Al Gore finds freedom beyond Beltway

Frank James publicizing Al Gore: the blind praising the bland.

4th reich righties can say what they will, but Gore knows his stuff. He should have been our president for the past 7 years - I'd be willing to bet my life that not only would we not have been "attacked", but we would also not be at war, and the world/U.S. would be a lot nicer place to live in. Gore for Pres in 08!

Ahh, press releases. The work of J-School dropouts at its finest.

I agree with E.J. Dionne -- I think Gore is enjoying the freedom to crusade for the causes he believes in. And that only comes from being a non candidate.

Nevertheless, I'd love to see him in the race.

RUN, AL, RUN!

Bruce,

It seemed to be damning withfaint praise to me.

Gore seems to be riding the "might run presidential train" because it illuminates anything he might have to say. More likely than not, the man will not run for president only because he already has made enough of a name for himself to work on issues without having Washington decorum and dictum hanging over his every move. It is a safe place to be, and notice most Presidents, these days, do more when they are out of office than in office.

Surely, the Bush Administration can be summed up as the assault on reason. Every decision made, or carried out by this administration defies it. Hate to be the devils advocate, but the reality is the Bush Administration hasn't exactly told the people what they were or are really ultimately thinking. From that point of view, you can't really asses if they are an assault on reason.

One thing is for sure, the first people to pick up the book will be all the critics. And, I would hate that any controversy over the "inconvenient truth" would tarnish anything valuable the book might relate.

Al Gore is right about Global Warming and he's right about the Wingnuts who are in the Whitehouse right now.

You should be running Mr. Gore, take back the job that the Republicans stole (Florida) from you and our country in 2000!

Proceed with the personal attacks, right wing scum. Try challenging the evidence he provides for his conclusions for a change, be it global climate change or the blatant manipulations of voters' "lizard" brains by Karl Rove and Co.

It's sort of telling that a press release about a book called "The Assault on Reason" would be riddled with spelling errors. I agree with Jeff C., this was the "integrated marketing communications" professionals at their best.

Irrational Right Talking Points Procedure

Step 1. Kill the Messenger
Step 2. Ignore the Message, Message doesn't
matter (refer to Step 1).
Step 3. Repeat

Make no mistake about it, John E., Al Gore IS running. He's just doing it his way. He's avoiding the debates/rubber chicken circuit, and waiting to announce his candidacy at a more propitious time, when all of the early announcers have bloodied each other and we've grown tired of them. (Some of them we grow tired of earlier than others.)

Remember that most of the successful Presidential candidates in the recent past have announced less than a year before the general election; I think that Gore is keeping his name before the public with an occasional book and movie and will announce at a more traditional time, instead of close to two years before as most of those now running have.

I suppose that another possibiity is that no one has the nomination tied up before the convention, and after several ballots the delegates turn to Al. Doesn't seem likely these days, though.

I think the strategy I speculate Gore is following is a good one, provided all of the money isn't committed beforehand with none left for Al. Myself, I like Bill Richardson, but, as his ad says, he may be overqualified.

The *sighs* you are hearing all over the country are the deep sighs of regret that we let our attack poodle media go on endlessly about Gore's *sigh* and clothing choices rather than the merits of the debate w/old Shrubby.

Run, Al, Run. This time we've got your back.

Frank James publicizing Al Gore: the blind praising the bland.

Posted by: Bruce | May 22, 2007 11:35:22 AM

Bruce how much does the RNC pay you??? Typical neo-con rhetoric. Attack the press.

"The Bush Administration can be summed up as the assault on reason. Every decision made, or carried out by this administration defies it."

Posted by: AR | May 22, 2007 11:59:32 AM

AR ya hit the nail on the head!!!

Bruce,

It seemed to be damning withfaint praise to me.

