Al Gore was covered today in the New York Daily News in a short item in
The Daily Dish.
Actually, it was Gore covered as he was interviewed for the upcoming Green issue of Vanity Fair.
And he wasted no breath by bashing Bush's combined show of ignorance, arrogance, and downright hubris.
This preview item makes it clear that Al Gore is connecting the dots when it comes to George Bush's inability to act responsibly when it comes to the security of the American people - whether it be regarding a terrorist threat or securing our homeland in the face of global warming or natural disaster.
It's not just that Bush is clueless - It's that he's dangerously so.
Warning that Bush and the Republican Congress have displayed "a blinding lack of awareness" about "the worst catastrophe in the history of human civilization" -- global warming -- Gore also blames the incumbent for ignoring the threat of 9/11.
Bush "was warned on Aug. 6, 2001, of an attack by Al Qaeda. 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US,' said the intelligence community in a message so important that it was the headline of the President's daily briefing that day, five weeks before the attacks," Gore seethes.
"Didn't he see that clear warning?" asks Gore. "Why were no questions asked, meetings called, evidence marshaled, clarifications sought?"
As for Bush's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, "Once again an urgent warning was ignored. The videotapes of one session make clear that the President heard the warnings but, again, asked not a single question."