I am a strong supporter of Al Gore because of his early and unwavering vision of the need for a revolution in global civilization. This alone would single him out among all American leaders, yet he has also had a profound influence in other areas as well. His stellar leadership for DarpaNet led to the early and robust emergence of the Internet as we now use it (as evidenced by his winning of a "Webby" this year). His work on nuclear proliferation gave him a capability we now sorely need. His early and strong stand against the Iraq invasion was prescient. Only a handful of Democrats such as Gore, Byrd and Kennedy had the guts to say that Bush had politicized the war by calling for a congressional vote BEFORE the 2002 midterm elections.

A previous letter noted a disagreement with Gore on his position on marijuana in 2000. I agree with the criticism generally, but I would urge people to view his policy positions in perspective. That is to say, while I don't agree with every one of Gore's positions, I could not find any American politician with whom I would agree more often or more enthusiastically, because of his uncanny focus on the most important issues.

Also, it simply is impossible to find any prominent leader without "warts." Bobby Kennedy started his political career as a staffer for Joe McCarthy in the witch hunt for communists in the 1950s. Robert Byrd once belonged to the Klan. And so on.

What is important to me is not the individual foibles of any politician but rather his positions on the most important issues. That is why I support Al Gore more enthusiastically than any Democrat. He should be re-elected in 2008. I believe he is the Churchill of this era of history, the leader who can galvanize our nation and the world in addressing the greatest threat of our era, climate change.

"Without a vision, the people perish." Gore 2008.

Katrina had an effect on the collective psyche. It was a wake up call. The pain of the event created a small earthquake in our complacency. But the default position is to go back in our inertia to business as usual. After 30 years of warnings this letter from Al Gore can be thrown on the pile of thousands and thousands of publications and warnings that have done nothing to really change the status quo. Nothing was done up until today because our planet sustained the abuse we have thrown at it. Maybe this is finally changing. We will change only when we get hammered and hammered again by natural events and socio-economic events that hit us in rapid sequence as consequences to our dysfunctional unsustainable consumerism unfold. The transformation Al Gore talks about isn't going to happen without suffering and enormous social upheaval. Our collective idealogy will not change until the basic infrastructure that supports it collapses.

I wish Gore would win the Presidency in 2008. He should at least run and give it a shot. The man is brilliant. History will show that most of the best real accomplishments to come out of the Clinton Presidency were Gore's accomplishments. With every passing year since 2000, I've gained more respect for Gore and lost more respect for Clinton.

The sad thing is that if he never does become president, the history books will relegate him to an afterthought on par with Calhoun and William Jennings Bryan.

Al Gore writing an articles about leadership! We wouldn't be in this mess with George Bush if Al Gore had stepped up with a little leadership in 2000 and 2004.

It's a little too late to agitate to cut greenhouse gases. According to the Congressional Reports the artic ice cap will melt within 20 years (Bush is pushing this so we sign the UN treaty allowing the US to participate in divvying up the oil under the artic). We need to plan pronto how we are going to deal with the droughts in the Midwest, glaciers destroying ecosystems that we depend on for food, moving the artic oil to the strategic reserve before we can't get to it at all, and how we'll handle Great Briton, the land of our best (only?) friends becoming uninhabitable.

Conservatives will be ever-so-pleased � with the magnitude of the disaster that is going to hit in the next 12-30 years, environmental impact statements will be a thing of the past.

Gore won not only the popular vote, but also the electoral vote. Every media consortium, analyst and actual vote count confirms this fact. Bush is a complete fraud and will never be legitimate. Further, with Bush's hijacking of the presidency, I knew that this world was in grave danger, as what we needed was the EXACT OPPOSITE of what Bush represented. We needed the exact opposite of the Big Oil Company Pawn running the world into the apocalypse. We needed Gore desperately and the stolen presidency of 2000 may be the most significant political catastrophe, leading to the most significant global castrophe, in recorded history.