An Inconvenient Truth: Gore Has Jumped the Shark
Oh, but Joe Klein doesn't think so:
Pish-tosh, you say, and you're probably right. But let's play a little. Let's say the elders of the Democratic Party decide, when the primaries end, that neither Obama nor Clinton is viable. Let's also assume—and this may be a real stretch—that such elders are strong and smart enough to act. All they'd have to do would be to convince a significant fraction of their superdelegate friends, maybe fewer than 100, to announce that they were taking a pass on the first ballot at the Denver convention, which would deny the 2,025 votes necessary to Obama or Clinton. What if they then approached Gore and asked him to be the nominee, for the good of the party—and suggested that he take Obama as his running mate? Of course, Obama would have to be a party to the deal and bring his 1,900 or so delegates along.
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Well, what goes round comes round. I think it would just completely piss everyone off and we would go away for a sunny vacation at the north pole.
Posted 03/28/2008 at 03:07:23 PMDoubtful.
1. To run for president you have to be an absolute egomaniac. No commentary there, I'm just saying that it requires a certain personality to really think that you should be the most powerful person in the world and that your ideas are better than anyone else's.
2. To get in the position that Obama - and Clinton - are in you have to work your a$$ off. You can't get this close to winning the nomination without pouring your heart and soul into it. See Thompson, Fred.
Sooooo... it's tough to see how someone who is a complete egomaniac and has poured their soul into the pursuit of a single goal would hand that over to someone else.
Besides, Gore has too much respect for the process to offer himself up.
Posted 03/28/2008 at 03:49:14 PMShameless Piece of Self-Promotion: Both Joe Klein and Keith Olbermann went to my high school.
Guess, I shouldn't count on speaking at Journalism Day anytime soon.
Posted 03/28/2008 at 03:53:03 PMBTW: I worked for and voted for Al Gore in 2000. I would totally support him being our President in 2009, irrespective of who is VP. What a different world it would be if he, who was honestly elected, had been rightly nominated as our President.
Posted 03/28/2008 at 10:32:58 PMJeeze, just what we need. Al Gore, a failed politician who's nutty as a fruitcake and on a bent to destroy our economy with his approach to Global Warmalism. Teamed up with with our own 'Personal Jesus', Baracky Obama.
Gore-OBama.
GOB-smackingly vile!
Posted 03/30/2008 at 10:35:07 AMHTML not working, here...tightfisted with the controls, eh?
'Personal Jesus', Obama, tinyurl.com/37yuj3
Chairman Al, tinyurl.com/339x88
Posted 03/30/2008 at 10:52:27 AMserr8d: Your comments got caught up in the junk filter, with about 2,900 legitimately junky entries. This is an unfortunate side effect of automated spam control.
Posted 03/30/2008 at 02:54:47 PM"Warmalism"?
Posted 03/30/2008 at 03:47:34 PMAhhh, thanks, Pithmaster.
I've learned from you!
You're admitted to my blogroll.
;D
Posted 03/30/2008 at 05:50:31 PM...Liz Garrigan, blogger at the Nashville Scene’s Pith in the Wind (heh) titles her post “An Inconvenient Truth: Gore Has Jumped the Shark“. Since this was my first visit to Pithdom, I can’t tell you...
Posted 03/30/2008 at 06:37:14 PMGee, serr, Gore was a "failed politician"? How exactly did you come to that conclusion? I guess it was that record of electoral "failure." The 8 years in the U.S. House, 8 years in the U.S. Senate (won all 95 counties in his reelection), won election twice as Vice President, and that "miserable failure" in 2000, when, yes, he lost, but (here's an inconvenient truth we never hear from the right) got MORE VOTES than Bush. Then there was that Nobel Peace Prize.
Failure? Not hardly. Tell us, serr. What is your dazzling record of success? Or does a small time loser like you really just sound like a jerk saying that Al Gore -- a tremendous success by just about any real-world standard -- was a "failed politician."?
Posted 03/30/2008 at 06:50:35 PMGee, Bill, Clinton?, you speak like a boy who's been stuffed in a locker more than once. And needs some more stuffing.
As you recall, Big Al won Tennessee not as the 'leftist' liberal moonbat he is today, but as a conservative Democrat, at least when he was running for offices in Tennessee. I should know, I voted for him for US Senator, twice. At that time, Al was not pro-abortion and anti-gun. He went to Washington and was taken to the dark side. The left side. The failure side.
And, having turned his back on his roots, he was beaten soundly in 2000 by Tennesseans who didn't take to his leftist rebirth. That, my good friend, is a 'failed politician'. Losing your home state, having to beg for and rely on a Florida recount (that went our way, every time, after the whining and crying was said and done...what, you're still crying? Shame, that.)
Failed. Politician. Mending. Fences.
And the Nobel Prize? That 'prize' jumped the shark when Yassar Arafat won. Not to mention Doris Lessing. And Jimmy Carter. Nice bunch, there.
So, Bill, you and you tone can kiss my arse.
Leftist!
Posted 04/03/2008 at 01:36:45 AM