Good column by Krugman. To get get away from the rightwing's hatred of Gore for a second, though, it's really remarkable how many things the man has been right about. And not right in the safe way, where he stood in a concrete consensus and agreed with it. But right before the rest of us were. Right when it was still dangerous. About the internet, where The New Republic, in 1988, laughed that “decades from now…if our supercomputers lie lonely and unlinked,” they'd regret not listening to that nice, young, slightly peculiar man from Tennessee. He was right on the Ozone Layer, and on Global Warming. Right on the first Iraq War, and right on the second. I know prescience and predictive accuracy don't much matter for politicians but I'm hard-pressed to come up with anyone, of either party, who's seen as far, or as clear, as Gore.
