Goring, Goring, gone!

We begin today with Michael Kelly taking apart Al Gore for his speech before the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco:

This speech, an attack on the Bush policy on Iraq, was Gore's big effort to distinguish himself from the Democratic pack in advance of another possible presidential run. It served: It distinguished Gore, now and forever, as someone who cannot be considered a responsible aspirant to power. Politics are allowed in politics, but there are limits, and there is a pale, and Gore has now shown himself to be ignorant of those limits, and he has now placed himself beyond that pale.

Then there's yesterday's Best of the Web, wherein James Taranto wonders if an android has replaced AlGore, given the change in his stance about Saddam and Iraq:

So who's this impostor, claiming to be Gore, who delivered a speech yesterday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, in which he delivered what the Associated Press calls "a sweeping indictment of President Bush's threatened attack on Iraq, calling it a distraction from the war on terrorism that has 'squandered' international support for the United States."

It appears Saddam Hussein has unleashed a new weapon of mass distraction on America, a Gore-like android so realistic it is every bit as lifeless as the real thing.

Taranto links to previous speeches by Gore that talks directly of the US taking action to topple Saddam, and contrasts that with the Commonwealth speech where in says that would be a Very Bad Thing.

All together now: Thank god Gore lost the election.