One thing I'll say, I have not enjoyed politics this much in many years. I started off the election season indifferent and cynical, disgusted at the usual state of events, convinced it'd be more of the same stuff. I could not work up any enthusiasm for Clinton, and disliked Obama (I'd read his dissing my baby-boomer generation, and took it personally).
I've changed my tune. Obama's win in Iowa, Bubba's superscilious lecturing, and the wagging of that finger (I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky), Hillary faked moment of emotional vulnerability got me going. Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Obama fired me up.
BOOKER/BLOGGER ALERT — Time cover tease - "Joe Klein: How Al Gore Could Save The Democrats" — "Let's say the elders of the Democratic Party decide, when the primaries end, that neither Obama nor Clinton is viable. … All they'd have to do would be to convince a significant fraction of their superdelegate friends, maybe fewer than 100, to announce that they were taking a pass on the first ballot at the Denver convention, which would deny the 2,025 votes necessary to Obama or Clinton. What if they then approached Gore and asked him to be the nominee, for the good of the party—and suggested that he take Obama as his running mate? … A prominent fund raiser told me, 'Gore-Obama is the ticket a lot of people wanted in the first place."
MORE LIKELY GORE SCENARIO — The N.Y. Observer says the "perhaps most irresistible" window "of opportunity for AL GORE to play a decisive role in this year's Democratic primary contest … will arrive in June, after the voting is over, but before the Clinton campaign can launch a final, all-out push to make Mr. Obama the unelectable candidate."
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