Posted by: Leo T | May 22, 2007 11:51:58 AM

Leo... Bruce doesn't actually read the posts. It's a formulaic response. He just finds out what the subject matter is. Then, if it's about a Democrat, he assumes it's a liberal media bias lie selling a commy traitor and replies accordingly. If it's about a Republican, he assumes its a liberal media bias slander job against a great, great American and replies accordingly.

It's about faith, not reading comprehension.

(Ironically this time he did it immediately after a post mentioning the current diminishment of reason & facts and the increasing domination of 30-second sound-bites and leap-to polarizing rhetoric)

The lovers of "Irrelenvancy" and "In Denial" will likely see Al Gore as a brand new threat to their definition of relevant.

And doesn't Al Gore bring back memories of voting errors, irrelevant though they may be.

Wouldn't it be strange, if an American government felt threatened by the free speech of the electorate? Something would be "BAD WRONG" there. And one would have to wonder if the Bush team didn't export way to much of America's democracy.

If there ever was a time for America to exert it principles, it is now. The Bush team is busy redefining too much of America. The Republican congressmen have gone a long way toward ignoring bad behaviors of its members.

It is not only time to speak up America, it is time to think seriously about getting America back to the state where Presidential behavior was "more in the box" than "out of the box".

The press or the driveby media never really covered Algore. His daddy voted against the Civil Rights Act because he was a Democrat Senator in those times in the 60's Dem Senators were against Civil Rights. And they were furious over the Civil Rights Act blaming the Republicans. However, if it weren't for the GOP, the Civil Rights Act would never have been passed. It passed by a GOP majority. William Fulbright was Bill Clinton's mentor and he voted against the Civil Rights Act.
Yet to this day, the driveby media call Bill Clinton the first black president because Toni Morrison said he was.
Now, Algore was a problem in College--he flunked out of Divinity School and never became a lawyer which all Dems do because he smoked too much marijauana and drank too much according to his room mate. In fact, he flunked out of law school at Vanderbilt where he is now serving as a trustee. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said,if you can't trust your trustee who can you trust.
Algore now is going to save us all from Global Warming which only socialists admit is a problem--maybe communist dictators like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
This is no dumb trick--Al thinks if Hillary and Obama bomb he's in first place.
But,his inconvenient truth is an inconvenient lie. Also, now he is using reason to overcome President Bush. But, a Tennesee radio station said he took out 110 feet of cyclone fence when he sped and took out the fence. When he served in Vietnam he had a body guard for 90 days. Say what.
If he wants to rehash this I'm ready and so are the GOP. Al just stick to your conspiracies make plenty of cash from dumb liberals and call it a day.
Nobody can remember how many times he reivented himself or how mean he was during the 36 day election night thanks from advice from Bill Daley. Gore is a nightmare! Jerry White,Springfield,IL

Bruce said:

Frank James publicizing Al Gore: the blind praising the bland.

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If you would like to praise Bush instead, get rid of the rhetoric and put in information instead. After all, the Bush team has been in office awhile. What did the Bush team accomplish?

I am sure it is not irrelevant! Or is it?

I love how all the members of the Brain Dead Left continually ask how much the RNC pays Bruce. I wonder how much the International Society of the Perpetually Stupid pays folks like Jethro, Logic Prisoner, John E.?

And Leo T., you're a Gore fan???? Aaaaaarrrrggghhh!!! I'll forgive you though. You know, "Nicole" wants to see you and me in dresses!

How about "Al Gore finds freedon beyond the beltLINE" :)

Jeff said,

It's sort of telling that a press release about a book called "The Assault on Reason" would be riddled with spelling errors. I agree with Jeff C., this was the "integrated marketing communications" professionals at their best.

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I have not read the book, but I would think that you would attack something other than spelling. For example, you could have attacked this comment from the book:

The Assault on Reason

How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy, and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision Making, Degrade Our Democracy, and Put Our Country and Our World in Peril

Al Gore - Author

Al Gore is saying via his book, that our WORLD IS IN PERIL. Lots of readers are going to focus on his ideas rather than the spelling.

