Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi reflects on what it must be like to be Al Gore.
He endorses Howard Dean, and the Dean campaign starts to unravel. He gives a speech about global warming on a frigid winter day in New York. He backs Air America, the liberal radio channel that is another disaster in the making. He is also supposed to be starting a cable news channel for the under-35 crowd, except most of those folks dont watch TV news. Good luck with that demographic, Al.
But if Al Gore manages to latch onto the Kerry campaign, Kerry will be even sadder.
Add to the above that, judging from his recent speech, he seems to have become frothing-at-the-mouth insane... and I even thought that might be pointed out in the media, but I guess Ill never learn:
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(Sympathetic NY Times editorial, reg required)
The NY Times also just realized it has been too lenient and accepting (!!) of the Bush administration.