Al Gore in an interview with NY Times Columnist Bob Herbert: “But what politics has become requires a level of tolerance for triviality and artifice and nonsense that I find I have in short supply”
Exactly! and what American voters want is someone who with cut through that crap. It is the difference between a person with ambition and a real leader. Someone who will tell reporters that they are idiots, and answer other questions with an equal degree of honesty. Someone who really will ignore the polls and the consultants and just be his or her self. Who will lay out what the believe and why and what they think we really ought to do as a nation.
The level of artifice in our politics has gotten to a point that people are numb. They buy into it, tolerate it, or quit participating all together. The elites like the third choice because it concentrates power, and invests more in those who are easily manipulated.
Al Gore could run the campaign of a contrarian. Be an anti candidate. Just get out there and talk to people. No polls, no consultants, limited adverts. Just Al Gore being the wooden, policy wonk, the MSM hates. He would get my vote, and a lot more. He would get my time my energy, and I’ll bet others would follow Al Gore. He is a leader.
Re-elect Gore in ’08!
Why? Because...
- Haans Petruschke
- Kirtland, Ohio
- I'm just this guy, you know? But I began to wonder why I had been uneffected by all of the mass lunacy of post 911 America. I realized it was probably due to the funny hat I had been wearing. It must have shielded me from the mind control rays of the neocons and the main stream media. As a result, along with about 45% of the rest of the population, I was not conned into believing either the big lies or the little ones. Or it may be I am so far outside of the box the mind control ray just missed me completely. To say the least, I try to look at things from a different perspective and explore the possibilities.