The "President" just gave a great speech .

[kentuck]

It was on Real Audio on www.moveon.org

He took the Bush Administration to task. He enumerated the "lies" that were used to take us into war in Iraq. He listed the claims of how the Bush taxcuts would improve our economy. He then stated that they have all been proven false.

Later in his speech, he talked about honor and integrity. He stated that the Clinton-Gore Administration was honorable in every way that they handled foreign policy and economic policy. He asked that the Bush Administration make public the PDB of August 6, 2001. Since they now have the right to look at everything you are now reading at the library, the people should have a right to see what the pResident is reading in regards to terrorist warnings. Furthermore, he said that he will endorse a candidate at the right time.

[SuperZippy]

1. text of speech

is it available?

[wes_clark_for_pres]

3. If you can stomach Drudge

he has the text of the first part on his site...

[SnohoDem]

8. URL for speech

Gore speech

[deutsey]

2. I'm glad to hear it.

Keep it up, Gore! :thumbsup:

[GOPBasher]

4. Thanks for the post.

One thing that confused me though: Why did you put "President" in quotes? It's President Gore and "president" Bush.

[MUAD_DIB]

21. I thought that it was Pretendant Bush?

[pansypoo53219]

5. good

time for him to tone down the Clinton support of the chimperor, although i have not heard what he said.

[Alex88]

6. Here's the full text

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0807-15.htm

[poskonig]

7. Excellent on Iraq and the Bush tax cuts.

I wish more of our candidates sounded like Gore.

[ElementaryPenguin]

9. A REALLY great speech indeed!!!

kick!

[MODemocrat]

23. What does "kick" mean?

A dumb question I know.

[kentuck]

10. We shouldn't let this story die so quickly...

Because it is obvious that the cheerleading corporate media want it to die. The only reason MSNBC was there at all was to see if Gore was going to announce his candidacy. Once they saw that he was not going to do that, they left his speech to return to the "Ahnuld" story. They are spinning it so fast that it makes you dizzy.

Gore's speech deserves more attention. It deserved to have at least one station in this nation broadcast it...somewhere there should have been one liberal station that saw the newsworthiness of the event.

[ewagner]

15. 12:25PM CDT

Media still ignoring speech.

Faux had a snippet which played it as an "anti-war speech to an invited anti-war audience".....spinning is making me dizzy!

[MUAD_DIB]

22. I would like to shut down their station.

Until they start acting like a news agency and report the news.

What a POS that was.

I have the oppurtunity to watch Al Gore talk about Iraq, the economy and see the fourth estate perform their civic duty by televising a newsworthy event and what do I get in return?

As soon as Al starts to get interesting by speaking the truth the news station gets scared, fades out on coverage and goes right to the pundits.

They are all hors.

[tom_paine]

11. President-in-Exile Gore

n/t

[DarkPhenyx]

12. Gore isn't the President.

Rememebr, we lost that election.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

14. Not according to a couple scenarios

and certainly NOT if one strictly interprets Florida election laws and precludes military votes that were cast late IIRC.

[Redleg]

25. Not according to MOST recount scenarios.

You are right- we were robbed in Florida.

[Rose Siding]

16. Gore did not lose the election

Like us, he was on the losing end of a bloodless, judicial coup d'etat.

And as a result, Democratic Underground was created.

[MODemocrat]

24. Bush is NOT the president legally

He might have been selected but he was not elected by the people.

[ParanoidPat]

28. No, we lost the SCOTUS decision!

:evilgrin: Please prove we lost the election! That's what the decision prevented. :(

How quickly some forget! :)

[Rose Siding]

13. The "boring liar". Grrrrrrrrrr.....

How was the media allowed to hang *that* lie out there about this clearly, clearly honest, affable man? Talk about crimes against the universe....

The speech is filled with such clarity and wisdom and depth that it hurt my heart to hear it. Still raw, still have some grief, exacerbated with each new and outrageous BushCo assault.

I'm glad Al spoke up- threw his considerable weight behind the truth that the elephant in the room must go.

[wellstone_democrat]

17. DO NOT use quotation marks for Albert Gore

it is more appropriate for the usurper not the elected president of the United States

[Rose Siding]

18. whoops

edit- My post right here is erroneous- a goof on my part.

[NoKingGeorge]

19. Where's The Support????/

Will Dean or any of the candidates back up Al? Kerry is making a fool of himself by outing Rove on 20 seconds of input on a conservation issue. Is Kerry a Rove operative? KEEP the focus on saving America.

[newyawker99]

27. Hi NoKingGeorge!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Mandate My Ass]

20. Good speech

Not only took Bush to task for lying on Iraq intelligence, but for cooking the books on economy, ecology, tax cuts etc. Outlined how the administration is systematically undermining representative democracy and civil rights. Well worth the read. :thumbsup:

[TennesseeWalker]

31. UNDERSTATED.

A GREAT read. Politicians of his stature don't normally have the COURAGE to speak the truth.

[Donna Zen]

26. archive?

This morning someone said that the speech was archived; does anyone have a link?

Thanks

[BushHasGotToGo]

29. How will the President defend this economy to the people?

I'm kidding.

[mlawson]

30. I saw it! Incredible!

But the bad luck, to have arranged it for this of all newsdays....

Ah-nuld and Kobe will have ALL the evening news coverage!! :mad: