American Democracy in Trouble
"It is no longer possible to ignore the strangeness of our public discourse."
Keynote Speech by Al Gore
We Media Conference in New York, NY
October 5, 2005
Read the speech <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1006-28.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.
<p><b><i>Money quote:</i></b> "And here is my point: it is the destruction of that marketplace of ideas that accounts for the "strangeness" that now continually haunts our efforts to reason together about the choices we must make as a nation."</p>