Reply #20: It's A Terrible Thing To Ask [View All]

It's starting to sound like one of those star-crossed love affairs that was "never meant to be."

Who are we to demand he change gears, just because we think we need him so desperately right now?

Never mind that-as at least one other poster has pointed out-you could pick no better vantage than the U.S. presidency for the promotion of worldwide environmental initiatives.

On the other hand, my concern for the perhaps unequal (in comparison to the fate of the planet) but damnably serious crisis we're facing as a nation is not something I care to "store up" for him to "have a go" at a later time, at his leisure.

So if there's the slightest chance that Al is being either coy or trifling about this (I really don't think so), or that he is still not quite recovered from the debacle of 2000 and what a Republican contender is capable of pulling off (a crisis of courage), he needs to know that for some of his supporters, there will not be another chance offered to him if he fails us now.