politicians are boring, where's the remote?
Although he's not as charismatic or popular in his locution as Dr Martin Luther King, "Weird Al" Gore had some direct things to say in criticism of the current admininstrations relentless expansion of executive branch powers. (In his introduction, almost as an aside, he basically implies that the FBI had MLK assassinated.)
Complete but less-than-riveting text of his MLK day speech, is here
This kind of speech will be ignored in mainstream journalism, for sure. I'm not a default Al Gore lover, but what impresses me with this speech is the way he itemizes in a historical context how American presidents since good ol' honest Abe Licoln have arrogated powers that were intentially proscribed from the executive branch by the Founding Fathers. He also makes it clear that the current executive is framing his usurpation of unilateral powers in a "this is how it's gonna be from now on" manner. Plus he gets in a couple digs at VP Cheney...
In other news; I got all choked up listening to MLK and his daughter on NPR yesterday. How completely pedestrian of me...
I need to get me some satellite radio so I can just listen to Howard Stern from now on.
Complete but less-than-riveting text of his MLK day speech, is here
This kind of speech will be ignored in mainstream journalism, for sure. I'm not a default Al Gore lover, but what impresses me with this speech is the way he itemizes in a historical context how American presidents since good ol' honest Abe Licoln have arrogated powers that were intentially proscribed from the executive branch by the Founding Fathers. He also makes it clear that the current executive is framing his usurpation of unilateral powers in a "this is how it's gonna be from now on" manner. Plus he gets in a couple digs at VP Cheney...
In other news; I got all choked up listening to MLK and his daughter on NPR yesterday. How completely pedestrian of me...
I need to get me some satellite radio so I can just listen to Howard Stern from now on.