Comments on: Gore: American Democracy in Danger

By: ICallMasICM

ICallMasICM — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:46:30 +0000

It's hard to underestimate the appeal of saying 'People are too stupid to run a democracy because they didn't vote for me'.

By: Sneem

Sneem — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:46:40 +0000

If anyone should know about the dangers of television to our society, it would be Al Gore. Have you seen his Current TV network? He should look in the mirror.

By: Herb

Herb — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:01:32 +0000

Thank you dougrc. And sorry about the spelling,

I get a little impatient with those Liberals that just can't get over it.

By: Don Singleton

Don Singleton — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:54:28 +0000

Gore Speech I came here today because I believe that American democracy is in grave danger. The House, the Senate, and the White House are in Republican hands, and they don't like the fact that liberals have been "creating laws" in the Judicial branch. They wan...

By: dougrc

dougrc — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:38:00 +0000

Herb - Your spelling may suck, but you're right on target about Gore. Albert is all about vapid, egotistical ravings that bring attention to himself but offer no new ideas or rarely even cogent sentences. He'd still be prattling along in the middle of his concession speech if they had forgotten to turn the camera lights off.

By: Herb

Herb — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:09:05 +0000

Anderson, the answer is YES. Gore would have been just like his buddy Clinton. Gore would have given te store away to satisfy his perveted ego.

You should read Drudge today and see what L. Freeh said about Clinton. And don't forget, Gore was right in there with Clinton and was just as bad if not worse.

And I shudder to think what would have happened if 9/11 happened on a Gore watch. Makes me crindge.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:26:30 +0000

Herb, do you really believe this stuff? Do you have a program that generates it?

We wouldn't be a democracy any more if Gore had been elected???

My goodness.

By: ICallMasICM

ICallMasICM — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:20:28 +0000

Gore just couldn't reist saying:

'Everything went to hell when the usurper Chimpy McBushHitlerKatrinaburtonAbuGitmo was selected in 2000.'

By: Herb

Herb — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:07:32 +0000

If Gore had been elected, Our Democracy would have been a think of the past by now.

By: Tony Zbaraschuk

Tony Zbaraschuk — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:48:19 +0000

Actually, in the 1770s, one could hire a printer, print a pamphlet, send it out. Still took some money, but a lot of people could get a lot of things out (e.g., Dickinson's _Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer_ or Tom Paine's _Common Sense_). There are a couple of really good studies of Revolutionary pamphlet literature.

These days, blogs serve the same function, only with a rather increased turn-around time.

Oh, and the era of civility? The only reason we believe that _ever_ existed is that all the scurrilious slime that got printed was never reprinted; we read the best example of the Founders' prose, their most successful arguments, their greatest pieces, and we assume that everything was like that. Not so, by a very long shot.

By: dougrc

dougrc — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:45:06 +0000

Yep, that was Albert Gore; obtuse, effete, and wrong again!

He tries to combat his intellectual failings with volume and verbosity, but all it does is help to bring attention to how wrong he is, AGAIN!

By: will

will — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:22:40 +0000

The most import quote of the speech was

"For these and other reasons, The US Press was recently found in a comprehensive international study to be only the 27th freest press in the world."

If true, then our Republic is in grave danger.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:10:15 +0000

Al Gore: Peter principle personified.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:07:52 +0000

Our Founders, probably the most literate generation in all of history

You have to hand it to Al, he used some pretty minimal awareness of the world around him to achieve a pretty high position.

By: LJD

LJD — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:24:52 +0000

"..and don't forget I invented the internet..."

Talk about an alternate universe. Sheesh.