Welcome to Higher Thinking! To kick off this web log, former Vice President Al Gore seems a timely topic of discussion. I'm not a "Democrat" as labels tend to be misnomers, and I didn't vote for Al Gore during his presidential bid, but I do believe that he has grown significantly in the past 8 years. I enjoyed the docu-drama 'An Inconvenient Truth', regarded the subsequent theatrical awards as well deserved, and felt that he had finally found his inner voice and audience after years of struggling.
He has proven himself an elegant spokesman of a desperate cause, and I believe him to be an equally disciplined statesman. I was elated to learn that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, and now I have to wonder what caliber of president this Nobel laureate and champion of the Earth might make. The Executive office is a mixture of international and domestic politics, compromises of citizenry in the name of big business and special interests, and palace games on a scale of grandeur befitting of American hubris. Would his noble cause survive, and is it a platform of reform that Americans would relate to?
So, my questions - Should Al Gore run for President of the United States in 2008? If so, on what Platform, and would you vote for him? If not, why?
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