Hands down. He is so disappointing. In 1992, he was running for the democratic primary. It was my first time being old enough to vote, and I was very much into environmental issues. He had just written the book Earth in the Balance. It's a pretty dang good book. I was doing a little advocating for him. Then he lost in the primaries. Ok, fine. And then he becomes vice president. That's pretty cool.
While he's VP, the administration does NOT ONE TIME bring the Kyoto Protocol before the Senate for ratification. I don't care if you're most likely going to lose. Bring the freaking thing to the Senate. At least TRY. Stand up and fight for what you believe. Nope, not big Al. We hardly hear a peep out of him or Clinton for the last several years in the white house.
As soon as he's no longer in there, he's flying around the world giving presentations about how important global warning is. Give me a freaking break. He should be embarrassed. You're in one of the top positions in one of the most powerful governments in the world, and you barely do a thing. Then you fly around getting paid and awards arguing that same cause that you ignored. And then they give him the Nobel Peace Prize -- one of the worst three choices in the history of the award. His strategy for fighting climate change at that time -- work with venture capitalists. Ok, that's fine, but it's hardly worthy of a peace prize. There are SO MANY OTHER people working on climate change. Giving the prize to him was absurd.
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