Run Al, Run... (From the Slate)

[Milo_Bloom]

A pretty good article... which is surprising from Christopher Hitchens, but I bat about 40/60 with him.


Here is a brief quote,

"Several people, some of them well-informed, have been saying to me that Gore will wait until the Nobel committee's announcement before he makes up his mind. Should he make up his mind to run, he could alter the entire equation.

Should he make up his mind not to run, he would retrospectively abolish all the credit he has acquired so far. It would mean in effect that he never had the stuff to do the job and that those who worked and voted for him were wasting their time. Given his age and his stature, can he really want that to be the conclusion that history draws? "


http://www.slate.com/id/2174590/

[otohara]

1. Slate

[Milo_Bloom]

3. Thx, fixed it...

After I posted it, I hit edit b/c I noticed something, the phone rang and I completely forgot what I was going to change.

[flpoljunkie]

2. Interesting gossipy tidbit Hitchens drops later in the article about Al and Bill Clinton

I am only guessing here, but I think that when Gore wakes up early and upset, he isn't whimpering about the time that the Supreme Court finally ruled against him in 2000. He is whimpering about the time in 1992 when he left the field open to Bill Clinton, a man he secretly despised. Can he really stand to watch yet another Clinton walk away with a nomination that could have been, or could still be, his? To move, then, from a consideration of elevated politics to a reflection upon the baser motives, we have to ask if Gore can possibly be content to be a "citizen" when he could still be a contender.

http://www.slate.com/id/2174590/

[dtotire]

4. Run Al, Run.

Amen. With Hillary's negatives, the election could be lost, no matter how much support she has among registered Democrats.

[jojo54]

5. With all the uproar, blogs, polls etc.

you'd think he'd jump at the chance. This thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1889975 suggests that maybe he will if he wins the Nobel next month. I hope so, 'cause my other choice doesn't look so good anymore.

[hedgehog]

6. Sounds to me like Chistopher Hitchens is puffing himself up in his

typical fachion by pretending to be in the know.

What is his source?

"Several people, some of them well-informed"


SOME of them well informed?

Note that along the way, Hitchens manages to denigrate by name or implication the American electorate, the European Electorate, Bil Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Edwards, Mother Therese, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, the Nobel Peace Prize Ciommittee, the Nobel Literature POrize Committee, George Bush, Gerhard Schröder, Jacques Chirac, Richard Nixon, Putin, the Saudis, the Chinese, Saddam Hussein, the MoveOn.org crowd and the current brokers and managers of the Democratic Party. Gore may or may not receive Hitchen's approval dpending upon his future actions.

I think Hitchen's has achieved his personal best in this article in his ongoing attempt to show contempt for anyone who isn't Chistopher Hitchens!

[Rydz777]

7. If Gore runs, he will win (again). I am completely indifferent to any

analysis coming from Hitchens, one way or the other.