Anybody see Al Gore kicking ass today?

[Jerky]

Whatever you think of the man, he impressed the hell out of me.<br><br>SAY A PRAYER, BROTHER! <p></p><i></i>

[thurnandtaxis]

if not,<br><br>full text of speech at The Raw Story:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Text_of_Gore_speech_0116.html">rawstory.com/news/2005/Te..._0116.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[manxkat]

I didn't see or hear this one, but liked the ones he gave before the 2004 election debacle.<br><br>The thing is, he never kicked ass before. What has changed? Or, is that just indicative of politicians on the left -- when they're in power, or running for office, they stay center-right like Clinton. Then, when it's safe to really speak their mind (assuming they have any ethics and morals in the first place), a few like Gore might speak up.<br><br>The Democrats in power now are the ones who should be raising hell, and they aren't. Not enough of them, anyway.<br><br>Sorry for the pessimism, but I'm tired of hearing rhetoric that can't go anywhere. I see very little hope for the U.S. as a whole. Regional strategies and solutions are most likely where the hope is, but that will probably only happen after the chaos of the biggest economic crash this country has ever been dealt. And then, my friends, politics will likely be even more a circus of corruption than it is today.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[gotnoscript]

I like this comment from Noam Chomsky:<br><br>" George Bush would be in severe political trouble if there were an opposition political party in the country. Just about every day, they're shooting themselves in the foot. The striking fact about contemporary American politics is that the Democrats are making almost no gain from this. The only gain that they're getting is that the Republicans are losing support. Now, again, an opposition party would be making hay, but the Democrats are so close in policy to the Republicans that they can't do anything about it. When they try to say something about Iraq, George Bush turns back to them, or Karl Rove turns back to them, and says, "How can you criticize it? You all voted for it." And, yeah, they're basically correct."<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/30487/">www.alternet.org/story/30487/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i></i>