When I caught up with Al Gore at his home in Nashville last December, the former Vice President--turned-green-guru was in a pensive mood. I was surprised -- he was just finishing his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, which he was due to give in Stockholm a few days later. For a man who had lost the Presidency in the most agonizing way possible, winning the Nobel should have offered some consolation. But when I asked Gore if he felt vindicated, he shook his head. "It's hard to celebrate recognition of an effort that has thus far failed," he said. He was referring to his work not only to awaken the world to the danger of climate change, but to get us to really do something about it. "I'm not finished, but thus far, I have failed. We have all failed."
| I'm mighty daggone glad the 2000 election came out the way it did. This guy's weird. |
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