Mr. Gore was addressing his ideological soul mates here at a convention of the Democratic Leadership Council, the centrist organization that he helped found 15 years ago.
After addressing the ideological dimension of the threat, the president also defended the socioeconomic camp with the following words.
"I decided I could no longer continue to fool myself," claimed former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in his recently-released memoirs, addressing an ideological shift accounting for the disparity between his public support for a united Jerusalem and eventual willingness to concede dividing the city during closed-door negotiations.
Mr. Obama's address nodded to ideological inclusiveness but did not repeat his view from four years ago that it was time to end the "recriminations and worn-out dogmas" that characterized Washington battles.
"[Paid leave] is a political and policy imperative that leaders have to address whatever their ideological bent".
Last year, as an incumbent for re-election, Obama addressed the growing ideological chasm between Democrats and Republicans, and addressed a laundry list of initiatives his administration was prepared to tackle, from comprehensive immigration reforms to supporting a clean energy industry.
Colin Clarke, an expert on counterterrorism and insurgency at RAND, said the overuse of the AUMF is a byproduct of the expanding war on terror, which after 16 years still hasn't addressed the underlying, ideological causes of terrorism.
As antitrafficking rhetoric gained momentum, efforts to address human trafficking crossed ideological and political lines.
The pope made a similar comparison when speaking to Congress, while addressing more particular American ideological concerns about interfering with capitalism.
Nor is the purpose of this year's photography portfolio to advance an agenda, score an ideological point or address a historic imbalance.
