Fast Company
Jun 28th, 2007 at 12:13 pm by Susie
They have a fascinating interview (to me, anyway - I love business stuff) this month with Al Gore:
That helps explain why, despite the interest from so many Democrats in his political aspirations, he seems genuinely distanced from the idea of running for President–at least for now. “What politics has become,” Gore explains at one point during our discussion, “is something that requires a kind of tolerance for artifice and manipulative communications strategies that I just find I have in very short supply. I just don’t have the patience for things that seem to be greatly rewarded in today’s political system.”
Politically, his outsider status makes him a potential kingmaker.
If this is sour grapes over 2000, it doesn’t sound like it–at least not from the vantage point of 2007. “A politics of ideas, driven by passion, seems to encounter a headwind,” he tells me. “I do think that the Internet is bringing revolutionary transformation. I have not ruled out the possibility of getting into politics sometime in the future,” he says, “but I don’t expect to. Because I don’t expect things to change. If they did change, then I would feel differently.”
