, for the wee-night crowd.

[Seabiscuit]

37. OK, I'm unabashedly pissed.

That so many DU'ers tonight would view this thread and almost no one among them would participate. Gross.

Al Gore is our next President, people, if and when he declares his candidacy. Get with it.

[Locrian]

39. well I'm just about finished with the book

Got a copy at my library last Fri. Yeah - I know, they must have gotten advance copies and didnt know. I grabbed one off the counter and they let me check it out. My amazon copy is on order.

It is SCATHING in the indictment on bush. BUT - Al is smart in framing it about the problem being that the DECISION process is broken. That if we were really and INFORMED public (like DU) then this could not happen.

Not that he does not go after bush though. In chapter called CARBON CRISIS he talks about the failures of bush and the facts that they knew there was danger and did nothin: pre 9/11 and pre Katrina. He then asks us to connect the two. Then global warming crisis - what is bush doing? nothing. Connect all three. Who is in the middle of this circle he asks? "GEORGE W. BUSH"!!

[blm]

40. It'll happen - but no sense getting bothered at this point. Let all the angst come from

those nervous that their candidate will drop when Gore gets in come September.