still agitating for gore...

This little tidbit bummed me out:

Last night a bunch of longtime aides to Al Gore held a much-ballyhooed reunion dinner that had prompted speculation about a Gore run in 2008 -- but the gathering in fact turned out to be an at-times personal and emotional gathering suffused with an acceptance among many that Gore won't run for President, a person who was there tells me.

What this means is Hillary will be the Dem nominee. Barack Obama doesn't have the closing speed; John Edwards is too feminine (and should take a lesson from Hillary on how not to be); Joe Biden is a rancid whore (as is Hillary, alas, although she has the expensive perfume to help obscure the, uhm, rancidity); Bill Richardson doesn't have the cache (or the cash, I'd suspect); and nobody else is relevant.

Hillary's just too powerful for the field, and could very well beat any of the Republicans, who are making a huge mistake in trying to channel Ronald Reagan. (Yo, white boys! That's soooo 27 years ago!)

Al Gore is the only -- repeat, only -- individual who could take her down. And the buzz now is he's not going to attempt it. A great pity!

I have a serious problem with Hillary when she mealy mouths what she'd do with the troops in Iraq, when she promised to introduce legislation back in '00 to repeal the Electoral College (which is what tipped it to Dubya) while failing to follow through, which makes me seriously question her devotion to universal healthcare; when she introduces a flag-burning amendment for no reason other than to project a conservative aura; when she says she's a *cough* Yankee fan, despite having grown up in Chicago and already having professed a love for the Cubs; and when she parties with Rupert F'ing Murdoch, which tells me the media will not be decentralized.
In short, she's a Republican with a barely discernible Dem facade. It'll be more of the same: A pro-Corporate, anti-Consumer, anti-Labor, triangulating, trilateralizing feces-fling.

I'm not happy!