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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (76396)	5/22/2006 12:01:17 PM
From: tonto	Respond to of 81568

May 18, 2006 Gore in 2008? Believe it I really think Al Gore will run for president and have thought so for several weeks. Dick Morris today offers a sharp analysis on why Gore might think his moment has arrived: The former vice president's slashing attacks on the administration and his stalwart, if misguided, opposition to the Iraq war leave him without the complications and complexes that will devil Clinton as she seeks to appeal to the unforgiving left of the Democratic Party. And Gore may be a man whose time has come in his party. It was he who warned of climate change and predicted its consequences. Hurricane Katrina was just a fulfillment of the prophesies Gore wrote about in his late-1980s book Earth in the Balance. He has been an energy-conservation nut for years, and his obsessions with alternatives to oil will play better and better as we come to realize how our addiction to oil has led us to dependency on the dealers of this particular drug -- Iran, the Saudi royal family and Hugo Chavez. The Democratic base's anger at Gore's defeat in 2000 was assuaged by the worse Kerry defeat of 2004. The idea that he was an incompetent candidate has been replaced in Democratic iconography by the idea that he was cheated out of the presidency. Will Gore be able to beat Hillary? I don't know. She's got a ton of money and less baggage than Gore (or so I believe, unlike many others). But Gore will have the Kossacks and will be much more acceptable to mainstream Dems and the media than Howard Dean ever was. Still, there's that personality problem. I watched him on "Saturday Night Live" the other day and was put off all over again. There's something about his TV persona that insistently says "I'm the smartest guy in the room, and you'd better believe it." It's extremely annoying. Cheap shot department: According to the Washington Post .... Gore earned "one D, one C-minus, two C's, two C-pluses, and one B-minus," during his sophomore year at Harvard. Posted by Chris Reed at May 18, 2006 12:01 PM \| Send a comment