AL GORE: PANDERER-IN-CHIEF

I sincerely believe that Al Gore may be mentally unstable.

When he lost the 2000 election, I think he cracked. Wisely, he kept a low profile for a while after his defeat. Unfortunately, he chose to resurface.

In the past few years, Gore has gone off the deepest part of the deep end. I think a case could easily be made that he rivals mad Dr. Dean in the irresponsible rhetoric department.

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.

Gore said Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications.

"The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake," Gore said during the Jiddah Economic Forum. "The worst thing we can possibly do is to cut off the channels of friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States."

Gore told the largely Saudi audience, many of them educated at U.S. universities, that Arabs in the United States had been "indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable."

"Unfortunately there have been terrible abuses and it's wrong," Gore said. "I do want you to know that it does not represent the desires or wishes or feelings of the majority of the citizens of my country."

What is this about?

Is Gore ill? Seriously.

Could it be that he's in full control of all his faculties and is merely trying to pick up some cash for his 2008 campaign fund?

Will the Jiddah Economic Forum turn out to be another Buddhist Temple affair?

If it wasn't for money, why would Gore pander to the Saudi audience this way?

Now, we all know that Gore has a long, long history of making stuff up. There's no need to reiterate all of that.

However, in this instance, Gore fabricates the desires, wishes, and feelings of the American people. I find that particularly disturbing.

He can claim that he believes Arabs were "indiscriminately rounded up" and "held in conditions that were just unforgivable." Of course, he is ripping America when he lies that way, and it bugs me; but it's his choice. He's free to stir up anti-Americanism in Saudi Arabia.

What bothers me is that he stated that the majority of Americans believe his crap and that they're on board with his derogatory comments.

This panderer doesn't speak for me.

I doubt that he's speaking for most Americans when he asserts that our country committed "terrible abuses" and rounded up Arabs indiscriminately after 9/11.

Do most Americans really believe that the government pulled an FDR-style internment thing and that we owe the people of Saudi Arabia an apology?

I think it's more likely that a majority of Americans believe that Al Gore needs some professional help.

I don't think he is well.

Obviously, Gore is not conducting himself in a manner befitting a former Vice President of the United States.

Maybe I'm giving him too much credit, thinking that he's suffering from some psychological disorder.

Maybe Gore has truly become a very dishonorable man.

Either way, he's pathetic.