Where's Al...

...going to pop up next?





This weekend his film is up for a number of awards at the Oscars, for An Inconvenient Truth. But what will follow. For some there is a hope he will announce his intention to run for president.

It is hard to imagine. He has rebuilt, and remodeled his image. He is no longer seen as just stiff, awkward, or the son of Clinton. He has paid his dues, spent his time in the wilderness, and taken on the good fights.

"People think that he's paid his dues, he's had more of an impact on issues that people care about than many people who have been in office and there's a feeling that he's finally lost that student council condescension that was fingernails on a blackboard to a lot of supporters," Kaplan said.

Democrats are desperate to win. Doubts have begun to surface about the electability of the party's current front-runners. How's this for an argument? Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.

"He was right on Iraq. He was right on global warming. He has an issue that is so formidable and has attacked it, tackled it," Bender said. "So I would love to see him run, sure, but I don't see that in the cards."

I like him, and would like to see him to run. He is far from perfect, but we all know that well enough. What is right in his work makes up for much of it.

Will he run, is he a pancea, or what the market wants? Really, it is hard to say.