Common Sense

Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize. I probably should have mentioned that before Tila Tequila.

John Dickerson wonders if this will make him rethink running for the White House. He hasn’t said definitively “no way,” but I don’t think he really wants to. It was such a harsh experience last time around, I can’t imagine anyone wanting to go through that again, even riding the wave of popularity that he’s enjoying now.

Dickerson sums it up this way:

This reversal in Gore’s fortunes is extraordinary. He’s not only seen a rolling vindication of his environmental activism as the world becomes more consumed with combating global climate change, but his prewar warnings about the conflict in Iraq now look prescient. Meanwhile, George Bush—the other political scion with whom Gore will forever be linked because of their bitter election fight in 2000—has followed almost exactly the opposite trajectory. Unpopular and increasingly criticized by many in his own party, Bush’s legacy will be the broken war. While Gore is lauded for his prescience and insight, Bush will for some time—perhaps forever—be best known for lacking those same qualities.

It almost makes you wonder. If there is a God, maybe he did see fit to put Bush in the Oval Office so that Gore could do this important work and win the Nobel Prize and change the world’s view on Global Warming. I mean, Bush hasn’t done anything that can’t be reversed with 8 years of Democratic presidency and a Democratic Congress, which is virtually assured with the field the GOP has put out there and the way Bush has run things into the ground.

The Lord works in mysterious ways. Several hundred thousand people have had to die to get to this place, but maybe that’s the way God wants it. Man, God can be a total dick sometimes.

Anyway, even with the petitions and the fact that I would vote for him over any of the other Democratic contenders, Al probably sees a lot of other stuff he can do without having his name dragged through the mud by the mainstream press on a daily basis. And a primary against the Clinton people, that would be awkward.

But if he does run and win the nomination, here is a free bit of debate advice for him against Rudy Guiliani, my pick for the most probably GOP nominee at this point:

Rudy: “Are you going to remind us all how you invented the Internet?”

applause

Al: ” I can’t remember when I did that. Was it during your first affair, the divorce against your wife while she was being treated for cancer or the affair after that?”

Take that, bitches!