I’m guessing people like yourself,
and the many others in Blogland who are Gore cheerleaders probably feel
safer with him because of familiarity? He’s been there before?

This is too long, but I’m excited and I’m going to post it hoping you feel inclined to do as much as you can. YES, I am a cheerleader! Gore – 2008. It’s Gore/Obama or Gore/Fingold for me. Obama is a little weak in my opinion, but Russ may be a little too strong for the average American. Let’s see what happens. Right now we MUST win back the House and Senate, which we CAN DO!

This is a guy who, in two of the biggest decisions in his life, failed miserably (Tipper and Lieberman). I am honestly asking for opinions as to why I should get excited about him.

He and Tipper have had a good life together. They look happy. Please keep her out of your bad decision column. She may NOT be your type, but he seems to love her and I won’t try to defend that… it’s their business. Right?

About Lieberman: YEP… bad, bad decision. He thought it was a smart decision so he could win Florida. Joe was supposed to get out the Jewish vote! It worked, but it didn’t WORK.

Today someone on Kos posted about a streaming Gore event today sponsored by The Guardian, UK. He was in England doing his global warming presentation. He was a little rough looking, but he is my candidate. Why? He touched my life. Until today I didn’t understand the crisis. I still don’t understand it from a scientific perspective, but I’m going to follow his direction. The host went through a bunch of *stuff* with him… yada yada yada, but toward the end the host asked him what he wants us to do. His response was:

1) Go to the movie with an open mind
2) Buy the book. Read it. Buy it for your friends and family.
a) Study the book
b) Learn it so you can talk about it using your own words
c) Make sure you can communicate it persuasively
3) Go to the website at http://www.climatecrisis.net I just clicked on the address I gave you to make sure the link is good. Just linking to the front page gave me chill bumps – know what I mean?
4) Make the changes in “… your life. Do what you can to become CARBON NEUTRAL. Click on “What You Can Do” and add one or two of them a week! http://www.climatecrisis.net/t…..tyoucando/ I am ABOVE the average so I’ll start tomorrow and make some small changes. Anyone want to buy me a new car?
5) Become an activist. consumer, voter and citizen by becoming politically active.
6) Change the world by changing YOUR WORLD.

Understand that we’ll get a HUGE backlash from Exxon/Mobil and the other oil companies, but especially from them. He said they’ve already started the TV ads to trash us. He said in a very sarcastic and evil sounding voice. The voices of corporate oil execs AND their investors are whispering to Americans: “They call it pollution – we call it life”

The bastards! They are willing to destroy the world for cash. It’s true, and it’s not something Al Gore taught me.

More – I know you’ll like this.
* We borrow money from China
* We pay Saudi Arabia for oil with the Chinese loan
* We destroy the planet with the money we borrowed from China to buy the oil from Saudi Arabia

Got it? Here’s another one:

Bush – “We’re addicted to oil.” Afterthought – “We need to BREAK the addiction to oil.”

Gore – He directed the message to politicians but included all of us, “Politicians need to BREAK the addiction to the money they make from the oil.”

Got it? This is my opinion:
* This is not about Gore, political candidate
* This is about Gore, American leader who’s been studying this issue for 30 years.
* He feels the calling, he’s willing to lead. For example, he told the story of his work to negotiate real café (gas) standards with the automobile industry as VP. He got them to agree to increase gas standards in a big way. They give them monetary incentives to do it. What happened? Upon arrival of the Bushies, the auto manufactures pocketed the money and washed their hands of their promise to America!

Boo, hiss… and then there is Kyoto, which he signed off on too! It’s difficult for me to stop denying that financial gain and the love of the ALMIGHTLY DOLLAR has that much power to make people do evil. As we know now, it has more than the power to make people do evil. Our Congressmen and women have sold themselves out to those lobbyists and oil and automobile executives! I’ve had enough, what about you?

One more thing: I connected deeply with Gore’s leadership spirit even though he wasn’t at the funeral of Coretta Scott King. The emotions from the funeral sent a reminder to me about the power of leadership. I knew after the MLK Day speech and the funeral that Gore would be my guy. Did you see the funeral? Did you feel the power of real Dems and people working together? They prepared this country for the 21st century, but fate jumped in on 911. We can unite again and save the country from this crisis. Notice the Bushie (both 41 and 43) faces and body language? Did you notice the same face and the same body language when Colbert was speaking to the press a few weeks ago? It’s the face and body language of a beaten man who lives in a bubble like his daddy. Let’s send daddy off to be with god (when he’s ready of course) and let’s send junior back to the ranch SOON so he can ride his bike and cut his brush. He’ll be happy there with Laura and the dogs… no more bad polls and war problems. He can go home and we’ll take care of it for him. Huh?

