Gore Derangement Syndrome: Bravo Krugman

[malaise]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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On the day after Al Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize, The Wall Street Journal’s editors couldn’t even bring themselves to mention Mr. Gore’s name. Instead, they devoted their editorial to a long list of people they thought deserved the prize more.

What is it about Mr. Gore that drives right-wingers insane?

Partly it’s a reaction to what happened in 2000, when the American people chose Mr. Gore but his opponent somehow ended up in the White House. Both the personality cult the right tried to build around President Bush and the often hysterical denigration of Mr. Gore were, I believe, largely motivated by the desire to expunge the stain of illegitimacy from the Bush administration.

And now that Mr. Bush has proved himself utterly the wrong man for the job — to be, in fact, the best president Al Qaeda’s recruiters could have hoped for — the symptoms of Gore derangement syndrome have grown even more extreme.

The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of view, is that he keeps being right.

Which brings us to the biggest reason the right hates Mr. Gore: in his case the smear campaign has failed. He’s taken everything they could throw at him, and emerged more respected, and more credible, than ever. And it drives them crazy.
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[H2O Man]

1. It's a good thing.

A friend stopped over yesterday, and we were discussing how the democrats benefit from the ugly, mean-spirited, and petty responses of the republicans to Al Gore. And while he is unlikely to ever run for office again, the democratic party benefits from Gore's leadership.

[malaise]

3. You're correct

the more they vilify Gore, the more they expose themselves.

[sam sarrha]

7. did you tell them there is no benefit from evil... EVER!!!!!!!!

[malaise]

8. Not in the long term n/t

[Tesha]

2. Duplicate.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2048871

[malaise]

4. Ouch! n/t

[GrpCaptMandrake]

5. Kudos to Krugman

Of course, I just don't think, at this juncture, America deserves Mr. Gore, and I say that out of an abundance of respect for him. If he'd run, I'd get behind him whole-heartedly, and me a Kucinich purist. But America doesn't deserve him. We deserve what we're going to get, instead.

We deserve to go rolling along, same-ol'-same-ol', go-along-get-along on the road we're on; a road paved by dirty campaign money, dummied-up voting machines and one-corporation-one-vote influence.

Al is immune to it. He's been purified by the fire. I speculate that he recognizes that, given the reputation he's built for himself, the Presidency would do him more harm than good. The dice are loaded, the deck is stacked, there's a brake on the roulette wheel, all the slots come up lemons and Al Gore ain't playin'.

We are Empire now, and I don't think Mr. Gore has any interest in the imperial purple.

Who is John Galt? Al Gore is John Galt.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. go krugman!!!

:thumbsup:

[malaise]

9. Al Gore deserves Nobel prize - and much more

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_7181942?nclick_check=1
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Al Gore has done more than anyone in the past five years to try to restore America's standing in the eyes of the world. He is deserving of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize he will share with an international network of scientists for spreading awareness of the global climate crisis.

The award should be viewed as all the more remarkable because of the depths to which the former vice president fell after his failed bid for the presidency in 2000. History may yet record that his loss to President Bush was the world's gain.

Gore has been fighting criticism on this issue ever since he came out with his book, "Earth in the Balance," in the late 1980s. The immediate flap following the Nobel committee's announcement should not be a surprise. They include those still in denial about climate change, those who view the choice as a misguided political statement and those who ask what Gore's work has to do with promoting world peace.

Last March, we urged the former vice president to enter the 2008 presidential race, arguing that on the "issues that most Americans and most in the valley care about - the war, the fragile state of the Earth, the transforming power of technology - Gore has been out front, resolute and right."

Seven months later we see no reason to alter that view.