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Gore-ing Iraq
Townhall.com ^
| 09/25/2002
| Michael Kelly
Posted on 09/24/2002 9:16:05 PM PDT by Pokey78
Distasteful as it may be, some notice should be paid to the speech that the formerly important Al Gore delivered Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
This speech, an attack on the Bush policy on Iraq, was Gore's big effort to distinguish himself from the Democratic pack in advance of another possible presidential run. It served: It distinguished Gore, now and forever, as someone who cannot be considered a responsible aspirant to power. Politics are allowed in politics, but there are limits, and there is a pale, and Gore has now shown himself to be ignorant of those limits, and he has now placed himself beyond that pale.
Gore's speech was one no minimally decent politician could have delivered. It was entirely dishonest, cheap, low. It was utterly hollow. It was bereft of policy, of solutions, of constructive ideas, very nearly of facts--bereft of anything other than taunts and jibes and embarrassingly obvious lies. It was breathtakingly hypocritical, a naked political assault delivered in smarmy tones of moral condescension from a man pretending to be superior to mere politics. It was wretched. It was vile. It was contemptible. But I understate.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: albertgorejunior; algore; algoreisnotmyprez
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posted on
09/24/2002 9:16:05 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Howlin; Miss Marple; Sabertooth; summer; JohnHuang2; terilyn; MeeknMing
Ping!
Skewering Gore is so much fun!
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posted on
09/24/2002 9:21:03 PM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
Al Gore - the most discredited politician of his generation.
To: Pokey78
I almost felt sorry for ol' Al after reading this. Almost.
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posted on
09/24/2002 9:27:55 PM PDT
by
ArcLight
To: Pokey78
God is ripping the phony mask off the lunatic left, and they can't hide behind it anymore. Look at recent statements by Gore, Jackson, Clinton, and the McKinneys. The Devil is realizing that 2000 was his last best chance to destroy America, and he failed. Now he is furious, and the demons in his slaves cannot be contained any longer. The hideous and ugly beast knows his time is short before he is cast into the bottomless pit, so expect a lot more blatant insanity, cruelity, and criminality coming from the the forces of anti-Christ worldwide.
To: Pokey78
I had the somewhat dubious pleasure of listening to part of this speech. To call it rambling would be the understatement of the day.
A brief summation
1 George Bush is dumb/wrong/evil
2 I'm great
3 We have to do something about saddam
4 See #2
5 We may have to go to war
6 See #1
7 We can't go to war
8 I should be president
9 See #5
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posted on
09/24/2002 9:29:40 PM PDT
by
Valin
To: Pokey78
Pokey, as usual, you are dead on target in your assessment. Cheers.
To: Pokey78
So I wonder what he really thinks. Grin.
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posted on
09/24/2002 10:35:46 PM PDT
by
twntaipan
To: Pokey78
"Politics are allowed in politics, but there are limits, and there is a pale, and Gore has now shown himself to be ignorant of those limits"He showed he was ignorant of those limits before now. History will place that weasel where he belongs.
To: blackbart.223
What is truly frightening is, so many of the electorate believe in this empty suit, goreghoul! Surely the fool was set up to take the heat off of the centrist dimocrat demons. I cannot think of any other reason a politician would commit such blatant suicide!
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posted on
09/24/2002 10:50:10 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
To: Pokey78
Lets be frank...the speech and the speech giver sucked
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posted on
09/24/2002 10:50:51 PM PDT
by
woofie
To: Pokey78
Algore has the IQ of a Pencil Eraser. That's why Democrats have distanced themselves from him.
To: ArcLight; Pokey78
When did Gore develop this pronounced lisp?
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posted on
09/24/2002 11:54:03 PM PDT
by
Howlin
To: Howlin
Pronounced lisp? Was he giving the speech in the Castro district or something?
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posted on
09/25/2002 12:18:33 AM PDT
by
mvpel
To: mvpel
It sounded like he had a new pair of dentures.
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posted on
09/25/2002 12:19:38 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: mvpel
Lisp my ass. The only people who could have lapped his bomb of a speech up would have been the Bezerkeley Taliban retards that populate that part of the country.
To: Pokey78
Why is it that every time I see, hear or read about Al Gore, I think of priapism?
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posted on
09/25/2002 12:53:47 AM PDT
by
Timesink
To: blackbart.223
History will place him right behind clinton both scrambling for the rest of thier lives for a revisionist legacy and not the one they've earned.
To: Pokey78
Whooo, doggies! Mr. Kelly has taken off the gloves! Gore destroyed himself in that speech, and I am GLAD, because that speech showed the TRUE Al Gore, the man who sold his vote on the Gulf War for face time on TV, the man who dragged this country into a constitutional crisis, the man who made every effort to throw away votes of the military.
I hope this speech haunts him the rest of his days.
To: Pokey78
Gore's speech was one no minimally decent politician could have delivered. It was entirely dishonest, cheap, low. It was utterly hollow. It was bereft of policy, of solutions, of constructive ideas, very nearly of facts--bereft of anything other than taunts and jibes and embarrassingly obvious lies. It was breathtakingly hypocritical, a naked political assault delivered in smarmy tones of moral condescension from a man pretending to be superior to mere politics. It was wretched. It was vile. It was contemptible. In other words, it was just like every other speech he's given.
Al's nothing if not consistent.
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