Al Gore: “It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”

I’m not about to cast stones when someone is speaking ex tempore and winds up with their foot in their mouth. And while politicians have been known for making disastrous gaffes, Al is easily forgiven for many of his since they are made with sincerity and the best of intentions in most cases. Say what anyone will, credit is being given Al for being a man of sincere conviction. But from the White House on down We the People are confronted by politicians that are not only transparent in a lack of sincerity and conviction but in degrees of stupidity as well. Take this comment by Marion Barry while Mayor of Washington, DC for example: “Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.”

However, since Oscar Night Al Gore has become the darling of Hollywood; i.e. the far left. And a Nobel Peace Prize for Al? The possibilities boggle the mind! It has pundits abuzz, Obama reaching for his security blanket, and Hillary punching out her husband! Ok, I made that one up but you know what I mean. But think of the possibilities; an American President sporting an Oscar-winning film and a Nobel! Even those that don’t like Al have to admit that brings a lot to the table for the sake of American prestige. And speaking of “tables,” Pat Buchanan might be wrong about Al needing to shed forty pounds; America has a lot of people sympathetic to corpulence, and there have been a number of “full figure” men in the White House; Cal Coolidge was even forgiven fishing for trout with worms.

My reading of the tealeaves ever since Gore ran for President and lost to Bush may prove remarkably accurate despite Al’s protestations. I wrote at the time Al had not stopped running for President and would continue to run. As I put it then, you don’t come that close to the gold ring and simply give up trying. I don’t pretend prescience; I certainly did not know how big a hit Al would become in Hollywood let alone a contender for the Nobel. But I did have a sixth sense about Al; there was just something about him that seemed to bring out the Psi factor in me.

Gerry Trudeau’s problem with Ronald Reagan was summed up by a strip where Santa is checking his list. When he came to Reagan’s name, Santa was having difficulty. There were all those naughty things Reagan had done, but while Santa was struggling to make a decision saying “But he’s just so…” Seeing Santa’s struggle, Zonker in the role of the elf types in the word “Nice” next to Reagan’s name as Santa breathes a heavy sigh of resignation. Despite all the naughty things Reagan had done, Santa just couldn’t get past nice. Reagan was nice.

Many politicians since have ignored the evils of the Reagan Presidency and traded on his being a nice fellow. Reagan had a genuine gift of portraying “nice” and that carried a lot of weight; and continues to do so. In fact, there are those that believe he belongs right there on Mount Rushmore. Well, such people are what I call the “victims of nice,” ignoring things like Iran/Contra and Reagan opening the floodgates to millions of illegal aliens from Mexico and abandoning control of our borders for the sake of profits.

But there is no discounting the power of nice. On April 8, 2004 I wrote: Al Gore still gets my vote for one weird but likable guy; at least I still like him. Al reads books; I don’t fault him for the strange twists his mind takes. But hey, I still like Jerry Brown and Al Sharpton… It is one of the reasons besides his reading and writing books I have a genuine liking for Al Gore: His call for the resignation of the architects of the so-called “war on terrorism” beginning with those of the ilk of Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Tenet, et al. is absolutely correct. It would be a real plus to get rid of Paige and Ridge as well. Who in their right mind believes these two should have any authority in respect to education and security for America? Too bad the Democrats appear to be stuck with their scoundrel hypocrite Kerry, the sorry alternative for “Anybody But Bush!” Americans.

While Hitler’s underlings “were just following orders,” while Hitler received “credit” as the architect of Nazism, his generals and others faced Nuremberg, the verdict of both that tribunal and that of history. I maintain Caesar Bush and his underlings will yet face a “Nuremberg” in absentia if not in reality though like Speer, Powell may escape the ultimate sentence by the court.

Now, what Al needs to do, in my opinion, is point out in addition to the list of crimes on the part of Caesar’s underlings, is Caesar’s own betrayal of America through selling out our nation…with the cooperation of a treasonous Congress refusing to secure our borders and for betraying We the People to a half trillion dollar debt, Globalization, Outsourcing, NAFTA, CAFTA, La Raza, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, all with the clear intent of making Americans slave labor to benefit the wealthy, ruling elite! Let’s hear more Americans like Al using the word IMPEACH! With the proviso that Caesar take his fellow traitor and co-conspirator Cheney with him.

I was delighted to catch Arianna Huffington on Lou Dobbs. Her latest book “Fanatics and Fools” comes down on the side of the fools. Of course, given the title, how could she miss? That is really covering your bases. Much as I despise Kerry, my first thought listening to Arianna was how, by way of contrast, I like Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown. A Gerry Trudeau strip that pretty well summed up Jerry’s politics, when asked why anyone should vote for him, Moonbeam, who was campaigning in his old Plymouth at the time, replies: “Because I’m best qualified to wing it.” It’s that kind of political philosophy that endears Jerry Brown, Al Gore, and Al Sharpton to me.

While I read Arianna Huffington’s column among several others pro and con on people and issues, she knows most of us realize Al Gore may be not only the anti-Hillary, but the only viable option we are left with when the dust finally settles of so much corruption throughout both Republican and Democrat parties. And all of us know a number of very significant things can happen between now and the next presidential election, but how many Americans believe anything good will happen. And that is what the think tanks, politicos and pundits really should be burning the midnight oil over. When there is nothing but doomsday scenarios abounding in all directions, when politicians are proven to be corrupt liars and continue to steal and lie to us wholesale We the People have just cause to hold those having the rule over us accountable.

Then there is Al Gore who is a very smart fellow, but whether he is correct or not about global warming it is obvious there are a great many “inconvenient truths” facing politicians right now based on stubborn facts not theories. A cautionary word about Al Gore’s crusade over global warming: Folks, bear in mind that while Al Gore has proven himself an ass on more than one occasion it should be remembered as a cautionary caveat to his detractors that Balaam’s ass spoke the truth. (End)

For my part, I do not believe humankind is to blame for global warming. But I do believe Al Gore has made a coup that may well sweep him into office should he decide to run again for President. Nice counted for a lot with Reagan, and many people overlooked the naughty for the sake of the nice. And what with the mounting sleaze in government sincerity, right or wrong, may well be the equivalent to nice that puts Al in office should he decide to run. The big question after the total disaster of Bush is whether Republicans will have a candidate that can run against someone who not only projects sincerity and conviction, has an Oscar-winning film to his credit and may also have a Nobel Prize, but also reads books?

A further cautionary thought. As improbable as it may be, what if events do result in a war crimes tribunal for Caesar Bush and Company? None of the leaders of Germany or Japan credited any such possibility and look what happened to them. But I ask who better than Al Gore as President if such a thing should happen to lend any credibility to such a tribunal? He may not have thought about this, but it is something I would tell Al he should factor into his decision of whether to run or not.