The Greatest Living American

Al Gore is the greatest living American patriot. He may be the greatest American since Abraham Lincoln.

But he is in the wilderness now, biding his time, yet doing more than any mere citizen could be expected to do in service to his country.

For all his failures, the mocking of the right, and for such a valiant trust in the Constitution that he forfeited the Presidency in January, 2001, he is the one person who has articulated the greatness of this country time and again and who continues to demand that we reach for the highest ideals embodied by our nation's birth.

Despite the last five years of failures, ineptness and weakness under our current Incompetent in Chief™, Al Gore has kept the spirit of Democracy in his mind and has tried to force our citizens to be responsible for its safekeeping. What a world we would live in if he were our president today instead of the current occupant of the White House (and I use that term most disparagingly - I can barely assign him that.)

Would we be so dependent on Arabian oil? Would we be facing the bulldozing of one of our great historic cities? Would the religious right be dictating our laws, our science, our culture? No, no. No, no and no.

Yet the media ignores Al Gore. These pampered millionaires party behind their gates in privacy and seclusion. The traitors and hucksters on the radio make fun of him. The citizenry is oblivious. Gore's calls to the spirits of our past whistle through the ether, the words dissipate before sticking. It is a profound disgrace: the man who "lost" the presidency by one vote on the Supreme Court has been marginalized by the country; all his great work has been cleansed from the picture like the photo retouching specialized in by the Soviets.

It is at our great peril as a nation that we don't beat down the doors of the White House with his current words on our pitchfoks. If our nation survives this horrible leadership of cronies and flunkies, it will be through the sheer will of these words and against the willful ignorance of a President who can't be bothered with the truth, who can't see the facts in front of his face.