Al,
I’m cognizant that I’m about to engage in the worst sort of hypocrisy: selfishly demanding selflessness of another. I know that I haven’t the right, but dire necessity stirs me on anyway.
We need you to run for President in 2008.
Why?
Many would cite your deep understanding of the impending climate crisis, arguing that only you can bring about the requisite paradigm shift. Others would point to your vociferous opposition to the Iraqi calamity long before it was popular to do so, and when it could still be avoided. Your vision and good judgment has earned you the nickname "Goracle". To be sure, I think we’d be hard pressed to find a political figure with a more comprehensive grasp of these issues, but this is not the impetus for my request.
I’m not a believer in messianic politics. There will be no knight in shining armor to extricate us from this mess. And yet, I find much promise in the fact that the complex dilemmas arrayed before us are largely of our own inception and subject to our unmaking.
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