John,
Re: "Oh Albert, Where Art Thou? (continued)"
"Remnick's >latest riff, in this week's New Yorker, is about Gore, who might
have been president if several Florida ballots had been printed differently,
or he hadn't backed gun control (goodbye Tennessee and West Virginia), or
Bill Clinton hadn't fooled around with an intern, or he hadn't screwed up
the debates. Gore is now back in Tennessee (a state that rejected him), where
he seems to be making a new career out of grievance, feeding off of contacts
with people who assure him he won and was cheated, and venting his rage against
Bush. But behind the story of a man who may have lost by a fluke is the
story of a man who spent his whole life in the wrong occupation, and lost
in large measure because he never fit into the one he was in. What comes through
in this piece is what has come through in others--such as Nicholas Lemann's
four years ago in the New Yorker, and Liza Mundy's two years ago in the
Washington Post: Gore possesses a high degree of the kind of intelligence that
is no use whatever in politics, and none of the talents that are, either. He
seems born for the world of think tanks and schoolrooms, of dissertations and
seminars, of endless digressions about this and that."
Thank God that Albert wasn't President during 9/11 !!
Make It So,
Yousef |
