Of course, Gore is not without competition among the party's elders. Dr. Howard Dean's rage is ceaseless. Just the other day he apprised CNN that "This is probably the most corrupt administration we've had since maybe ever and certainly since Harding, I would guess." Former President Jimmy Carter is angrier still. He could not even stifle his anger during the funeral of Coretta Scott King -- and with President Bush accompanied by his father sitting nearby.
There Carter suggested that it was racial prejudice that accounted for the slow governmental response to Hurricane Katrina. Alluding to the present controversy over the Bush administration's NSA wiretapping of suspected terrorists, he lamented the long-ago federal surveillance of the Kings. Predictably, he was careful not to mention that that surveillance was perpetrated by Democrats. In recalling his dedication of a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. back in 1974, Carter was also careful not to mention that early in his political career he had courted the Georgia Ku Klux Klan. Instead he recalled that outside the building during those dedication rites there were "chanting members of the Ku Klux Klan, who had too much support from other Americans." Well maybe, but the hooded morons' support had declined sufficiently for you, Carter, to look elsewhere for votes.
Yes, with all this moral indignation pouring forth from the Democratic elders, how long will it be before their listeners take to the streets? Already the internet resounds with the young furiosos' enraged responses. Can it be long before they march? And when they do they will be more dangerous than any Arab street demonstration, for America's Angry Left includes its womenfolk. Boy, are they angry. Possibly when the mullahs and potentates of Araby see the incomparable wrathfulness of America's left-wing women, they will revise their thinking on male-only street demonstrations. Tantrums thrown by women can be very persuasive.