Medication time...Al Gore, it`s medication time.
Posted on 05/31/2004 5:35:58 AM PDT by jslade
Lucidity in the balance: Al Gore's bad trip
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 31, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Doug Powers
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"Nurse Ratchet, white courtesy phone ... Nurse Ratchet, white courtesy phone."
The meds cup is on the way ... perhaps a bit too late. Al Gore, speaking of the abuses at Abu Ghraib and other prisons in a recent speech at New York University, stated, "Where do we go to get our good name back?" The man who was Bill Clinton's VP for eight years didn't even snicker when he said this.
Ah, yes, the good ol' days when everybody in the world liked us. The shoplifters sure do miss the crooked store security guards, don't they?
Gore also called for the resignations of Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Stephen Cambone, Condoleezza Rice and George Tenet, stopping just short of asking George Bush to give himself a spanking and condemning the fall lineup on the WB.
In this particular speech, as in many others, Gore spoke of the world as one entity comprised of healthy, harmonic tissue with the United States acting as a cancer on that body. He spent the better part of his comments talking down the U.S. military in a generalized fashion, outlining the nasty things they have done to prisoners, with some reporting that they were "forced to eat pork and drink alcohol." This one in particular didn't resonate with me, since it's the same complaint often voiced by visitors to my house.
Viewing and listening to Gore's recent speeches, it's pretty apparent that this is one ticked-off man, bitter to the core at ... well ... all of us.
For eight years, Gore defended his lying, adulterous boss while watching his wife, Tipper, slap parental warning stickers everywhere except where they belonged – on Bill Clinton's pants. During those years, Gore observed Clinton's successful election and re-election, and naturally tried to emulate him politically.
The problem for Gore was that, as it is with watching great athletes and musicians, the Clinton's make it look so easy that anybody thinks they can do it. In trying to copy the pattern of his former boss in achieving the nation's highest office, Gore was like a three-fingered shop teacher convinced he can perform the same sleight of hand magic of David Copperfield. In doing so, Gore dropped the cards all over the floor, right next to his marbles.
The root of Gore's real downhill emotional spiral began at the presidential debate where he wore so much makeup that Tammy Faye Bakker told him to "cool it on the foundation." Gore looked like he rear-ended a Maybelline truck on his way to the theater that night. The content of the debate was lost amid the comments about Gore's appearance, which even from his supporters were something along the lines of the mournfully positive fib you hear from the family at a funeral visitation – "Pop looks good, doesn't he?"
Winning the popular vote and losing the election furthered the fierce combination of rage and depression, prompting Gore to go back to Tennessee and work on genetically fusing Orson Welles and Sebastion Cabot into one, gigantic ex-vice president and former presidential candidate.
The sinking feelings of what might have been, combined with going from being a stone's throw from the presidency to a tiny footnote in the history books, may have gotten the better of Gore, but then he decided to dive back into the political pool – head first, into water three feet deep.
Gore endorsed Howard Dean. The news was huge. This was the boost that would put Dean over the top – and did it ever. Dean was so excited, he let out a scream like an unsuspecting janitor at Lane Bryant who just barged in on Bea Arthur in the changing room.
Gore's endorsement went to the same place his presidential hopes were dashed – south. It's been all downhill for him since. Now he's giving speeches making the U.S. military and their leadership look like dirtbags from head to toe. He paints the United States with one brush, and the rest of the world with another. Gore's talks have turned into impressionist art. Verbal "Picasso's" – loud and wildly over-exaggerated. If anybody's speech has four eyes, two noses and three breasts, it's Gore's.
Some say that Gore's speech gave "aid and comfort to the enemy." Did it? I don't think so. At most, all Gore did was tell the world exactly what can be such a great thing about America – the freedom to behave like a total nut.
How do we correct the problems our nation faces to make this a better America? Listening to Gore over the years, the answer lies in the global community.
For Gore, "American values" these days seem to be found in every part of the world except the United States – the country that screwed him over.
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aND WE ALL SAW WHAT THEY DID TO lIEBERMAN, the only man among them who could have been president.
well said! well said! Has Al Gore made one cogent remark since losing the election?
This is a very good article. Thanks for posting ;^D
That there mo-bile home is just what I've been looking for.
A little screenin on the back patio is all it needs. Hot damn. Good idea.
Brilliant prose.
And on the subject of the redneck mobile home...it needs a big sattelite dish.
Remember the Alamo, Remember the Maine, Remember Dingell-Norwood.
Medication time...Al Gore, it`s medication time.
When historians pontificate about the forces and movements that define a nation's course, they generally assume rationality. But as anybody can see today, there is a total lack of rationality in the Left, which unfortunately guides a large part of the electorate.
If we can't find any rationality in the rat movement today, when it is here in front of us, then it is folly for historians to ever try to really assume they know anything about the forces of the past. Maybe that's why Henry Ford said "History is mostly bunk." (Of course, I understand that he took a liking to Nazism, and Goebbels by extension, so perhaps he had darker and more utilitarian motives for such a view)
Agreed and bumped. Another winner from the all Powerful.
I believe you.
You might do a stroll down memory lane here on FR during the Fla madness of 2000--You'll see quite a number of prayer threads.
Not that there aren't more memorable lines in this piece, but this one is outstanding!
It was pretty apparent that he was unravelling back when he took on different personalities for each of the debates. Not even carrying his home state probably helped push him over the edge.
It won't take that long. Clinton left behind nothing of import as his 'legacy.' A good economy doesn't have any real meaning 50 years after the fact.
"And no single bit of writing during the 1990s captured that weird ability of Al Gore to make himself ridiculous through exaggeration like Kelly's piece "Farmer Al." After noting Mr. Gore's claim to have been raised on his daddy's farm, Kelly contrasted that with Mr. Gore's real upbringing in a plush Washington hotel."
THINGS WORTH FIGHTING FOR: COLLECTED WRITINGS OF MICHAEL KELLY
Introduction by Ted Koppel
The Penguin Press, $26.95, 426 pages
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