Check out this article from Anderson Cooper's CNN.com blog about Al Gore. He theorizes that Gore may be uniquely positioned for a return to politics, like Richards Nixon once was. For many liberals/progressives, I think Gore as a candidate could be an appealing idea, and appealing as an alternative to Hillary Clinton. I'm very eager for a woman to lead the nation. So many other countries have - shouldn't US, champion of human rights, be setting the tone by example? But I'm not sure Clinton is the right woman, or, more problematically, that she could be elected even if she was the right women, so venomous is the hatred of her by so many. Could Al Gore win the second time around? Maybe...
Sermon 2/18/18 Mark 1:1-4, 9-15 Jesus in the Wilderness You’ve heard me say before that the gospel of Mark is my favorite gospel. Part of the reason I love it is because of Mark’s brevity. I don’t love that he’s short on details, exactly. I love that he seems practically breathless in getting the good news of Jesus to us, and that he seems to believe that the news is so good it isn’t even going to take very many words to convince you of his message! His frantic style strikes me as showing both how important and how convincing he believes Jesus’s message to be. But, then we arrive at a Sunday like today, and I find myself a little frustrated perhaps, or at least a little challenged by Mark. In the lectionary, the series of the first Sunday in the season of Lent always focuses on the temptation of Jesus – his time in the wilderness, where he confronts Satan, and commits to God’s path rather than the flashy alternative Satan presents. This is the fo
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Or maybe it's exactly the point.
Hrmph.
At the time I think I was on Gore burnout and saw Bradley as a decent and intelligent alternative (who threw pretty good get-together for even the lowliest campaign supporters).
Over the past handful of years, though, I've gotten to take a look at Gore. Not Gore the VP to Bubba ... not Gore the husband to that crazy PMRC chick ... but Gore the man who actually knows what he's talking about over quite a lot of things (even if he can't do the Macarena).
Hillary? Yeah, she's probably the most likely female we have right now and I like her enough ... even got to know some of her secret service guys ... but if it came down to her and Al I really think Al's finally got me in his corner.
The fear and loathing of the Christian right and all male chauvinists is so great H. Clinton has no chance. Personally, without having seriously looked at her positions in any detail, my first impression is that I'd vote for her.
I don't believe Hilliary can win. There is the female issue that will keep some voters away, but mostly, I just don't think Hilliary is very much liked by Americans other than staunch Democrats. I believe that there will be no moderate vote for her.
I don't believe that Gore could win either. You have to remember that he didn't even win his own state when he ran last time.
I think that the Democrats have a real chance this time around. But that they can mess it up awfully easily by sending a past loser like Gore or Dean. (Edwards...maybe???) They will also mess it up with Hilliary.
They don't have the Carl Rove machine producing hatred for homosexual America against them this time, and they can work off the past failures of this regime and they can make promises that will allude to gas prices. But otherwise, they can just as easily lose again if they don't do something...anything...right this time around.
Just my opinion. And by the way, I'm a moderate who has voted Republican and Democrat at times. So no bias here. ha ha.
I doubt that Gore will get another shot. The Democratic Party tends to be unforgiving of past Presidential candidates who lose.
Hillary, I think, has the best shot. She has the Bushian quality of driving her opponents insane. Normal people on the Right start whipping out crazy conspiracy theories when HRC gets popular. That tendency would hurt the GOP in 2008, much as it hurt the Democracts in 2004.
I don't think that a HRC Presidency would be disasterous. She's not totally politically done deaf. She's generally aware of what direction the country is moving in. And although polling-based public policymaking is usually foolish and cowardly, I trust the Average Joe to run the country more than any randomly selected Washington pol.