Al Gore wins!
That's the headline that should have run in November 2000.
Cheers to former Vice President Al Gore for winning a much-deserved Nobel Peace Prize. Gore was honored for his efforts, centered on the documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," to raise world awareness of the perils of global warming. He shares the award with a United Nations agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Screw you, bastards. You know who I mean.
Gore in once sense was the victim in 2000 of his own mistakes and bad advice from consultants, but every politician goes through that. Much more importantly, he was the victim of an ascendant American right wing, which was not about to let its "final victory" over the New Deal-progressive Democrat era be snatched away. Gore's foes used every technique, fair or foul, but mainly the latter, to give Republican George W. Bush the presidency. America has paid a terrible price, and there needs to be a reckoning.
I can only imagine how Gore feels today. Vindication, exultation, the sweet sense that he has whipped the people who tormented him. My fondest hope is that he will now enter the race for the 2008 Democratic nomination.