It's scarcely "man bites dog" when Albert Gore, without blushing, proclaims falsehood as truth. But the former Vice-President's speech on Iraq, delivered Monday in San Francisco, was also decidedly peculiar.



Gore's speech was one no decent politician could have delivered. It was dishonest, cheap, low. It was hollow. It was bereft of policy, of solutions, of constructive ideas, very nearly of facts -- bereft of anything other than taunts and jibes and embarrassingly obvious lies. It was breathtakingly hypocritical, a naked political assault delivered in tones of moral condescension from a man pretending to be superior to mere politics. It was wretched. It was vile. It was contemptible. But I understate.



Thanks to Kevin Holtsberry for the excerpt from, and link to, Michael Kelly's column.