If Al Gore Speaks Out in the Forest and No One Is There to Hear Him…
Buzzflash decries the fact that the former VP's gutsy critique went largely ignored by the traditional media. | editorialBuzzflash: True transformations in politics are as rare as palm trees in the Arctic Circle.
But Al Gore is that palm tree.
On Martin Luther King Day, Al Gore took us to the mountaintop and allowed us to view the desecrated landscape of Constitutional rubble that the Bush Administration has spread across America. Gore has, for the last three years, been a prophet of saving our democracy and restoring out Constitution. | editorial
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