Yep... And to lead the country after 9/11. Imagine the unmitigated disaster if Gore had been in the White House at that time.
Actually, I’ve said for years that the U.S. might have been better off with Gore in the White House on 9/11. He was always a calculating political @sshole, and if he thought it would have enhanced his stature in history he would have had no qualms about turning all of Afghanistan — and maybe Pakistan, too — into a smoking radioactive ruins. And the U.S. media would have given him all the political cover he would have needed, too.