This is a good thing! Al Gore struck me as someone who felt he was entitled to the White House. It's good to move on and do other things (even if those other things mean you harass others into altering their life style while you continue doing whatever you want to do):
Former U.S. vice president Al Gore says he has "fallen out of love with politics" and does not want to run for president although he has not ruled it out completely.I wonder what the draft Al Gore movement thinks of this. Is it the final word or is he still considering a run? There is a pretty strong desire to draft Al Gore since some in the party think Clinton is the devil and Obama is too inexperienced.
"If I do my job right, all the candidates will be talking about the climate crisis," Gore said in an interview with Time Magazine released on Thursday.
"And I'm not convinced the presidency is the highest and best role I could play."
But the most interesting part of the article was this stunning admission:
The Time article also includes an excerpt from Gore's new book, "The Assault on Reason," in which he writes: "It is too easy and too partisan to simply place the blame on the policies of President George W. Bush.As far as the left is concerned it's blaspheme to say that Bush isn't the blame for something. He's the reason for everything that is evil in the world.
"We are all responsible for the decisions our country makes. We have a Congress. We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Why have they all failed us? ... American democracy is now in danger not from any one set of ideas, but from unprecedented changes in the environment within which ideas either live and spread, or wither and die."
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