BLUE ON BLUE: Black Activists Criticize Gore for Comparing Climate Change Advocacy to Fight Against Slavery.

FLASHBACK: Deroy Murdoch advises, “Dems Need to Houseclean.”

The Saturday before the 2000 election, then-Vice President Al Gore addressed a Pittsburgh church audience. “When my opponent, Governor Bush, says he’ll appoint strict constructionists to the Supreme Court,” Gore said, “I often think of the strictly constructed meaning that was applied when the Constitution was written, how some people [slaves] were considered three-fifths of a human being.”

Perhaps Gore believed the Three-Fifths Compromise was hidden in the 2000 Republican Platform.

I’ve never been able to tell whether Gore is mendacious or merely misinformed.