Out There

Whiskey at Captain's Quarters refers us to a John Podhoretz piece on Algore's speech, courtesy of MoveOn.org, yesterday.

Whiskey pulls this Podhoretz quote:

"I mean that based on his behavior, conduct, mien and tone over the past two days, there is every reason to believe that Albert Gore Jr., desperately needs help. I think he needs medication, and I think that if he is already on medication, his doctors need to adjust it or change it entirely."

Sounds catty? It is.

And appropriate. Have you heard Gore speak lately? Not just yesterday, but any of his pseudo-political speeches lately? Whiskey says:

From the ill-conceived Faustian reference to the "American Gulag" analogy, Gore's speech was a barely-coherent mass of bitterness.

There was a time when Algore was a capable speaker - dull as wonderbread with margarine, but capable. Someone must have told him he needed peaks and valleys - because oy, such peaks and valleys he throws in these days. From somnolent interludes where you have to strain to hear his lispy muttering, to peaks of spittle-flecked, almost shouted fervor, a Gore speech is an emotional rollercoaster worthy of a sodden backwoods Rotarian who's equally hooked on conspiracy theory and Jim Beam.

Posted by Mitch at May 27, 2004 07:40 AM