Al Gore Gives It To Us Straight

Boy-O! Al Gore just gave the speech of his life, live on C-SPAN (did anyone else carry it?). I'm looking for the transcript and will post highlights as soon as it's available, but in the meantime, Gore said that "the Bush-Cheney administration is a rarity in American politics, in that it is simultaneously dishonest and incompetent." The whole speech, which ran an hour, was the calmest, most comprehensive recitation I've heard so far of the multiplicity of examples of both Bush's dishonesty and Bush's incompetence. Perhaps the most significant interpretation of recent events Gore offered us: a stout denial that the Bush record has anything at all to do with religious conviction. Religious faith is a smoke-screen, Gore alleged, for Bush's adherence to a right-wing ideology and a corporate power-base that holds "the public good" in contempt. Stand by for excerpts.