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Nov 14, 2003
Yahoo! News - Oddly Enough
Comment is unecessary. Thanks Mr. Green.
0 Comments | Link to this post posted by Teddy 12:34 PM
Nov 11, 2003
I'm not a big Al Gore fan, but I watched a speech given by our former Veep this past Sunday. And I must say, that if he had given even one speech with equal courage, conviction, and emotion on the 2000 campaign trail, he would now be our president. And it would certainly be an improvement over the junta that now occupies the executive branch.
The majority of the speech was about Ashcroft's and Rumsfeld's assualts on the core principals of our republic: The Bill of Rights. For them, it is neither the law of the land nor a suggestion on how to behave. For them, it is a stumbling block on their road for consolidating uprecedented authority for the executive branch of government. And of course, if you oppose their power-mongering, you are labeled reckless and/or un-american.
Here is some of the text from Gore's speech:"I want to challenge the Bush Administration’s implicit assumption that we have to give up many of our traditional freedoms in order to be safe from terrorists.
Because it is simply not true.
In fact, in my opinion, it makes no more sense to launch an assault on our civil liberties as the best way to get at terrorists than it did to launch an invasion of Iraq as the best way to get at Osama Bin Laden.
In both cases, the Administration has attacked the wrong target.
In both cases they have recklessly put our country in grave and unnecessary danger, while avoiding and neglecting obvious and much more important challenges that would actually help to protect the country.
In both cases, the administration has fostered false impressions and misled the nation with superficial, emotional and manipulative presentations that are not worthy of American Democracy.
In both cases they have exploited public fears for partisan political gain and postured themselves as bold defenders of our country while actually weakening not strengthening America."
Of course this speech was given as a private citizen and not as an elected official so I certainly don't take it to be representative of the type of administration he would run, but I loved it nonetheless.
View a Webcast of the entire speech at http://www.moveon.org/gore/webcast.html.
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