Al Gore is going to speak up on the War In Iraq:
Amid talk he’s being urged to jump back into the presidential race, Al Gore has arranged to speak out on Iraq to a large anti-war group at New York University on Thursday.
A Gore spokeswoman insisted, “Truly, honestly, he’s not planning on getting back into the race,” but the former vice president’s speech to the organization MoveOn should only fuel the speculation.
It will be Gore’s first speech on Iraq since he came out against the Bush administration’s push toward war last September.
A MoveOn spokesman said Gore recently called the group and asked if he could address its members. He’s set to speak to about 600 members at the Kimmel Center for University Life in Washington Square.
MoveOn, a national anti-war group that boasts 120,000 members in the New York City area, recently gave Democratic anti-war candidate Howard Dean a big boost by conducting an online poll that Dean won.
So, is he going to come out in favor or against the war? It is 50/50 in my mind- depending on what his political calculus is and what he thinks is the most beneficial to himself.
At any rate, I think it is distasteful for him to speak up on the issue- the other candidates, I can understand and encourage them. Someone who is the former Veep and out of office should just pipe down- same with his former boss.
Moe Lane
Naah, let him talk if he wants to.
RW
He’ll be anti-war. Remember, he was the first prominent person to give a speech against the prospect of war back in ’02, shortly before he dropped out of the race.
Jeez, he’s speaking for moveon….does anyone expect him to do anything but deliver red meat to those loons?
Sweet Lou
My prediction, resulting from a triumph of hope over common sense:
Gore will tell MoveOn that Bush is doing a good job in foreign policy and that he doesn’t think that he could have done job half as well had he been elected.
Followed by a scorching denunciation of those who are trying to hijack the Democratic Party to total irrelevancy, and a call for moderate Democrats to support the campaign against terrorism, and wrest their glorious party from the grasping hands of socialist anti-American nutcases.
Culminating in a tearful apology for allowing Bill Clinton to besmirch the noble office of President and a pledge to keep fighting and speaking out until sanity is restored to the Democratic Party.
Mark L
Sweet Lou, whatever are you smoking? It’s obviously a hallucinogen, but it *does* seem to produce wonderful dreams — the type we could only wish would come true.
Not that I normally mess with drugs — other than morning coffee and a beer with dinner — but just this once I am tempted to try what you are having.
Sweet Lou
Ok, just read the text of Vice President Gore’s speech.
I might have been just a teensy bit off in my prediction.