An opinion piece from the Times in response to Gore's winning (jointly, with the IPCC) of the Nobel Peace Prize entitled The Trivial Pursuit concludes with these sentences:
Al Gore is a serious man confronted by a political system that is not open to a serious exploration of important, complex issues. He knows it.
“What politics has become,” he said, with a laugh and a tinge of regret, “requires a level of tolerance for triviality and artifice and nonsense that I have found in short supply.”
See the full article here.
Sadly, it seems true. The Office of the President is badly in need of a restoration of trust and integrity, both with the American people and with the rest of the world. And the person most capable of restoring that trust and integrity realizes that the crap that he would have to do to obtain the office would in all likelihood minimize or at least greatly reduce his ability to then rebuild that trust and integrity.
Uh-oh.
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