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Here's my take on Gore. Everything he did his entire professional life, he did to impress his father. He tried to be everything his father wanted him to be, but at heart, he's a sixties hippie. The numerous colleges, the senatorial seat, the vice-presidency, were all a guy pretending to be something he wasn't. Gore, at heart, is an eco-nut, and is much more comfortable working on the outside of the halls of power than the inside.

He likes being at Sundance. He likes being at Cannes. He likes putting together documentaries and I think he liked teaching at the college. Gore doesn't deal with pressure well. At the end of the 2000 campaign, it was obvious he was sick of being told what to wear, to keep his weight down, being pumped with answers for debates, and being confrontational. He's not a confrontational man by nature. That's why he came off so badly when he tried to bully Bush in the first debate.

Gore might run again, because he detests Hillary. I don't think he's ever forgiven her for kneecapping him as much as she could in 2000. But at heart, he doesn't want to be president. He wants to do what he's doing now.