For those who were paying attention back in 1993, an event occurred which should have alerted us that this Gore fellow is either not terribly bright or has major short-term memory problems. While his college transcripts (and flunking out of divinity school) make that case far better than I could here, that event demonstrated – at least to me – something far more troubling in this guy’s intellectual chemistry.
In January of 1993, Clinton and Gore – apparently to cement their bone fides as “men of da peeple,” organized a bus tour prior to their triumphant entry into Washington for their inauguration on January 20th. Their final stop before heading up to DC was at Monticello, Jefferson’s home atop that beautiful mountain in Charlottesville, Virginia. Mr. Jefferson’s final resting place is also there just down the slope from that grand house.
During the visit – which was covered live by C-SPAN and watched with interest as it unfolded by this humble writer – Gore was conducted on a tour of the home by the one of the Park Service guides. At one point, Gore was shown a group of portraits identified by the guide as Washington, Franklin and Madison. (For what it’s worth, your humble writer – possibly because I went through the government school system BEFORE the PC crowd and the NEA took it over -- recognized these Founding Fathers BEFORE the guide spoke.)
These portraits hang on a relatively short wall flanked on either side by a doorway. Gore spent a few moments contemplating the images of three of the leading Founding Fathers of the nation he and his new pal, Bill Clinton, would soon lead. Gore and the guide then strolled through the door to their right and – though off camera – could be heard making comments as they apparently viewed the portraits on the other side of this same wall.
About a minute or so later, Gore and the guide came back into view through the LEFT door and back to the SAME wall upon which hung the portraits of Washington, Franklin and Madison. Gore looked at them and, motioning to them, asked the guide “AND WHO ARE THESE FELLOWS?” Who are THESE fellows??
I still recall my incredulity at the depth of the abysmal IGNORANCE of his question. No, strike that. Given that just a few minutes earlier Gore had seen these same portraits, the STUPIDITY of the question! There is no other term for it.
As I have reflected on that incredibly revealing incident during the years since, another frightening thought flooded in on me: This was a guy who, at the time of that Monticello visit in January of 1993, had served in public office at the national level for some 16 years and DID NOT RECOGNIZE THREE OF THE MEN WHO WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN CREATING THE VERY SYSTEM IN WHICH HE SERVED!
Anyone want to take a shot at how many times this guy had actually READ the Constitution he had by then sworn an oath to God to “…preserve, protect and defend it from all enemies, both foreign and domestic” MULTIPLE times? Who protects the Constitution from HIM? If you care enough to have read this far, you recognize THAT as a rhetorical question.
I thought I could hear a soft whirring sound in the background as Gore and Clinton used Monticello as a prop to further what was to become the most Constitution defying, scandal plagued administration in our history. I now believe it was Mr. Jefferson reaching speeds of 3,600 RPM in his grave down the hill.
A bit later in this same visit to Monticello, Bill and Al appeared on little stools on the porch. All that was missing were the little dunce caps. Assembled before them were a few hundred dutifully smiling and appreciative DC school kids trucked in as “props.”
During the clearly scripted Q & A by the kids, one of them asked Bill and Al why they wanted to go to Washington. I don’t recall exactly what Bill said (but I’m sure we all could come pretty close). I do, however, remember PRECISLY a portion of what Al said: “To make the world MORE BETTER…” for kids like them. “ MORE BETTER?”
And this guy was a journalist?
The Gore “Disinformation Squad” tells us that Dubya is not too bright?
Give me break!