Thank you for your book "The Assault on Reason" Al. You answered the question I asked Tipper

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Back in August of 2005 my husband and I went to the First Annual Gore Family Dinner in Nashville (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=179&topic_id=1909&mesg_id=1931). While I was there a friend of Al and Tipper's approached me about my outfit and jewelry. She wanted to know the designer of the dress and where I got my jewelry. I explained the dress and jewelry were gifts from my mom. My mom made the dress and the turquoise (a chunk necklace) was a graduation gift. Anyway, we started chit-chatting about this and that and the next thing I knew we had both kicked off our shoes and she was taking me around the room and introducing me to people.

Coincidentally, we were talking about the enormous burden on the mental health care workers there would be when the RW when finally realized they had been duped by the government they helped elect when the Gores arrived at the function. My new friend told me that Tipper would love me and as soon as things quieted down she would introduce us. She did and I got to talk to Tipper for a few minutes. My friend introduced me as someone who had driven all the way from Kansas for the dinner and then prodded me to ask my question, which was, "What's happened to our country?" I asked her if I was the crazy one because the world didn't make sense to me anymore. I told her that the media didn't report news and that no one talks about issues anymore. I told her I was asking her because she was involved with mental health issues (and I was also hoping that she'd have some insight from Al) and that I had hoped she would address this issue in her speech. She laughed and told me that she had only scheduled five minutes for her speech. Then she assured me that it was them, not us, who were the crazy ones. She thought it was a pretty funny question. She took me over to Al so I could get his thoughts on it. He laughed and asked me how long we were in town and if we could come back. He said people were asking those same questions wherever he went.

So thanks Al. Thanks for eloquently answering our questions in your book An Assault on Reason. I just started the third chapter but I'm beginning to I feel like I can breath again. I'm not the only one who is outraged at what has been happening. Gore is telling the truth. Gore understands that the American people are looking for answers and he is giving them to us.

Thank you Al. I hope this book helps wake up the American people to what has been happening in our country and how far we have fallen. I hope it wakes them enough that the people want demand a change and that they help make the change. I hope it wakes them up like AIT woke people up to global warming. I hope we find the same will to act to save our country that Gore gave us to fight global warming. We're all in this together. We need to stop bickering and bitching and start getting things done. We need to call our reps, they need to hear us. If they don't, we've lost and America may never recover.

If you don't call your congress critters and other elected officials and let them know what you think on issues that matter, you are part of the problem.

Thank you Al. You are doing more to save your country than you know.
:patriot:

[lonestarnot]

1. I may be just a hashmark, but at least I'm a fucking hashmark.

hmmmmmf.

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3. Right on! Better a hashmark than a prison number.

I'm four hashmarks. One each for Dennis Moore and Nancy Boyd in the House. And one each for Sentors Brownback and Roberts.

[lonestarnot]

9. One to Waxman this a.m. for investigation of Sibel Edmonds. (sp?)

[NYCGirl]

2. Wonderful post, Mabus! Happily recommended. NT

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4. I hope Gore can rouse the people like "V" did

[kestrel91316]

6. Some person clever with graphics needs to adapt the "V for vendetta"

symbol and make it a BLUE "G" in a circle for Gore. Pass the logo around the net, give it to Gore. Then we need to mark it on all the money.

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11. That should be a "G" superimposed on the earth which is ringed in fire

for Gore's continuing fight against globabl climate change and emphasize that he says the earth has a fever.

[Cha]

7. "G" for

GORE

[elehhhhna]

5. Note to Tipper: Not "crazy" but "evil", and you know it.

Love you and let's call it by its name -- Evil.

[Lisa]

8. funny thing -- a few months into 2001, someone posted Al Gore's Nashville office address ...

.... here on DU, and I thought I'd send him a letter. I kept it short, since I figured that he probably had no remaining staff to help sort through the correspondence. I mentioned that I was finishing my dissertation on global warming policy, and that his work on the environment had inspired me to keep going even though there were times when it seemed insurmountable (data difficulties, etc.). I added that it seemed like a very important issue that would require a lot of attention, and did he think he might ever devote a whole book to climate change and possible responses?

I have no idea if he ever did read that letter, but I had to smile when I saw "An Inconvenient Truth" hitting the movie theatres and bookstores!

[FVZA_Colonel]

10. I was actually a bit surprised to learn, when reading Assault's wikipedia page,

that it had gone through three different rewrites in order to cover the ever-increasing number of scandals in the Bush Administration. Of course, at the rate the Bush Administration is churning out scandals, if he'd wanted to cover them all we would have had to wait until March or so of 2009 to get the book!

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12. He could do daily updates in his official journal/blog (http://blog.algore.com/)

http://blog.algore.com/

but then he'd be too busy to do anything else.