Posted on 07/04/2006 11:10:37 AM PDT by Torie
…The first pragmatic reason to be for Gore, then, is that he is electable. He won once. {SCOTUS stole the election.] He can win again. … That Bush has been such a clot as a president, such a golem magnifies Gore's stature as a thinking person with beliefs he can defend honestly and persuasively. …
Hillary starts out with so many in the electorate--left, far left, right, far right, center--nearly half of the public … She is just disliked. The phenomenon is actually volcanic. The more she shifts her ground the more shaky it is, and she has shifted her ground aplenty. Why, if Hillary were to run against Mayor Giuliani or John McCain in 2006, she'd likely lose even her "home" state of New York. … Now, I disagree with Gore about Iraq ... … On domestic economic matters, Gore is a free-market realist rather than a free-market fanatic. The issues he has tended to are issues on which he is truly expert.
He is not afraid of science and technology because he knows science and technology. And, yes, he did more to foster the democratization of the Internet than anyone in public life anywhere. …
His film, An Inconvenient Truth … has bonded him to so many intelligent and activated citizens of all political persuasions and social strata that it may be the most brilliant campaign-launch in our time.
Let me tell you a few words about the question as to whether Al Gore has changed. Actually, to me he is essentially the same young man I met in a Harvard freshman seminar 41 years ago: inquisitive, respectful of learning and scholarship, emotionally connected, committed to his friends and family, incandescently smart, believing in an order of the universe he still genuinely refers to as God. …
(Excerpt) Read more at tnr.com ...
And I am jealous. Nobody has characterized me yet as "incandescently smart."
ummm.. yeah right.
I am gonna PUKE!!
And here I thought a new picture was out....
How much of te-RAY-za's money is going to Peretz to write such dribble. Best laugh I've had today. Peretz doesn't remember that albore invented the internet too.
Exactly why I, too, clicked into this thread.
Martin Peretz actually wrote this crap? I find it hard to believe that he actually wrote this piece. This is not a joke?
"I'm glad I did not eat yet because....
I am gonna PUKE!! "
I think that's what the author meant when he said Gore was "The great reguritator".
I was readng this thinking it was a big send-up of Gore - - then I realized THIS DUDE IS SERIOUS!
Goodness! People like this really exist???
Is it hot? Why that's Global Warming. Is it freezing cold? Why that's Global Warming too!
Sorry, that URL was not formed correctly.
Translation: holds the same beliefs as Marxist university professors.
That is due to my "incandescently smart" editing. I worked hard at it. I was allowed to put up only 300 carefully chosen words. It was painful to have to delete some of them. There was just so much in the article that was "prime choice."
The link is good. You have to register with the magazine to digest the entire cut. It is worth it.
1. The idiot can't carry his own state (providing we think that Tennessee is still his own state).
2. The idiot is a former Senator. As we've seen recently with Dole, Kerry, and AlGore, time in the Senate is deadly for POTUS ambitions. Clinton should've noted that before she carpetbagged. The only modern Senator who has become POTUS is Kennedy, and that win came courtesy Cook County Corruption, Inc. As a rule, you can rule out all Senators when it comes to POTUS ambitions.
3. The problem with dissenting opposition party bombthrowers (and AlGore is certainly one of those) is that people will be constantly reminded of the outragous things they've said.
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