Remember what Tipper said about Gore and his daddy...
'Al has a way of looking at you like his eyes are kind of burning,' said Nashville Tennessean reporter John Warnecke.You would get that when you mentioned his dad'.
Asked in a 1987 interview about relations between father and son, Tipper Gore said:'You remember Oedipus?' She quickly added that she was kidding, sort of. 'You had a very powerful father - a hero to many people - and a son coming to maturity and learning to find his own dignity.'
Inventing Al Gore by Bill Turque, p. 30
I hadn't seen that quote, but that's along the lines of what I was thinking....
Gore ran in '88 and in '92. Back then, there was lots of talk that he wasn't all that keen personally on being a politician. That he was raised to be one, but hadn't really thought it was his niche.
But he had no other skills, and there was lots of pressure from both his father and his mother to continue 'in the family business.'
Poor little rich kid. With some deep wells of resentment. They probably reveal themselves through his eyes when he's not careful to keep his mask on....