Reply #19: I believe Al Gore

[Uncle Joe]

is an idealistic pragmatist, after what he went through with the corporate media's continuous slander of him for the better part of two years prior to the selection of 2000, he can't trust them anymore, and with the looming catastrophe of global warming the stakes are too great to try. I believe, he believes that in 2008, the only chance he has of winning is getting in the race late to minimize corporate media slander or be drafted as a write in candidate. The Internet has grown stronger and more influential since 2000, but the corporate media is still the dominant means of information and influence for the American People. I also believe he believes, the corporate media owners and CEOs haven't changed their motivations toward him. He empowered the American People when he became the primary political champion of the Internet, thus threatening their monopoly on information, information = power, money and influence and as the Internet grew in power they came to resent him for it, I call this the Prometheus Effect. The writers' guild strike is just the latest tremor from the seismic creation of the Internet's influence.