Is Al joining the party?

Possibly the best president-who-never-was published an exerpt from his new book - The Assault on Reason today in the Guardian .... and quite aside from the vitriolic attack on the Bush administration ... it could quite easily also serve as an opening salvo for a presidential campaign ...

"The pursuit of "dominance" in foreign policy led the Bush administration to ignore the UN, to do serious damage to our most important alliances, to violate international law, and to cultivate the hatred and contempt of many in the rest of the world. The seductive appeal of exercising unconstrained unilateral power led this president to interpret his powers under the constitution in a way that brought to life the worst nightmare of the founders."

"We as Americans should have "known then what we know now"- not only about the invasion of Iraq but also about the climate crisis; what would happen if the levees failed to protect New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina; and about many other fateful choices that have been made on the basis of flawed, and even outright false, information. We could and should have known, because the information was readily available. We should have known years ago about the potential for a global HIV/Aids pandemic. But the larger explanation for this crisis in American decision-making is that reason itself is playing a diminished, less respected, role in our national conversation.

So - would he again? Could he again?
Would certainly make a change from the endless Hillary-Obama fundraising stories ...