Actually the Bush team is frequently feeding the world terror warnings. But that terror is ok because it belongs to the Bush team. Terror seems to be the only selling point of the Bush team.

There have been many other attempts to accomplish a task, but most if not all ended in various states of failure. So, most of the Bush teams "accomplishments" have been RHETORIC based.

I suppose you could call it "RELEVANT RHETORIC".

Which of the below statements would you guess that President Bush might make:

(1) We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

(2) Be afraid - be very afraid.

Would Al Gore lay claim to outer space? Probably not.

Who would lay claim to outer space? The bush team.

Would Al Gore go marching off into Iraq as unprepared as the Bush team was? Probably not.

Would Al Gore have accomplished something midway thorugh his term? Probably.

If Iraq had a REFUGEE problem during his term would America know? Probably.

Would Al Gore put his political party above the Country? Probably not.

How far back in American history would you have to go to find a president who was the "spitting image" of this president? And I am talking about performance.

When was the last time a President put secret people in secret prisons in secret countries?

The Bush team's faithful are attempting a monumental task of keeping subjects away from the Bush teams PERFORMANCE.

But America is not one to be fooled all of the time.

OMFG!!!!!!!!!

SOMEBODY TAKE MY BRAIN DEAD IDIOT AWAY NOW!!!!!!

THIS IS TOO MUCH!!!!!

TAKE HIM AWAY TO THE SCHOOL OF MEDIA MANAGEMENT!!!!

GET RID OF HIM NOW!!!!!

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS SANE AND GOOD!!!!!

TAKE HIM, PLEASE, TAKE HIM NOW!!!!!!

Jerry White,

You sure are avoiding the subject. Al Gore is talking about the world and you are talking about Al Gore.

Al Gore is telling the world how bad things are while the world still has time to react. Why not counter Al Gore's vision with the Bush team performance.

Tell us about how well the Bush team has managed the country. We don't need to talk about the "Boll Weevils" or the 4/5ths law. That is all history and it hardly relates to "current events".

But do not think the party of Lincoln was the same as the party of THIS George Bush. It don't even come close. The party of THIS George Bush don't even come close to the party of Dwight Eisenhower. It don't even come close to the party of Everett Dirksen - nor Charles Percy.

THIS Bush team's party is different. They called themselves neo-conservatives at the begining of their terms. But after that name gained some performance, it became "hard to hear".

It looks like the Bush team has "sprinkled holy water on unethical behavior". The Bush team's relationship with the Country's rules makes one wonder if they ever saw a rule they did not want to break. Perhaps that is a feature of operating outside the box.

The World today is looking at THIS George Bush and THIS Al Gore. And they are not the same. And we are Thankful!

Actually, Bezelt, both Jeff C. and I (and even Frank James) were making fun of the press release, not the book. If you don't think the first rule of dealing with the press is to copy-edit your work then you obviously don't work in the media. Couldn't Al afford someone better? Is his electric bill that high?

John D Said:

" I love how all the members of the Brain Dead Left continually ask how much the RNC pays Bruce".

And John D also Said:

" Aaaaaarrrrggghhh!!!"

That last sentence/word/?/ did not come from the Brain Dead Left.

"What did the Bush team accomplish?"

They've given a lot of miserable people (liberals) a new reason to live. They've also discovered a new syndrome known as Bush Derrangement Syndrome.

You wouldn't happen to have any experience with BDS Bezelt would you?

I think the phrase Bush may have made was 3) " I beat Al Gore in the 2000 debates and in the 2000 election. Now he is a bigger whack job than before, so be afraid, be very afraid"

Sounds about right.

OK, Bezelt ...time to come back with your 2000 election left wing folk lore and conspiracy theories.

I'm looking forward to some new doozies. You seem like your capable of a few.

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Jerry White, Springfield, IL posted: "Gore is a nightmare!"
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You are the # 1 reason for Springfield, IL to be named the real "D'oh" Homer Simpson town!

