Al Gore spanking the chimp on C-Span now!

[Webster Green]

Sweet!

[Kahuna]

1. Spank isn't the word it. He has opened a can of Whoop-Ass!

Look in the dictionary for whoop-ass and see a picture of Al giving this speech. :wow:

[Jackson4Gore]

39. Everyone, if you havent already, please thank our friend and president by

posting here: http://algoresupport.proboards19.com/index.cgi?board=newsalerts&action=display&num=1085577079

Thank you!

[TankLV]

2. If he was this way during the last election, he would have won in a

landslide!

And we wouldn't have had 911, and certainly no bushwar in Irag!

We'd still have surplusses, peace, hope and prosperity as far as the eye could see.

But instead we get the asshole we currently have in Al's House!

[Kahuna]

6. The media was pimped by bushco. They would have shilled for him..

'Al Gore is mean.. Al Gore is a liar. Al Gore wears earthtones.. Al Gore kissed his wife too long.. tee hee snicker snicker."\

Blame the media for bushco. He is their creation.

[CTLawGuy]

14. the whore media would have made

Gore a Howard Dean prototype, and half the people here would be shitting their pants about how "unelectable" he is.

Truth is, he would have won...

[lanparty]

7. Landslide????

I'm not sure it would have been a landslide, but I think he definitely would have won. All the reservation is gone. The man is now just plain inspiring. It makes you wonder if he might have another run in him someday for the presidency???

In the mean time, I hope he restores journalism to what it's SUPPOSED to be with his new cable network.

In 2000, Al Gore just didn't know WHO he was. He had NO IDEA how to sell himself. I think he's now found himself, and it's inspiring.

[Kahuna]

8. Al Gore knew who he was.; That was a stupid RNC/media talking point..

Most normal, sane people are mutlti-dimensional. Al Gore is no different.

[Sparkly]

31. I agree -- that was the RNC script

just like today's is "Kerry doesn't know where he stands..."

[Rooktoven]

75. I agree to an extent, but--

I think that most people would agree that Gore isn't afraid to show more emotion (and down-right anger) now. The fact that a man of his stature (the elected president) can be so passionate has an electrifying effect.

It's sad that it took this for the passion to brightly shine. I agree he could possibly have been the best president ever, he is showing now the moral courage that a president _should_ have.

God Bless You President Gore.

[SammyWinstonJack]

43. Al Gore being himself and not trading on the Clinton/Gore accomplishments!

Won the election in '00! I wanted Gore to run in '04! I thought and still think Gore could've /would'
ve kick bush's butt! I am a Gore loyalist!

[w13rd0]

71. He apologized for that...

...said that had he known, he would have fought and ignored the critics within the Dem party that wanted to "mend fences and move on". Because all those that said that are now rolling around on their backs asking Bush to rub their tummy.

[Kanary]

76. Yes, it makes me wonder just what he now knows about the DLC

and infiltration.

The man was hinting at a LOT of things.

He laid the foundation tonight for many things to come.

Now, it's up to us to push, Push, PUSH!

Kanary

[LynzM]

3. Details for the non-TVers?

If you'd like, if not, I'll beg elsewhere :evilgrin:

[Kahuna]

5. Quoted the Bible..."By their fruit they are known.." Prisioner abuse..

is the fruit of their dishonest regime..in so many words.

Al is on fire. He laid out the case in a prosecutorial manner. He just called for the resignation of all upper level bushistas to resign.

Now he's almost in tears as he calls for Tenet to resign. Says Tenet is a personal friend.

He chided them on Chalabi duping them. :evilgrin: He basically laid it all out. He's leaving nothing out.

[Endangered Specie]

34. go to cspan website,

they stream their tv and archives. (www.cspan.org), if you have 56k, use the audio only versions.

[nadinbrzezinski]

51. You got the full text in your Private box

That is the best I can do

This was an incredible speech, what can I say?

[LynzM]

62. Thank you so much!

I will go read it! :D

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[TheWizardOfMudd]

9. Great Speech! But . . . .

The NYU crowd is laughing at points in the speech that are not funny, and I do not think Gore intended his words to be humorous. Is this striking anybody else as odd?

[napi21]

10. I don't think they're laughing, I think they're cheering. n/t

[TheWizardOfMudd]

12. You must have missed it

They were laughing earlier. At one point, Al had to stop and say, "I'm deadly serious."

