Letters to the Editor
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We need you, Al
Al Gore is easily one of the most underrated public servants in recent memory. Worse, the press seems to delight in belittling his accomplishments. In 2000, the Washington press corps abandoned their civic duty and chose, instead, to contrive a conflict between the Intellectual and the Everyman. Did Mister Gore invent the Internet? Of course not, despite comments taken comically out of context. He was an early evangelist and sponsored funding that enabled the creation of this great medium. Is Mister Gore a stiff, unemotional bureaucrat? I don’t think so. As a volunteer on the Clinton/Gore campaign I often saw him speak and met him twice. I found him to be deeply earnest, exceptionally intelligent, and wryly funny. Above all, the United States needs a leader with such qualities. I know he has been badly bruised by the process and those in his own party. I appreciate his ongoing contributions to progressive thinking and causes, but I hope Mister Gore (arguably President Gore) elects to run for the presidency. I would gladly work on his campaign again, and pledge to work even harder to make sure – this time – we get it right.