We are about to learn a lot about Al Gore, none of it good. To his detractors, it has been obvious for years that Al Gore was an egotistical, arrogant, uneducated, incompetent ass. He constantly lied about nearly everything and scornfully refused to debate the inferior few who failed to pass out in the shadow of his brilliance. At the same time he made scathing remarks about the character of George Bush, he apparently never seemed capable of considering his own potential for error. The media would have us believe that privately he was this warm and friendly family guy. Please! While there are a lot of people who pretend to be nice in public only to be total jerks in private, most people who are jerks in public are even worse in private.
His global warming movie was a pathetic eight grade level production spewing utter nonsense, but since it was from St. Al Gore and since most of the main stream media continue to be global warming Kool Aid drinkers, it was celebrated as a major accomplishment.
But regardless of the false image presented by the media, Al Gore continued to be….Al Gore. The sheen started to come off when it became more and more obvious that global warming is at least delayed for a while. Then we got the “surprise” announcement that he and Tipper Gore were separating. How could this be, when he was such a really nice guy. There was no affair of course. (Right! We all believed that one.) But someone, the National Inquirer, did what the main stream media never even considered. They started investigating. It took them about a week to find out that Gore was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Oregon. And, opps, there are documents. The FBI refused to investigate. The media refused to investigate. Eventually Gore apparently bribed his way out of trouble. Sound familiar?
This is very similar to what happened to Tiger Woods. He gets into a strange automobile accident just before Thanksgiving and most people are only worried about whether he was injured. But, for the first time, the main stream media actually started to “look” at Mr. Woods and oh my, what a mess. Not exactly the warm and fuzzy family man that was being presented to everyone.
Two predictions. First, Al Gore is going to go the route of Tiger Woods. All of the ugliness is going to come out and it will be very bad indeed. Someone doesn’t pull a stunt like Gore did in Oregon on an isolated basis. This is so outrageous that there has to be a long pattern of similar behavior. Second, at some point this will happen to Obama. It may already be happening because of the Rod Blagojevich trial. Blago’s assistant testified that Blago believed that Obama was in on the fix to nominate Valerie Jarrett as the new Senator from Illinois. Why wouldn’t he believe it? It is consistent with everything he knew about Obama.
As Al Gore is now finding out, once the press gets on the trail, the hounds get excited and they don’t stop until the rabbit is dead. Barack Obama may be about to learn the same thing. The only difference is that there are a lot more targets of opportunity with regard to Obama than nearly anyone else. The rumors about Rahm Emmanuel being out at the White House are very significant. Someone with his lust for power would never leave willingly. He either got an offer he can’t afford to turn down, or he is exiting stage right before the curtain falls. The McChrystal affair is even more damaging. McChrystal let down his guard and admitted that he thought Obama was an incompetent boob. McChrystal is a lot of things, but incompetent is not on the list. The real problem with what he said is that it was all too easy to believe. Maybe, just maybe, the press will at least pretened to actually check Obama out. Once they start looking, they will quickly find out that nothing checks out. That, is the real danger for Obama.
TDM