[Cheswick2.0]

18. I must have missed it too

I think they are as inspired as I am by Al.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

37. They were laughing at his comments about bush

because some things are so horrible you have to laugh or you'd flat out lose your ever-lovin' mind, wouldn't ya?

At some points, he expected it.....comedic timing. bush is the definition of dark comedy sometimes....

[Kahuna]

11. Al just called on * to condemn Rush's comments about the..

soldiers blowing off steam and having a good time. Says Rush says it was just good old American pornography. :wow:

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[ibegurpard]

15. I'm sure he picked up that grenade on his front doorstep

:eyes:

[Cheswick2.0]

16. A Pre-printed speech?

Get going. He wrote this speech himself and Cleland actually saw combat unlike either bush or the chickenhawk who beat Cleland in GA.

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[Cheswick2.0]

56. yeah, go sell it somewhere else

no one here is buying

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[Cheswick2.0]

65. uh huh

:hi:

[Kahuna]

26. If he was in VN he was in combat.

nt

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[Webster Green]

28. Right, and Kerry doesn't deserve his medals either...

Get a grip, will you? That is such bullshit!

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[napi21]

32. Yea, that's right! 'Nam wasn't a combat zone!

Does it really matter where this granade was, or how it got there? Do you think it might have caused more damage to more people if Max hadn't picked it up? That's like saying the soldiers who died in Iraq don't deserve admiration or respect, because they died when they crashed their hummer! It was a war zone. He wouldn't have picked up a granade if he had still been in Georgia!

Comments like yours are disgusting!!

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[Cheswick2.0]

46. telling untruths!

I am starting to get the picture. It's been nice knowing ya. :hi:

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[Bridget Burke]

55. Untruth will be scrubbed, have no fear...

Your President didn't risk losing any limbs in the National Guard. He couldn't even keep up at Ellington, had to run away to Alabama.

Max Cleland & Al Gore & John Kerry & quite a few others make your little president look like the chickenshit chickenhawk he is. And Bill Clinton--who protested the war & managed to avoid it by educating himself--was not a hypocrite. And he was legally elected twice.

Your boy is just looking worse & worse.

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[ibegurpard]

64. Where was he?

Mowing his lawn in Georgia? Sipping a mint julep at the Kentucky Derby? He was an enlisted man in Vietnam and your obvious attempts to parse words is pathetic.

[nadinbrzezinski]

53. Read Cleeland's own words on this

yes he picked a grenade up, IN A HOT LZ.

Last time I checked that was a combat zone

The grenade, leaving the hot LZ out is GOP spin

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[Cheswick2.0]

67. buh bye Freeper

should have checked your status before I bothered the moderators and sent all those freeper alerts.

[kentuck]

17. I hate to break the news....

But Al Gore was always like this....The media painted him differently, and unfortunately many people -including some here at DU - were not privileged to see it. I saw Al Gore several times and I do not see the great "transformation" many now see.

[Cheswick2.0]

20. I agree

This is the Al Gore I met in person.

[Kahuna]

21. Yep! This is how Al Gore has always been. A great man.,.

But a baaad politician. :shrug:

[mzmolly]

58. Exactly right. They bought into the Gore/bore or Gore = Bush bullshit?

:shrug:

[harper]

19. I'm watching Al with tears streaming down my face

This man should be our President. Thinking of what might have been just gets to me. Instead, we are stuck with the Chimp.

[Kahuna]

22. The replay is at 12:40a eastern.

But it is available if you can get it on Cspan. There's a lot of traffic for this video. Good luck. I lost my stream earlier tonight.

[FlaGranny]

24. You and me too.

It was extremely moving and really brought home what we've all been feeling for so long.

[Sparkly]

29. And me, too!

Really cathartic. This is a speech for history to remember. I knew Chimp was dangerous, but I never thought in January 2001 I'd be hearing Al Gore today responding to such a tragic litany of failures... Very sad.

[Webster Green]

36. What a contrast to the sniveling little puke who sits in Al's house!

The Supreme Court screwed us good by not letting the votes be counted.

Very sad!

[doc03]

23. I wish this Al Gore was around in 2002!

[Kahuna]

25. It was at times. But the media didn't give him much coverage. Remember?

nt

[Cheswick2.0]

27. Why, was he out of the country?

Where was he in 2002? Where should he have been?

[doc03]

73. Back then all he did was drone on about the Lock Box

When he is not running for anything he makes great speeches. Maybe he did then and the Media didn't cover them, that sure isn't the same Al Gore that I remember.

