With apologies for the short diary, The
American Constitution Society has made video of Vice-President Gore's speech available at
this link. I know I'm not the first person to say this, but if Al Gore had spoke this powerfully in 2000, Governor George W. Bush would be nothing more than an also-ran listed in the back appendixes of high school text books. Dick Cheney would be CEO of a bankrupt company, and lawyers would be pondering the implications of the new liberal majority on the Sotomayor Court.