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To: geode00 who wrote (55078)	1/18/2006 3:20:28 PM
From: illyia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362360

Hello Geode!

To: geode00 who wrote (55078)	1/18/2006 6:24:05 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 362360

Damn the Conventional Wisdom, Al Gore for President warrenreports.tpmcafe.com By justbrowzing From: 2006 Elections Table Al Gore's Martin Luther King Day speech was for me a revelation. Eloquent, impassioned, forthright, principled, at times deeply moving, it has inspired me as few pieces of political discourse ever have. Frankly, I could almost not believe this was the same man that ran the carefully calibrated, consultant-ridden 2000 presidential campaign, with its myriad wooden, calculated formulations and numbing wonkitude that so bored America that it became a national joke. It was both keenly bittersweet--but for the 2000 Florida fiasco, this man today would sit in the Oval Office and America would be be a far different, far better country--and also heartening, for finally a Democrat has appeared on the national stage to challenge the myriad abuses of the present administration with the arguments, masterfully marshaled, that progressives now know by rote, and have been yearning to hear lo these many years. Al Gore has become a true leader. ____________________________________________________ Jan 18, 2006 -- 09:38:10 AM EST Watching him, I realized that his defeat did not break him, though surely it must have seared his soul. I don't want to play armchair psychologist, but it is obvious that he has been profoundly transformed by the trial of his years in the wilderness and has reached a rare maturity in years and experience--a gravitas that allows him to rise above the petty concerns of vote-grubbing and interest-pandering that no other Democrat, no other American politican, can begin to equal. Frankly, to my mind he is no longer a politician but a statesman. He has a unique place in American politics that I am sure no one would wish to trade with him, but the events that have brought him there obviously have--I must repeat, as there seems no other way to say it--transformed him. He has gone through political Hell and survived, and more remarkable still, has gained immeasurably from it. No other possible candidate from either party is his equal. They are all beholden to just the sorts of interest groups and political calculations, the obvious insincerity, that alienates and repulses voters and in the end leads to voter disaffection and alienation. Even the so-called invincible McCain looks like a tawdry panderer in comparison. Put bluntly, Al Gore has nothing left to lose. He already did. He can't be swift-boated; it would look grotesque. He has been freed to speak his mind, his principles, and that gives him an amazing power. He makes all the others, of both parties, look like the petty pols they are. He is the best hope we have of taking back America. ______________________________________________________ ---Policies not Politics Daily Quiet Image the money question (4.00 / 1) (#3) by justbrowzing on Jan 18, 2006 -- 12:37:41 PM EST I think at this point whoever gets the nomination will have the largest campaign war chest the Dems have ever raised, so the candidate might as well be one that lays it on the line, too. Money is by far the least important factor in the next election--it will be raining checks right and left come '08--but rather the critical element will be: Who is the candidate who will be able to articulate the stakes and connect with and mobilize the voters? The money stinks, we all know it. I think people are way beyond that kind of dismissive cynicism and are searching for more. Bush has politicized the country into a frenzy I haven't seen since Nixon in my childhood. The stakes are so high, people are yearning for someone of integrity, someone to stop the freefall. I'd say Gore's got what's needed in spades. And he's already won once, btw. Suddenly for me it's Al Gore of all people. I'm somewhat surprised myself.