Gore, Interrupted

I used to train CSRs (Customer Service Representatives) for Bank of America. One of the things we taught was: In your closing, if your customer cuts you off before you finish your closing, you get full Quality Assurance credit for delivering the full and complete closing.



So I am accepting this joke of his at the Academy Awards this year as Al Gore's entry into the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election chase. The orchestra's cutoff doesn't count.

I, at this time, will hope for a Gore/Clinton ticket (Al Gore and Hillary Clinton). I think Al needs to accept the fact that the survival of the human race may well depend on his getting the most focused leverage possible, and the Presidency is the place to have that power. In some ways, having the bumpkin Pretendent (Bush) backroom hijack the Presidency for 8 years was a good thing, so that Al's inconvenient truth of our impending global crisis wasn't derailed by 9/11.

Perhaps. But in any case, GORE IN 2008.

We look at Darfur, a cause I have been associated with, and we see that the precipitating event behind the genocide was the drought of the early stages of this ecological crisis. Now, multiple that a thousandfold as India, Pakistan and China (three populous nuclear powers) face droughts. We have a problem that all the obfuscating in the world won't stop.

We have to fight for survival on a level greater than ever before in human history. We need leaders who aren't so stupid, so bought and paid for, so arrogant, that they can accept the reality and work for a sane and survivable future.