Gore movie puts heat on Bush

[kpete]

"An Inconvenient Truth" is a cinematic version of the lecture that Gore has given for years warning of the dangers of global warming. The case Gore makes is worthy of sleepless nights: Our Earth is in extremis. It's not just that polar bears are drowning because they cannot reach receding ice floes or that "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" will exist someday only as a Hemingway short story. It's rather that Hurricane Katrina is not past, but prologue. Katrina produced several hundred thousand evacuees. The flooding of Calcutta would produce many millions.

You cannot see this film and not think of George W. Bush, the man who beat Gore in 2000. Bush has been studiously anti-science, a man of applied ignorance who has undernourished his mind with the empty calories of comfy dogma. For instance, his insistence on abstinence as the preferred method of birth control would be laughable were it not so reckless. It is similar to Bush's initial approach to global warming. It may be that Gore will do more good for his country and the world with this movie than Bush ever did by winning in 2000.

Gore insists his presidential aspirations are behind him. "I think there are other ways to serve," he told me. No doubt. But on paper, he is the near-perfect Democratic candidate for 2008. He won the popular vote in 2000. He opposed going to war in Iraq, but he supported the previous Gulf War - right both times. He is much more a person of the 21st century than most of the other potential candidates. Gore could be a great President. First, he has to be a good candidate.

more at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/409863p-346710c.html

[seafan]

1. Thanks for posting this. Nice to read about our President. n/t

[marmar]

3. I always call him President Gore when mentioning him...

It drives the few Bushbot fundies at work mad dog crazy!

[GDAEx2]

2. Has this been released yet?

Can't wait to see it.

[Pirate Smile]

5. No, not until May.

[Radio_Lady]

12. Here is the current release date -- notice it says "limited" release.

That means it might not play in medium size or smaller cities.

Release dates for An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Country Date

USA 24 January 2006 (Sundance Film Festival)
USA 26 May 2006 (limited)

More at: -----> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116/

In peace,

Radio_Lady -- Oregon film reviewer

[Pirate Smile]

4. "But on paper, he is the near-perfect Democratic candidate for 2008."

We've noticed!

and

You cannot see this film and not think of George W. Bush, the man who beat Gore in 2000. Bush has been studiously anti-science, a man of applied ignorance who has undernourished his mind with the empty calories of comfy dogma. For instance, his insistence on abstinence as the preferred method of birth control would be laughable were it not so reckless. It is similar to Bush's initial approach to global warming. It may be that Gore will do more good for his country and the world with this movie than Bush ever did by winning in 2000.

Gore insists his presidential aspirations are behind him. "I think there are other ways to serve," he told me. No doubt. But on paper, he is the near-perfect Democratic candidate for 2008. He won the popular vote in 2000. He opposed going to war in Iraq, but he supported the previous Gulf War - right both times. He is much more a person of the 21st century than most of the other potential candidates. Gore could be a great President. First, he has to be a good candidate.

In the meantime, he is a man on a mission. Wherever he goes, he finds time and an audience to deliver his (free) lecture on global warming. It and the film leave no doubt of the peril we face and neither do they leave any doubt that Gore, at last, is a man at home in his role. He is master teacher, pedagogue, know-it-all, smarter than most of us, better informed and, having tried for and failed to gain the presidency, has raised his sights to save the world. We simply cannot afford for Al Gore to lose again.

It sounds like another convert for the Gore 2008 crowd. Join the club. It is getting crowded but the more the merrier.

[stop the bleeding]

6. kewl, k&R -

can't wait till May on this.

[kpete]

9. Good Morning

I bet you loved this:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041706Y.shtml

[stop the bleeding]

13. as we say in the south -

is a frog's ass watertight?? lol!!!

yes this is a great article that actually reports what should have been reported by the NYSun, there is some research going on over at Dailykos at a Diary by Emptywheel where there is discussion about a 2nd and 3rd versions of this INR memo. lebeymg from here at DU also has put forth some information on the thread there. I could not find it this morning or else I would have provided you with a link, it's well worth your time to read it if you can find it, I am not to good at finding stuff on that site yet.

Also BR_Parkway talks more about the multiple versions of the memo on DU'er Sabra's thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x948537

[electropop]

7. Gore/Boxer? Gore/Conyers?

Either would be really cool.

[JNelson6563]

10. Gore/Feingold

Perfect ticket IMO.

[electropop]

14. They'd be great too.

[MelissaB]

8. Gotta love that last paragraph

In the meantime, he is a man on a mission. Wherever he goes, he finds time and an audience to deliver his (free) lecture on global warming. It and the film leave no doubt of the peril we face and neither do they leave any doubt that Gore, at last, is a man at home in his role. He is master teacher, pedagogue, know-it-all, smarter than most of us, better informed and, having tried for and failed to gain the presidency, has raised his sights to save the world. We simply cannot afford for Al Gore to lose again.

[mtnsnake]

11. Powerful!

thank you

[dalaigh lllama]

15. k & r for my president -- Al Gore

n/t

[mdmc]

16. kick for the future

[mdmc]

17. kick