Time Begs Gore To Run For President
 
In a puff piece that has to be read to be believed, Time Magazine is positively effusive in its praise of Al Gore and claims his prospects of winning the Presidency, should he decide to enter the fray, are quite good.
The article glows with so much fawning and unadulterated praise for the former Vice-President that it is positively radioactive.  The author characterizes Gore as, “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.”
“Improbably charismatic?” What a non-sequitur. If Gore got any stiffer, his spine would snap. One of the many reasons Gore lost the election to Bush was that he was quite properly viewed as a condescending, pompous and hypocritical gas-bag who couldn’t figure out what persona he should project during the election.
Has Time never heard of critical thinking? After reading the article, you would be lead to believe that: a.) there is universal agreement among the American people about the dangers of global warming, b.) that the issue of global warming is of such import that Gore could ride its coattails to the White House, and c.) that the American people see no hypocrisy in Gore, and his Hollywood celebrity eco-warriors, continuing to live their high-flying and opulent carbon-spewing lifestyles yet preaching to the rest of us that we must make enormous sacrifices for the cause because they have engaged in the the corrupt and fraudulent Medieval ritual of penance by purchasing bogus “carbon offsets.”
As a practical matter, I would love to see Gore enter the contest for the Presidency as it would cause considerable fratricide amongst the Democrats. So, by all means Al, please run.
Friday, May 18, 2007
By Johnny K