Michael Kelly-Gore speech is "disgraceful" and shows why he should never be in power

Washington Post ^ | 9-25 | MIchael Kelly

[republicman]

By Michael Kelly Wednesday, September 25, 2002;

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 decent politician could have delivered. It was dishonest, cheap, low. It was 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 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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[republicman]

That was my first thought when I heard this vile spew from Algore, when has he EVER done anything that wasn't politically motivated?

Wrong, hyocritical, cynical and utterly Clintonian. Thank G-d he isn't our president.

[dark_lord]

Just a "typical" politician. There are hundreds just like him. Not all are Democrats, either.

[The_Victor]

Good article, but it was already posted here

[areafiftyone]

Gore's campaign will fizzle out by 2003. Looks like the Democreeps are going to abandon him.

[m1911]

What up with the WP? Sunday's edition was surprisingly pro-war. Ok, there were a couple of negative articles, but overall the coverage was solidly pro.

[MAWG]

" Not all are Democrats either "

Now that you have broken ranks, care to name a few?

[Dems_R_Losers]

What up with the WP? Sunday's edition was surprisingly pro-war. Ok, there were a couple of negative articles, but overall the coverage was solidly pro.

The Post had a long editorial Sunday or Monday pretty much calling for war. Fred Hiatt is the editorial page editor now, and he is very fair. Maybe the WP staff do not want to be incinerated by an Iraqi nuke smuggled into DC.

Michael Kelly's column originates in the Post and is syndicated by the Post, so they carry it no matter what he says. But this one sure is a doozy!

[cousair]

Michael Kelly's article is right on target and out there for all to read. The Demorats should be ashamed of this worn out has been as the only thing on their agenda.Thank goodness he isn't in the White House. They think HE (Gore) is PRESIDENTIAL????? GORe has never has measured up and this speech proves the point over and over.

[What Is Ain't]

Why do I keep having this vision of McCauliffe, Clinton, and Clinton huddled together snickering after Al's presentation of a speech they had assembled and handed to him just before he approached the podium?

Hang up your tin spurs, Al. Hillary has one less Dem competitor for the nomination.

[NordP]

Maybe not. You have to have some sense of honor to abandon something so inappropriate.

Also, don't forget, there are still plenty of DemSheep out roaming the countryside that STILL don't "get it!"

--yet another reason to improve the nation's school system...maybe with education will come reason! (/sarcasm)

[TatieBug]

And the KLINTOON GANG probably wrote this article for Michael Kelly!

[AppyPappy]

Lincoln Chaffee, Jim Jeffords,

[Dick Bachert]

“HEY, WATCH WHO YOU’RE CALLIN’ A WHORE!”

For those who were paying attention back in 1993, an event occurred which should have alerted us that this Gore fellow is either not terribly bright or has major short-term memory problems. While his college transcripts (and flunking out of divinity school) make that case far better than I could here, that event demonstrated – at least to me – something far more troubling in this guy’s intellectual chemistry.

In January of 1993, Clinton and Gore – apparently to cement their bone fides as “men of da peeple,” organized a bus tour prior to their triumphant entry into Washington for their inauguration on January 20th. Their final stop before heading up to DC was at Monticello, Jefferson’s home atop that beautiful mountain in Charlottesville, Virginia. Mr. Jefferson’s final resting place is also there just down the slope from that grand house.

During the visit – which was covered live by C-SPAN and watched with interest as it unfolded by this humble writer – Gore was conducted on a tour of the home by the one of the Park Service guides. At one point, Gore was shown a group of portraits identified by the guide as Washington, Franklin and Madison. (For what it’s worth, your humble writer – possibly because I went through the government school system BEFORE the PC crowd and the NEA took it over -- recognized these Founding Fathers BEFORE the guide spoke.)

These portraits hang on a relatively short wall flanked on either side by a doorway. Gore spent a few moments contemplating the images of three of the leading Founding Fathers of the nation he and his new pal, Bill Clinton, would soon lead. Gore and the guide then strolled through the door to their right and – though off camera – could be heard making comments as they apparently viewed the portraits on the other side of this same wall.

About a minute or so later, Gore and the guide came back into view through the LEFT door and back to the SAME wall upon which hung the portraits of Washington, Franklin and Madison. Gore looked at them and, motioning to them, asked the guide “AND WHO ARE THESE FELLOWS?” Who are THESE fellows??

I still recall my incredulity at the depth of the abysmal IGNORANCE of his question. No, strike that. Given that just a few minutes earlier Gore had seen these same portraits, the STUPIDITY of the question! There is no other term for it.

As I have reflected on that incredibly revealing incident during the years since, another frightening thought flooded in on me: This was a guy who, at the time of that Monticello visit in January of 1993, had served in public office at the national level for some 16 years and DID NOT RECOGNIZE THREE OF THE MEN WHO WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN CREATING THE VERY SYSTEM IN WHICH HE SERVED!

Anyone want to take a shot at how many times this guy had actually READ the Constitution he had by then sworn an oath to God to “…preserve, protect and defend it from all enemies, both foreign and domestic” MULTIPLE times? Who protects the Constitution from HIM? If you care enough to have read this far, you recognize THAT as a rhetorical question.

