May 30, 2006

A MAJORITY COMPOSED OF RENEGADES

Gore: Bush is 'renegade rightwing extremist' (Oliver Burkeman and Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, May 31st, 2006)

Al Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current US administration as "a renegade band of rightwing extremists".

In an interview with the Guardian today, the former vice-president calls himself a "recovering politician", but launches into the political fray more explicitly than he has previously done during his high-profile campaigning on the threat of global warming.

Denying that his politics have shifted to the left since he lost the court battle for the 2000 election, Mr Gore says: "If you have a renegade band of rightwing extremists who get hold of power, the whole thing goes to the right."

Actually, that sums it up rather nicely.

Posted by Peter Burnet at May 30, 2006 9:28 PM
Comments

By "get hold of power" he, of course, means "keep winning elections."

Posted by: oj at May 31, 2006 3:00 PM
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