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Gore: Bush is 'renegade rightwing extremist'
Guardian ^ | Wednesday May 31, 2006 | Oliver Burkeman and Jonathan Freedland

Posted on 05/30/2006 5:28:12 PM PDT by fuyb

Al Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current US administration as "a renegade band of rightwing extremists". In an interview with the Guardian today, the former vice-president calls himself a "recovering politician", but launches into the political fray more explicitly than he has previously done during his high-profile campaigning on the threat of global warming. Denying that his politics have shifted to the left since he lost the court battle for the 2000 election, Mr Gore says: "If you have a renegade band of rightwing extremists who get hold of power, the whole thing goes to the right." But he claims he does not "expect to be a candidate" for president again, while refusing explicitly to rule out another run. Asked if any event could change his mind, he says: "Not that I can see." Mr Gore, who appeared at the Guardian Hay literary festival over the bank holiday weekend, is promoting An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary and book detailing the climate change crisis that he warns "could literally end civilisation". The new levels of attention he is receiving have led some Democrats to call on him to run again for president, while others have responded with anger that Mr Gore did not show the same level of passion in the 2000 campaign. He has since acknowledged that he followed too closely the advice of his consultants during that campaign, and - before he started to scoff at the idea of running again - swore that if he ever did so, he would speak his mind. In the years since, he has been a steady critic of specific

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ManBearPig will get us all!!!


21 posted on 05/30/2006 5:38:07 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (I'm sthuper stherial!)
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To: fuyb

22 posted on 05/30/2006 5:38:21 PM PDT by D-Chivas
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To: AmericanMade1776

The guy just seems like he does'nt have any friends.


23 posted on 05/30/2006 5:40:01 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (Quick! Press the Sarcasm button!)
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To: fuyb

24 posted on 05/30/2006 5:40:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: fuyb

Gore's new theme song:

They're coming to take me away, HA HA
They're coming to take me away, HO HO HEE HEE HA HA
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see
Those nice, young men
In their clean, white coats
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!


25 posted on 05/30/2006 5:40:39 PM PDT by blue-duncan
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To: AmericanMade1776

Wait...was that a chad?


26 posted on 05/30/2006 5:41:01 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: D-Chivas

LOL!! So THAT'S what's causing all the global warming!!


27 posted on 05/30/2006 5:41:17 PM PDT by wizardoz
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To: fuyb
You know, I donated and voted for a 'renegade rightwing extremist' and am still feeling empty.
28 posted on 05/30/2006 5:42:20 PM PDT by Vision (Newt/Pence '08)
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To: eeevil conservative
the man needs to just get over it...

He can't! His loss will haunt him to his grave.

Al calls Bush a "Renegade right wing extremist". Don Carlos calls Gore a left wing loonie, and a poor looser! Nya Nya!

29 posted on 05/30/2006 5:42:40 PM PDT by Don Carlos (Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy. (B. Franklin))
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To: fuyb
Bush is 'renegade rightwing extremist'

I can only wish.

30 posted on 05/30/2006 5:43:40 PM PDT by Begin (Mister, we could use a man like Ronald Reagan again.)
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To: fuyb

If, only. I wish whoever took his cowboy boots, would give them back to him.


31 posted on 05/30/2006 5:44:10 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: fuyb
The whole 'center' is thrown off by how far wacko the left has gone (into outright communism in parts).

Bush, quite literally, is what the MSM would have called a 'moderate'... always trying to get along and find compromise. Thats what has fired up so much of the conservative base.

But of course he gets no 'credit' for it from the left, and predictably the right will only concede so much.

Its particularly ironic that Bush said he wanted to be a 'uniter' and has tried and ends up being odd man out by being in the middle when the 'passion' is on the ends... of course he still gets derided for being the object of division.
32 posted on 05/30/2006 5:45:29 PM PDT by FreedomNeocon (Better to take what they can throw at us now,rather than take what they promise to throw at us later)
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To: BenLurkin

al's report card does't include his PhD in the internet !!


33 posted on 05/30/2006 5:46:39 PM PDT by llevrok (The next greatest generation is now.)
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To: VanDeKoik

Poor Al. I really do feel sorry for him.


34 posted on 05/30/2006 5:47:22 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: fuyb

Hey, is it possible that Gore thinks he might run against Bush in 2008?


35 posted on 05/30/2006 5:47:30 PM PDT by Smedley
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To: fuyb

Does Gore really believe that, or does he say it because he knows the Liberal base thinks any Republican is automatically hardcore conservative?

I tend to think the latter.


36 posted on 05/30/2006 5:47:34 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Deport the United States Senate)
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To: wizardoz
Not if you behave in a rational fashion, wiz.

If you can't, then don't. If you can, you're welcome to talk to me all you want.

My point........ no one who satisfies some of your conservative requirements will ever be elected.

President Bush is one of two conservative Presidents in my lifetime, and I, for one, am thankful for that.

And I find algor both hilarious and pathetic at the same time. I hope this thread focuses on HIM, and doesn't turn into a mindless Bush bash.

(OK, so that would only happen on the OLD FR. The new one is run by the bashers......)

37 posted on 05/30/2006 5:49:03 PM PDT by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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To: fuyb

 

Now, THAT'S global warming!!!! Billy was right!!!

38 posted on 05/30/2006 5:50:18 PM PDT by Fintan (One day we'll look back on this and plow into a parked car.)
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To: llevrok; eeevil conservative; Don Carlos; CindyDawg; All

http://www.crm114.com/algore/quiz.html

39 posted on 05/30/2006 5:51:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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http://www.crm114.com/algore/quiz.html


40 posted on 05/30/2006 5:52:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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