[Spazito]

30. Bravo, Mr. Gore, the ELECTED President of the USA!

*

[neebob]

50. Look what we got instead

That speech just really drove it home for me. It was awesome, and I must say it's about damned time! Do you realize what just happened? The rightful president just called the fake one everything that he is. Maybe now others will grow some guts and follow the example, late as it is, and run this dangerous clown and his cronies out of the White House.

Damn, I didn't think it was possible to be any more disgusted with the shitty excuse for a man who calls himself President.

I listened to Rush Limbaugh for a few minutes this afternoon, and he was making fun of Gore's speech. What a clueless piece of crap he is. That speech was brilliant and historic.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

33. I hope bush is thirsty

because Gore just opened up a big, tall frosty can of WHOOP ASS on him!

The big huge white sweat towel cracked me up a bit. Could they not have gotten something smaller? But hey, if that's my biggest criticism, it was a HOT speech.

My nine year old walked in and I told her that's the man who was supposed to be president. She listened to him for several minutes and said "he's gooooooood, he can pronounce everything". Then left the room.

Wow our standards have gotten low under bush if pronouncing everything correctly impresses us, doesn't it?

Gore did a fantastic job. My respect for him is off the charts. But everytime I hear him give a speech I choke up a bit thinking about what could have been. Such a good, decent man......

[Hubert Flottz]

35. Al Gore Reads DU!

I hope Mr. Gore gets Ashcroft's job, so he can see to the accountability he speaks of! I think Al Gore would have been a GREAT president!

[Webster Green]

40. I wish he could get the chance to serve.....

He won and he deserved to win, but he got screwed.

The country will never be the same because of what the Supreme Court did when they stopped the vote counting.

[Neecy]

45. I vote Al gets State

Granted, it would be highly unusual for a former VP to take a cabinet position, but his international experience could be crucial, even if it's only for the first two years of the Kerry administration to kick-start a resolution to this Iraq mess.

Great speech. And all if it totally, completely, devastatingly true.

[AntiCoup2K4]

38. Is there a full transcript of President Gore's speech online yet?

And if so, where is it?

[harper]

47. It's at moveon.org

nt

[Cheswick2.0]

49. On MoveOn.org

you can read the whole thing there.

[neebob]

72. Where?

Am I blind? All I found is a couple MORE AWESOME SPEECHES by Al Gore. Actually, now I think I'm more sad that Al Gore is not the President than I am disgusted that a dangerous clown is masquerading as one.

[2cents]

54. Thank you Mr. President, I needed that !

I particularly liked his persistent use of the word "INCOMPETENT"

[Cheswick2.0]

57. The freepers are out in force tonight

do you think it was Al's speech that got them all riled up?

[nadinbrzezinski]

59. Yes at AOL it sure did

they were ... unreal tonight

[mzmolly]

60. He's intelligent, articulate, has a commanding knowlege of the facts

and he was totally on fire!

It is such a great contrast with the failure and evil we are contending with today :(

[Webster Green]

68. I like when he gets that little growl in his voice sometimes...(n/t)

[Wind Dancer]

69. It is so refreshing to finally see

compassion and honesty again. President Gore touched on every atrocity caused by these criminals in the WH. He has the courage that few others have demonstrated and these spineless elected officials better speak up, the door is open.

:bounce:



It saddens me to know what could have been and what is.

[RetroLounge]

70. Absolutely amazing Speech

The best of his career...

The Chimp just got punk'd...

RL

[gauguin57]

74. Gore speech will be repeated

at 5:53 a.m. (Thursday morning) on C-Span, according to C-span.org. It's about an hour long. So set those VCRs! You DON'T wanna miss this one!!!

[Gloria]

77. The first part of the speech is the speech I expect Kerry to be giving

DAMNED SOON!! Gore's right, he can't offer specifics about Iraq...
But DAMMIT, Kerry has to display some sort of vision and view of what's going on at this sort of level. Even Clark touched on this sort of thing, the morality of the Admin. and what the country is all about, in his Alabama speech.

This is what bugs me the most about Kerry at this point. He is not establishing his position in terms of moral leadership vs Bush. Why does Gore have to do this job...although he is truly magnificent in the role,
if Kerry is wearing the mantle of "leadership" then he should speak to these broad issues. That's the one way he can set himself apart from the all the bullshit from the Bush camp.

I don't want to hear the Paula Zahns of the media imply that Bush and Kerry's Iraq plans are the same....He has to go beyond the mundane level, and prove that he as a leader is NOT the same..........