Now that voters in Connecticut have told us that it is time to think about an actual anti-war presidential candidate for 2008, Al Gore is on our minds even more than before.
And we are not alone.
The New Republic tells us so:
If you buy a book it doesn't necessarily mean you want its author to run for president. Obviously. But I bet that this is not the case with Al Gore and his new book An Inconvenient Truth. . . In any case, the book is selling about 20,000 copies a week. Yes, that's right, 20,000. In its ninth week on The New York Times Book Review paperback nonfiction bestsellers list, this coming Sunday, it returns to #1. And that's apparently where it's scheduled to be the following Sunday, as well. It's also #1 in campus bookstores. And on many regional charts, including that of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association and its southern California counterpart. Democratic pols, take notice. [via Taegan Goddard]
Al Gore was here in Nashville over the weekend. Former Vice President Gore attended the Davidson County Democratic Party's second annual Gore Family Dinner Fundraiser, along with keynote speaker Congressman John Murtha. I actually knew this before I read it in Nashville's 'major' daily paper - The Tennessean.
But you may have missed it because it was little more than a blurb buried on page 4 of the local section in the Sunday paper. This is the newspaper that gave The Passion of the Christ a full-fledged front-page spread. The Sunday edition of the Gannett paper, nicknamed The Southern Baptist Times, does have a political section, but somehow the former Vice President of the United States and Congressman Murtha did not merit inclusion. Like I said, we call it The Southern Baptist Times.
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