Pissypants Crowd Fears Gore

[cal04]

Why do they fear Gore?

Well, for one, he is telling the truth. His message is popular and timely in the post-Katrina era. The energy lobby is furiously lying like Mike McCurry to step on Gore’s message. Gore is the last Democrat to win the national popular vote, and the highest total Democratic vote getter ever. He’s looking relaxed, focused and fearless, and though he says he’s not running for president, insiders seem to doubt him and outsiders are trying to draft him.

What’s more, his signature issue - taking action to avoid global calamity in the form of irreversible climate change - is a potential political game changer. It gives people something far more genuine to fear, and bedwetters are all about harnessing fear to promote their political ends. They don’t want their monopoly challenged. The issue also requires communal action and solutions, which would move the country away from the wingnut preferred social darwinism to a progressive vision like that espoused in the holiday classic It’s A Wonderful Life. In that spirit, Gore offers not just a message of devastating warning, but also a message of hope for change grounded in a belief in the can-do American spirit to unleash talent and energy in support of energy innovation.

Gore was right about the first Gulf War and about the second Gulf War (a. k. a., the fiasco). He was visionary about the Internet and has been all over the climate change issue for decades. He pulls no punches on Bushco’s right wing power grab. If Gore ever does run, he could be propelled by much the same kind of movement that is displacing his former running mate, the same kind of movement propelling Jon Tester. . .only on national super-steroids.

No wonder they’re staining their Underoos.
Don’t misunderstand me: I’m not saying Gore should run, nor am I in any way endorsing any ‘08 Democratic candidates. I am pointing out that there’s a seismic shift going on in American politics, and the right wing is quite characteristically howling insanely with fear-driven rage.
http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/06/07/pissypants-crowd-fears-gore/


Post Election Thoughts
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/6/7/32946/22728

[Rex]

1. Fear the man you stole an election from.

Or you should.

[Joe for Clark]

5. I'm with you Rex.

They should be very afraid.

Gore had and has my vote. Clearly a decent and good man. I think he is our real leader.

Maybe we can correct our f*ck up as a country for what (didn't) happen in 2000.

Yep, they should be afraid of him.

Joe

[madokie]

20. Joe have you got any room on that cart for I need a ride

[Joe for Clark]

21. Wish I did.

[yurbud]

2. yep--same reason they are afraid of Katherine Harris winning--

don't want a constant reminder of that crime.

[NYCGirl]

4. No, I think they want to bury Harris, because she's EMBARRASSING! NT

[yurbud]

12. a lot of GOP pols are/were at least as embarrassing, Jesse Helms,

Trent Lott, James Sensenbrenner, Rick Santorum.

The big difference with Harris that makes her an embarrassment is she reminds people of how Bush became president in the first place.

[NYCGirl]

13. And her tight clothes and her implants... NT

[Pharaoh]

16. well actually I kinda like her implants!

unfortunately she's trying to run on them!!!!!!!!

[NYCGirl]

18. LOL!

:rofl:

[yurbud]

23. at least there was something to look at instead of her face

[janx]

3. He's BAAAACK... n/t

[Cha]

6. firedoglake's

Pachacutec writes a Great Post!

I couldn't be happier the way Gore has evolved since 2000 and emerged as the leader I always thought he was.

[Master Mahon]

7. They fear everyone with an intellect! n/t

[Ron Green]

8. I'm happy to give this one its 5th recommendation.

[ourbluenation]

9. and here's a 6th....

[Hubert Flottz]

10. You bet they fear Gore.

He can rip them apart and they know it!

[Uncle Joe]

11. They are afraid, the real President might come to power.

They are terrified of an America that is truly enlightened and leading the world for the greater good.

[speedoo]

14. Which is why the MSM continues to push the "Hillary is a lock crap".

And why they ridicule Gore as a "loser" and a "maniac".

