The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Time Person of the Year

    By AmericanDreamer on Tue, 08/01/2006 - 3:31pm |

    If I had a vote for Time magazine Person of the Year and they picked the winner today, I would vote for Al Gore.

    Call it "Revenge of the Nerd" or whatever you want. Our times demand serious people who understand the world as it is and have the judgment to be able to size up what we should--and should not--be investing our time and attention doing as a nation.

    More than any person, Al Gore has brought a totally unsexy yet fundamental issue to the point where it is at last getting the attention it desperately needs. He was also right in opposing the Iraq war, and in speaking out forcefully and eloquently on the danger to our freedoms posed by the Bush Administration embrace of the Omnipotent Executive theory of government.

    To anticipate the inevitable comparisons with Nixon, can anyone imagine Tricky Dick continuing to pursue some unglamorous cause when he was out of power and thought to be finished?