I'm crying -- it is about time that one of our leaders says

[merh]

what we all know and what we all have been saying for years.

It is such a relief to hear the words spoken in public, to hear someone call George W. Bush and his administration out for their crimes.

I'm crying tears of relief and tears of pain.

This is where my nation has come, I hate them for destroying it. I want my nation back. :cry:


Thank you Al Gore. :patriot:

[undeterred]

1. This speech should be required listening

I am glad he is in a position now to speak the truth so brilliantly.

[merh]

5. I am grateful that he is speaking the truth

and speaking it so brillantly.

Damn all of those that said he would not make a good president.
Had he been given his win, had the supreme court not stolen his victory from him, our nation would be safer, our lives better.

I love Al Gore.

[C_U_L8R]

7. It needs to be a viral video ASAP

So what if the MSM doesn't cover this.... we need this video to
send to everyone we all know (and they can tell their friends and so on and so on).

Will Al's people get this out on pass-along video for us all to use?

[merh]

9. I'm sure a link will be made available.

And I know that I will send it to everyone I know.

[bunny planet]

28. It should be required listening for every member of Congress and every

judge and justice in the nation. Restore our democracy, restore our system of checks and balances.

[Seabiscuit]

32. Agreed. If only every American was required to hear this speech.

Imagine what a wonderful world it could be.

[glitch]

2. Me too. Crying. Brave man. It's such a relief to hear the truth spoken.

I know I've said before, but I love Al Gore.

[converted_democrat]

3. I'm so proud of Al.. He's doing a fantastic job...n/t

[question everything]

4. Hey merh. How goes the rebuilding

I have often thought about you, your post crying for help is still etched in my memory. We sent a check to the Red Cross immediately and I wish I could have delivered it to you, instead.

[merh]

8. I'm in a holding pattern, trying to get some money so that I can

rebuild. The insurance company has said "f you", so I am in the hands of the red tape agencies from hell. x(

I have to go refill the butane tanks attached to my femansion, but I want to finish watching Al Gore. Also, I really don't know what the hell I am doing, so I am trying to get some direction.

I have learned so much, never thought I would plug my own tire, never worried about butane tanks for hot water and heat.

The adventures continue.

Thanks for asking and donating to help us. I'm grateful that you haven't forgotten us, please don't let others forget us. :hug:

[Mutley]

6. Al Gore....

:yourock:

:applause:

:woohoo:

[lonestarnot]

10. AL AL AL! PRESIDENT AL!

[merh]

11. I'm making a bumper sticker and putting it on my car.

Al Gore 2008!

:patriot:

[BuyingThyme]

12. I need to hear a hardcore call to action.

[American liberal]

55. from whom? Gore gave us a hard core call to action. He held us ALL

to account: left, right, and center.

Many on DU have been giving hard core calls to action. It's sad to me that the Activist HQ forum is one of the least popular, based on number of posts.

What more do you want? Tell me where you live and I'll come over with a blowhorn and give you a call to action you won't soon forget! :spank: :P
(just funnin' with ya')

[DemReadingDU]

13. Great speech, Al Gore!

Are our leaders listening?

[journalist3072]

14. I just really have no words right now

To hear all BushCo's crimes put into context like this, I am just speechless.

And sad for my country.

[merh]

17. I'm crying more now, he is calling on us

Will the other leaders listen, will they find their spine?

He blames both democratic and republican politicans, he blames our current legislators, he is right.

They have failed us. :cry:

[journalist3072]

18. They truly have failed us...

And they ought to be kicked out of office this November.

I'm really sad being living in the District of Columbia, I have no representation in the United States Congress except for Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who has very limited power in the House (she can only vote "in committee").

I pay federal taxes just like every other American, and the decisions the United States Congress make affect me just like they affect every other American.

Yet, I have no Representative or Senator to write to.

So I am asking all of you here on D.U. to please be my voice.

Please write your Representatives and Senators. And if they don't hold this Administration accountable, kick them out of office this year.

[merh]

22. I will do what I can, I will not sit quietly, if you have

any special words you want said, let me know.

Your rights are my rights and I will do my damnedest to protect them, for both of us, for our children and the future of our nation.

