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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well stated.
ROFLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
He will be running in 08....get ready.
Gore is a flaming idiot with no personality and those are his best two points.
You forget, madam, that once Bush won his second election he was finally in a position to be a real conservative without having to worry about re-election. I had high hopes that he would turn out to be a real conservative. Alas, he has proven himself to be merely a well-intentioned centrist.
ROTFLOL ~~~ If Gore thinks that he is farther left than I imagined.
We're in Al's infrared range apparently.
Judges. Life. Military. Taxes. Economy = Conservative.
Nicely said.
Well, I know a lot of right wing people right here on FR who wouldn't exactly classify Bush as right wing ;)
Go Al!!!! We're waiting.....
Somewhere inside Al there's a human being, but the crazy man won't let him out.
"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".
Wrong again Big Al. Bush has been quite the RINO in his 2nd term. Wish we had the "band of RWE"....could use em about now.
By the way, Al is still a loser!
That's assuming he has a mind.
He followed too closely the advice of his consultants, shows he can't think for himself.
Of course, when could he ever?
I am ready for any Democrat they throw at me..in '08.
Well Gore, you're a twit. There, we are even!
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