Please Please Please Don’t Let Him Get What He Wants
September 24th, 2007 - 3:12 pm
Christopher Hitchens wonders if a Nobel Peace Prize would be enough to get Al Gore to run for President again, and concludes:
Should he make up his mind not to run, he would retrospectively abolish all the credit he has acquired so far. It would mean in effect that he never had the stuff to do the job and that those who worked and voted for him were wasting their time. Given his age and his stature, can he really want that to be the conclusion that history draws?
I love ya, Hitch, but I pray you’re wrong.
Oh come now – He just wants Gore to run so he can skewer him, ruthlessly, the entire time. Heh, as some might say…
I used to despise Al Gore and was glad that Bush won in 2000. I was never more wrong about anything in my life.
Bush is a political descendant of Woodrow Wilson, LBJ and Nixon. He is a disaster, and by far the worst president since WWII (and yes that includes Carter!).
Gore has been wrong about many things but he was wise enough to see what a disaster would result from the Iraq invasion.
My mom, a life long Democrat (87 and still kicking) says Carter was the worst.
And she absolutely despises Bush.
Consider the moral lepers that the Nobel Committee have seen fit to elevate with the prize in the last few decades.
It is far too late to be worrying about the further dilution of the Nobel’s aura were it to go to Al Gore for his hackneyed, cliche-clogged films and books.
It’s like worrying about the Oscars when those turdwits can give one to such as Mr. Moore. The process for both alleged competitions is so skewed by leftwing political agendas that they have become pathetic exercises in masturbation.
Who am I kidding? The Oscars have *always* been just that…
Al Gore is now in a position of potentially more power than the presidency. He is now a high priest and mystical power beats political power any day.
Does anyone remember who was the king when Joan of Arc was running the show in France?