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US President George W. Bush said he probably would not see the new documentary by former vice president Al Gore, seen here at the 59th edition of the Cannes Film Festival 20 May 2006. Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" focuses on the dangers of global warming.(AFP/File/Francois Guillot)

If you set out to create the perfect Democratic presidential candidate, you would probably choose someone from the South or the Border States, since John Kerry lost virtually the entire region on Tuesday, and someone who is comfortable talking the language of religion and values, since John Kerry was not, and someone whose wife is identified with conventional values and, last, someone who took a very early position against the war in Iraq, which John Kerry did not. Such a person already exists and, as luck would have it, has a name: Al Gore. At a certain time Tuesday night,...

Did our Commander-in-Chief act like one during the (in)famous 7 minutes?

<p>This country is in the grip of the right wing of the Republican Party. George W. Bush is not only planning the war in Iraq but is now plotting to break the federal unions with his plot to privatize up to 850,000 federal jobs. Among other things.</p> <p>More than 200 miles north of the White House, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Thursday declared his intent to slash services to his fellow New Yorkers and hike taxes to resolve the city’s horrid fiscal crisis. Maine school districts will soon lose $10 million in funds because of the state’s budget gap. Not to mention many other cities and states in severe financial straits.</p>

<p>DENVER — The White House yesterday ridiculed Al Gore for flip-flopping on Iraq and dismissed the former vice president's charge that President Bush is trampling civil liberties.</p> <p>"You know, it's hard to pay attention to what Al Gore says because it's so hard to know what Al Gore really believes, given how many times he's changed his position on Iraq," said White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer.</p>