“What politics has become requires a level of tolerance for triviality and artifice and nonsense that I have found in short supply.”
Al Gore quoted by Bob Herbert, who also writes:
Mr. Bush came to mind because, for all of the obvious vulnerabilities he exhibited in 2000, it was not him but Mr. Gore who was mocked unmercifully by the national media. And the mockery had nothing to do with the former vice president’s positions on important policy issues. He was mocked because of his personality.
In the race for the highest office in the land, we showed the collective maturity of 3-year-olds.