Full of Gore
Well the big political news is Al Gore's endorsement of Howard Dean, showing there's no honor among taxers or thieves, to the extent there is a difference.
The stab in the back is of Machiavellian proportions; he didn't even give Sen. Lieberman the fig leaf of a phone call despite Lieberman's patient wait for Gore to decide whether he was going to run in '04 before deciding to run himself. Also Rep. Gephardt went out on a limb and endorsed Gore in '99, long before fellow Dems did. But what have you done for me lately buddy? In some way I like Clinton better than Gore. Bill Clinton is all appetite but lacks discipline; Gore is all appetite but has discipline, and so has less excuse.
Gore, unlike Sen. Breaux, changed his position on abortion after it became politically expedient to do so. Did he join the anti-life forces out of conviction or political necessity? Only his conscience and God know. But it could be that disloyalty to unborn babies has bled into disloyalty toward his fellow Democrats.
The temptation to want to use people for your own ends is perhaps nowhere as evident as it is in politics.
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