[journalist3072]

29. Wow. Thank you, Thank you, and thank you!!

You can help be the voice that I don't have right now, by urging your Senators to either filibuster or vote NO on Samuel Alito. And uring your Representatives to open up an impeachment inquiry against BushCo.

[merh]

30. You can count on that.

And any time you need a voice, call on me.

I'm loud and pigheaded, I will do my best to make sure we are heard. :patriot:

:hug:

[Horse with no Name]

15. Hugssss Merh!!

He speaks for me.
He is so eloquent.
He is making me cry.
He is saying what needs to be said.

[chimpymustgo]

16. Tears, here too. Sadness, pain, admiration, dare I hope?

We have to make this man President. NOW!

[merh]

19. It is both a relief and frightening to hear him lay out all fo their

crimes, all of their abuses of power.

I know they have been violating my rights daily, I just didn't realize the varied ways that they have done so.

I cry tears of relief and of fear. :cry:

I want my nation back.



:hug: Hugs to you to Horsey. May this be the beginning of the end of their assaults, may this be the day we take our nation back from the bastards.

:patriot:

[Strawman]

20. Oh dear, he's getting our powder all wet

Thank God Diane Feinstein and the Dry Powder Brigade are on hand to come to the rescue.

:sarcasm:

[KnowerOfLogic]

59. LOL - it's about time somebody did!!!!!!!!!! nt

[cry baby]

21. I am crying too! OMG, no one has spoken my thoughts like this!!

Except our President Gore!! What great courage! Finally!!

[merh]

34. Wasn't it refreshing.

To hear someone say in public, before a crowd, in front of a microphone and cameras, all that we have been saying.

:patriot:

[merh]

77. It is worth listening to again,

and I don't mind the tears. I am proud to say I voted for him and would vote for him again.

He is a true leader, he is what we need. :patriot:

[DesertRat]

23. Me too

And he wrote the speech himself. Has * ever written a speech in his life??

Thank you, Vice President Gore!

[Carni]

24. Want to really be alarmed?

Imagine what HE (Gore) must know after being vice President for 8 years in comparison with what WE know...if we even know 1/10 of what dirty deals bushit has pulled I would be surprised.

[merh]

27. OMG, I never looked at it that way.

But you are right, just imagine what he knows and how that frightens him and propels him to speak out.

We must help him be heard.

[Carni]

31. I had another thought...

I wonder if something big is about to go down as in maybe some whitehouse insiders are ready to cut bait?

I have no basis for thinking that but his remarks about protections for whistleblowers in the executive branch peaked my interest.

[MissWaverly]

41. My big tin hat theory

I believe much has been delayed or suppressed until the conservatives got what they wanted
2 RW judges on the Supreme Court so they could have Roe vs Wade overturned. As soon
as Alito is confirmed look for everything to bust loose because they have no loyalty
to GWB at all. They were just using him to get to Roe vs Wade.

[Flying Dream Blues]

44. Oh, I have to admit, that makes a lot of sense.

[MissWaverly]

46. Remember the blow up over Harriet, the Supreme that wasn't

If the right were truly Bushbots, they would have agreed with his statement that she
was the best pick, instead they lead an assault to have the nomination withdrawn.

[Flying Dream Blues]

51. Well, I thought Barney, I mean Harriet, was stretching

credibility even for the Bushbots. But I definitely see your point. She wasn't a known quantity, so therefore could be a little bit soft on the whole fascist, I mean conservative, agenda.

[MissWaverly]

57. I think I read that even Fitzgerald was putting off Plame

until after the Alito hearings, could this just be coincidence

[Flying Dream Blues]

62. I hadn't read that. Sad if true.

[MissWaverly]

68. I can't find the source so it may have been just a blog

but I remember them saying that the speculation was that Fitzgerald wanted to wait until
after the Alito confirmation was out of the way, I found it unusual that there's been nothing
going on with Libby since he was indicted October 28, 2005. (Novak's leak was in July of 2003)

[Carni]

48. That's a very viable theory actually

Definitely would make sense!

[johnaries]

54. I don't think the Repugs want Roe overturned, it's their biggest campaign

issue. If it's no longer an "issue", think of all the support and contributions they'll lose.

They don't want to overturn such a huge cash cow.

