25 March 2006
More Gore
¶ 10:28 AM 
For those looking for more info on Al Gore and 2008, read this excellent article from The American Prospect (links are mine):
Gore's policy involvement has stretched beyond his crusade against global warming; his speeches shredding the rationale for the invasion of Iraq were true ripsnorters, and his recent address on the National Security Agency's domestic spying program, symbolically delivered on the birthday of the oft-surveilled Martin Luther King Jr., evinced a clarity, fearlessness, and wider vision all too absent from the nightly news. Other addresses have reached similar rhetorical heights, confronting a score of weighty issues with a thoughtful, even soaring, eloquence that has restored Gore's reputation by glittering in contrast to the leaden rhetoric of contemporary Democratic leaders.
All great speeches, and the mind struggles to comprehend how we had the chance to put such an eloquent, forward-thinking human into the White House and we instead chose one of the most arrogant, backward politicians in the country.
During the 2000 campaign, many said Bush, because he had absolutely zero foreign policy experience and had never travelled out of the country, would have a rough time with that pesky "international" element of the job. Ironically, his supporters pointed to the supposedly similar situation Bill Clinton had found himself in during his first campaign, in '92. But you know why Clinton did alright internationally? Two words: Al Gore. Al Gore, in addition to directing Clinton's making-government-more-efficient agenda, pretty much handled our Russia policy, and also led the charge on free trade from within the Clinton White House.
And now, freed from the consultants and living life as he wants to, he's just made an important documentary on global warming (I'll be first in line once it hits the theaters).
