Gore's Questions to Americans

Some Good, Some Bad

Published on July 27, 2004 By CS Guy In Politics

The World Wide Rant has a, what I found to be, humorous take on Al Gore’s address to the Democratic National Convention.

I didn’t come here tonight to talk about the past…

I want to to thank you as Democrats for the honor of being your nominee for president four years ago. And I want to thank the American people for the privilege of serving as vice president…

I do think it is worth pausing for just a moment as we begin this year's convention, to take note of two very important lessons from four years ago…

The second lesson from 2000 is this…

It is in that spirit, that I sincerely ask those watching at home who supported President Bush four years ago…

By the way, I know about the bad economy. I was the first one laid off…

No matter how you voted in the last election…

To those of you who felt disappointed or angry with the outcome in 2000…

There’s someone else I’d like to thank, and that’s the man who asked me to join him on the ticket at our convention 12 years ago…

I’ll never forget that convention or that campaign the way we barnstormed the country…

And so it was…

I’m so glad that he didn’t talk about the past.

That aside, Gore’s address did contain some good material. His jokes may have been flat, as always, but he had some valid points to make. However, he also brings up some rather stupid points as well. I think his foreign policy is a danger to all Americans, and I’m not sure that Kerry is the candidate to adequately answer his questions that I consider valid and good. But in the spirit of fairness and completeness I have included here Gore’s questions to Americans, both good and bad.

I sincerely ask those watching at home who supported President Bush four years ago: did you really get what you expected from the candidate you voted for?

Is our country more united today?

Or more divided?

Has the promise of compassionate conservatism been fulfilled?

Or do those words now ring hollow?

For that matter, are the economic policies really conservative at all?

Did you expect, for example, the largest deficits in history? One after another? And the loss of more than a million jobs?

I also ask tonight for the help of those who supported a third party candidate in 2000. I urge you to ask yourselves this question: Do you still believe that there was no difference between the candidates?

Are you troubled by the erosion of some of America's most basic civil liberties?

Are you worried that our environmental laws are being weakened and dismantled to allow vast increases in pollution that are contributing to a global climate crisis?

Regardless of your opinion at the beginning of this war, isn't it now obvious that the way the war has been managed by the Administration has gotten us into very serious trouble?

Wouldn't we be better off with a new president who hasn't burned his bridges to our allies, and who could rebuild respect for America in the world?

Isn't cooperation with other nations crucial to solving our dilemma in Iraq? Isn't it also critical to defeating the terrorists?

But in order to protect our people, shouldn't we focus on the real source of this threat: The group that attacked us and is trying to attack us again -- Al Qaeda, headed by Usama Bin Laden?

Wouldn't we be safer with a president who didn't insist on confusing Al Qaeda with Iraq? Doesn't that divert too much of our attention away from the principal danger?

Comments

stevendedalus

on Jul 27, 2004

Foxian fair and balanced!

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