President Gore Speaks

Imagine this: Al Gore - the true winner of the 2000 US Presidential election - is still in office. There is no war in Iraq and no climate of fear grips the rest of the world. The US is a respected country that does not interfere in the affairs of other foreign nations. I know; it’s pretty damn hard to fathom.

Meanwhile, as the fiddler continues to play, Al Gore speaks his mind. At an economic forum in Stockholm this week, Gore warned against the threat that global warming (a “theory” that the Bush administration continues to ignore) poses to the environment.

“The scientific community is just as clear about the consequences of global warming for our planet, as the meteorologists were very clear in their warnings about what could happen to New Orleans. My country is extremely attentive to the slightest increase in a risk from terror, and that’s appropriate. But why should we be so tolerant of risk where the future habitability of our planet is concerned?”

Imagine…an intelligent president! It would have been nice.