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February 9, 2007
Is Al Gore Our "Safety School"?
Yahoo! makes a big smelly deal of the headline "HE'S NOT RUNNING." Read the text and it's the same wish-wash as always. Maybe a bit more definite.
The question is why do so many Democrats want him to run. There are obvious answers: he won before (the popular vote at the very least, and most likely Florida as well), he's been prescient to the point of psychic on the hot issues of the day (literally, hot as in warming globe and Iraq), he has huge name recogonition, etc...
But outsider, activist Gore is much preferred to RunningForPresident Gore, who was, well, a robot. Why ask him to drain his blood and sweat and become a piece of wood again?
Another answer beckons: Dems are nervous about Hillary and Obama. Al Gore is our Michigan State. Hillary is our Harvard and Obama is our Yale. If we don't get those, we want a safety to fall back on. But Michigan State has just rejected us, apparently.
Posted by emily at February 9, 2007 10:58 AM