Sorry this took so long...

[mayor]

But it took me all day to stop laughing. Did anyone else hear Al Gore's speech? LOL! Yeah, this guy is mainstream Democrat.

Um.. no. That would be liberal wacko!

Oh, it was too rich. If only he would have been elected. It would have been so much more entertaining. Disastrous, but entertaining.

Ahhh... the pause that refreshes. :-)

Mayor

[Shainie]

Yes. I think he's losing his mind.

[chippers21]

Strange that these Democrats tend to self-destruct that way.

[mayor]

Just came across this evaluation online from WorldNet Daily....

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Gore mentally unstable
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 28 May 2004 | Joseph Farah

Wow! Thank God for the electoral college.

Those founding fathers really knew what they were doing.

Had the Constitution called for direct election of the president of the United States, a clearly mentally unstable man would be sitting in the Oval Office right now.

That's my conclusion after watching, listening to and reading Al Gore's speech to the Moveon.org-New York University crowd this week.

The man is unhinged. He's deranged. He's unbalanced. He had better get out of New York as quickly as he can because, as Ralph Kramden would say, "Bellevue is calling."

Here are some of the descriptives this psycho used about President Bush, who, like him or not, is leading the nation in a global war against an implacable, wily and murderous foe:

"he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world"

"he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a reputation as the most dishonest president since Richard Nixon"

he has pursued "policies that resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent men, women and children, all of it done in our name"

he designed and insisted upon policies that established "an American Gulag of dark rooms and naked prisoners" and a policy of "torture" at Abu Graib

And, irony of ironies, while the former vice president was doing all of this unprecedented name-calling, he had the audacity to accuse the Bush administration of introducing "a new level of viciousness in partisan politics."

He also characterized U.S. Iraq policy as evidence of "the worst strategic and military miscalculations and mistakes in the history of the United States of America."

Several times in his prepared speech, Gore talked of morality.

One wonders whose morality, whose values, guide him.

Can he really not distinguish between the errors of a handful of low-level soldiers and National Guardsmen in Iraq and the policy of a nation?

Can he really not distinguish between his own party's political ambitions and the best interests of his nation?

Can he really not distinguish between the torture chambers of Saddam Hussein and the prisoner abuse at Abu Graib?

Can he really not distinguish between a presidential election campaign and a war to defend the lives of American citizens from terrorists who want to annihilate us with weapons of mass destruction?

I don't think Gore can distinguish between those realities. I don't think he is any longer in touch with reality and truth. I think Al Gore, at some point in his life, sold his soul.

Remember, this is the guy who decided how he would vote on the first Persian Gulf War resolution based on which side in the debate would give him the most speaking time on the floor.

And he talks about morality and values.

This is the guy who thinks the biggest threat facing mankind and the planet is the internal combustion engine.

And he talks about morality and values.

This is the guy who stood by a president who disgraced the office in a thousand ways – among them, selling high-tech national secrets to hostile foreign powers for campaign cash, selling presidential pardons, accosting women, threatening them and abusing them, targeting political adversaries with all the power and force of the federal government.

Perhaps worst of all, he stood by a president and was part of an administration that for years ignored and covered up attacks by the very enemies we face today so they would not have to take responsibility for defending America's vital interests and its civilian population.

President Clinton and Vice President Gore betrayed their oath of office to the Constitution and to defend the United States most blatantly when they blamed these attacks on "accidents," on talk-show hosts, on "right-wing Christian militiamen," on any convenient scapegoat but the real enemy of Islamo-fascism that has been at war with the U.S. since at least 1979.

Somebody get this guy a sedative. I really believe he needs medical and psychiatric help. Throw a net over this man before he does any further harm to this nation.

[juliet57]

On Fox News Charles Krauthammer says it appears Gore went off his lithium. Charles is usually pretty low-key so when he said that I figured the speech must have been pretty bad. For the record, politics wise I am pretty middle of the road believing that we can all co-exist even if we don't have the same opinions so please don't anyone bash me for making a comment.

[pippy]

Originally Posted by juliet

I am pretty middle of the road believing that we can all co-exist even if we don't have the same opinions so please don't anyone bash me for making a comment.

I totally agree with that statement! There IS a happy medium when and if people ever want to stop arguing long enough to find it!

[CagedTroll]

One of the POINTS Al Gore raised in his speech: The U.S. government should be ashamed that communities around this country have had to accept the burden of equipping our troops. It is a national disgrace when the Department of Defense is so ill-prepared to equip our soldiers that their friends and families are forced to consider holding 'Bake Sales for Body Armor,'" wrote Rep.*Ted Strickland, who has tracked this issue for months, in a letter sent Wednesday to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

I pulled the quote from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Either login above or Register Now]. That's right: FoxNews---So fair! So balanced!!!

[mayor]

Originally Posted by CagedTroll

I pulled the quote from [Only registered and activated users can see links. Either login above or Register Now]. That's right: FoxNews---So fair! So balanced!!!

