It's gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage

[penfield]

I post this speech by Al Gore not because I am trying to ride Josh Rovner's coattails (although it is a safe and comfortable ride) or steal his thunder (because, let's face it, I already have more thunder than he), but in the hopes that I can get even more people to read it. People like my mother, who, unlike me, has absolutely no compunction about forwarding every moderately interesting thing that passes her desk to her entire e-mail address book and on to the adjacent Mothers' Network.

I'm not sure exactly how much of this speech to believe, since Gore is hardly an objective observer of our President's policies, but I think it's a good rallying cry in the effort to get people to think more critically about their government.

And, if the amount of apparent applause is any indication, it's at least emotionally moving.

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My thunder

[(Anonymous)]

Because I am so lacking in thunder, it is MORE vile for you to steal my thunder than it would be if I lived a thunder-laden life. I gladly share what little thunder I have for this purpose.

-- Josh