Gore's Surprising Act Of Leadership Against Iraq War (puke alert)

Boston Globe ^ | September 25, 2002 | Robert Kuttner

[robowombat]

AL GORE, remarkably, has stepped into a leadership vacuum and said several things that most congressional Democrats may well believe but have been too fearful to utter.

Gore, speaking Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, warned that unilateral action against Saddam Hussein would ''severely damage'' the more urgent war on terrorism and ''weaken our ability to lead the world.'' Gore declared that the president has turned the broad reservoir of good will for America ''into a deep sense of misgiving and even hostility.'' In a pointed dig at President George W. Bush's go-it-alone cowboy rhetoric, he added, ''If you're going after Jesse James, you ought to organize the posse first.''

[robowombat]

A reflexive liberal slopgusher.

[baltoga]

Taking his speech into the context of "what do I have to lose" it becomes all to obvious why Gore took this position.

[boomop1]

Gore a girly boy gives speach written by a moron, he leads a bunch of panty waist losers.

[taxcontrol]

The party of JFK has been hijacked by crooks and scoundrels.

[capydick]

Gore, perhaps in spite of himself, has actually exercised that rarest of qualities in contemporary politics - leadership.

This is what passes for leadership as defined by this writer? How rudderless can one be?

[SpinyNorman]

Never forget that the Boston Globe is now the ba$tard son of the New York Slimes, and it shows in their editorializing. This is the home of the bowtied liberal bumkissing Thomas Oliphant too! (watch him on some of the PBS shows he appears on occaisionally. Watch the facial expressions and hand gestures. I ask you: can a man act any more effeminately?)

[robertpaulsen]

"Gore is often described as one of the most ... poll-driven people in American politics."

More like the definition of a follower than a leader.