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WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Former Vice President Al Gore charged Wednesday that President George W. Bush's economic policies, as much as the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, have damaged the U.S. economy and that the administration's unwillingness to change could allow the world economy to spiral into recession.
In an address to the Brookings Institution here as toughly worded as Gore's broadside against Bush's war plans from San Francisco last week, Gore said world economic leaders have lost confidence in Bush and his economic team.
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Gore likened Bush to a driver who has lost his way and "like the lost driver who won't stop and ask for directions, the president clutches his old plan and races in the wrong direction, farther and farther into the economic wilderness with the fate of nearly 300 million Americans in tow."
Since Bush's Sept. 12 address to the United Nations on Iraq, the Democrats have tried again and again to bring the election debate back to domestic issues and most particularly the economy. But most analysts agree that they have not been successful and the party is split on its view of national priorities.
A few hours after Gore's attack, for instance, two other Democrats mentioned in the 2004 presidential race, Sen. Joe Lieberman, Conn., and Rep. Dick Gephardt, Mo., were in the White House Rose Garden announcing a compromise with Bush's war resolution that they worked out, which would give Bush almost everything he wants. ....
Memo to AlBore: You're so irrelevant!
