Fresh off Nobel Prize win, we need Gore in '08

According to the will of Alfred Nobel - ironically, the inventor of dynamite - the Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

The most noble and noteworthy winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, among the 2,000 or so scientists serving on the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is the man who used to be "the next president of the United States." I won't get started on a rant about the Electoral College, but the people of this nation picked the right candidate. According to the 105,417,258 Americans who voted in the 2000 presidential election, 51,003,926 people allied themselves with Albert Arnold Gore Jr., but since the election, he has turned into a philanthropist, activist and role model for citizens of the world.

You better believe a little lingering resentment rests within the soul of this great man over losing to a second generation, silver spoon-fed tyrant who defended his veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, preventing low-income children from getting health care coverage, by saying "poor kids first." According to The New York Times, Gore warned in 2002 that if we invaded Iraq, "the resulting chaos could easily pose a far greater danger to the United States than we presently face from Saddam." Today marks the five-year anniversary of President Bush's signing of the congressional authorization to use military force in Iraq.

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