Go, Big Al!!

That earlier Teneessean who was elected President and had the election stolen from him, Andrew Jackson, would surely approve. I'm not sure about some of these other folks. But Al Gore's a real Democrat:

Al Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current US administration as "a renegade band of rightwing extremists".

In an interview with the Guardian today, the former vice-president calls himself a "recovering politician", but launches into the political fray more explicitly than he has previously done during his high-profile campaigning on the threat of global warming.

Denying that his politics have shifted to the left since he lost the court battle for the 2000 election, Mr Gore says: "If you have a renegade band of rightwing extremists who get hold of power, the whole thing goes to the right."

The only other person I've ever seen describe himself as a "recovering politician" is Jerry Brown. He later ran for mayor of Oakland and served two terms. Now he's running for California attorney general.

Let's hope Al follows Jerry's lead. Only shooting for the White House in 2008.

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