I just about spewed my Coke Zero when I read this:

"It may be easier to fix it from the outside," he said. "Again, I haven't ruled out for all time thinking about politics again. It's just that the way it works now, I don't think that the skills I have are the ones that are most likely to be rewarded within this system. It's like a washing machine that is permanently set on the spin cycle. It doesn't stop spinning. That creates real problems for a politics based on reason."

Al Gore's liberties with the facts in "An Inconvenient Truth" are enough to put him in the hall of fame, but his new tack--reason in politics, is undoubtedly the biggest piece of spin yet, and the most ironic.

If Al Gore could be said to have a skill, its identifying social trends that potentially culminate in the creation of new political constituencies--after all Al invented the Internet. Well of course he didn't and he paid a heavy price for his intemperate remarks, but what he did do was identify the Internet as a potentially useful political issue--Gore saw what was going on and coined a term--the "Information Superhighway" Unfortunately, the Internet wasn't a crisis or a have-have-not issue. No one was getting elected for supporting the Internet, and so Gore cast about for another social trend he could exploit--ah! the Environment. Gore wrote "Earth in the Balance", clearly seeking to be the David Koresh of the environmental movement. His claims were met with ridicule, but he got respect from the faithful, which set him up for a leadership role in the Global Warming inquisition.

While I wouldn't say Gore has abandoned climate change as a vehicle to higher office the way he apparently abandoned the Internet, he is at least hedging his bets or perhaps padding his guru resume and that's where I find the irony--the spinmeister has realized that political spin-vertigo is the new hot political issue.

Pretty ballsy thing to do, wouldn't you think, but its pretty much standard Democrat practice--look at Hillary--for the war absolutely and all the way. Now? Not so much.

One simply has to take one's own worse sins, and lay it on the Republicans.