Gore on fire

Gore speech
10/18/02 at Georgetown
sponsored by MoveOn (in part)

This is long -- about an hour. But it's really a review of the entire Bush record by the Gore who has become the fetterless voice of the left (the resistance?) in the last two years. I'd pick some clips if I could find a transcript, but I can't, and I got tired of trying to note down great lines and points covered. Let's just say that it's everything in one place -- I've seen pretty much every claim in this speech verified by the players (intelligence people resigning, internal memos, independent reports) -- and it covers every failure and major deception from 9/11 until this past weekend. Quite impressive.

The speech can't be linked directly, but it's at the top of the queue on the C-Span site:

http://www.c-span.org

He claims that his goal is "trying to get at what it is that makes people in this country feel uneasy about the state of our democracy." Interestingly, Gore dismisses the claims that Bush is motivated by his religious beliefs, and argues that he is driven instead by "his belief in the infallability of the Republican ideology." Then he spells out what that means and the consequences that it's had. I wish I could print this out for a few folks I know who have been in the talk-radio bubble of disinformation for several years...

Update: For those who can't invest the time for the video, The Nation has compiled a list of 101 Facts that reveal all the lies and missteps of the Bush administration, each with a link to the report that documents the truth. Quite a wide range of arenas, from National Security to the Environment . . .