You sound like "Renfrow" who "is being touted in Springfield, Ill., as a dead-ringer for Burns," according to today's Tribune.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070522simpsons-earlymay22,1,6342325.story?coll=chi-news-hed

"He really does look evil," said Renfrow. "People tell me he has this trap door in front of his desk and when people come in and ask for a raise he pushes a button and they disappear. Sounds to me like he's got some good ideas." (As reported by Bob Secter and Rick Pearson.)

Go flush your ideas and ideals down the toilet because I prefer America's government to work together "for the people!" Not this b.s. from a do-whatever-I-want President, and the heck with debate/discussion or anything sensible communication with others. For this deceitful President it's my way only.

Continue your "utter doofuses" Simpson club in fictionland where it does no harm. Bullets in Iraq are killing people today and tomorrow and the next day, and your happy about that? I said, you are happy about the American or Iraq person dying? Them deaths thousands of miles from your soft, comfy pillow is what keeps you, on American soil, safer? Really?

And you sleep better after a lullaby from Shrubry, don't you? And I bet he sings it with your favorite words: "D'oh, d'oh, d'oh ..."

I love how all the members of the Brain Dead Left continually ask how much the RNC pays Bruce. I wonder how much the International Society of the Perpetually Stupid pays folks like Jethro, Logic Prisoner, John E.?

Posted by: John D | May 22, 2007 8:28:09 PM

Think about the McCain F-Bomb post, and think of me sending one your way!!!

Way to go Mr. Al Gore!

The first sentence in the NY Times book review is great!

In “The Assault on Reason” Al Gore excoriates George W. Bush, asserting that the president is “out of touch with reality,” that his administration is so incompetent that it “can’t manage its own way out of a horse show,” that it ignored “clear warnings” about the terrorist threat before 9/11 and that it has made Americans less safe by “stirring up a hornets’ nest in Iraq,” while using “the language and politics of fear” to try to “drive the public agenda without regard to the evidence, the facts or the public interest.”
The full article at: www.nytimes.com/books
'Al Gore Speaks of a Nation in Danger'
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI

I'm HOPEFUL that the book “The Assault on Reason” stirs a sliver of positive action in our current administration, which I know is asking a lot.

And media: the bad, bad Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales isn't half as dim witted as our should-be-booted-out President. It's time you made up a clock that is ticking down Shrubberies last moments in office. It's okay, Shruby-Dubby makes up stuff too. Every darn day in fact.

Hey everyone, get active promoting Al Gore's book. It's a breath of fresh air in spring after all, provided you can still breathe in Shrubs action-less filthy environment.

Is our President really that awful? No, he's worse. Whose better than President my-way? Well, we have a bunch of candidates, Republican and Democratic, chomping at the bit for the too far, far away election. I'd take ANY of them. Start the job now! The N.Y. couple, either Rudy Giuliani or Hillary Clinton, or headbashers John McCain or Barack Obama, or Mormon Mitt Romney or Catholic Joe Biden or even Scooby Doo, Where are You? Enough of lame duck W!

May the solar rays that are over heating our lovely, one and only, planet (all because Al Gore opened up the atmosphere with his super strong pinkie finger and made such things happen), well may those nasty sun rays cook our President so I can eat roasted duck for dinner tonight, or at least a turducken by Thanksgiving.

Don't laugh since we really do have a chance of the roasted duck President. Sure! As reported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) we have warnings of an above normal 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, oh my! That has put Shrub to work right away, oh dear! Shrub is all distressed at what the head of FEMA will wear for any natural disaster that may befall us.

Since Shrub-a-dub-dub vowed that he'd be more prepared after Hurricane Katrina, he is madly typing an urgent memo for Republicans to legislate before Memorial Day: "Please fund billions for FEMA wardrobe restocking. And continue to send out our National Guard and its equipment so that we can stop those nasty hurricanes even before they touch down on American soil!" That'll will show us W bashers how silly we all are (while we chew on our roast duck).

