US elections 2008: Al Gore and the burden of history 14 Articles

by Maureen Bachert

The "burden of history" cannot be assessed in eight short years. It is realized over a long period of time that is judged by people, usually called Historians, that examine the entire life of an individual long after...read more

by Barry Girolamo

Al Gore is really quite an interesting character, and I don't believe that history will judge him with more than a mediocre rating as a Vice President, and a total flop as a presidential candidate. As for the 2008 pre...read more

by Ted Sherman

One writer on this subject proclaims: "The burden of history is difficult to 'bare'." Question: Is this burden to "bare" involve Al Gore or Britney Spears? It would have been consistent if the writer had also brought u...read more

by Michael Burgwin

Will he or won't he? The man many political observers believe would significantly change the landscape in the run to the 2008 election continues to claim a loss of interest in the political process. Hillary, Obama and E...read more

by Samuel Adeyemi

Still basking in the euphoria of his Oscar winning documentary on environment, former Vice President to President Bill Clinton, Albert Gore Jnr, according to latest reports is considering running for the 2008 US presidency...read more

by Melba Dagan

History is a strange thing. It is written to teach the future generations what a historian wants them to think is true. But, we have found that history can be manipulated. Many of the things we were taught have been pro...read more

by Behnam

For quite a while every one on the Planet has know or has got used to the expression United States has a Global Hegemony. Does Global Hegemony, however, have a United States. No one has played around and shown a presence o...read more

by Joshua Warren Christian

Things that are very likely to happen if Al Gore were to run and win the election of 2008: - Gas prices would absolutely soar. With the environmental restrictions and regulations he would want to place, you would have l...read more

by Marie Devine

Keep in mind the US elections of 2008 are not over yet. The burden of history will show that Al Gore will have done more for the nation and the world out of government than he could have done in government. Al Gore was...read more

by Morrow Hall

The burden Al Gore left us with was the election (well, sort of) of Junior Bush in 2000. It was Gore's fault, or that of his handlers. Al Gore was as wooden as a cigar store Indian - almost as wooden as Dukakis was a fe...read more

by C. Mackenzie

In terms of his past political history, his conduct while under public scrutiny for his political activities, and his past and present involvement in environmental work, I find Al Gore to be a potent and qualified Democrat...read more

by Robert Dixon

The burden of history is difficult to bare, especially when historians are taken out of the equation. Speculators and pundits have maligned Florida, because Mr. Gore lost the race for the presidency in 2000. Thus, the fall...read more

by Lamar Despain

Mr Gore and many others like him have succeeded in history because of that horrible word called apathy. The other reason is that other horrible word called greed. Something for little or nothing. "If the government wan...read more

by Jake Berensen

Of all the elections I've seen in my lifetime I have yet to see a loser more ridiculous in their behavior after the election than Al Gore, although John Kerry came close. The political pundits have done their best to rewri...read more