When he is not appearing on Jay Leno in cowboy boots, Al Gore
finds time to decry the "strangeness of our public
discourse." Liberals normally regard the Founding Fathers as
insufficiently enlightened. But Gore today found it useful to
praise the Founding Fathers as "probably" Â the "most
literate generation in all of history." He said they "used words
with astonishing precision and believed in the Rule of Reason.
Their faith in the viability of Representative Democracy rested on
their trust in the wisdom of a well-informed citizenry."
It also rested on not letting the illiterate and manifestly
irrational vote -- a safeguard of republics Gore will no doubt
address in his next high-minded talk.
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Founding Fathers
