The Transformation of Al Gore

[NYCGirl]

I disagree with this article in that I ALWAYS saw the funny, warm, interesting guy; but I guess you had to look really, really hard to see that.

from the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-greene/the-transformation-of-al-_b_21510.html

The transformation of Al Gore . . . starting with his surprisingly relaxed concession speech in 2000 and more recently seen in his fire and brimstone speeches on the stump, his masterful appearance on Saturday Night Live and now, as the shockingly warm, intimate, passionate and soulful man and his slide show in this superb film . . . is a thrilling case study of what is so terribly wrong in politics and what can be so terribly right.

Every politician should see "An Inconvenient Truth", but not only for the scientific wisdom. They should see it because Al Gore, genuinely the professor here, shows us the true potential power of politics . . the simple yet awesome power of being one's self.

That that power wasn't there in 2000 but is, so profoundly, in the movie, illustrates what is possibly the political teaching for our time.

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Al Gore, left to his own devices, left only to his own very deep and honest passion, has had a spiritual and political transformation that may, indeed, make Americans want to elect him . . . again.