[MissWaverly]

58. Yes, but they are not Bush base anymore

When I read Fooled Again, I detected a shrinking of Bush's Base in the summer of 2004,
a lot of Republicans were coming to the realization that the his foreign policy and
fiscal policy were not in line with their ideas and they disagreed with the
Iraq war, so who was left to muster on the fight, the fundies, the moralists who
were not necessarily fundies but still want Roe v Wade overturned and the porkers
who were in it to soak up as much money as possible either before or after the election
and some mainstream republicans who follow O'Reilly and Faux news. Now the fundies
and the moralists see this as their last chance to get Roe v Wade overturned and
they are not going to blow it.

[merh]

49. Could there be something big about to happen?

I thought he was just trying to protect the NSA employee that let the cat out of the bag.

With this admin I can honestly say nothing, absolutely nothing, surprised me any more.

[MissWaverly]

60. I have had the oddest feeling from day one that the Dems

would get the Iraq mess to clean up, the Republicans are not used to cleaning up their own
messes, they have traditionally stuck it to the other party to shoulder so they could stand
and yell catcalls/or whine from the sidelines. I still have the feeling that Bush got into power by a legal quip and he will get out of power by a legal quip.

[Pachamama]

78. Is that known as Irony?

Yes, I too have long believed that the Boy King who got to be King by a legal quip will also be de-throned by a legal quip....

[MissWaverly]

82. here's an interesting nugget

Amendment 25 of US constitution

SECTION. 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

[Carni]

63. I would like to hope there is something big in the works

But after having thought that a gazillion times over the last three years I hate to say that it could just be wishful thinking on my part!

On the side of optimism-- I do see some chinks in the bush armor lately.

[merh]

67. Oh, I can definitely relate to the wishful thinking fears.

We have had so many "close calls", it is hard to get my hopes up.

But I cannot give up hope.

[MissWaverly]

70. I think people are waking up

Hurricane Katrina woke up America, most of us said, hey that could be my town waiting
for Bumble Bush and his merry men.

[MissWaverly]

69. Also as Jon Stewart says the virtual reporters are now real

truth is like kryptonite to this administration (if you are not familiar with Superman,
kryptonite was the only thing that could hurt Superman).

[suffragette]

25. Tears of rage and hope

Rage at what this administration has done to tear apart our country and hope, from hearing the truth ringing out in Al Gore's speech, that together we can and will take it back.

[rateyes]

26. As he was speaking, I kept saying to myself...

"call for impeachment...call for impeachment...." Damned if he didn't do it with the "Congress, start acting like the equal branch you are...and calling for independent prosecutor...."

WOOOOOOOOHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:woohoo:

:applause:

[MissWaverly]

33. His speech was electrifying

over and over again; he nailed Bush for deception and for evading the law.
I loved it. I want our country back as well, to replace the current
system of no lobbyist left behind with truth, justice and the American
Way!

[merh]

40. Hey ya, Miss Waverly

I've been off of DU for a few days, it looks like I picked a good day to come back. :hi:

Thanks for the pmail & all of your support & concern. :hug: :loveya:

[MissWaverly]

43. You are welcome

Glad to help another tin hat warrior!

[Uncle Joe]

35. Good post merh.

:hug:

Kicked and nominated.

:kick:

[Odin2005]

36. Go President Gore!

:woohoo: :patriot:

[joe_sixpack]

37. I'm not crying at all...

is there something wrong with me?

[Moochy]

38. conjunctive eyetis

Get some ointment,it will clear up those tear ducts in a few days ! :evilgrin:

[joe_sixpack]

39. You're right,

that must be it.

[blm]

42. The cumulative effect of the DSM and the confirmed NSA spying was bound

to trigger this reaction at this point.

[Swamp Rat]

45. Thank you President Al Gore!!!

[merh]

61. Hi friend, it is so good to see you!

:hi:

I hope you are doing well, considering all you are going through in your efforts to reclaim your life. :hug:

[Swamp Rat]

65. Yes, I'm glad to see you too!

:hi: How's it going in your area? I still don't have hot water, and half the electrical circuits/wiring is blown. Gonna jack up the house soon (it sunk and cracked in two), then begin gutting some of the rooms. We in New Orleans are still wondering if our city will get the protection it needs. A direct hit from a storm next year will mean the UTTER END of this beautiful Crescent City if we don't get IMMEDIATE HELP to rebuild the levees and canal walls...

