The Wrong Man at the Wrong Time

As Win wrote yesterday, Al Gore went too far at the MoveOn.Org rally. He calls Bush "the most dishonest President since Richard Nixon." No, sir, I believe that was your former boss, President William Jefferson Clinton. May I remind everybody that Clinton, not Bush, was impeached by the House of Representatives for perjury.

But, what is more laughable is the sanctimony of Gore's remarks; he sounds like a cross between your worst professor at college and a newly minted preacher:

"One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded. We also know - and not just from De Sade and Freud - the psychological proximity between sexual depravity and other people's pain. It has been especially shocking and awful to see these paired evils perpetrated so crudely and cruelly in the name of America."

The man is full of complete nonsense. Thank God he was not President when the Twin Towers fell on September 11. This is not to say that Gore isn't right to condemn the abuses that occurred at Abu Ghraib prison, but it's a real leap in logic to say:

"What happened at the prison, it is now clear, was not the result of random acts by 'a few bad apples,' it was the natural consequence of the Bush Administration policy that has dismantled those wise constraints and has made war on America's checks and balances."

OK Al, where were those same checks and balances when your Attorney General bulldozed the Branch Davidians, or murdered Randy Weaver's wife and kids at Ruby Ridge?