Last week was not a good one for Al Gore. Not only did he fall further behind George W. Bush in various polls, but he made an extraordinary comment in response to Wolf Blitzer on CNN that will come back to haunt him. Blitzer asked Gore why Democrats should support him and not Bill Bradley.
Quoth Al: "I'll be offering my vision when my campaign begins, and it'll be comprehensive and sweeping, and I hope that it'll be compelling enough to draw people toward it. I feel that it will be. But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Anything you say, Al. The best rejoinder came from House majority leader Dick Armey: "If the vice president created the Internet, then I created the Interstate Highway System." We look forward to Bradley's riposte.