Assault on Reason

Completed Al Gore’s The Assault on Reason. An important book, certainly a strong indictment of Bush. At times however, the book borders on being a screed; just when you think Gore’s exhausted a subject, he comes back around at it again — and sometimes yet again. Frankly, a more heavily edited and sharply argued work would have been better.

Still, compelling in making the case that we live in perilous times and that Bush is the worst and most dangerous president ever. That alone should make it required reading for concerned citizens.

Should we amend all of the textbooks in America to explain to schoolchildren that what has been taught for more than two centuries about checks and balances is no longer valid? Should we teach them instead that the United States Congress and the courts are merely advisory groups that make suggestions to the president on what the law should be, but that the president is all-powerful and now has the final say on everything? Should we teach them that we are a government of men, not laws? Should we teach them that we used to be a democracy but now we only pretend to be?