Al Gore Finally Won Something

So Al Gore won an Oscar. I want to be happy for him. I really do. With a lot of hard work he let a bunch of people know that global warming is a serious problem without coming off as a complete stiff. If he worked half as hard running for president as he had pimping this movie, we wouldn't have been stuck with this idiot monkey of a president we've got now. Sure, everybody loves Al the lecturing filmmaker. He's the toast of liberal Hollywood. Don't these people realize that it's his rotten campaigning and poor choice of a running mate that can be directly to blame for Bush? I suppose it's a lot easier to blame Ralph Nader for that since he doesn't have a hugely successful documentary out now. But the blame Nader thing is stupid. I've said it before and I'll say it again, that election was Al's to lose. He was the VP of one of the most popular presidents ever, running on a strong record of good times, against a complete doofus who has skated through his entire life because of who his family is and still managed to screw up everything he touched. And Al lost it magnificently. He hired a bunch of egomaniacal political strategists who gave him awful advice. He didn't offer any kind of exciting policy, just more of the same drivel as before. He didn't throw the base a single bone. He was pro-death penalty, pro-corporate globalization, didn't even mention anything about health care reforms or really any reforms whatsoever. And as a final fuck you to the people whose votes he was taking for granted, he chose a running mate who was just effectively kicked out of the democratic party by his constituents for being too much of a republican. He lost our votes, and we got stuck with Bush. Sorry if I sound bitter, but as far as I'm concerned, Al Gore can take his Oscar and shove it straight up his ass. And don't even get me started on that wife of his...