[ECM]

Not that I'm complaining, but did Dick Morris have a brain transplant somewhere along the way?

[The Raven]

PITTING the rich against the poor and the haves against the have-nots,....

As long as I've been alive, I've heard this drumbeat. There were times when I actually believed that it was a once-and-done issue. That when a Dem got elected, the issue would be resolved and that would be that.

As long as we have capitalism, we'll give incentives to folks with high productivity. And the Al Gore's of the world will grab power by fostering greed in the less productive and taking away the incentives of the successful thereby enslaving them. Why go to college? Why not shrug?

[PoisedWoman]

As we used to say in high school:

If Gore had a brain, he'd be dangerous.

[johnny7]

“A fault line has always run within the Democratic Party between the left and the center.”

Unh, unh Mr. Morris. Their fault line moves every 20 years or so.

Now, the fault line runs between the left and the radical left. There is no centrist, democratic voice.

Lieberman might be the closest one to center but you know what he did with his beliefs when he joined Gore in 2000.

Todays dems would view George McGovern as a “centrist” democrat!

[joyful1]

Could've entitled this piece "Hold your nose. Al's letting it rip again."

[metesky]

Americans feel endangered and know that only by working together can we again feel safe.

I don't know about anybody else, but I'm getting a little bored with this crap. I do not feel endangered, I feel no fear, only anger and if Morris thinks we've all some how come together, well he should get out of the office more.

[rickmichaels]

Too bad the headline didn't say "As America unites, Gore goes away."

[doosee]

He declares, "This struggle between the people and the powerful was at the heart of every major domestic issue of the 2000 campaign and is still the central dynamic of politics in 2002."


His struggle back in November of 2000 was also against the military voters who were deployed around the world to protect this piece of human crap. When will this guy ever just go away and shut up?

[Wonder Warthog]

"Al Gore frames the key question in our politics as, "How do we make sure that political power is used for the benefit of the many, rather than the few?""

As usual, Gore gets it wrong. The Founding Fathers phrased it "How can we sure that the political power is used for the benefit of ALL, rather than any one interest group at the expense of another?".

The exact OPPOSITE of what Gore proposes!!

[PGalt]

The Tennessee 2x4, propagandist for The Democratic Crime Syndicate, thrives on splintering Americans.

[uncbob]

Gore has to do something to try and head Hillary off at the pass.

TOP BAD AL

The Clinton machine is going to chew you up

[Randjuke]

Al Gore is basing his political appeal on dividing us along class lines.

He's nothing if not consistent - the eternal paradox of liberalism is that while decrying the existence of classes (financial and otherwise), it is dependent on the "haves" for it's own existence. Larger government and increased entitlements depend on having people around who can pay for them. Taken to it's conclusion, what Gore supports is nothing but an elaborate Ponzi scheme.

[Redleg Duke]

"Al Gore has, apparently, decided to move his candidacy from the commitment to solving problems all Americans have in common, which characterized the Clinton administration, to a divide-and-conquer strategy."

Who does this Bozo think he is kidding? All along, Slick effectively used class warfare and breaking up the American public into warring factions to protect his own ass and maintain his own power.

I know that the main theme of this article is correct, but Morris cannot write anything without a lie to cover his own backside!

[wattsmag2]

the commitment to solving problems all Americans have in common, which characterized the Clinton administration

What utter bullshot.

[xzins]

We would do well to remember that Gore nearly won the election using class warfare tactics. Whatever counter-attack we used against this idea before was barely successful at that time. It should be re-evaluated, updated, and improved or changed.

[MrConfettiMan]

Al Gore has, apparently, decided to move his candidacy from the commitment to solving problems all Americans have in common, which characterized the Clinton administration, to a divide-and-conquer strategy.

I got this far before having to post the above absurdity.

[WindMinstrel]

Gore was an apostle of the center, working with Clinton to move America forward. Now, he has joined the ranks of Mondale, Dukakis and Jerry Brown as a card-carrying liberal. It's a loss for the nation, a mistake by Gore and bad news for Democrats.

Which is precisely why I hope he gets the dem candidacy

[oyez]

IMHO, Algore is giving comfort to the enemy and it symps. His own home state realized his short charactor. Everything has now become personal to the man as he is now flying his true colors. His id needs a lid.

[ffrancone]

A fault line has always run within the Democratic Party between the left and the center.

The left sees Wall Street as an enemy. The center identifies it as a partner in solving America's problems. The left panders to the poor by pointing at the rich as its enemy. The center asks all of us to improve ourselves and act with greater responsibility. The left rekindles racism by splitting Americans according to their wealth and, through affirmative action, by their race and gender. The center treats them as individuals and asks an end to debilitating division.

This has not been true since the mid-60's. There were moderate democrats then who had the best interests of America at heart--they were just deluded.

Today, among the leaders of the Democratic party, there are only two types:

(1) Avowed leftists who explicitly seek a totalitarian state (Maxine Waters, Patrick Leahy, Cynthia McKinney et al et al et al); and

(2) Secret leftists (the third-way, DLC folks) who seek the same goal covertly.

As Democrat politicians seek national office, they tend to move from category 1 to category 2. Hillary is a great example. She was (and I believe still is) a Saul Alinsky style Leninist. But the demands of national office have moved her into the covert camp. She still splits the country along racial lines and feeds the racial fires--it is just a little more subtle.

The only differences between 1 and 2 are honesty and electoral success. At least Gore is honest about his intent when he does the class warfare stuff. But America does not yet have support for a Leninist agenda in the population. So the category 2 folks do better electorally.