I have to start out this diary with a confession-When I was 13 I volunteered for Ralph Nader in Minneapolis. This was in early August of the 2000 elections, but by election time I was losing my interest in Nader, and by the time he rejected the call to tell his supporters to vote for Al Gore I was gone. In the end I came back to Al Gore, but I felt for the sake of full disclosure, I has to get that off my chest. Volunteering for Nader was certainly not wasted time, it taught me a lot, and at the time it felt like the right thing to do. If I had been volunteering for Nader in Florida I'd feel a whole lot different though.
I've come full circle on Al Gore, and here I am in 2007 hoping he will be our presidential candidate in 2008. The reason for my unhesitating support for Al Gore is really very simple, but for me it's very compelling. He gets it. He gets that climate change thing. He understands the SINGLE most important issue to me, and to so many people my age who are wondering if the world we are entering will be inhabitable, and when we want to have kids, what are we leaving them?
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