If Al Gore had accused Bush of "making the country less safe"...imagine the fireworks.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

...there would be calls from the GOP for his head on a pike.

Cheney, on the other hand...well, he's just being a Dick.

:grr:



What's this..."Bin Laden Determined To Strike In The U.S.?"...I'll read that right after I finish my new Archie & Friends Double Digest."

[rosesaylavee]

1. Or if Bush 1 said that of Clinton.

Or any prior administration of incoming/new administration. This is unprecedented bad form. But could we really expect less from these criminals?

[jobycom]

3. Yeah, but this Bush administration catches them at both ends.

He started blaming Clinton for 9-11 on 9-11, and now Cheney is attacking Obama. They catch you coming and going.

There were a lot of things I didn't like about George HW Bush, but he was a class act compared to his son and his son's friends.

[lunatica]

11. I disagree. He was never a class act.

But even though he looked and acted like a wimp in public, he has turned out to be far more evil than his idiot son could ever aspire to be.

[jobycom]

14. I don't see that.

I see him being out of touch, rich, cynical, and manipulative, and I see him only as classy in relation to his son, but I don't see him being evil. Reagan was evil. W is evil. Cheney is evil. Bush Daddy is just self-centered. There's an evil to that, but it's not the same thing. IMHO.

Unless you're one of those who think he killed Kennedy and all that.

[lunatica]

18. I lump him as evil because he was the Director of the CIA

The CIA is a spy agency which functions outside of the law. It has always done evil things. Now maybe some people think we need these kind of agencies, but I'm not one of them. I don't expect everything to be transparent, but the CIA has a long history of nefarious dealings and assassinations. No man who is the Director of the CIA is clean or classy.

Whether he had anything to do with Kennedy's death remains to be seen. I don't usually sign on to conspiracy theories unless the case is very strong, or unless the official reasons are just too idiotic to stand up to logic.

[jobycom]

2. Gore said things pretty close to that.

Although he did wait a while before doing so. I remember around the three year mark he said that Bush and company was a rare combination of incompetent and evil.

The media didn't really talk about it much, though, because they didn't want to make Bush look bad.

[lunatica]

12. Prior to the 2004 elections Gore gave a series of speeches

that pretty much skewered the Bush Administration. But coverage of his speeches were given as much attention as the massive world marches prior to the Iraq war. It was all just ignored by the media.

Yet something worked because a significant portion of the country woke up between then and now.

[jobycom]

15. They woke up during Katrina, when they could see for themselves

that the media's praise of Bush and the results of Bush's actions didn't align. That's when his numbers started failing, and when people stopped believing the lies the media told to lionize him.

[Submariner]

4. I thought it was treasonous to talk down against the president during war time?

I guess that must be only repuke supreme court appointed pretzeldents.....oops...my mistake.

[Catch22Dem]

5. Isn't that exactly what he's been saying the last few years?

I'm GLAD he has too!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. I was thinking more in terms of him saying it during Bush's first 30 days in office...

...and the GOP reaction if he did.

[Politicalboi]

6. I blame CNN for giving

Him the stage. What else is The Dick going to say? They don't dare ask him real questions about anything.

[masuki bance]

8. Al Gore on b*sh- "We are less safe because of his policies..."

..."There was then, there is now and there would have been regardless of what Bush did, a threat of terrorism that we would have to deal with. But instead of making it better, he has made it infinitely worse. We are less safe because of his policies. He has created more anger and righteous indignation against us as Americans than any leader of our country in the 228 years of our existence as a nation -- because of his attitude of contempt for any person, institution or nation who disagrees with him. "...
http://pol.moveon.org/goreremarks052604.html/

[masuki bance]

9. Gore on b*sh- "recklessly put our country in grave and unnecessary danger."

In his second major policy speech in three months, former vice president Al Gore took aim yesterday at what he said was the Bush administration's exploitation of the terrorist attacks of 2001 to justify an undemocratic suspension of domestic freedoms and to create a government built on "secrecy and deception."

"Rather than defending our freedoms, this administration has sought to abandon them. Rather than accepting our traditions of openness and accountability, this administration has opted to rule by secrecy and unquestioned authority. Its assaults on our core democratic principles have only left us less free and less secure," he said.

... In both cases, Gore said, the administration has "recklessly put our country in grave and unnecessary danger."

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/000749.php

[MiniMe]

10. Gore ripped Bush a new one in his MLK day speech

It gave me goosebumps for what could have been.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

13. Um... to his eternal credit Gore did precisely that

Remember the "He betrayed this country" Iraq speech?

[Supersedeas]

16. at least Gore gave lil' W a few years to establish a record--Cheney has conclusion is less than 100

days -- credibility check: apparently those conclusions are A-OK with John GOP Talking-POINT-Amplifier King.

[Cha]

17. Rec'd~ Exactly! And chip the mediawhore reid

has the chutzpah to question Gibbs' "tone"? :wtf:

[themaguffin]

19. Seriously and REAL reporter should shove his failures in his face

and the Democratic party should make another posterchild out of that fucker like with Rush.

Yep the GOP would have stop the country to raise hell if Gore said anything remotely like what Cheney did. Shit, only weeks into office too. What scum

[masuki bance]

20. lol