Excerpt from Gore's new book: The Assault on Reason

  The excerpt appeared in the latest edition of Time Magazine:

It is too easy—and too partisan—to simply place the blame on thepolicies of President George W. Bush. We are all responsible for thedecisions our country makes. We have a Congress. We have an independentjudiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. Wehave free speech. We have a free press. Have they all failed us? Whyhas America's public discourse become less focused and clear, less reasoned?Faith in the power of reason—the belief that free citizens can governthemselves wisely and fairly by resorting to logical debate on thebasis of the best evidence available, instead of raw power—remains thecentral premise of American democracy. This premise is now underassault.

The former Vice President's book is on schedule for its May 12th release.

When asked by Time what it would take for him to run for president, Gore dodged the question but admitted he has not ruled it out:

"I can't say because I'm not looking for it. But I guess I would knowit if I saw it. I haven't ruled it out. But I don't think it's likelyto happen."

Well Al, it's never too late.

Comments

[cbaker]

The power of TV to champion the irrational at the expense of the reasonable really got going in the 1990s with the rise of Rush Limbaugh, the right wing think tanks and their alternative media. Those forces worked together to hijack the American political mind and make reality into malleable, mutable, post-modernism for everyone. The 1990s, before Bush took over, were The Fantasy Years
cbaker