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Friday, June 25, 2004
Another Great Speech by Al Gore
Gore seems to be tearing it up lately, with his speech to MoveOn PAC (see previous post) awhile back and this one he gave yesterday,Al Gore | Our Founders and the Unbalance of Power
There's plenty more in the speech; highly recommended if you want to get your fire burning.
I am convinced that our founders would counsel us today that the greatest challenge facing our republic is not terrorism but how we react to terrorism, and not war, but how we manage our fears and achieve security without losing our freedom. I am also convinced that they would warn us that democracy itself is in grave danger if we allow any president to use his role as commander in chief to rupture the careful balance between the executive, the legislative and the judicial branches of government. Our current president has gone to war and has come back into 'the city' and declared that our nation is now in a permanent state of war, which he says justifies his reinterpretation of the Constitution in ways that increase his personal power at the expense of Congress, the courts, and every individual citizen.
There's plenty more in the speech; highly recommended if you want to get your fire burning.
posted by Tom, 6/25/2004 11:37:00 AM
