Al Gore for President
Posted: Oct 15, 2007
It’s Blog Action Day so today’s post is about the environment.
There’s really no escaping America’s influence on the modern world.
Sometimes that’s no bad thing, but since 2000 when Al Gore’s Presidential election victory was dubiously taken from him at the last post, America has had a rather different effect on the world at large than it may have had with Gore at the helm.
Gore’s resumé up to this point, as pointed out by The Nation’s John Nichols, reads like no-one else’s currently in the race for the Presidency:
This is how Al Gore’s resumé reads as of this morning:
Son of a great senator.
Harvard graduate, with honors.
Vietnam veteran.
Award-winning investigative journalist.
Congressman.
Senator.
Vice President.
Winner of the popular vote for President of the United States.
Best-selling author.
Environmental activist.
Academy Award winner.
And, now, Nobel Peace Prize winner-he shares the prize with the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-for “their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about manmade climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”
As resumés go, that is one for the top of the pile.
But it begs the question: Shouldn’t a man who has gotten this far be thinking about how to finish the journey?
And isn’t the last stop the Oval Office?
I know he’s said time and time again that he didn’t intent to run for President again, but seriously, after this latest honor who else is more qualified to replace Bush and repair the damage he’s done?
There’s never been a better hope for getting a man elected who could actually do something concrete about the environmental issues facing all of us, rather than one who’d willfully ignore and distort scientific data presented to him.
The person who inherits the country Bush will be leaving behind will have an unenviable task, to be sure, but to have a President who not only understands the global nature of this crisis and not just one who focuses on America’s interests to the exlusion of all else, so much good could be done to repair the USA’s current global image.
America, and the rest of the world, needs a leader who can take on a task like helping repair the damage done to our planet over the preceding years, and who else would be better qualified to do the job?
Al, I may not be able to vote for you if you do run, but I’m hoping that you’re considering it. The world my future children would inherit will surely be a better place if you do.
