An Open Convention for Gore...

[Blue Belle]

An Open Convention for Gore
By Bill Curry
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-curry/an-open-convention-for-go_b_68997.html


<SNIP> The arc of the moral universe indeed bends toward justice. Seven years later, the true winner of 2000 is taking a victory lap such as the appointed winner will never know. The Nobel Prize Gore won for his crusade against global warming has whipped into a frenzy fans already bent on drawing him into the 2008 presidential race.

God knows there's reason to pick him. He's funny in public now and he's as close to visionary as politics gets. He championed the internet before other politicians knew the word. He studied terrorism and loose Soviet nukes a decade before 9/11. His 2002 speech opposing the Iraq war was more than prescient, it was brave.

Gore was taking punches on the environment long before the elder Bush taunted him as 'Ozone Man'. Even as he savors the world's applause, his thick skin comes in handy back home, where the debate on global warming heats up more slowly than the planet, there being so few politicians in the business of telling inconvenient truths.

<SNIP> Democrats are better but not by enough. House Democrats passed a bill raising fuel standards to 35 miles a gallon by 2020--13 years to get to where Europe is now. In the presidential race, only Dodd has a believable energy blueprint. As always, the front runners have the least to say.

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[cali]

1. OMG

I know this guy, or rather I did, ages ago in CT. He's a smart guy but the open convention thing is utter fantasy.

[Blue Belle]

2. Sometimes fantasies become realities...

ask any smart guy.

[Swamp Rat]

3. The answer is "yes."

He is "The One." :D

[daninthemoon]

4. I think the important notion is that Gore is "taking victory laps".

Why would he want to tarnish this victorious vindicated time in his life by lowering himself into American politics? He walks a higher path. Maybe in 4 or 8 years, but not now. I feel like it would debase him. Look at the bullshit the rw assholes have taunted him with the last few days since he won. I don't want to hear the crap they would throw at him if he got back in "the game". Al, you go be the best Al you can be, because it's a hell of a lot better than most.:woohoo: :applause: :patriot: :toast:

[Blue Belle]

5. ..

kicking for morning/mourning crowd... :)