Draft Gore in 2008

As if in answer to my suggestion, former Vice President Al Gore says he will not be a candidate for President in 2008--or ever.

But in one of the understatements of the millenium, he says that the United States would be a "different country" had he been elected in 2000.*

"We would not have invaded a country that didn't attack us," he said, referring to Iraq. "We would not have taken money from the working families and given it to the most wealthy families."

"We would not be trying to control and intimidate the news media. We would not be routinely torturing people," Gore said. "We would be a different country."

Gore has not closed the door entirely to running for elective office in the future.

"I don't completely rule out some future interest, but I don't expect to have that," Gore said.

The man should be President right now.

*Note to Mr. Gore: YOU WERE ELECTED IN 2000.