Please, Gore, run in '08 and just be yourself like in this speech and tell your handlers to buzz off! I don't want to see Biden or Hillary on the ticket, but don't want to see the 2000 Gore either, rather the 2003 to present day Gore.

Regards

We elected this man in 2000; no reason we can't elect him again in 2008. Maybe this time we can have a legal election and make the results stick.

For crimes against the American people and system!

What a brilliant article! It reminded me a little of Vice President Aaron Burr's farewell speech to the senate. The part about "demagogues and usurpers is particularly prescient. Here is the quote from the official U.S. Senate website:

He ended his brief remarks with a singularly brilliant expression of the Senate's uniqueness under the Constitution. This Senate, he said, "is a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order, and of liberty; and it is here — it is here, in this exalted refuge; here, if anywhere, will resistance be made to the storms of political phrenzy and the silent arts of corruption; and if the Constitution be destined ever to perish by the sacrilegious hands of the demagogue or the usurper, which God avert, its expiring agonies will be witnessed on this floor." As Burr walked from the chamber, his promising career in ruins, members spontaneously began to weep. No one present ever forgot the scene.

What is worse, the continuos disregard for the law exhibited by the Bush whitehouse or the absence of disidence from the democratic party? The question is now moot, as a renovated Gore directs a frontal attack at the executive´s increasing concentration of power.

Media coverage however is disgraceful, focusing exclusively on the wiretap affair withought acknowledging the prevailing constitucional crises described in detail by Gore.

I would have hoped Mr. Gore had focused more on the illegality of the Iraq War and the costs in lives and dollars that the country has had to endure. Imagine spending those 250 billion on the global war on poverty: hunger relief, jobs, housing, for millions of people; not to mention fresh new markets for american goods and services.

Imaging spending it on disease: goodbye Aids, Altzheimerz and possibly cancer.

Imaging spending it on alternative fuel: the ending of global warming and protection of natural security by ending reliance on foreign oil.

Anyway, I hope Gore is a candidate for 08.

I hated Reagan's politics, but his speech at the wall in Germany was spectacular, it was and could be seen by the world. It had a profound impact on world history. It was possibly the crowning achievement of American foriegn policy.

Looking at todays speech by Al Gore, who I have not had a great deal of affection for was a speech given by a man coming into his own. I wanted him to desperately beat GeoBush in 2000, but he didn't look comfortable in his skin. The man I saw today had a grasp of the issues and had clarity of focus that was very Bill Clintonish, minus the glad handing and the smiles. If he had spoken like this in 1999 GeoBush would be hawking something somewhere on a website.

What a shame it was only seen on the SPAN. Thanks to Buzzflash.Com for alerting me to watch it. I hope the Salon team can get this video streamed here somehow. If this speech is seen by 20% of America Gore is the frontrunner for President in 2008 tomorrow. This is what a political Grand Slam sounds like. Find it on video somehow and see what a real leader looks and sounds like. The Democrats should use this as their reply to the State of the Union Address. Harry Reid (who is my Senator and I love him) looks like an ametuer next to Al Gore, Joe Biden like the class clown. Wes Clark as Al Gore's VP in '08?

Stranger things have happened, if you don't believe me; look at who lives in the White House now.

The opening line made me read it twice: "Al Gore blasts Bush's spying on U.S. citizens". For just a moment, I thought Mr. Gore was blaming citizens for Bush's actions. Could it could have been worded just a bit differently? I can see a Bush partisan having a field day with that phrase

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this Gore guy's going places

...why is this not the lead story on the site?

At least Gore is one Democrat (capital 'D') who hasn't handed over his testicles to the boy-dictator. But where are all the others? I would have thought by now a coalition of democrats., i.e.,those having a belief in democracy, of all stripes would have been screaming for the tyrant's head now that Bush has claimed supreme power in public. Gore certainly has it right, from a to z, but why is he so alone? The Constitution lies shredded at our feet, the president-cum-dictator has committed 'high crimes and misdemeanors', and most of the country is yawning.

I am once again disappointed, not to say dismayed, that the self-annointed "newspaper of record", the less than venerable New York Times, chose to bury Gore's clarion call for action at the end of a story about federal lawsuits filed to stop the illegal eavesdropping on American citizens by the NSA; and limitied their 'reporting' of his extended remarks to two short innocuous paragraphs completely out of synch with the serious tone of his blistering criticism of Bush.

Considering the Times' editorial criticism of Bush's law breaking, one would think the news editors might have given Gore's remarks more priority. They might even have considered publishing his entire speech, and put the story about the lawsuits on the front page (I assume they didn't, but I only see the on-line edition).

Guess I'll go back to my football game now, along with all of my fellow Americans.

At least Gore is one Democrat (capital 'D') who hasn't handed over his testicles to the boy-dictator. But where are all the others? I would have thought by now a coalition of democrats., i.e.,those having a belief in democracy, of all stripes would have been screaming for the tyrant's head now that Bush has claimed supreme power in public. Gore certainly has it right, from a to z, but why is he so alone? The Constitution lies shredded at our feet, the president-cum-dictator has committed 'high crimes and misdemeanors', and most of the country is yawning.

I am once again disappointed, not to say dismayed, that the self-annointed "newspaper of record", the less than venerable New York Times, chose to bury Gore's clarion call for action at the end of a story about federal lawsuits filed to stop the illegal eavesdropping on American citizens by the NSA; and limitied their 'reporting' of his extended remarks to two short innocuous paragraphs completely out of synch with the serious tone of his blistering criticism of Bush.

Considering the Times' editorial criticism of Bush's law breaking, one would think the news editors might have given Gore's remarks more priority. They might even have considered publishing his entire speech, and put the story about the lawsuits on the front page (I assume they didn't, but I only see the on-line edition).

Guess I'll go back to my football game now, along with all of my fellow Americans.