Gore plans major speech on U.S. economy

Reuters ^ | 9-29-02

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Al Gore, who launched a broad attack on President George W. Bush's Iraq policy last week, will give a "major" policy speech on the U.S. economy in Washington on Wednesday.

Stepping up his political profile as he prepares to make a decision on another run for the presidency, Gore will give the address at Washington's Brookings Institution, spokesman Jano Cabrera said.

Gore's Iraq speech in San Francisco last week galvanized Democratic concerns over Bush's plans for a military move against Baghdad and helped slow down what was expected to be quick congressional approval of a resolution on use of force.

Gore said Bush's focus on Iraq was a distraction in the war on terror and the president should make more of an effort to gain U.N backing for a move against Iraq.

The speech on economic policy comes as Democrats are desperately trying to switch attention away from Iraq and back to "kitchen table" domestic issues like the economy and jobs in the run-up to the Nov. 5 congressional elections.

Democrats plan a series of events in connection with this week's release of unemployment figures and quarterly retirement account records.

Gore's back-to-back major speeches are a dramatic increase in the political profile of the former vice president, who lost the White House to Bush in 2000 after a five-week recount battle in Florida, and they will surely increase speculation that he is preparing another presidential run.

After nearly a year of being largely out of the public eye, Gore began to make some public appearances earlier this year and has done some campaigning for Democratic candidates.

He has promised to make a decision on another run for the presidency by the end of the year.

The Iraq and economic speeches will double the major addresses he has given since the Florida recount battle. Earlier this year he spoke on foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and in April he spoke to the Florida Democratic Party's annual convention.

[randita]

Bush will get the jump on Gore. Expect something big to come from Bush in the next day or two to get the press all a-twitter. Gore's diatribe will get lost in the shuffle.

[oyez]

Why is Gore such an authority over every thing? Where is his proof? It would best that the media keep ther mikes and cameras in a "lockbox". Algore dosen't have any solutions.

[Sangamon Kid]

If a tree falls in a forest when no one is around, does it make a sound?

[The Wizard]

and no one cares

[johnny7]

Lockbox... HA! What a spaz, he really thinks we're stupid.

I like it when he walks up to a podium... he looks like Herman Munster on “roofies”!

[Brilliant]

No doubt, it will include tax increases.

[Brilliant]

Gore's effort to "talk down the economy"...

[Texbob]

Gore does not have anything major, This is just liberal media propaganda.

[freebilly]

Major speech???! I see the enablers in the press are hard at work....

[Nick Danger]

Bob Dole should announce that he has a major speech, too. Let's see if the media will cover that, and tell us all about it the week before.

[freebilly]

LOL

An honest Democrat is like an honest pedophile. Even when they tell the truth they're still disgusting slime....

[capydick]

Which Algore will be giving this speech? I think he goes with the sissy lisp thing when he talks about the econmony. Frankly, I hope they keep trotting these a-holes out(gore,bonior,dasshole,gebhardt,etc) right up to November 5th.

[meowmeow]

And gore influences national policy decisions how...?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Gore? Who is that, and why should we care?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Not to veer too far off course, but if a man says something in a forest, and there's no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?

[freebilly]

Don't you recall, he was elected President and deposed in a non-military coup....

[aruanan]

Al Gore, who launched a broad attack on President George W. Bush's Iraq policy last week, will give a "major" policy speech on the U.S. economy in Washington on Wednesday.

But this will make my sphincter entirely let go!

[freebilly]

Albert Gore-- The People's President!

[jrlc]

Reuters = Communist. Period. Forget objectivity. Bring on Algore, let's see if he can top the performance of Adlai Stevenson -- just what the RATS need right now, another 2-time loser.

[mc5cents]

Yawn. (Sound of crickets chirping)