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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I was horrified.
As a fellow agnostic, I 100% understand!!! That and so much more in the last 2-1/2 years or so.
I am a Christian, have been for many years, but only within the last 8 years have I really seen how vital character and integrity are, or should be, with respect to our leadership.
I want to encourage you in your search for God, that He knows who you are, and that He wants you to come to Him. If you've seen the movie "The Passion", I can tell you that any more of an accurate portrayal of what happened to Jesus, God in the flesh, would have been given a multiple X rating. He did that so you would not have to suffer eternal punishment.
There is a proverb that says that "the heart of the king is in the hands of the Lord; He directs it like a river...". Yes, we were blessed not to have Gore as our President. We were also blessed that the 3,000 dead on 9-11 was not 30,000 or more, as was initially feared. There is a God, and He is waiting to hear from you.
I want to issue a friendly challenge to you. If you really want to know who God is, ask Him to show Himself to you. I am believing that He will do so. Be careful, though, for once you acknowledge that there is a God, you are accountable to Him WHEN you see Him, and one excuse will not be "I didn't know".
In any case, your point is well taken, about Gore, and presumably, 9-11. I am praying for you!
Thank you.
I fear we may be saving that "honor" for John F'ing Kerry, if this country is stupid enough to elect him.
Or .. after WWII and the defeat of Germany .. the leading German rocket designer and builder .. came to America .. and thus the space program was born.
"The only candidate in the last 30 years even remotely sane was Lieberman."
Couldn't agree more. Zell Miller and Ed Koch are also extremely honorable men, who happen to be Democrats with vision and basic common sense. They are, in no way, representative of what the Democratic Socialist party is today. It will be a dark time in our nation's history if John Kerry, or any leftist wins in November. People need to know that each and every legal Arab/Muslim citizen in this country will be voting for John Kerry.
As a lesbian, I have made an unwavering decision to agree to disagree with the Republican party line on gays, because the party's line on homeland and world security is what really matters. When all the Islamic nutjobs are dead, then maybe, I'll worry about the gay issue.
That is the BEST picture! Too FUNNY!!!
Gore's recent rants reminds me of a web page I saw years ago. It took parts of the Unibomber's Manifesto and combined it with parts of Gore's "Earth In The Balance". It did not tell the reader which wacko wrote which paragraphs. It was impossible to tell the difference between the writings of a serial killer and the then Vice President of the U.S.
Clinton left us a declining economy which became a recession.
I love this kind of sarcastic stuff! I do disagree with one point the author made. I do believe Gore along with most of the democrat party and the media are giving aide and comfort to the enemy. There is no question about that. When you compare our troops to Saddam, call their CIC a liar with no reason for war, you are emboldening the enemy and boarding on treason. Sedition at the very least.
This sums it up rather nicely.
Lieberman was the only non-head case to run in 30 years for President as a democrat that comes to mind.
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