It's deja vu all over again:
Al Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current US administration as "a renegade band of rightwing extremists".
In an interview with the Guardian today, the former vice-president calls himself a "recovering politician", but launches into the political fray more explicitly than he has previously done during his high-profile campaigning on the threat of global warming.
Denying that his politics have shifted to the left since he lost the court battle for the 2000 election [actually Guardian Unlimited, he lost the damned election. *Ed] , Mr Gore says: "If you have a renegade band of rightwing extremists who get hold of power, the whole thing goes to the right."
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Mr Gore, who appeared at the Guardian Hay literary festival over the bank holiday weekend, is promoting An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary and book detailing the climate change crisis that he warns "could literally end civilisation".
This should, of course, endear him even more to people like Mike who see the man as an evangelist for truth.
Damned sad if you ask me. Damned sad.
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