Al Gore: Modern Politics' Movie Star

[cal04]

Like the children's classic, "A Fish Out of Water," Al Gore has outgrown his fishbowl. He has developed a following of millions simply by reminding people that they can use knowledge as a source of influence

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Movie-star proportions, clearly. But Al Gore is modern politics' movie star, not in the metaphorical sense.

Like parts of Los Angeles, Marin County is one of those places whose residents would rather die than admit that they're awestruck by celebrity. It's the sort of semirural, estate-dotted sward to which rockstars and rebels-who-got-rich retire, and according to Forbes, it includes one of the five most expensive zip codes in the country.

And it turned out in droves for Gore.

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He would speak feelingly that night about "ripples" marring the media that "make the surface distorted" so that "the clarity of vision is ruined." One clear thing, he would tell the crowd, is "the 99 percent certainty that we're facing the greatest threat" imaginable in climate change. "Yet our leaders are dilly-dallying" about it. "How dare they?" he demanded, to thunderous applause.

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[Iris]

1. One reason I've always liked Al Gore is because he is smart.

Sure beats having a total dumb-ass in the White House.

[MasonJar]

2. Gore is smart and knowledgeable to the zenith on climate change

dangers. Read Earth in the Balance from 1992; he is eons ahead of most of the world on the subject of our impact on the delicate balance of the earth. Since Gore understands the dilemma with such depth, he is truly worried. IMHO Gore will use his celebrity or any other means that he can muster to highlight our impending disaster. He also must be horrified at the Bush administration's reversal of even the most minor protections of the earth and its creatures. Their greedy hand extends ubiquitously and menacingly in all directions.

[Cha]

3. I love it that An Inconvenient Truth

has Gore's history in the 2000 selection in there ..for posterity.

People I know have said they wished it wasn't "so political" but it's Gore that brought this to the forefront and by Jove, his story should be front and center.

I saw in person with his slide show in NY and he was intelligent, passionate, and Funny!~