Al Gore says democracy in the USA is threatened

[Regis Philbin]

Nice to see the doctors let Al out of his padded room once in a while...

http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/content/news/AlGore0313.html

Gore: Country straying from principles
Former vice president urges Democrats 'not to take anything for granted' during fund-raiser.

By STEPHANIE MURPHY, Daily News Business and Real Estate Writer

Monday, March 13, 2006

WEST PALM BEACH — The people of "these United States are going to stand up and take our country back," former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday at a Florida Democratic Party fund-raiser at the Kravis Center's Cohen Pavilion.

"Let's start right here in Palm Beach County," said Gore, speaking to a crowd of about 450 in what became the epicenter of the hotly contested 2000 presidential election.

Before he was introduced, Mayor Lois Frankel said, "I'm not one to hold a grudge . . . but this was the scene of a crime (in 2000). I haven't forgotten it, and you haven't forgotten it."

Picking up on her sentiment, Gore urged Democrats to "not take anything for granted," because sometimes, "feeling the prospects of victory and success, you know that's a deadly error."

Citing a Bible verse, "Where there is no vision, the people perish," Gore cited issues in which he believes the Bush administration has left the country far removed from the Founding Fathers' ideals.

"How many times have we listened to the current administration and in (state and national Republican offices), and after a few years, we wake up and say that what they have been telling us is completely wrong," Gore said. "I'm not calling it a lie," but a "false impression."

[pinky]

Regis, do you have a problem with reading comprehension? Nothing in the article you posted says that Gore thinks "dmeocracy is threatened." Rather, he said that we've been straying from our democratic principles.

I notice you cut the article off right before he listed some of the "false impressions" this administration has given us:....He cited as "false impressions" that Saddam Hussein had a lot to do with the (terrorist) attacks on this country (on Sept. 11, 2001)"; that Hussein was preparing to give nuclear weapons to Osama bin Laden; that American troops in Iraq would be welcomed with flowers; and that the U.S. wouldn't need to send many troops, because the war would be "a cake walk."

.....Just like there were warning signs before Sept. 11, there were warning signs last year that the levees were in danger in New Orleans, Gore said.

"A special committee . . . all Republicans . . . studied how that could happen. In the White House, there was a blinding lack of situational awareness. Well, what is going on (in New Orleans) now? They're still finding refrigerators in front yards and bodies unrecovered," he said.

Similarly, despite warnings about legislation on prescription drugs and experts saying the program wouldn't work, he said, "Testimony was blocked from Congress," resulting in legislation that is "catastrophically flawed."

There have been warnings for many years about rising temperatures being caused by global warming, Gore said, "and hotter water makes hurricanes form stronger, increasing their destructive power."

That issue and others have "a common thread" that reflects the country straying from its institutional principles, Gore said. "The founders wanted the principles of democracy to live and breathe, by talking about the facts, by reasoning together, by putting partisanship aside as much as possible."Seems to me that Gore is making a lot more sense than Bush these days!

[Regis Philbin]

Regis, do you have a problem with reading comprehension? Nothing in the article you posted says that Gore thinks "dmeocracy is threatened." Rather, he said that we've been straying from our democratic principles.


Headline for this article printed on the DRUDGE REPORT:

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/dsp/links_recap.htm

Gore Tells Palm Beach Audience US Democracy In Danger? ... *

[DoubleEdgeSword]

Do you have some kind of brain disorder, Regis? Honestly, I'm beginning to think something is seriously wrong with your brain, something organic. You make no sense most of the time.

[pinky]

It doesn't matter what headline Drudge put on it......nothing in the article says that. It only highlights how stupid Drudge is.

[*Katy*]

Regis, do you only go by headlines? Do you even READ stories drudge posts or do you just go by what he says?