Al Gore Should Not Be President

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Friday February 09, 2007 · 1:49 PM PST

2007/02/09 · 13:49

Al Gore deserves to be our next President. I’d vote for him in a New York minute. But the more I think of it, the more I think that it's better for us, and better for him, if he isn't. He knows it. And many of us don't. Here's why.

Al Gore wants to save the planet. That’s his reason for being. Yeah, saving Social Security and re-overhauling Medicare rank right up there in terms of Things to Do in politics, but as president, it would come at the cost of efforts he would otherwise be expending on the environment. I think that if he senses no other alternative, he’ll try to save the planet as President of the United States...but...being President distracts from his goal, because there’d be so much other crap on his plate to attend to in addition to the planet. He’s happy the way he’s impacting the status quo now, and he’ll really get his ass into gear once the next administration gets into office. The next Democratic administration, that is.

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