Gore endorsed Obama

Democratic candidate headed to Iraq

Former US Vice President Al Gore spoke in support of the Democratic candidate for US President Barack Obama. In 2000, he lost the fight for the White House to George W. Bush by a meager number of votes, and in 2007 he became a Nobel laureate as a fighter for a clean environment. The help of the 60-year-old political heavyweight, who remained neutral until Obama finally defeated Hillary Clinton by early June, will attract many of the former first lady's supporters to the black senator. After all, Gore was her husband Bill's vice president.

"I will do anything to get Barack Obama elected," Gore said, standing next to him at a rally in Detroit on Monday. “After eight years of incompetence, negligence and failure, we need change more than ever.” Admitting that Obama had “ignited” him, Gore criticized the 46-year-old politician’s opponents: “This is not the first time that voices have been heard that the United States cannot risk the fate of the free world by allowing inexperience and boyishness into the White House. They repeat the arguments of 1960, when Republicans attacked John F. Kennedy, needlessly blaming him for his youth and lack of experience necessary for a president.”

The current US President George W. Bush, Al Gore, recalled everything from the invasion of Iraq in 2003 to economic failures and the import of toxic pet food: “Even our dogs and cats know what the elections in November mean.” Paying tribute to the service to the country of 71-year-old Republican candidate John McCain, Gore noted that age and experience are no guarantee of answers to challenges.

The bipartisan rivals squared off on the economic front, where Obama is seen as a strong player. To the unemployment-stricken residents of the auto-building capital of the world, he promised “the creation of the cars of the future here in Detroit, here in Michigan, here in the USA.” In response, McCain called for lifting the moratorium on oil and gas production on the American shelf and granting the same right to individual states. He explained the need to lift the ban, previously introduced by Democratic congressmen for environmental reasons, by the unprecedented rise in gasoline prices.

McCain continues to consider Obama a weak candidate for commander in chief. He accuses him of not only not having been in Iraq for 900 days, but also of wanting to disrupt the offensive against the militants - after all, the Democratic candidate promised American voters to withdraw troops from Iraq within 16 months of coming to the White House. After this, Obama called Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and promised to visit Baghdad and Kabul by November. “I explained that I was very pleased with the decline in violence in Iraq and noted the importance of continuing the withdrawal of our troops. I made it clear that we are not interested in being permanently based in Iraq, and assured that if I am elected, the presidential administration will not act hastily,” was how Obama outlined the content of the conversation with the Iraqi.

Alexander SAMOKHOTKIN