UNDERSTATING 'GORE'S DISGRACE' Yowza! Michael Kelly, The Atlantic's editor-at-large, has some thoughts on Al Gore's speech to the Commonwealth Club last Monday in which the doughy former veep blasted President Bush's Iraq policy:
Politics are allowed in politics, but there are limits, and there is a pale, and Gore has now shown himself to be ignorant of those limits, and he has now placed himself beyond that pale.
Gore's speech was one no minimally decent politician could have delivered. It was entirely dishonest, cheap, low. It was utterly hollow. It was bereft of policy, of solutions, of constructive ideas, very nearly of facts - bereft of anything other than taunts and jibes and embarrassingly obvious lies. It was breathtakingly hypocritical, a naked political assault delivered in smarmy tones of moral condescension from a man pretending to be superior to mere politics. It was wretched. It was vile. It was contemptible. But I understate.
And that's just for starters. Read the rest of
Kelly's column in today's New York Post.
