Should Al Gore Run?
As you point out, he’s already been elected President once. And how many people who’ve been elected President didn’t make a single tiny mistake that anyone criticized in the office? He’s unique. Why spoil that? In a recent op-ed piece, NY Times columnist Bob Herbert quoted Gore: “What politics has become,” he said, with a laugh and a tinge of regret, “requires a level of tolerance for triviality and artifice and nonsense that I have found in short supply.” source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/opinion/13herbert.html?_r=1&oref=slogin That was his problem last time around, too. He may be an intelligent and thoughtful person, but he never was able to re-focus the campaign away from his hairstyle, his eye-rolling or his invention of the Internet, and back onto issues where he might have had something worth listening to. He’s found a way to deal with some serious issues in a serious wa