Oh no! The cuckoo clock has just gonged this fab tune: "Another minute with W is too long." That means I will now bid your generous eye time goodbye, which some say the word goodbye derives from "God be with you."

Yes indeed, goodbye.

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Gore, on the current administration: “can’t manage its own way out of a horse show”
: )

Al Gore said:

" The Assault on Reason

How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy, and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision Making, Degrade Our Democracy, and Put Our Country and Our World in Peril"

Jerry White said:

" The press or the driveby media never really covered Algore. His daddy voted against the Civil Rights Act because he was a Democrat Senator in those times in the 60's Dem Senators were against Civil Rights. And they were furious over the Civil Rights Act blaming the Republicans".

Rudyard Kipling said:

And never the twain shall meet.

Bezelt said:

Is Jerry White talking about the same thing that Al Gore is talking about?

And Leo T., you're a Gore fan???? Aaaaaarrrrggghhh!!! I'll forgive you though. You know, "Nicole" wants to see you and me in dresses!
Posted by: John D | May 22, 2007 8:28:09 PM

John D,

In my opinion, of all of the Democratic presidential Wannabes and Maybes, Gore has the best combination of both intellectual and experiential gravitas.

As for Nicole, I see no point in responding to her.

The question was:

"What did the Bush team accomplish"?

J.D. Said:

"What did the Bush team accomplish?"

They've given a lot of miserable people (liberals) a new reason to live. They've also discovered a new syndrome known as Bush Derrangement Syndrome.

You wouldn't happen to have any experience with BDS Bezelt would you?

I think the phrase Bush may have made was 3) " I beat Al Gore in the 2000 debates and in the 2000 election. Now he is a bigger whack job than before, so be afraid, be very afraid"

Sounds about right.

OK, Bezelt ...time to come back with your 2000 election left wing folk lore and conspiracy theories.

I'm looking forward to some new doozies. You seem like your capable of a few.

bezelt said:

When I said "accomplishments" I did not mean plain Rhetoric. I did not mean "talking the talk". I meant, more like, "walking the walk".

I meant PERFORMANCE on something that existed either in mind or matter. A real something - project, plan or something like that.

And your first response was: "They've given a lot of miserable people (liberals) a new reason to live". Of course you are talking sarcasm here but asking a Bush team faithful about accomplishments will usually evoke either quiet or, in your case, "literal distracters".

Your other statements are as nebulous as the one just mentioned. Perhaps you are unaware of the some of the TASKS the Bush team has attempted. Here are just a few:

(1) Persuade America of the threat that Iraq posed.
(2) Establish the existence of WMDs as a catalyst for war with Iraq
(3) Persuade the United Nations to go to war with Iraq(diplomacy required)
(4) Persuade "Old Europe" to go to war with Iraq (diplomacy required)
(5) Persuade the Motherland to go to war with Iraq (less diplomacy required)
(6) Persuade a Sibling land to go to war with Iraq (less diplomacy required)
(7) Medicare Part D

Those are just a few of the TASKS that the Bush team attempted. And to those outside of the 25%, it may look like the "seeds" of failure were planted within the plan.

For Iraq - remove a government and replace it with "NOTHING"? Anarchy filled that vacuum. And Iraqi streets have been in turmoil ever since.

For Medicare Part D - A new program was introduced but it was unclear if all the MAJOR STAKE HOLDERS had input to the planning. When the MAJOR STAKE HOLDERS were told to operate the plan,there was major confusion. I read of no confusion among the BIG PHARMACEUTICALS, but I did read that seniors and pharmacists had problems.

The Bush team also seems to "work in many ways", some not fully understood by mortal men/women.

Despite Leo T being a fan of Al Gore, I think most clear-thinking people desire freedom from Al Gore!

Dang Bezelt.. you are smoking everyone in here. Very direct. You do a good job of dissecting others distraction attempts.

You are a welcome addition.

At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, (which campaign? The 2004 campaign?) ...

Frank,

Shirley, you're not that dense.

Thanks for your comment, david k