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Former vice-President Al Gore has written a scathing and brilliant editorial in the New York Times:

For well over a year, the Bush administration has used its power in the wrong way. In 2000, I argued that the Bush-Cheney ticket was being bankrolled by "a new generation of special interests, power brokers who would want nothing better than a pliant president who would bend public policy to suit their purposes and profits." Some considered this warning anti-business. It was nothing of the sort. I believe now, as I said then, that "when powerful interests try to take advantage of the American people, it's often other businesses that are hurt in the process" -- most of all, smaller companies that play by the rules.

This view was not partisan. It was based on a plain reading of the history of Republican governance under Presidents Reagan and Bush. And every passing day demonstrates that it was merely the truth.

Al Gore said that in 2000? Seems pretty damned prophetic. The only thing the media reported on, that we recall, was the clothes he was wearing -- and that he rolled his eyes in the UMass debate. Still, how important could warning us about "power brokers who would want nothing better than a pliant president who would bend public policy to suit their purposes and profits" be? I mean, it's not like anything BAD could happen, right?

But the way Gore kept changing his CLOTHES...