Brent Budowsky on Al Gore

What in the world is it going to take to get Al Gore to enter the race for President? Total freaking Armageddon? This is just excruciating.

Brent Budowsky BIO
Al Gore: Leader of the Courage Wing of the Democratic Party
Posted August 10, 2007

While the Democratic fear caucus in Congress grows with progressively more embarrassing surrenders to executive abuse, and Hillary Clinton now debates herself about whether a Presidential candidate should ever renounce first use of nuclear weapons, which she was for before she was against, Al Gore is the leader of the courage wing of the Democratic Party.

The true choice in 2008 is Bushism versus Goreism. Bushism is the complex of policies that promote massive profiteering and tax avoidance by the oil sector, destruction of the environment that follows from an economy addicted to oil, unwise wars inexorably tied to the oil fields of Arabia, massive campaign donations from oil profiteers to Republican candidates, and an infrastructure of secrecy, fear and deceit necessary to support policies that would be rejected in open and honest debate.

Goreism is a pro-American energy policy that promotes safer and renewable sources; the protection of the planet that inevitably follows from those safer energy sources; avoidance of unwise wars and the use of diplomacy to avoid them when possible; integrity and truth in public debate; a reduction of the corrupting influence of money in politics and respect for the rule of law, and constitutional Americanism.

Bush embodies the exploitation of fear; many Democrats embody their own fears in their repeated surrenders to fear; Al Gore embodies the politics of courage, the clarity of conviction.
Begin with Bush's premise, we end with Bush's tactics, policies, unwise wars, corruptions, and abuses of constitutional rights while the planet is polluted. Begin with Gore's premise, we end with honest public debate, political reform, less pressure for unwise wars, far more equitable distribution of wealth, far more respect for the rule of law, while the planet is protected.

With Bush, there is a synergy between lying and misrepresenting intelligence to promote war, lying to buy science to fraudulently deny the risks of global warming, and pressure to censor Administration science that is based on truth.

With Gore, there is a synergy between telling the truth to educate the world about global warming and knowing the truth about why we should have avoided a disastrous war in Iraq.

This is a clash of civilizations, a war of the worlds, between the world of Bush and the world of Gore, between competing visions of America, competing aspirations for the earth, competing ideals of integrity in politics, competing values of reason versus ideology and delusion, competing visions between reverence for the Constitution and the rule of law, versus contempt for American traditions that were previously accepted with near universal consensus since Jefferson put pen to paper in 1776.

Democrats in Washington should close down the fear and surrender caucus in the capital, listen to what Gore is saying, and do what Gore is doing.

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Brent Budowsky served as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, responsible for commerce and intelligence matters, including one of the core drafters of the CIA Identities Law. Served as Legislative Director to Congressman Bill Alexander, then Chief Deputy Whip, House of Representatives. Currently a member of the International Advisory Council of the Intelligence Summit. Left goverment in 1990 for marketing and public affairs business including major corporate entertainment and talent management. He can be reached at brentbbi@webtv.net