"Prize Caps Year of Highs for Gore

By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: October 12, 2007
For Al Gore, winning the Nobel Peace Prize today is the latest twist in a remarkable decade of soaring highs and painful lows. In the span of the last decade he went from being the vice president to being the presumptive Democratic nominee for president to winning the popular vote for president only to lose in the Electoral College — after an intervention by the Supreme Court made his 537-vote loss in Florida official."

This is a man to be proud of. Nobel Peace Prize AND Academy Award. Articulate, compassionate, thoughtful and competent.


Well done, Mister Gore. Congratulations. And thanks for showing the Right Stuff in spite of huge temptations not to. You make the Rovian Supremes look like ugly wizened gnomes.

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