Candidate names His Team
I have been in agreement with those impressed by Al Gore recently and think he would be a good choice to be President. Sunday, June 4, on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” I saw why he wouldn’t be a good candidate. He was there to talk about global warming and his movie on the subject but had to have known that he would be questioned about the current world [Iraq war] situation and about whether he would run for President. His response to the question of what he would do now about Iraq if he was in charge was so incredibly weak that it could probably be the only political ad against him during the campaign and be enough to defeat him. If his plan really was to set himself up for a run you would have to think he would have had a better answer ready, he should have had one ready anyway. His answer to the question about pursuing the presidency made me believe he would only do it if the right circumstances developed, that he really did believe that he might have a better chance of having more positive effect working as he is doing now. Then came the panel discussion and I was already disappointed that the comments were all about the horse race and ignored the substance of what Gore had said when it came time for Claire Shipman to speak. She was dressed in the appropriate bright red. I don’t know who is pimping her, but she is certainly whorin’ for someone. She said that she was sick of hearing about the new Gore, we had just seen the same old Gore as ever and “just look at his face, how could we believe anything he said“. That’s when I threw the remote at the screen and went outside to mow my yard.
Here is the daydream I had while mowing. Sen. Fiengold For pres. He has been, IMO, on the right side of the major issues and has shown some of the political courage that we all seem to want. John Edwards for VP. Maybe you can’t run for the number two spot twice, and maybe he wouldn’t, but if he did and was allowed to campaign on his own domestic message he would bring in many people. Now the kicker. These two get together early along with Gore and campaign as a team starting in the primaries. Feingold would say if he was elected that he would push for a cabinet level agency, headed by Gore, to implement a major effort to make our country more energy efficient and to develop alternate sources. Gore might accept this because he would have a position of real power to persue his cause if all this was successful and also a great soapbox during the campaign. The attention given him might actually be to the point.
This could all be sold as the bold, optimistic, forward thinking plan to keep America strong, prosperous, and secure that it actually could be. They could be promising more than platitudes, they could be promising something that Americans are coming to see that they need and that could be done.
