When Al Gore says he is undecided on endorsing a candidate, I wonder if he's hoping that we suddenly forget that he spent eight, I repeat, eight years as Bill Clinton's Vice-President. Just imagine the number of hours they spent together as Whitehousemates. The subtext to his statement is that he supports Obama, but doesn't want to give such an explicit slap in the face of his former bff Bill. Take that Hillary!
As for me, I think this election is a third and possibly last chance for Americans to root out the Evil Empire that has been created behind their backs (a more serious approach on this can be found in Chomsky's Failed States and Vidal's Dreaming War). After listening and reading some of Obama's speeches, I can only hope that it's not simply a rhetorical façade. If he becomes the president and succeeds in turning his back on lobbyists, fixing the HMO disaster (watch Sicko by Michael Moore), and ending the USA's neo-imperialist foreign policy, then maybe, just maybe, the US will save itself from an impending hegemonic meltdown.
To answer the question of why Hillary can't bring the desperately needed change, I give you John Edwards:
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