In an interview with the Guardian, Al Gore lays into the current US Administration. The Guardian is a UK based paper, so maybe he thought his words wouldn’t be as sharp. Fortunately there’s stuff like Google News to help fix that problem. 
Al Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current US administration as “a renegade band of rightwing extremists”.
So sure, this might bring out more support for him running for the Presidency again. But this next quote seems to diffuse that some:
..the former vice-president calls himself a “recovering politician”..
Who knows. It would have been nice if we saw this Al Gore during the 2000 election. Maybe that would have been enough to put him clearly over the top. Maybe not. It would have been nice to see him with this energy and enthusiasm regardless.
Whoever runs, I hope they have the energy and credibility they’ll need to rally the Democratic base.
It should be simple enough. We just need a politician who has some semblance of a vision for the environment, isn’t corrupt, and has the charisma to inspire the nation for the things that need to happen in the very near term.
What things?
I’m talking about investing in social programs like a significantly better healthcare system. Perhaps a national program would be the most efficient. Evidence seems to suggest such a universal system would at least raise national health, as it seems to in the UK.
I’m talking about having an open discussion on how US foreign policy has changed. This goes from discussing the trade-off between civil liberties and national security needs, the current war in Iraq, and the current sparing between the US and Iran.
I’m talking about investing to prepare in areas of technology where we may soon fall behind. Things like alternative energy sources, theraputic cloning, and hover boards.
Yes hover boards. Lots of them. Like this one
Someone please come and try to pull this off. Sure, all the money and power that comes from selling out is great, but just try.
