Gore: Cheney ’shouldn’t be talking’
by David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Link to ArticleFormer Vice President Al Gore appears to believe that Dick Cheney is out of line in his non-stop criticisms of the Obama administration for allegedly putting Americans at risk of another terrorist attack. However, he also insists that he doesn’t “want to get dragged into an argument” over the question.“You talk about somebody that shouldn’t be talking about making the country less safe!” Gore told CNN’s John Roberts on Friday. “Invading a country that did not attack us and posed no serious threat to us at all!” Gore compared Cheney’s behavior unfavorably with his own actions at at the start of the Bush presidency, saying, “I waited two years after I left office to make statements that were critical.” He later added, however, “That’s a judgment call, and he’s made his judgment.” Gore insisted that he isn’t personally looking for a fight, because “I’m going to focus on trying to build bipartisan alliances around this country for American leadership to solve the climate crisis. And I don’t want to get dragged into an argument with Dick Cheney about what he’s getting into.”“He can speak for himself,” Gore said of Cheney, “and I have a feeling that members of his own party wish that he would not do that. But I’ll let that be an argument between him and them. … He has become in many ways the leading spokesman for his party during this period of time — and the message is one that he’s deciding to deliver.” One conservative blogger quickly announced, however, that he had caught Gore out in an exaggeration. According to Matthew Balan of the Media Research Center, Gore delivered a major speech opposing the Iraq War on September 23, 2002 — almost four months short of the two-year moratorium he claims to have observed — following an extended period during which he went out of his way to avoid criticizing the Bush administration. These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. If you have accounts on these bookmarking sites, you can post this story to share it with others.
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