Remember Gore’s call to action speech on MLK Day – 2006? Remember his passion and that emotion you felt while listening to him and watching him in full passion mode? If you need encouragement please listen to his speech again and watch the King funeral video. I have a copy of the Gore speech, so let me know if you want to listen to the whole thing!

Here’s a short version from Crooks and Liars: http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..html#a6728

Al Gore wasn’t at the funeral, but if you saw it, you were likely reminded of the kind of country America can be and IS when a leader steps up and protects the US Constitution. You will likely recall the power that America can manifest when we have a leader who brings our people together for the common good of ALL people from all races, socio-economic status and belief systems. Be reminded of what America looks like and then please get to work on 2006!

Coretta Scott King Remembered:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/07.html

This is even better. Look at YOUR guy, GW Bush, President, United States of America:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11173305/

In closing, let’s not worry about why/why not we should elect Al Gore. Let’s consider Al as our climate control guru, and let’s follow his direction. Let’s send Bush home and let’s allow Cheney to retire for health reasons. Let’s steal our country back and work on Homeland Security, let’s at least sit down and listen to Iran, let’s bring our troops home and let’s take care of their mental health needs and their families, let’s take bold action and make good decisions about New Orleans, and let’s put farmers and technologists back to work by following Brazil’s example by saving America from the oil companies. Let’s do this… it will be fun.

I promise this is the end! We have ten years before it’s too late to save the planet. We have a shrinking window of opportunity. Let’s do it together. Let’s try it for the sake of the children, animals and this beautiful planet. Let’s not talk about what will happen if we don’t. The hurricane season is with us 3 days. I don’t think those of us with brains need any more disasters to remind us that we have to change! As Mr. Gore mentioned, this time there’s a voice in the background reminding us. It’s Mother Nature and she is asking us to act boldly and stop this chaos.

I am deeply saddened by events reported to have occurred in Haditha. Serious criminal misconduct by U.S. troops, however few were involved, is a very, very bad sign — for a number of reasons and at a number of levels.

It is, first and foremost, very bad for the Iraq civilians who were murdered and their families. There is simply no UNDO button for murder. “I’m sorry” or “I deeply regret…” or “I was under stress” just doesn’t cut it. People were murdered without justification and a price must be paid.

It is bad for troops who committed the murders. While I certainly don’t condone or excuse the actions of these troops in any way, I think it’s clear that this incident will likely ruin their lives and those of their families. And while I admittedly don’t know all the facts, it would not surprise me to learn that none of these soldiers had ever been in serious trouble before.

It is bad for the military who’s reputation will be tarnished by the behavior of these few — at a time when the military is already having trouble meeting recruitment goals.

It is bad for US/Iraq relations. Such incidents can quickly destroy years of efforts to build working relationships.

And it is very bad for public support of our troops here at home. Every time there is another My Lai type incident, support for the troops understandably goes down. My Lai was a significant turning point during the Vietnam conflict with respect to public support for our military. So far there has been an excellent effort by those who oppose the war in Iraq to differentiate between those who set policy and those who are tasked with enforcing it. But the unfortunate truth is that this distinction will fade if we have more incidents like this or if the administration is seen covering up the incident.

Amazingly, I have seen a number of posts about Haditha that serious suggest that we should simply ignore this kind of behavior and demand that our press not report on such incidents. To me, the only thing more cowardly than condoning such behavior would be attempting to cover it up. As mom use to tell me “If you’re so ashamed of what you’ve done that you feel you have to hide it, maybe you shouldn’t have done it in the first place.”

After all the Republican efforts to maintain innocence of Rove, Abramoff, Cunningham, Delay, etc… until convicted, or even indicted, she used this smear multiple times (Jefferson hasn’t even been indicted yet).

And the other journalist guests, plus Timmeh, all sat by like canned ham never challenging her – the whole place is so utterly conflicted, reporters from outside the beltway should be parachuted in to gather dangerous info and then extracted to somewhere safe where they can publish honest reports.

Come on Fitz!! — Please indict somebody soon and punch another hole in these bastards!!

Ed N Sted,

That’s an interesting point you bring up regarding Strauss. I would state that during my several years out here as an expatriate/retired jarhead, all the senior leadership that I have encountered and worked with would not explicitly align themselves to such a radical view – they are too aware of the human cost and consequences of ordering young Marines into harms way, and they would not do so from such a cold-blooded philosophy. However, I have also observed that the American principle of unquestioning military subordination to the civilian leadership leads to a blindly loyal attitude to that civilian leadership. Combine that with the 25 year trend for the officer corps to be overtly Republican in political outlook (since Reagan’s years in office), and you get the current state of affairs where only a few retired GOs will dare speak out against the wrecking of their armed forces. I can’t think of a single officer I personally know who I would attribute a neo-con PNAC mind set. Yet they remain admirably loyal to the most wretched, deceitful and incompetent civilian leadership that has disgraced our country’s history.