Leave glass house. Pick up stone. Throw.

The truth of the matter is, Fox does lean towards the right. It's a slight lean compared the extreme leaning to the left of the rest of the mainstream media.

Does Fox balance the media overall? Not by a longshot.

Mayor

[CagedTroll]

My point being that talking points raised in Gore's speech have been raised on FoxNews.com. "Bake Sales for Body Armor" is worth a little bit of attention. As are several other facts he mentioned in the speech. In the first few minutes.

What was it he said that got you to laughing so hard???

Regarding the World Net Daily bit...: has the nerve to complain about name calling?!? After using mentally unstable, unhinged, deranged, unbalanced, and psycho??? All BEFORE getting to a dozen sentences (from what was an hour long speech)!

Dubbya pronounced abu Ghraib three different ways in his last speech, btw. I'm pretty sure that says something about HIS mental state!

[mayor]

Originally Posted by CagedTroll

What was it he said that got you to laughing so hard???

Gore has reinvented himself into a screaming lunatic. It was hysterical! As for what he said, what DIDN'T he say? ;-)

Mayor

[CagedTroll]

His usual dry and boring monotone for the first half-hour. Then he raised his voice a few times on certain points.

You've never been to a black church have you? <point being that this wasn't even that. it was more like a pep rally. but I sort of doubt you'd call a preacher a "lunatic" if he was on message.>

[CagedTroll]

Originally Posted by mayor

he designed and insisted upon policies that established "an American Gulag of dark rooms and naked prisoners" and a policy of "torture" at Abu Graib

Notice the quotation marks. These are comments are out-of-context.

What Gore said was: Private Lynndie England did not make the decision that the United States would not observe the Geneva Convention. Specialist Charles Graner was not the one who approved a policy of establishing an American Gulag of dark rooms with naked prisoners to be "stressed" and even - we must use the word - tortured - to force them to say things that legal procedures might not induce them to say.

Originally Posted by mayor

And, irony of ironies, while the former vice president was doing all of this unprecedented name-calling, he had the audacity to accuse the Bush administration of introducing "a new level of viciousness in partisan politics."

This after Joseph Farah had 5 NAMES for Al Gore..., all meaning the same thing, BTW.

But again: Their appetite for power is astonishing. It has led them to introduce a new level of viciousness in partisan politics. It is that viciousness that led them to attack as unpatriotic, Senator Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in combat during the Vietnam War.

NEXT!

Originally Posted by mayor

He also characterized U.S. Iraq policy as evidence of "the worst strategic and military miscalculations and mistakes in the history of the United States of America."

What Gore actually said was: He has thus far been unwilling to hold anyone in his administration accountable for the worst strategic and military miscalculations and mistakes in the history of the United States of America.

He is willing only to apologize for the alleged erratic behavior of a few low-ranking enlisted people, who he is scapegoating for his policy fiasco.

Not that Farah's lying... He's just doing a lot of name calling, and then spinning the details.

[bassmount]

Originally Posted by CagedTroll

Dubbya pronounced abu Ghraib three different ways in his last speech, btw. I'm pretty sure that says something about HIS mental state!

I pretty much have pronounced it every way but the right way ... does that mean I am unstable? I just do not get why people nit pick about how people pronounce different things. It is very much regional in how mispronunciations are made. Even the different news channels say it differently. I have heard it "Aboo Gar-abe," "Aboo Ga-rbe" and "Aboo Ga-reb." So what difference does it make how he said it? Or take for example my very southern country accent. I have a VERY hard time with learning Germany because I tend to draw out things that should not be drawn out. German is a very short language. They do not draw words out. Danke is short, I tend to say "Daanke." Doesn't mean I am unstable or uneducated, it means that I have come from a region that tends to draw out words and I have a hard time reprogramming my mind not to do that. If you listen to Clinton, his Arkansas accent which is pretty close to the southern country, gets him sometimes too. Kennedy could not say "car" the right way for my ears if he tried ... it is always "KA" BUT again that is regional. It means that we all pronounce things differently and sometime "foreign" words get us, and we just can't get them. Says NOTHING about stability. I would think with the choice in candidates that we have this coming election, how someone pronounces or rather mispronounces something would be the least to worry about.

[mayor]

Farah put a "spin" in his editorial? Quelle surprise. Um, that's what editorialists DO!

You can try to spin the context any way. I HEARD the speech. The man is putting on a show for the democratic party, creating a feeding frenzy for the moveon nutjobs.

I am thrilled that he lost the election.

Here's hoping that we get another 4-year reprieve.

Mayor

[Jwelch111]

I didn't hear Al Gore's speech, just his passionate invocations, and I do wonder if some commentators here can say the same thing.

Seems I'm reading mostly comments of the media, not actual impressions of DoD'ers who HEARD the entire speech.

But, hey! Tenet did take Gore's advice: he resigned...

Now "what's the story, morning glory?" about Tenet's resignation?

Conspirators, spill your best theories!