...and won't run in 2008. And I'm quite at Peace with that, and here's why:

What happened in 2000 was unprecedented. Gore WON that election. We know that. But he didn't get the job. It was excruciatingly disappointing for us all. If there was ANYONE who was qualified to lead the United States of America into a new Millennium, it was Al Gore. It really HURT to see the most unqualified, brain-dead, poor excuse for even a monkey get the job, instead - on his Daddy's name and his Daddy's connections - when we all know he lost.

Call it Fate. Call it God. Call it Universal Power or Universal Wisdom or whatever suits you.

BUT Maybe - just maybe, the Universe or whatever you choose to call it - had BIGGER plans for Mr. Gore. Maybe - just maybe, he's right where he needs to be and where he was intended to be and where WE need him to be right now. And that's NOT in the White House. Maybe "somebody up there" knew that.

Mr. Gore is too busy to be President. He's too busy trying to save humanity from itself. That's a LOT bigger and more important job than POTUS. Mr. Gore is busy trying to get this race of humans to STOP busily and stupidly sawing off the branch upon which our very existence is perched - the planet.

And THAT is more important and more prescient than the job of POTUS. Maybe - just maybe, someone or something - some Universal Wisdom or Power or whatever you want to call it - knew that - and chose Gore NOT to be President, but instead to lead this cause, for JUST that reason.

Because NO ONE else could do what Gore is doing. NO ONE else WOULD do what he's doing. NO ONE else has the drive, or passion or the curiosity about, or the involvement with the environment and environmental science to do what he's doing. He's THE MAN for this job. He's been at this stuff for YEARS. He's been showing that slide presentation for what - 20 years now? He's studied the science for years with the best scientists in the world - and gone all over the world to do it.

SOMEBODY up there - maybe - just maybe - KNEW that. And maybe, just maybe - that's why even though he WON in 2000, he didn't get that job - because there was a much much more important job that he had to do and NO ONE else could do it, and somehow, somebody, some power, somewhere, KNEW that and so Al is right where we need Al to be -- doing exactly what only HE can do: Saving us from ourselves. And that makes the job of POTUS look like tiddlywinks (and GWB is even screwing THAT up, of course).

That's MY philosophy on it, anyway. Al Gore is doing exactly what he rightfully should be doing and things worked out the way did for a damn good reason: Because NO ONE else can do the most important job in the World except Al Gore. And he's doing it, right now. And it's a hella more important than being POTUS in 2000 or 2008.

The man is busy. The Universe gave him a job to do. He's DOING it. Leave him alone!