Hillary Clinton

Are we going to hear about Hillary and her emotionally debut for the next six months? Did it really have something to do with her winning the primary in New Hampshire? Do we want someone in the White House that comes to tears because she lost the first race? Why does a woman need to start to cry for the press to say it "humanizes" her, wasn't she human before the show of emotion?

The Nobel Peace Prize going to Al Gore has set off a new spasm of talk about the possibility that Gore might yet save us and run for president. Even hardcore progressive activists are hoping he joins the race.

In an AlterNet readers' poll last year (in which Noam Chomsky won the MVP for "Most Valuable Progressive"), Gore was far and away the preferred Democratic candidate.