This was so good I want to re-post it here!!

[Labors of Hercules]

THE LAST TEMPTATION OF AL GORE
By Eric Pooley
TIME Magazine -- May 17, 2007
Let's say you were dreaming up the perfect stealth candidate for 2008, a Democrat who could step into the presidential race when the party confronts its inevitable doubts about the front runners. You would want a candidate with the grass-roots appeal of Barack Obama -- someone with a message that transcends politics, someone who spoke out loud and clear and early against the war in Iraq. But you would also want a candidate with the operational toughness of Hillary Clinton -- someone with experience and credibility on the world stage.
In other words, you would want someone like Al Gore -- the improbably charismatic, Academy Award-winning, Nobel Prize-nominated environmental prophet with an army of followers and huge reserves of political and cultural capital at his command.
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1622597,00.html

OOOHHHH YEAH!!!



PS: (Thanks Apollo11!!! :hi: )

[Me.]

1. The Link Doesn't Work

At least for me

[Labors of Hercules]

2. there ya go!

:toast:

[Me.]

3. Good Read

Thanks for fixing the link

[Labors of Hercules]

9. I did it just for Me!

:hi:

[malaise]

4. Run Al Run!!

Lovely read

[ellenfl]

5. kick for later eom

[spindoctor]

6. Sally Field has an emmy and George Bush has a nobel prize nomination

When I think Al Gore, I can't help but remember that he was the man who had little or nothing to offer against George Bush. That he was the man who chose Joe Lieberman as his running mate. That he was the man who could not get a vast majority of the vote against probably the dumbest fuck ever to run for president.

I can't help but think that this is the man who was doing global lectures about energy conservation while his own energy bill was topped only by his fuel consumption.

You know, I don't have a problem with Gore. I believe he means well. But people who see him as the messiah are in for a disappointment. Oh yeah!

[Labors of Hercules]

8. Yeah, heaven forbid a guy make mistakes and learn from them...

It proves he's not as perfect as you are. Seems to me you're the one looking for a Messiah, and keep getting disappointed because there aint one... :shrug:

[Me.]

10. A Guy Who Was Stomped On

Humiliated before the world, had an election stolen from him by no less than the Supreme Court and was made a luaghing stock and kicked to the curb, only to pick himself up and reached the place he now has, is just the sort of person who I would vote for. He's been through the fire and came out whole.

[hootinholler]

7. Great article!

Thanks for posting it.

-Hoot

[lonestarnot]

11. Wootie Woot Woot Al!

:applause: