Gore Speaks Truth

I can't wait for the right-wing to start whining like the childish asshats they are for this:

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore drew cheers at 190-nation talks by saying the United States was the main block to launching negotiations in Bali on a new global climate treaty.

Efforts to start two-year negotiations on a pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol flagged on Thursday, the penultimate day of the December 3-14 talks, after the European Union accused the United States of lacking ambition.

"I am going to speak an inconvenient truth," Gore told an audience of several hundred, playing on the name of his Oscar-winning documentary.

And in low tones he added: "My own country the United States is principally responsible for obstructing progress in Bali," spurring rapturous applause and cheers.

Of course, none of the criticism will be substantive, but rather it will consist of attacks on Gore.

That didn't take long.

Al Gore

Saw on the Daily Show last night. Contrasted with the Bush "moment of zen" clip they played at the end of the show, the difference between the two could not be more staggering. It makes me think that this man could have been our president and that thought is sad enough that it makes me want to cry.