The future of Al Gore

By Michael J.W. Stickings

"Run, Al, Run": This is the title of a new piece by Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone. Key passage:

If the Democrats were going to sit down and construct the perfect candidate for 2008, they'd be hard-pressed to improve on Gore. Unlike Hillary Clinton, he has no controversial vote on Iraq to defend. Unlike Barack Obama and John Edwards, he has extensive experience in both the Senate and the White House. He has put aside his wooden, policy-wonk demeanor to emerge as the Bush administration's most eloquent critic. And thanks to An Inconvenient Truth, Gore is not only the most impassioned leader on the most urgent crisis facing the planet, he's also a Hollywood celebrity, the star of the third-highest-grossing documentary of all time.

It's our must-read of the day. And read it in its entirety you must.

(The great graphic above accompanies Dickinson's piece.)