I thought I could hear a soft whirring sound in the background as Gore and Clinton used Monticello as a prop to further what was to become the most Constitution defying, scandal plagued administration in our history. I now believe it was Mr. Jefferson reaching speeds of 3,600 RPM in his grave down the hill.

A bit later in this same visit to Monticello, Bill and Al appeared on little stools on the porch. All that was missing were the little dunce caps. Assembled before them were a few hundred dutifully smiling and appreciative DC school kids trucked in as “props.”

During the clearly scripted Q & A by the kids, one of them asked Bill and Al why they wanted to go to Washington. I don’t recall exactly what Bill said (but I’m sure we all could come pretty close). I do, however, remember PRECISLY a portion of what Al said: “To make the world MORE BETTER…” for kids like them. “ MORE BETTER?”

And this guy was a journalist?

The Gore “Disinformation Squad” tells us that Dubya is not too bright?

Give me break!

[areafiftyone]

I am dying to know which creep the Dems are going to endorse - I think it might be Kerry.

[DWPittelli]

I've felt for at least the past year that the Washington Post is a liberal, but fair and reasonably objective newspaper. It contrasts very favorably with the New York Times, which is willing to engage in all manner of intellectual dishonesty (e.g., illogic, selective omissions) to make its left-wing political points. Too bad Smartertimes.com is defunct

[antivenom]

I agree...Dasshole has to "play nice" before the November elections...and has to "act" like a patriotic senator since his last few months have backfired on him...Terry McAuliffe is on a hot seat...the "PERP" walks for Global Crossing are getting close...and he will be in the cross fire...BILL can't go out and do it...be perceived as "meddling" and the Republicans have too much audio tape to contradict Billy Boy...HILLary...she can't play that game...she represents New York and NY is still pissed about the last attacks...soooo who does that leave?

Well Al Gore of course...and Al is too damn stupid to see he is beinging played like a cheap violin. So they (Carville and Begala) prop him up with "anti-war" rhetoric and pray like hell that some one will play the race card and SOON!

Ron Kirk here in Texas played it and it backfired BIG TIME...Kirk (black) was quoted as saying that the upcoming war was going to be over representing black soilders and that the white man wasn't going to go fight....HMMMM ...reparations and the blacks are being used by whitie to fight Bush's "oil war"....this is a calculated race card slowly being developed...just wait and see. Kirk's trial balloon blew up and Al Gore will go out and will try it again soon...especially before the November elections...got to have "angry blacks" atthe polls...since the Dems have NO ideas or principles to run on and certainly nothing to brag about for the last 2 years...

You will also see Cynthia McKinney raise her ugly head for the anti-semite remarks that will rally the black voters too...wait and see they will find every election "failure" with an axe to grind to FIGHT the Demoncrats fight...wait and see.

[johnny7]

Dems are avoiding him like the Ebola virus. He's now an outsider... a disruptor.

Kerry will be the “chosen” boy but watch out for Edwards.

If the dems choose NYC for their convention, all bets are off.

If no real poll leader shows up before the primaries in 2004, Hillary will jump out of the pen.

Fairly young, well-rested and foaming at the mouth, the swiness will come to the aid of her party.

First woman dictator of the USA.

God help us all.

[ravingnutter]

"I also support the President's stated goals in the next phases of the war against terrorism as he laid them out in the State of the Union. ... Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these governments in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq. As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table."

-Al Gore, in Feb. 12, 2002 speech to Council on Foreign Relations.

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Full Transcript of Feb 12, 2002 speech

On May 23,2000 vice president and presidential candidate Al Gore made the following remarks about Iraq:

"We have made it clear that it is our policy to see Saddam Hussein gone. We have sought coalitions of opponents to challenge his power from within or without. I have met with the Iraqi resistance, and I have invited them to meet with me again next month – when I will encourage them to further unite in their efforts against Saddam. We have maintained sanctions in the face of rising criticism, while improving the oil-to-food program to help the Iraqi people directly. We have used force when necessary. And we will not let up in our efforts to free Iraq from Saddam's rule. Should he think of challenging us, I would strongly advise against it. As a Senator, I voted for the use of force. As Vice President, I supported the use of force. And if entrusted with the Presidency, my resolve will never waver. "

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Here's another interesting tidbit for ya....

"Gore's Gulf War Vote Hinged on Key TV Slot" by Senator Alan Simpson

[BlueAngel]

Excellent article! Michael Kelly summed it up well. Al Bore IS and always will be a disgrace.

[Dick Bachert]

Hillary seen here employing the “Lewinsky Method” while scarfing a street weenie at a political function. Bill has requested that she NOT use this technique when he is in the area lest he have to quickly repair to the nearest lavatory – usually doubled over with his hat over his lap -- to avoid embarrassing himself (like THAT is a problem for Mr. Humiliation!).

NEVER FORGET: THESE PEOPLE MUST NEVER AGAIN INFEST THE WHITE HOUSE!