The New Road

Loved Gore's Speech

I loved Gore's speech from Tuesday. It was dead on everything I wanted to say, but said so much more eloquently then I could ever muster. Of course I checked up on the right wing and the best I found was someone saying that Gore had gone insane. Hey, if that's the best they can come up with, then he must be doing something right. Why try and refute the facts when you can just say the speaker is insane?

The parts about the politics of fear were spot on. Just stand back and listen to what Bush has to say. Most of it is about fear. You have to fear the terrorists. You have to fear the liberals. You have to fear the world. You have to fear people who say that the fear is overblown. If there are two types of governance, fear and trust, I will choose trust.

One of the most telling parts was actually in a speech from a couple of days previous. He talked about how he, and the rest of the country, had placed our trust in George Bush to do the right thing after 9/11. To go after the terrorists. And he has abused that trust by going after people who had nothing to do with 9/11. He mentioned some shocking statistics. Apparently 70% of American still believe that the majority of the hijackers on the 9/11 flights were Iraqis, when there were in fact, no Iraqi hijackers. Not one. Apparently 50% still believe that Saddam was deeply involved with Al Qaeda, when, of course, no substantiating facts have come to the fore, and none will, because the two men were at extreme ideological odds.

If you think I am just repeating what Gore said, you are right, but that's because it's worth repeating. If you think I can't substantiate my opposition to the war, bring it! In an even fight I will burn any Iraq war supporter down to the ground because I have the facts on my side. I've never actually seen a stand-up fight between a real liberal and any of these right wing hosts. They either cut the speaker off, talk over the person, or just yell and scream about patriotism and fear. Those are just bully tactics, and when you have to resort to those that means you don't believe in your argument.