Dear Al Gore:
As America's reputation plummets around the world due to our leaders' bone-headed policies, we are so thankful for what you have done and continue to do to show that America can indeed still be a respected leader on important global issues.

Now I worry what comes next. Oh, not about those ever-dwindling detractors - those who still believe that global warming is just a normal phenomenon. They stand with those who still believe that Saddam Hussein was directly responsible for 9/11 and will soon be held in the same public regard as those who continued to believe the world was flat when the overwhelming evidence proved otherwise.

No, I am worried about whom we elect for President in 2008. There is a lot of evidence that despite a close relationship early on, the Clintons' and the Gores' relationship cooled considerably during their 8 years of US leadership. So how is Hillary going to react to Nobel Prize winner, respected around the world, Al Gore continuing his save the world from global warming mission?

If she were wise, she would give him her complete trust and blessing (and funding) to continue what he is doing. But somehow I just don't see that happening.

Gillian Parrillo
SacWomen