Another of those angry white males we hear about so much...what do you mean he's a liberal Democrat?

"Shut up", I explained.

Anecdotal evidence from (a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/04_05_23_corner-archive.asp#032623">Michael Graham, over at National Review's "Corner," that today's speech was AlGore's jump-the-shark Dean-scream moment:

"The buzz in the newsroom over here--and our newspeople are hardly right-wingers--is 'What the hell happened to Al Gore?' People are stopping each other in the hall and asking 'Did you hear that?'

"Are we shocked because we're out of the loop and he's in it? Why weren't the people at the speech shocked? Are they the real America? Or is Al Gore gone ga-ga?

"I can't remember a public statement, other than Howard Dean's, that has had this impact on people."

Considering the that we ignore other former Vice Presidents or Presidential candidates (Mondale, Dukakis, Quayle), why does anyone care what this has-been has to say?

A caller today (Wed.) on Limbaugh's show got Gore down exactly right: He's the guy who's hanging around the high school parking lot long after he's graduated.

Back in the fall, I nearly drove off the highway laughing at a taped replay of one of Gore's increasingly manical rants, this one at a church in California just before the recall vote. While most people would find this stuff good for a few guffaws, if you're John Kerry, the scary thing here is it's going to be hard to deny this man some sort of speaking role in prime-time at the Democratic convention.

Now that he's been forced to actually accept the Democratic Party nomination at the Democratic Party convention, Kerry faces the very real danger that national television will broadcast a rant like this to the entire nation. Up to this point, only political wonks have paid much attention to his increasinly rabid attacks, and the general public's image of Al Gore is still that of a block of wood. Suddenly watching Al make Pat Buchanan's 1992 RNC speech look like Ben Stein's lecture in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" could be very unnerving to a lot of voters and not very helpful to the Kerry presidential hopes.

How about Hillary? Ever hear her screaming at one of these rallies?

I get the feeling Al Gore is channeling his father's anger towards Richard Nixon. He wasn't this irrational 16 years ago, was he?

I'd like to see a parody of Amadeus with Gore in the part of Salieri and Bush the cheeky wunderkind running political circles around him.

Put a sock in it, Al! Have you just now found your voice after being struck dumb by the White House antics of Bill and Monica? All I can say is, "How dare Clinton subject us to such dishonor and disgrace!" "How dare Clinton drag the good name of the United States of American through the mud of their fornication and adultery".

Something very strange is happening here. Ted Kennedy; Robert Byrd and now Gore speaking irrationally, really manically during the last few weeks suggest something cynical. Is anyone checking their water sources?

The Democratic platform for November '04 :

Fire Rumsfeld, yeeeeeaaaarghhhhh !

Fire Rice, yeeeeaaaarghhhhh !

Fire Tenet, yeeeeaaaaarghhhhh !

Impeach Bush, yeeeeaaaaaargghhhhh !

Vote for Kerry, before you vote against him.

Genecis:

It is not a matter of water sources. I think they are realizing they are losing all political power and are getting desperate, hence the irrational behavior. It is only likely to get worse.

And give them one out of three and get rid of Tenet.

Yes, how dare "they" drag the good name of the United States of America through the mud of Saddam Hussein's torture prison...
Which was possible because Hussein is no longer torturing people in said prison...
'Cause the United States of America liberated the people of Iraq and deposed an evil dictator who would have had a good belly laugh at the thought of "torture" being defined as "forced to wear women's underwear on one's head, and pose naked", rather than "be dipped in acid, beaten with batons, watch one's wife be raped, then get one's hand cut off"...

Or is that too rational for poor Gore ?

KFI (LA talk radio AM640) was calling it "Gore Goes Nuts".

A better description would be "Gore throws a temper tantrum".

Thank you Al for crystalizing our thoughts.

It's amazing...this President was supposed to bring integrity to the White House. Torture is torture-the United States of America is supposed to be the leader in humanity. How dare anyone condone torture no matter how it's perceived, and put our men & women in Iraq in harms way. God bless our troops, America, and Al Gore for having the guts to stand up to the bullies.

marianne:

That's entirely too facile--torture is no more torture than killing is killing. Torture for one's own pleasure is quite deifferent than that desgned to elicit life-saving information from thugs, just as killing for profit is quite different than killing an enemy of your country in war.