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[YvonneCa]

...to Meet the Press this morning:


Thank you for your interview this morning with former Vice President, Al Gore.
It was a good discussion, and an important topic for our country. While I have
a lot of respect for both the Vice President and Tom Brokaw (whom I have watched
for many years, and who did a good job representing the talking points for the
other side on EVERY issue he raised), I completely agree with Al Gore’s position
in this morning’s discussion.

I believe Al Gore to be a visionary leader. He looks at problems currently faced
by our country and sees long-term, transformative solutions, and he sees the
opportunity these problems also present to our nation.

On the issues of high gasoline/oil prices, our faltering economy, and our
current shaky level of national security… he is able to see the connection
between these events, and the solutions needed to address them simultaneously.
He argues for big change…and he is right that now is the time to begin.

Our infrastructure (electricity grid, water systems, rail and freeway systems,
many downtown areas, etc.) needs a major overhaul and modernization. We are
threatened by the current system of energy in two ways…it may be manipulated or
cut off (which affects both our economy and our national security, if we go to
war to retain it), AND we are ruining our life sustaining planet. To use Al
Gore’s words in “An Inconvenient Truth”… it’s our only home.

If we, as a country commit to the former Vice President’s plan, we will never
again have to go to war for oil. Our national security will be enhanced. Our
environment will also become more inhabitable for a longer period of time (and
this is true, whatever you believe about global warming). Building the new
infrastructure…transportation, energy grids, green buildings, new solar/wind
industry, etc… will get our economy back on track because of the jobs it will
create. It’s the kind of ‘stimulus package’ we really need to do the job.

But more important to our future than all that, I believe, we will once again
have the chance to be seen as a leader for something positive in the world… and
without that, our future looks pretty dim.

So I agree with everything Al Gore had to say this morning on Meet the Press.
And, despite Mr. Brokaw’s best effort to sting him with questions about every
right-wing talking point currently out there in the media and cyberspace, the
former Vice President only made one mistake. It’s a statement with which I
completely disagree. When asked about whether he was interested in a position in
an Obama administration, or future position as President himself, Al Gore
quipped that he had already been elected… but that he did not serve.

Mr. Vice President… I absolutely agree that you were elected. And what a loss
for the country that you were not permitted to be in the White House. But I’ve
been watching and listening to your many (mostly uncovered) speeches. You did
serve after 2000… and, to this grateful American, you are continuing to serve
today.