Sunday, December 03, 2006

A Political Prediction...Just Because

Al Gore will be the Democratic nominee in '08. Barack Obama is too young and untested; Hillary Clinton is too...too...devisive, at least among Democrats.

Here's how the Dems will think: After all, Al Gore won it the first time, didn't he? And now he's been reinvented, as Time, among others puts it. He's warm and funny and down to earth and passionate and....

At the MoveOn.org Victory Party in Sacramento that I went to just a few weeks ago, there was a straw poll taken to determine who the attendees, who are politically active people, wanted for President in '8. Al Gore won by a landslide.

And finally, the last exchange in the Time interview is quite telling, if you're one who believes, as I do, that we say what we mean.

You have stated repeatedly that you are not currently plans to run for President in 2008. Do you have a more creative denial?
I don't have any plans to run. Nor do I have any creative denials. I'm using the same ones. They'll soon be out on DVD.

I think the words I've boldfaced say a lot. Do you?

2 comments:

  1. As long as we get the new and improved Al Gore, the funny one, not the dull-as-a-post, stiff-as-a-board one we were mostly subjected to during his last campaign, I'm fine with that.

    However, I'm not sure that being untested is necessarily Obama's problem, or even his biggest one.

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  2. what would you say is his biggest problem?????

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So--whaddaya think?