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The Gore narrative: Why he must run

Found this at DKos and it's well worth reading..
especially if you are a Gore supporter.

by Barcelona
Thu Sep 27, 2007 at 08:06:36 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/27/11636/8444

"The "inevitability" meme is beginning to set. Bill himself is being rolled out. Ordinarily this race would be all over but the counting. But the times we live in are anything but ordinary. In fact the urgency and magnitude of the challenge we and the rest of the world are facing call for leadership of historic proportions. I will argue that Hillary is not that leader. Though she is experienced, highly competent and immensely well-funded, she is the epitome of the hawkish, powerfully connected, corporate-funded Washington insider who are masterful only at the art of "politics as we know it". But most of all she lacks en epic narrative, one that taps directly into the Power of Myth. She is no visionary, nor are any of her rivals. And a vision of unprecedented breadth and power is what these parlous times are crying for. The era of business-as-usual, lesser-of-two-evils American leadership cannot continue. The stakes are simply too high.

Right now public opinion is being stampeded into accepting the impending coronation of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party nominee in 2008, a media narrative four years in the making and now being carefully shaped by the power-brokers in the DLC and their fair-weather allies in the corporate media (with a little Rovian reverse-psychology thrown in by the usual suspects, to spice up this all-too-predictable horse race). Indeed, just like John Kerry's in 2004, after the media-fabricated crash-landing of the Dean campaign in the Iowa primary, Hillary's inevitability is wholly manufactured, by the power of money to shape opinion and of insider influence to block out others.

But there is another kind of inevitability, of a far more profound and unstoppable kind, the kind that sneaks up when nobody's looking and then in hindsight, seems blazingly obvious. One that appeals not to one's "lying eyes" but to the intuition, like a nagging certainty of a better tomorrow that fuels even the wildest hopes which even the corporate, consolidated media will eventually be dragged kicking and screaming into recognizing.Because it stems from an overarching narrative, that taps directly into the most ancient of human stories, common to all cultures across the centuries. the saga of the Hero:"
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Shades of Joseph Campbell !!

For those uninitiated or uninterested in his work on the power of myth in shaping both
man and mankind, this Kos diary (Barcelona) is a composite piece linking other Kos diary's in an
exploration of the "heroic myth". Where this diary excels is that it examines the "hero myth"
in a more modern context.

"On Dkos alone, many diarists and commenters have already made the connection between Al Gore and heroism, most notably for his actions in the wake of the catastrophic events in New Orleans in 2005. But several others make an even broader connection to the Hero myth. For readers who, for whatever reason, remain unconvinced of the inherent potency of a Gore candidacy, each of the following is worth reading in its entirety and pondering carefully."
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Right now the nation-wide movement to draft Al Gore is building momentum in many States, gathering signatures on essential petitions to get his name on the ballot, readying to carry him forward when he finally pulls the trigger and announces he is in. When he does, at the time and place of his choosing, he will be running a guerilla campaign, as unconventional, bold and people-powered as Hillary's is safe, steeped in money and politics-as-usual. He will run on ending the war in Iraq, which he warned against before it was launched, and on his signature issue of putting the full power of the world's only superpower behind the Herculean task of adressing the planetary emergency, the danger he has been has been single-mindedly striving to avert for the last thirty years and which is now upon us. "

Al can not not run. Heros, both real and imagined come and go in every culture.
In this era of a "global" culture President Gore has the opportunity to become the
Worlds first Hero on a planetary scale. How could he not step up when both his Country
and his Planet are in near mortal danger?

Go read it! http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/27/11636/8444