Steven Clemons: Applause for the Inconvenient Gore

June 04, 2006
Steven Clemons: Applause for the Inconvenient Gore

Al Gore in 2000 was inconvenient, but it turns out he would have been the right man at the right time in November 2000. I seriously underestimated him at that time; or perhaps he is a dramatically new and different Al Gore today -- finally punching above his weight.

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See this film. And ask yourself if our current President could speak authoritatively about virtually anything other than clearing brush from his Crawford ranch. Perhaps I'm being unfair. But that's what this film does. It makes one wonder how our world today would have looked if President Gore had won in the Supreme Court rather than George W. Bush.

America needs to get beyond the slick and easy. Gore is clunky, wonky, weirdly innocent in some ways given his background and acumen.

Gore may be the inconvenient truth Americans need to consider for larger things -- as well as doing all that is possible to check and abate those factors driving rapid global climate change.

more at:
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001417.php

It says a thousand words.