Political Punch

Chuck- What about the Wiretapping done by Clinton/Gore on their Political Enemies, such as the Ashalon Project (Probably spelled wrong) Which was done on Inside the US communications. So please this President is doing everything possible to stop an attack, You would be the first to say he did not do enough if we were attacked again. so get off the propaganda.

thedevilyoudont - Um the Press did everything possible to stop Pres. Bush from winning, so please the mainstream media is Democrat Liberal Machine. Side-note: Though I do like ABC 80% of the time, I say 80% because of that one show they run during the day. It would be 99% if they did not have that show.

So please people see the Press is Pro-liberal, especially the NYT, and all the papers with Times in the name that I know of. So STOP the lies.

By the way since you say this war was based on lies, Clinton, Gore, Russia, Briton, All the Senators minus 2, All of Congress minus a few, etc... are Liars too. So think logically and asked where the weapons that we did not find go, oh by the way we did find some. And also there were 16 other reasons we went into Iraq, not just WMD's.

phillygirl64 - Lets see first Pres Bush did not want a recount and if there was going to be one he want the whole state and Military votes counted, which Gore argued against. And Please multiple news organizations recounted, and Bush won each time, look it up on Net. And the County that voted high for Buchannan, well that was a very conservative area, I would believe more that they voted with the mistake of thinking the name was Bush, then thinking that many were dumb and did not know how to vote, but since 3rd grader in NJ took the same ballot and just changed names to cartoon characters and voted correctly, well that knocks out Gore's theory. So I go with the one that they voted conservative in a state where the Presidents brother was a very popular governor. So please. This whole thing with Gore is he loves the limelight.

Thank God California does not pick our President. Thank God also for the record number of Votes for President Bush in 2004 which confirmed everything.

Like I said his movie was debunked, And does anyone really think someone is going to write a book about themselves in a negative light, if so I got a bridge to sell you.

actually, spock, the NYT found out that if they did the recount the way Gore wanted them to, Bush still won, and if they did it the way Duh-bya wanted, Gore would have won...I let go of 2000 a while ago, but I still say there is NO frickin' way Pat Buchanan got all those votes in that one county, which would have more than made up for the 500-600 votes...

thedevilyoudont - Get over the 2000 election, Gore lost, even the Press went down and recounted, and Pres. Bush won their recount. They would of had a better chance of another state where someone's Brother was not popular Governor. So Get over it. 2004 proved America wanted President Bush anyhow, over 62 million people voted for him, a record.

This book is calculating and coercive and whether or not Al Gore intends it to be political is regardless, it is extremely political. If anyone were to write the Dear John letter from America to the current administration, it seems fitting that Mr. Gore is handling the pen. After all, for the past 7 years he has done everything in his power to send a resounding 'I told you so' to the the American public. Does anyone think that had Gore assumed the presidency in 2000 that George Bush would have gone on to pocket an Oscar and a Nobel Prize?

That being said, there is the issue of content. While I agree with Gore's attacks on the Bush Administration's double-talking figureheads, and I am glad to see that Gore continues to tout the fight against Global Warming, there is one issue that Gore has raised here for which he is actually LARGELY to blame: The media.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was a piece of legislation overseen and co-authored by Gore, and it is this piece of legislation that is largely responsible for the increasingly deplorable state of US Mass media. You remember this bill, the one that allowed for gross media conglomeration via mergers, the one that allowed large internet service providers to horde broadband allotments. and the one that did not make a single subsidy for civic communication or public television. In fact, one could argue that the media environment that Al Gore and Congress created with this bill is largely responsible for his loss of the 2000 election, the massive hoodwinking of the Iraq war, and the successful re-election of the worst president in history!

I admire Gore for seeking out and looking for solutions to the problems of our modern Democracy, but part of this process must be admitting to his own mistakes as well. While the Clinton administration was like a convent compared to the Bush administration, they were not perfect. It seems to me that our largest problem today in America is that our politicians refuse to admit to making mistakes and fixing the errs of their ways.

Stubbornness is the most serious assault on reason.

If Al Gore is serious about making positive change than perhaps he and Mike Bloomberg should team up as a Green party ticket for '08. 'Re-elect Gore' might be a good slogan....

First Please state where Bush said their was a connection between 9/11 and Iraq, I remember him saying there was no link but that Al Qaeda was in Iraq which is proven to be true.

As far as Gore everything he does is Political and pushes a Socialistic Agenda, Even his Global Warming farce.

Shall we relook at the term of Clinton and Gore. For Gore to state his book is non-political is a farce; then why does he find it necessary to rip on Bush. Gore, himself,is extremely arrogant and speaks to the public in a condescending manner. If Gore ever lead this country it would be disastrous. He should stick with his roll in educating American's on Gobal warming.

An assault on something.

As for the media's role in making the case for invading Iraq, I dunno. I'm a media consumer, and I don't feel as though the facts were presented poorly. I watched Powell's presentation (SH is moving the WMDs around, see this grainy blip!), and his defense of the presentation. The facts, even when painted in a light most favorable to the administration's position, were very very weak. I always thought the case for invading Iraq was laughable (in a tragic sense).

So I guess from my perspective, I think that if people bought into that (which they did), it's really more a case of people believing what they want to believe, and clinging to the desparate hope that the President is acting in the best interest of US. I'm less critical of the media, because there was no smoking gun, and people just didn't care. How is the media going to make people care about facts (or the lack of facts)?

Congress, OTOH, was complicit. Gore is right. Congress should have been more critical of the case for invading Iraq. They were cowards - concerned more about their seats than the well being of the country.

Mr. Gore's book is political, all right, no matter what he claims; I'd consider it "Gore's Revenge" for the disastrous 2000 presidential election results. The only assault I see here, after having read your article about the book, is the well-deserved assault on the Bush administration. This book, along with the most recent revelations of AG Gonzales' actions in badgering then-AG Ashcroft while in the hospital to approve the secret wiretapping program really summarizes the essential character of this administration. I have never seen such a presidential administration so full of incompetence, arrogance, stupidity, rapacity, and avarice that it makes the Nixon administration appear positively benevolent in comparison.