In 1999, Al Gore wrote a book called "Earth in the Balance", in which he proposed an ecological presidency of sorts. If one looks at it today, it is amazing how well Mr. Gore predicted the future. In his book, Mr. Gore asserted that the core problem of America was the internal combustion engine, whose gas slupping ineffiency, global warming pollutant production and its ravenous need for Middle East oil would in the end be the bane of this nation. For this, Mr. Gore was held up by the right as "unpatriotic", as if belief in the internal combustion engine was tantamount to belief in flag and country, as Limbaugh and Hannity asserted that the V8 and Apple Pie were the same thing. I cannot help but feel that Mr. Gore is being proved catastrophically correct, as we face the loss of a war in the Middle East and a meteroic rise in oil prices, as we witness an unprecedented hurricane that gained strength more rapidly than expected over the fossil-fuel warmed waters of the Gulf. I am becoming increasingly convinced that the election of 2000 will be seen as one of those watershed elections, like that of Lincoln in 1860, whose repurcussions are only now being seen. It is unfortunate the Democrats did not run Mr. Gore in 2004, on the "I told you so" platform. Perhaps we can start a movement to get Gore to run for the House, where he can be elected Speaker by the next obviously future Democrat Congress, followed by the impeachment of Cheny and Bush, which would place Gore in the Presidency. Looking at current polls, I can see that a majority is easily in favor of correcting this national mistake.