Gore in the News 5/24/07
Today's talk . . .http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson...re_b_49203.htmlGore on fire - (talk and book signing in San Rafael, CA - 5/23)
"I saw Al Gore talk at a book signing for his book, The Assault On Reason, in Marin County (north of San Francisco) this evening. He was supposed to talk for a short time, take questions and sign books, but he just got going an gave one of the most inspired, intelligent and I think historically important articulations of the current threat to the American experiment and our democracy that I have heard."
http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_5973881Marin crowd urges Gore, in San Rafael, to run in '08Gore's appearance at the Marin Veteran's Memorial Auditorium at the Marin Center sold out, and it was difficult to turn around without bumping into a different group pressing Gore to run in 2008.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...EDGGTP3EJU1.DTLThe diminishing role for reason" ... when Gore is asked if any of the Democrats running for president were changing the system he holds in such low esteem, he pulls no punches. "They're good people trapped in a bad system," he says, "and I think it's the system that needs to be changed and I don't see them changing it." The campaign dialogue so far, he says, has not been "very enriching or illuminating" in "either party." But, no, that doesn't mean he's going to run, though he never completely shuts the door."
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...D21M&refer=museGore, Angry and Lucid, Attacks Bush Regime as Cruel and CorruptWhile ``The Assault on Reason'' focuses on the radical right (a term Gore is scrupulous about using in place of ``conservative''), his argument implicitly points to another culprit as well: If the right has shown itself willing to accommodate any debasement of our national values, the left has been too willing to embrace the belief that America at its worst is America revealed.
http://jurnalo.com/jurnalo/storyPage.do?story_id=37256Al Gore's new book inspires calls for return to politicsGore was treated like a political rock star when he kicked off his book tour in Beverley Hills Tuesday night in promotion of his new book The Assault on Reason, a savage criticism of American policies since George W Bush took the presidency following the controversial 2000 election. By Wednesday morning the book was already third on the bestseller list of Amazon. com.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/ar...arket_of_ideas/Gore's 'Assault' makes his case for an open market of ideas" ... he's right that it's "simply no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse." Something has changed for the worse, and Gore names not William Kristol or Rupert Murdoch, but viruses they carry that are weakening our "immune system" against sound-bite alarmism. The most virulent of these, he thinks, is "corporate consolidation and control over the marketplace of ideas," which diminish entrepreneurial and democratic freedoms by monopolizing the electronic media, whose relentless, ever-more-intimate intrusions are turning us from active citizens into passive consumers, sapping our disposition and skill to govern ourselves."
http://theunknowncandidate.blogspot.com/20...s-clam-dip.htmlPass the clam dip - (NY TimesSelect 5/23)
He must be flattered that many demoralized leading Republicans and Bush insiders think a Gore-Obama ticket would be unbeatable. And he must be gratified that his rival Hillary has never cemented her inevitability, even with Bill Clinton's lip-licking Web video pushing her.
http://www.pollingreport.com/wh08dem.htmDiageo Hotline Poll - Presidential Primary - May 16-20
Gore in third place with `3%