Dreams and Nightmares
October 10th, 2007The Nation, on Yahoo!, is running an article today about the Draft Gore movement. I have long been a member and have long believed Gore the best Democratic candidate available, and so it warms my heart to believe that he may still run, although I doubt it. Wouldn’t it be something if he won the Peace Prize on Friday and then announced a run for President? Might be wishful thinking, but I am a dreamer.
In much less inspiring, hopeful news, tragedy has taken a greater hold in Burma, as an activist was tortured to death during interrogation. Oh, they don’t put it that way — he merely “died” during interrogation, he wasn’t killed, no no, but we all know the truth, and it is a truth which bludgeons humanity with its evil. I actually believe that the monks of the world, specifically in Burma but everywhere who face opression (like in China, where they banned reincarnation, as I commented on here) would deserve the Peace Prize just as much as Al Gore or anyone else would.
Now, on a slightly related but mainly unrelated note — let me say, It’ll be a nightmare for Mitt Romney to be elected President of the United States. Not just because he’s a cruel, sick man but because his response, when asked what he would do in a crisis with Iran, was ask the Lawyers.
Bravo, Governor Boston the third — you’re almost as dumb as John Kerry and Michael Dukakis before you, and that counts for something, right?