Sherry Chandler » How is Al Gore like Richard Nixon?
How is Al Gore like Richard Nixon?
Don McNay tells us in his article, Al Gore and the Tennessee Bird Walk, in the Richmond (Kentucky) Register:
I won’t be surprised if Gore wins the presidency in 2008. In a strange way, his career is the 21st century parallel of his father’s arch nemesis, Richard Nixon.
Both Nixon and Gore were a little too serious to be in politics. Both were congressmen, senators and vice presidents at young ages. Both followed two-term presidents and “lost” disputed presidential elections that they were expected to win. Both lost to men of privilege with shorter resumes. Both were written off politically and skipped the next presidential election.
Nixon came back and won eight years later. Gore says he is not running for president, but I bet he will. He has a mission, and the presidency or even a campaign for president is a bully pulpit.
Read the rest of this column for some local perspective on Al Gore and his new film, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
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