Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Gore: Bush is 'renegade rightwing extremist'

At long last someone has said it. I've become sick of Bush being allowed to portray himself as someone who is somehow "above politics" as his henchmen, led by Rove, smear and conduct character assassinations on anyone who dares speak out against this extreme administration.

Well, at last Al Gore has stopped playing the Democratic game of declining to make any comment that might be labelled "extremist" by your opponents and has called a duck a duck.

He has stood up and called the Bush administration, "a renegade band of rightwing extremists".

Which is exactly what this bunch of non fiscal, constitution ripping, conservatives are.

One only has to look at the ignoring of FISA in order to conduct illegal wiretapping of American citizens, the previously unheard of power that Bush claims belongs to his office, the holding of foreign suspects without trial in Cuba in a deliberate attempt to keep them in a legal black hole, and the setting up of rendition flights in order that suspects may be captured on foreign soil and flown to country's where they may be tortured to realise that "extremists" is the polite way to describe the current occupants of the White House.

When one thinks of DeLay and Libby the word criminal also comes to mind.

Good on Gore for saying. And for being so restrained in his choice of words.

In an interview with the Guardian today, the former vice-president calls himself a "recovering politician", but launches into the political fray more explicitly than he has previously done during his high-profile campaigning on the threat of global warming.

Denying that his politics have shifted to the left since he lost the court battle for the 2000 election, Mr Gore says: "If you have a renegade band of rightwing extremists who get hold of power, the whole thing goes to the right."

But he claims he does not "expect to be a candidate" for president again, while refusing explicitly to rule out another run. Asked if any event could change his mind, he says: "Not that I can see."

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Guardian's interview with Al Gore.

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