What About Gore?

Any rational democrat is concerned that the presidency is slipping away. Once again, we democrats are our own worse enemy. It is becoming increasingly clear that there will not be a clear winner in Denver, one everyone who is active now will support. Obama people will not support Hillary (he has said this) and while he counted on her supporters being more amenable, that too is slipping away. What are we to do?? Maybe John Edwards saw this coming when he said, "I am the only grownup in the room" and he may have been right at least in the eyes of the general public.

I blame the democratic leadership for this because they may have been too cute by half in planning this primary/causus calendar. They purposely put certain southern states after Iowa and NH maybe to bring out the AA vote but they clearly discounted the enormous appeal of BO. Remember when the schedule of contests was set, HC was the presumptive winner and BO a marginal candidate to be encouraged to gain the base support and bring it to the polls in Nov. This is probably what Jessie Jackson has done in the past but Barack is different and so are the times. He is a genuine political force. However, as Abigail Adams wrote to John, "do not forget the women."

And so we are at an real rock hard impasse that can cause significant damage to the party not just for this year but for several years. Maybe, just maybe, we will have to get the parents of the party together and get everyone to get behind a third person, so this party can win in November and bring both blacks and women home together. If either candidate, BO or HC fails to fully support this candidate and bring this party together, their true colors in all of this will show. Such a failure will indicate their candidacy was the person and a particular cause than the good of this country.

And so, I ask, what about Gore?