:cry: :hug:

[merh]

66. I'm doing so much better than you.

My little femansion has the hot water (well, when I keep the butane tanks full) and electricity.

Though my lot is barren, my hopes are not. I'm looking into building me a dome home when I get the funding.

Fighting the red tape is tiresome, but it will not defeat me.

You and yours are in my prayers. :hug:

I sent the images of the various international levees to my friend that was speaking at a conference this past weekend. He was bringing the levee dilemma to the attention of the audience.

I'll keep making noise for you folks in NOLA, keep doing the same for us.

:hug: :loveya:

[Swamp Rat]

75. thanks mehr

:hug:

[Pachamama]

79. OMG - you don't have hot H2O?

Oh my Swamp friend....I posted earlier in a thread about how excited I was to have hot water and couldn't live without it.....I'm so sorry....And you have my heart felt thoughts with you about what you and NOLA are going through....my flood was bad, but nothing, nothing compares to what you all went through....I also am sickened by the lack of action in your beautiful city....they say that the span of attention for disasters is 6 months for action to happen or it gets ignored....I guess that only gives your fair city another 45 days....ugh...I feel sick....

[countingbluecars]

47. I cried too.

I was lucky to be in DC to see and hear Al Gore. He was wonderful. He spoke the truth. I cried for what should have been, and I cried because of what we have become.

[merh]

50. You were there?

You lucky duck.

A belated welcome to DU and a hug for the shared tears.

:hug:

[countingbluecars]

52. Thanks.

I live near DC, so I could not pass up the chance to hear this speech. It was very moving. I'm not sure what I am feeling right now. This man should have been our president. At the end of the speech Gore gave a message of hope, and yet I worry that we have gone beyond the point of no return. When will America wake up? I guess it's up to us to make enough noise until Congress listens.

[merh]

53. It is up to us...

We are the People and we must reclaim our nation.

It won't be easy, but if we are sucessful, it will be well worth the struggle. :patriot:

[FreedomAngel82]

56. And it's so perfect

the person who is doing it too.

[BigBearJohn]

64. I couldn't have said it better myself Merh. I'm with ya!

[merh]

71. thanks, BigBearJohn!

:hug: :patriot:

[New Earth]

72. i almost feel like he is calling for impeachment

or at least implying it. he specifically references violations of law, constitution, the rights of the people.....repeatedly.

"unconstitutional" has been the key word

i'm posting link to the video on myspace so my 200 some odd friends can see...

[HeeBGBz]

73. What a wonderful man

I love everything about this speech. It gives me hope.

[Just Me]

74. This time, I am completely inspired.

I have NO MORE TEARS to mourn the suffering unilaterally imposed by a rogue of greedy, power-mongering pricks. FUCK THEM!!!

Those neoconster HAVE NO PLACE IN OUR SOCIETY, IN OUR DEMOCRACY, IN OUR NATION!! :grr: They are 21st Century tyrants. They SHALL be removed!!! :mad:

Let's go get those bastards who DARE to STEAL our democracy through fraud and deceit and exploitation!

LET'S GO GET THOSE BASTARDS!!!! :patriot:

[merh]

76. I am so glad you are inspired Just Me.

I remember when you were so tired of all of this.

I am glad you are still here. :hug:

Never.Give.Up! :patriot:

[Just Me]

84. I remember when your "ripples" inspired me, merh.

:hug:

I am ALWAYS sick and tired of this shit.

But, you see, all the love and compassion and human spirit that defines us is ALIVE AND WELL.

In spite of those who thrive upon human darkness, our light shall NEVER be extinguished.

We're good to go. :hug:

[merh]

85. We are good to go!

:hug:

[Pachamama]

80. Oh Merh...

:hug:

I can't cry anymore...I think that I've become so numbed lately with all that has been happening...I feel such outrage about the activities of this government and the Bush Cabal....

But, I'm relieved and happy to hear that someone like Al Gore has the courage to stand up and call out these criminals....

I want my nation back too....:patriot:

[merh]

81. I can't stop crying sometimes.

This admistration has ruined so much.

I just want it to stop and I want my nation back.

:hug:

[Ellipsis]

83. Aw merh....

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:


Words are not enough for what you have gone through and what this country has been subjected to

Cy-ber hugs ...for now, will have to do.


(soft hug)