The man who Invented the Internet says Dick Cheney is out of line in criticizing the Obamanation.

In a CNN interview this morning, former Vice President Gore got involved in the political feud over his successor Dick Cheney.

Gore said he wished Cheney would have given President Obama more time in office before criticizing national security policy. A stern critic of Bush policy over the years, Gore told CNN’s John Roberts that “I waited for two years after I left office to make statements that were critical, and then of policy.”

So is all Gore a little full of shit or totally full of shit? There is no third choice.

Join me and my boy Sherman as we navigate the Wayback Machine to April 14, 2002; a little over 14 months after Big Al left office. The New York Times tells us what’s what.

In a Forceful Speech, Gore Criticizes Administration

Declaring that ”here in America, patriotism does not mean keeping quiet,” former Vice President Al Gore re-emerged today at the scene of the 2000 electoral crisis, forcefully — and noisily — taking on President Bush on tax cuts, the environment and other issues.

”I’m tired of this right-wing sidewind,” Mr. Gore said to the 2,500 partisans here for the Florida Democratic Convention. ”I’ve had it. America’s economy is suffering unnecessarily. Important American values are being trampled. Special interests are calling the shots.”

On the environment, the economy and values, he said, ”this administration is following the same pattern: selling out America’s future in return for short-term political gains.”

Oh well, 14 months is only ten months short of two years. At least he didn’t start until then, right?

Not quite.

While Mr. Gore has spoken numerous times in the 16 months since the acrimonious 36-day standoff over the counting of votes in Florida — and offered sharp criticism of Mr. Bush at a meeting of Democrats in Tennessee, his home state, in February — his address here carried particular weight because this was the first political event he has attended with other Democrats who have designs on the White House.

As we all know, later Gore’s attacks on Bush became vein popping, fire breathing vitriolic rants. Cheney, by comparison, is a perfect gentleman. In any case, I am guessing if 100 days into their first term, Bush and Cheney were ripping on Clinton and Gore the way Team Obama is now attacking the Bush Administration, firebrand Gore wouldn’t have been quiet as long as he was. Had they, like Obama, threatened to prosecute and punish their predecessors, you can bet Al would have been on an apoplectic raving lunatic tour starting on January 21, 2002.

The bottom line, Al Gore is a hypocrite and a liar. But you already knew that, didn’t you?

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