I think a symptom of our poisoned well of national politics is the tendency to reduce people to caricatures, with all context erased. Gore is a good man, a deeply principled and good man. It's impossible for anyone who has read the broad specctrum of his writings - especially in the past six years, not just during the Clinton Administration - to maintain the caricature of him you've reduced him to, Andrew, with the staid word "leftist". Gore was the original Democrat hawk; he was and is the principled idealist who really believes in what America stands for.
Just about every power that the Bush Administration has sought since 9/11 was something that the Clinton Administration had also been trying for.
Incidentally, you're tragically, vastly, imensely wrong about that, but I won't get involved in that debate. Its pointless. I dont know what your original sources are for that assertion but I trust my own research and attention to Gore's career more. No offense intended, but I clearly know more about Gore than you do, and I can't let your mischaracterization of him stand unchallenged her, not on my blog.
Gore will do something tomorrow that we desperately need; he will RAISE A DEBATE. Fro that alone, you shoudl forgive him whatever faults you ascribe to his past. NO ONE ELSE can short circuit the media obfuscation wall like he can, in his post-political phase (he has utterly and flatly disavowed any remote chance of ever running again for any office). WE NEED THIS DEBATE. And if you share my concerns about civil liberties, as I know you do from reading your writings over the past few years, you should cheer Gore on Monday. And let bygones be bygones.
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I think a symptom of our poisoned well of national politics is the tendency to reduce people to caricatures, with all context erased. Gore is a good man, a deeply principled and good man. It's impossible for anyone who has read the broad specctrum of his writings - especially in the past six years, not just during the Clinton Administration - to maintain the caricature of him you've reduced him to, Andrew, with the staid word "leftist". Gore was the original Democrat hawk; he was and is the principled idealist who really believes in what America stands for.
Just about every power that the Bush Administration has sought since 9/11 was something that the Clinton Administration had also been trying for.
Incidentally, you're tragically, vastly, imensely wrong about that, but I won't get involved in that debate. Its pointless. I dont know what your original sources are for that assertion but I trust my own research and attention to Gore's career more. No offense intended, but I clearly know more about Gore than you do, and I can't let your mischaracterization of him stand unchallenged her, not on my blog.
Gore will do something tomorrow that we desperately need; he will RAISE A DEBATE. Fro that alone, you shoudl forgive him whatever faults you ascribe to his past. NO ONE ELSE can short circuit the media obfuscation wall like he can, in his post-political phase (he has utterly and flatly disavowed any remote chance of ever running again for any office). WE NEED THIS DEBATE. And if you share my concerns about civil liberties, as I know you do from reading your writings over the past few years, you should cheer Gore on Monday. And let bygones be bygones.
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