Can Gore switch gears momentarily and start focusing on the war.

[trumad]

He's got our ear.

[matcom]

1. nope. he is on a campaign

a campaign on an issue.

he has OUR ear but that don't get too far. i like his one issue crusade. i think it is much more effective that way.

[trumad]

2. Yeah---and I know this is an issue of my lifetime...

but i really think he could be quite effective against this war.

[blm]

4. I think he'll take that on come September.

That's what I am expecting, anyway.

[NYCGirl]

3. He'll be switching gears in May:

http://www.amazon.com/Assault-Reason-Al-Gore/dp/1594201226/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-6426934-8204954?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174682408&sr=8-1

Book Description
A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason

At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terrorism.

We live in an age when the thirty-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the electorate's thinking, and America is in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous administration in sharing the truth with the citizenry. Related to this and of even greater concern is this administration's disinterest in the process by which the truth is ascertained, the tenets of fact-based reasoning-first among them an embrace of open inquiry in which unexpected and even inconvenient facts can lead to unexpected conclusions.

How did we get here? How much damage has been done to the functioning of our democracy and its role as steward of our security? Never has there been a worse time for us to lose the capacity to face the reality of our long-term challenges, from national security to the economy, from issues of health and social welfare to the environment. As The Assault on Reason shows us, we have precious little time to waste.

Gore's larger goal in this book is to explain how the public sphere itself has evolved into a place hospitable to reason's enemies, to make us more aware of the forces at work on our own minds, and to lead us to an understanding of what we can do, individually and collectively, to restore the rule of reason and safeguard our future. Drawing on a life's work in politics as well as on the work of experts across a broad range of disciplines, Al Gore has written a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking.

[Ioo]

5. No, his cause is the globe, leave him be

[NYCGirl]

6. He has more than one cause — as his next book will show. NT

[kimmerspixelated]

7. I think you're right.

And the book sounds great. I can't wait. Thanks for posting it.