This video just shows what so many have said - Al Gore is a genuinely warm and intelligent human being.
Likewise, remember that Kerry documentary "Inside the Bubble" that purported to be a "devastating inside look at the Kerry campaign"? Well, when it was actually shown - and clips were available online - the film didn't even focus on Kerry and the clips that he was in actually humanized him and showed him to be a very relaxed.
Slate said this:
Kerry the candidate seems tantalizingly less stiff than we remember. As he waits in a locker room for a satellite interview, he pretends to interview himself. It's a goofy, amusing moment. I've watched presidential candidates in this familiar, tense setting and seen them anxious that time's wasting, irritated by a local anchor's gooey snap, bark at their staffs, or even, in one case, bolt from a Marriot ballroom. Off-camera, Kerry is surprisingly at ease. "I don't know who exercised in this locker room last," he jokes with his aides, "but they left a lot of themselves here."
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http://www.slate.com/id/2127242/The Boston Phoenix said this:
when we do see Kerry, he’s usually behaving winningly. Three days before the election, Kerry talks with Cutter, his press secretary, about the number of Senate bills he’s been credited with passing. Kerry seems to think the Globe is selling him short, and he wants her to rectify the situation. This shot, too, has been much discussed, in large part because Kerry’s Senate record was MIA for essentially all of the campaign. But the most striking aspect of this exchange is Kerry’s gentleness: the candidate can’t afford any last-minute gaffes, but he makes his point quietly and respectfully.
In yet another scene, Kerry sits in a locker room at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, waiting to do a satellite interview that’s plagued with technical difficulties. At one point, he talks to himself in Italian; at another, he jokes about the stench in the room. But what really stands out in this particular shot is the loneliness of the candidate. Kerry blinks into the klieg lights, laboring to amuse himself and his handlers and then switching into full interview mode (complete with full interview smile) as soon as the satellite connection is made. Along the way, we can see the fatigue set in, both emotional and physical. And we feel an unexpected surge of sympathy for this talented, accomplished, infuriatingly self-destructive man, who came so close to delivering us from Bush but who couldn’t get the job done. For that alone, Rosenbaum deserves a great deal of credit.
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi_3/documents/05025919.aspEverybody should watch that Al Gore video, and then lament the influence of Democratic consultants on our candidates, turning them into limp, dull, overmanaged drones.
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