if Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize, to be announced in Oslo on Oct. 12th, he will run for President -- so says political pundit Christopher Hitchens.
http://www.slate.com/id/2174590/fr/flyout
Amazingly, I still meet people who -even knowing what they know now - say they would still vote for Bush over Gore.
"So, and if I am right, the former vice president will then complete a year in which An Inconvenient Truth has been awarded an Oscar and he has authored a best seller. Roll it round your tongue again: an Oscar, a best seller, and a Nobel Prize in the space of 12 months or so. Not bad...
Apart from the awards, not only could Gore claim that he had been a fairly effective senator and a reasonably competent vice president, he could also present himself in zeitgeist terms as the candidate who was on the right side of the two great overarching questions: the climate crisis and the war in Mesopotamia. Should I add that, whether or not he really won the Electoral College in 2000, he did manage to collect the majority of the popular vote? Several people, some of them well-informed, have been saying to me that Gore will wait until the Nobel committee's announcement before he makes up his mind. Should he make up his mind to run, he could alter the entire equation."
http://www.slate.com/id/2174590/fr/flyout
Amazingly, I still meet people who -even knowing what they know now - say they would still vote for Bush over Gore.