Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Gore speaks out
Here is a link to the text of Gore's speech yesterday at a MoveOn event in DC.
Let me explain... No, let me sum up...
Here are a list of words and phrases which Gore used which quite aptly describe Bush, his actions or beliefs, and his supporters over the past four years.
...and all of that is in the first half of the speech.
Thanks for speaking out, Al.
Remind me again why any sane person would vote for Bush? The only answer I get from Republican friends or family members is that we must "stay the course". Stay the course of lies, deception and greed? Stay the course of inexperience, ineptitude and inscrutibility? Stay the course of death, destruction and denial? Stay the course of corruption, cronyism, and chaos? No, thank you.
¶ 12:30 AM
Here is a link to the text of Gore's speech yesterday at a MoveOn event in DC.
Let me explain... No, let me sum up...
Here are a list of words and phrases which Gore used which quite aptly describe Bush, his actions or beliefs, and his supporters over the past four years.
- deeply troubling...Bush's relationship with reason
- disdain for facts
- incuriosity
- ideology...is the source of his inflexibility
- infallibility of the right-wing Republican ideology
- love of power for its own sake
- deovted to the achievement of a narrow agenda
- economic royalists
- immunity to doubt
- selfish and greedy collection of economic and political proposals
- phony moral authority
- misleading many Americans
- government of by and for the people, is bad
- Laws and regulations are therefore bad
- Ken Lay, in charge of vetting any appointees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- went on to bilk the electric rate-payers of California
- without the inconvenience of federal regulators
- the already unbearable burden placed on the wealthy and powerful
- treaties and international agreements are bad
- Rumsfeld...has still not been held accountable
- the most shameful and humiliating violation of American principles in recent memory
- this ideology promotes the making of policy in secret
- based on information that is not available to the public
- insulated from any meaningful participation by Congress.
- routinely barring Democrats from serving on important conference committees
- never admit a mistake
- rely on special interests for information
- trusts what they tell him over any contrary view that emerges from public debate
- outsourced the truth
- contempt for the rule of reason
- hubristic and genuinely dangerous illusion that reality is itself a commodity
- dysfunctional
- a large number of false impressions about the choices before us
- catastrophic for our country
- all of his arguments turned out to be based on falsehoods
- chose to ignore and indeed often to suppress, studies, reports and facts
- an extremely serious error in judgment that constitutes a reckless disregard for the safety of the American people
- This is not negligence, this is deception
...and all of that is in the first half of the speech.
Thanks for speaking out, Al.
Remind me again why any sane person would vote for Bush? The only answer I get from Republican friends or family members is that we must "stay the course". Stay the course of lies, deception and greed? Stay the course of inexperience, ineptitude and inscrutibility? Stay the course of death, destruction and denial? Stay the course of corruption, cronyism, and chaos? No, thank you.
¶ 12:30 AM
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Imagine doing a tandem sky-dive with someone you don't know very well,but have no real reason to distrust.
You pull the cord on your 'chute.
Nothing happens-(maybe an anvil and frying pans come flying out, but no parachute).
Oh my! It seems you've forgotten your emergency pack!
Your jump-partner wrestles their 'mergency 'chute off and somehow manages to strap it on you.
You have only enough time to pull the string on the new pack, OR to keeping tugging on the one that doesn't work.
What do you do?
If you are a Bush voter, you go SPLAT!
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You pull the cord on your 'chute.
Nothing happens-(maybe an anvil and frying pans come flying out, but no parachute).
Oh my! It seems you've forgotten your emergency pack!
Your jump-partner wrestles their 'mergency 'chute off and somehow manages to strap it on you.
You have only enough time to pull the string on the new pack, OR to keeping tugging on the one that doesn't work.
What do you do?
If you are a Bush voter, you go SPLAT!
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