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12/16/2002 Archived Entry: "Al Gore"

"SO LONG THEN, LOSER"- The man whom the London Times sent out to cover former Vice President Al Gore's failed 2000 Presidential campaign, evidently did not have a very good time:

So, farewell then, Albert Gore Jr, the Prince of Tennessee. You made us laugh (mostly at you), you made us cry (heavy tears of boredom). But now you have made us smile. For at last, after a lifetime’s quest for the most powerful job on earth, you have decided to give up. This decision, which saves your country from future misery untold, is the bravest you have ever made and demonstrates that you finally know who you are. So long, loser. But, Jeepers! it took you soooooooooo long to see it...Travelling with Gore during the campaign, on behalf of The Times, was often an excruciating experience — and not just because by the end he was dragging us across the country for 20 manic hours a day, fuelling himself with gallons of Diet Coke. At public events it was hard to find the genuine passion of voters for his candidacy that Clinton had enjoyed. In private, on the rare occasions he came back on the plane, he would be over-anxious to make self-deprecating jokes. Remember, this was the man who dressed as a werewolf and a mummy at Hallowe’en parties, to try to belie his image as a dullard.

I carry no water for Al Gore, but after reading this, you realize that people such as Andrew Sullivan have a point when they claim that journalists, liberal as they are in general, simply loathe Al Gore (found via Lucianne.com).