Al Gore is Running (calm down folks, it's an editorial)

[NYCGirl]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-robinson/al-gore-is-running_b_50405.html

Are we to believe that this man, with his Oscar nominated documentary, his Time magazine cover, his # 1 Bestselling book, his tv network, and, oh yeah, a 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nomination, would rather not rule the most powerful nation on earth?

This is beginning to remind me of movie stars who insist they'd really prefer to be incognito. Never mind that their whole lives have been spent in rabid pursuit of fame. Fame at all costs. They just wish they could be ordinary.

So why can't we just let Mr. Gore be ordinary? Is it because he is so extraordinary? I happen to think so. But that's just me... And, apparently, the citizens of Pennsylvania, who have put him ahead of all candidates, Democrat and Republican, in yesterday's polling. Still, he says he "has no plans to run." Right, and Judi Dench thinks it's an honor just to be nominated.

Asking Gore the Big Question over the weekend, our own Arianna was savvy enough to put his response in parenthesis, "(sorry, there was no new answer!)," an acknowledgement that the answer has never been a clear yes or no, but a tightrope act with which we are all too familiar. And yet, it is tantalizing. Who knew Al Gore was such a great tease? The worse the world gets, the more we want to know his political ambitions... and the less he will tell us.

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[zabet]

1. 8 years later

I would love to see Al take the office that was rightfully his.
:patriot: