The Kossacks were so kind to the Mercury News editorial board in December when we called global warming "the greatest environmental threat that humanity has ever faced."
So we thought you might be interested in an editorial we published today urging Al Gore to run for president.
For a full discussion of the editorial board's thinking, please see my blog, Vindu's View from the Valley, where I have posted a lengthy entry about the editorial.
Vindu Goel
Editorial Writer
San Jose Mercury News<a</p>
I encourage you to read the full editorial, but here's a key excerpt:
[O]n the issues that most Americans and most in the valley care about -- the war, the fragile state of the Earth, the transforming power of technology -- Gore has been out front, resolute and right.
The man who has turned global warming from enviro-grumbling into a powerful cause is more popular now than seven years ago, when the majority of Americans thought they had elected him president.
Liberated from politics the past seven years, Gore has shown sides of himself that most Americans didn't see when he was in Bill Clinton's shadow and when he made that uninspiring run for president in 2000.
At this point, he may be the strongest, ablest Democratic candidate of his generation.