Al Gore
I’ve said for the last year that I don’t believe that Al Gore will run for President in 2008. I still believed that after the marketing push he did for “An Inconvenient Truth”. I’m not so sure now. After reading this speech, he’s either laying the groundwork to run for President in 2008 or he’s seeking to become a non-political leader, a movement leader, of the type that this country hasn’t seen since Martin Luther King and has only seen a handful of times in its history. I can clearly see a political platform embedded in this speech. But I can even more easily see the case the case that the kind of change he’s going for can’t be lead from above, can’t be the platform of one leader or one party.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:42 am
As little as I believe in the sort of thing, I’ve always thought that it’s Gore’s destiny to be president. It’s a weird situation. I just have this feeling about him that what a loss to the country it’d be to not have him as our leader. Smart, driven, thoughtful, and a genuinely good guy. In a lot of ways, I see him as the next Bill Clinton. Without the obvious baggage. Although I think John Edwards is pretty fantastic, I think Gore is ready to lead this country out of all this bullshit, and I think probably 55-60 percent, maybe more, of the U.S. is ready to be led.
September 22nd, 2006 at 3:34 pm
I think Gore would be a good president. I was a Bradley guy in the 2000 primaries, but I was genuinely upset by Gore’s “defeat”. I was upset with him for a long time for not fighting for it and fighting as dirty as Bush did after the recounts started. I was and am more upset that Gore didn’t serve as president. I think that given the right circumstances, he could have been a better president than Clinton.