An Inconvenient Truth
May 24th, 2006 at 7:27 pm by Susie
Opening this weekend. Go see it. In the meantime, here’s the trailer, and here’s a Newsweek piece by Howard Fineman:
So why would he even fleetingly consider politics again?
For one—to paraphrase a slogan once applied to Barry Goldwater—in his heart, Gore knows he’s right. He’s been ahead of more curves than a NASCAR driver: the concerns about global warming, the implications of the rise of the internet, the need to be wary of deadly friction along the faultline between Islam and the West, his early and deep opposition to the launching a war in Iraq. It’s an impressive record.
“The reason people don’t like Gore is that he has been right so damn many times,†James Carville told me with an appreciate laugh.
