Oh, Al

[owlmoose]

Al Gore makes an unambiguous statement in support of same-sex marriage.

I get that he can say things that other political figures can't, precisely because he is not running for elected office. And part of me likes him right where he is: the insider/outsider who is able to state what he believes is right and not worry about whether anyone is ever going to vote for him. Maybe he gets more done this way.

But there is another part of me that still wishes that he had made another go of it.

Comments

[coco-keesses.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Has the US had the Cradle to Cradle (http://www.mcdonough.com/cradle_to_cradle.htm) craze take on yet? It's huge here in the NL. I heard Michael Braungart (http://www.braungart.com/indexEN.html) speak recently (very funny guy and speaker) and he gave Gore some pretty harsh criticism. His point that Gore is stating that he's known about environmental issues for so many years, but didn't do much while he was in power in office.

Also interesting was when Gore was awarded the Nobel prize, I watched some German coverage where next to the image of the ceremony during a musical break they played video from the Kyoto agreement and spoke about Gore saying one thing and doing another -- never actually getting the agreement through.

K says this is because the VP doesn't really have power, but still I find them interesting points. And yay for free press!

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

I have heard of "Cradle to Cradle", because some of our classes use it as a text, but I haven't read it and I haven't heard much talk about it elsewhere. So I don't know whether it's caught on in US design circles.

Not only does the VP not have much power, Gore was dealing with a hostile Republican Congress most of the time he was in office. So that probably has as much to do with it as anything. But yes, yay free press. :)