Dana Milbank thinks Iowans are too stupid to understand Gore's book

[AlGore-08.com]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/29/AR2007052902038.html

Is It Wise to Be So Smart?
By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, May 30, 2007; Page A02

A capacity crowd of 1,500 people jammed into Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University last night for Al Gore's speech and book-signing. But the numbers don't matter: Even if Gore were speaking before a sellout crowd at Verizon Center, he would still be the smartest guy in the room.

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And therein lies a problem for the Gore '08 bubble.

Publication this month of Gore's jeremiad against Bush, "The Assault on Reason," has fed fervent hopes among environmentalists and others on the left that he will run again for the presidency -- an unlikely prospect, but one Gore does not completely dismiss. Yet reading Gore's book, or listening to his speeches, may remind some of those same supporters what they liked least about him the first time he ran, in 2000. Gore is usually smart and sometimes prophetic -- but, all too frequently, pedantic.

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Imagine the Iowa hog farmer cracking open "Assault on Reason," and meeting Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Paine, John Kenneth Galbraith, Walter Lippmann, Johannes Gutenberg, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Jefferson and Marshall McLuhan -- all before finishing the introduction.

I gotta go with Dana Milbank here. After six years of incompetence, cronyism and blind allegiance to ideology, the LAST thing we Americans need to do is THINK! :sarcasm: