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The Trouble With Al.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
Politics: We were going to hold our tongue on who, if anyone, in Washington shares blame for the corporate scandals eroding Americans' faith in financial markets.
But Al Gore's comments on Friday caused us to let go.
We've noted often that the country is still working through the effects of a speculative bubble. We've called for the government to jail and try those executives who phonied up the books to save their companies and their own wallets.
Now Gore has stepped into the "who's responsible for what" debate with a broadside against the Bush team, claiming it somehow had a hand in corporate America's black eye.
"You see now what it means to have an administration that's that committed to fighting and working on behalf of the powerful, and letting the people of this country get the short end of the stick," Gore told more than 200 supporters at a Manhattan fund-raiser.
"What we see now is a lack of confidence in our national economic policy, in the integrity of our accounting system, in the way government is being run," Gore said.
Private companies, he said, "are not telling the truth about their future ...
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