[Triana]

15. Gore is definiely a Visionary and I'll NEVER forgive those CHEATING...

...sidewinding, slimey bastard Republicans for denying this country what undoubtedly would have been one of the best Presidents we'd ever had, not to mention that Gore's vision was certainly more appropriate at the dawn of a new millenium than the regressive, dark, dictatorship of Duhbya and his passel of robber barons who we've gotten stuck with, instead.

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. To think that we should be

enjoying Gore's 2nd term right now.

At least we can still look forward to having President Gore for 8 years, starting in 2008.

[Swamp Rat]

19. I don't care what anybody says, I am campaigning for Al Gore NOW!!!

:kick:

AL GORE 2008!!!

:kick:

[Kurovski]

22. K&R (nt)

[Stephanie]

24. Pissypants!

I'm going to take credit for that one - I'm pretty sure I invented the title Little Lord Pissypants! Thrilled that it's catching on beyond DU! :)

[Tinksrival]

26. Was that you?!!

:applause: I first heard Pissypants on the DU! I named this photo......

Lord Pissypants

[buddysmellgood]

25. Nice...but don't you mean...Don't misunderestimate me?

[autorank]

27. They FEAR GORE because he represents an OPPOSITION party...

...now would that be prudent...not bipartisan...might actually remind Americans of the real Democratic party, you know the one that didn't take shit from anybody...the party of labor, no nonsense intellectuals, common people who stove for the greater good...the insnpiration of the 20th century in this country.

Here's Gore on January 16, 2006, Washington DC, Constitution Hall "Scoop" Independent News:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0601/S00122.htm

Bush: Assumes powers that “the Founders sought to nullify in the Constitution – an all powerful executive too reminiscent of the King from whom they had broken free.”

Gore cited Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Thomas Paine to make his case. He quoted Madison’s argument that the accumulation of “all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands...” is ‘the very definition of tyranny.’” This was a critical point that the former Vice President returned to throughout the speech: the United States was established with the goal of rule by law and not by men, rule by participation not tyranny. His presentation made it very clear that Bush represents a new form of despotism that seeks power to meet its ends rather than competing for power in the political process.

Gore was clearly referring to Bush when he said, “A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.” As his central point, he focused on the case of domestic spying on Americans by the NSA for four years without any judicial authorization or legal basis. Gore illustrated the President’s all out power by citing additional acts of executive malfeasance. He accused Bush of arguing for “a heretofore unrecognized inherent power to seize and imprison any American citizen that he alone determines to be a threat to our nation…” and denying those citizens the rights to talk to a lawyer or even challenge the basis for the arrest. Gore left his prepared text at this point and said “No such right exists…it is foreign to our Constitution.”

Gore noted the Bush claim that “he has the authority to kidnap individuals in foreign countries and deliver them for imprisonment and interrogation….” He quoted the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan who said that the material obtained from torture was “useless. We are selling our souls for dross. It is in fact positively harmful.” He then cited Yale Law School’s Harold Koh who says that the chief executive who assumes the power to commit torture “…has the power to commit genocide, to sanction slavery, to promote apartheid, to license summary execution.”

“The Executive Branch has now put our constitutional design at grave risk. The stakes for America’s representative democracy are far higher than has been generally recognized.

[NastyDiaper]

28. It's also because the solution to GW is the solution to..

..Energy and the wars over energy. A return to world respect. Economic advantage, as energy becomes the most expensive component.

What do they fear? Simple. The Oil and Military industry stand to lose everything if they lose their power grip.

Ike warned us. And they see Gore as someone who can wrestle control back.

[smoogatz]

29. Re-elect Al Gore.

Simple as that. He's the new Alpha Progressive.

[Usrename]

30. That was a fun read. Almost like a faint glimmer of hope.

"bedwetters are all about harnessing fear"

Yep!

[BrklynLiberal]

31. Re-elect President Gore!!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Nothing Without Hope]

32. GREAT CARTOON - Hillary isn't pleased with Al just now either: