Meanwhile...

Former Vice President Al Gore has apparently taken himself out of Presidential consideration in 2008.
Frankly who can blame him? It is hard enough for any candidate whose views are vaguely more humane than that of Alaric the Visigoth to get a fair hearing...doubly so for Al Gore.
Maybe this is for the best, the very people who dismissed Gore as "flawed" and "a poor campaigner" were pretty much the same bunch opportunistically hyping him for 2008.

So the anti-Clintonistas must now return to the well to dredge up another candidate.
Humble Elias own theory is, the Deaniacs are lying in wait.
If the dems do well this fall the Dean faction will come surging from out their redoubts with the credible claim that their boy's chairmanship of the DNC brought the democrats back to power...hence he ought to be President. By then, the anti Hilary Clinton faction (having shuffled the deck a more than a few times) may well be receptive to an appeal from the former Vermont Governor.
So we shall see.
failing another run from our own John Kerry, Humble Elias thinks there is a palpable need out there for a new face, preferably a governor someone with a strong record outside DC.