Truth, like love, hurts

So we went and saw the Al Gore movie (it has a name - An Inconvenient Truth) and dude! See it. Al Gore is my co-pilot.

As I've told just about everyone I know, I saw Gore speak at a campaign rally in Atlanta lo those many years ago. It was a smaller venue and he was everything you never thought he would be - funny, charming, charismatic and interesting. Also quite tall. I've heard the same things about him in person over and over and it is a great and tragic mystery that this charisma never translates beyond the room he is in.

So the movie actually shows that side, which I think is why there is all this talk of a comeback. Like we would never accept the same boring Gore with his same boring drone, but now that he is all exciting and loose we think he has what it takes. I guess it's good that people are warming up to him (so to speak) but it's sad that it still takes some sort of folksiness to seem like a viable candidate. Intelligence, committment and proven ability to govern would be enough, you would think.

I want to jump right up on the Gore bandwagon and ride.

It's not just the global warming, you know. He has also shown signs of a sort of courage that others lack these days, and that might be why he is becoming a political rock star. He made some amazing anti-war speeches, and has excoriated the administration on a number of issues very publicly. He has spoken his mind seeimngly without regard to political consequences. Because really, what can they do to him that has not already been done? And if he has truly lost fear, great things could happen.

So go see the movie - really - go see it. It's scary but not depressing, if that makes any sense. It won't make you go all catatonic with the enormity of it all. It will make you realize that this is a problem that we need to solve, and more importantly, that we can solve. It is galvanizing. You can find a theatre here. Then get everyone you know to see it. Let's all start talking about this. Let's talk about it like it matters. Let's make solutions to global warming part of the political debate.

For the record, I think he's gonna run. And damned if I won't vote for him. Ooh - Gore/Clark. How does that sound?

And for fun, when you do go, be aware that Gore is on the Apple Computer Board of Directors. Check out his sweet Powerbook and all the loving shots of the Apple logo. Notice that his slideshow is in Keynote, the Apple presentation program, not PowerPoint. (Now if only I could work a Veronica Mars reference in here, we'd have all the bases covered.)