The headlines across the b’sphere were blazing about Al Gore’s hypocrisy. His house uses 20 times the normal person’s energy, they claim.
At the same time, the Leftists were blazing about the triumph of their environmental standard, the Mockumentary An Inconvenient Fiction Truth’s predestined Oscar nod. Only Michael Moore has won with more lies in a truth based film.
He claims steadfastly he will not run again for office, yet the acclaim of the left and his own careful posturing speak to the possibility of a plan to announce later.
Al is truly a modern enigma. What is he?
The Al most of us remember was a stiff wooden faced drone with as much personality as one of his party platform’s planks. Al was like the geek at the dance, who bobbed when the other dancers dipped, and clapped when they snapped. Think of the movie Footloose and the Chris Penn character Willard. Al is the Willard of Washington DC. He was out of place, out of step and out of touch and desperate to be cool.
His defeat in 2000 was a harsh slap in the face, winning the popular vote but losing by a close margin due to the Electoral College, something the liberals still grumble about to this day. He never has recovered from it, and though he jokes about it, he represents the grandest tradition of imagination: A gigantic what if.
What if Al had won? Would 9/11 have happened? If so, would we have gone to war? Would the Computer Keyboards in the Whitehouse have had W removed? The Liberals still count Bush as Selected not Elected. So the Whitehouse has never been far from Al’s mind, and his supporters. His by right, by election and even by birthright.
But he bowed out in 2004, you may say. A comeback election, a do over would have played great, right? Marshall the forces to “get it right this time”. Perhaps so, but my personal belief is that all that time Al has been scheming.
