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[The Bobster]

Some of us had a feeling it was coming.

Clearly, I think he wanted to wait until Hillary was gone from the race for good. I think his relationship with the Clinton camp has been strained, at best since the 2000 election. Bill didn't spend a lot of time campaigning for him back then, and the Clinton Popularity Index was pretty close to its lowest ebb as they were getting ready to leave the White House - the Monica thing, painful memories of Hillary's health care fiasco, the general malaise of losing a Democratic Congressional majority during his term and having to endure Newt's conservative revolution - so I think most Gore supporters I that election were happy to distance themselves from the administration he's been working with for most of the last decade.

Regardless, had he endorsed prior to this, the Hillary-ites would be spitting on him as a turncoat even more so than what happened to Richardson a few months ago.

From his website/blog:

[Kuros]

Al will help.

One of the reasons he will help is because he stayed out of the primary fray. But I don't think his reasons for staying out were calculated. I genuinely think Al Gore is an introvert who has tired of the pressures of the limelight. He might have had private preferences as to who would win, but I doubt they were strong, and they certainly were not strong enough to put him back into the limelight.

But Al Gore's foundational reluctance to endorse adds to a sincerity. Notice the introvert has vowed to do 'everything he can' to help Obama win. Al Gore is offering giving up the privacy he treasures. So its clear that Gore's endorsement, now once given, is sincere.

[The Bobster]