Al Gore you are the poster boy for hypocrites.  Your well documented hypocrisy of do as I tell you, not as I do green lifestyle is disgusting, but you have topped it in the only way you could.  It is one thing to take private jets all over the planet to pick up fat checks for speeches on global warming, using 20 times the amount of power as the average home for just one of your several homes, and to have leased a side of a mountain to be mined for zinc that ended up polluting the Caney Fork River.  But, for Mr. Gore to come out with a book declaring our democracy is in trouble is beyond hypocrisy and into the realm of a joke book.

Mr. Gore a democracy is all about presenting ideas, then having the voters decide, and then abiding by their decision.  Pretty simple.  You are the one, yes you, that forbid the Green Party and Ralph Nader from even presenting their ideas during the 2000 election.  The Republicans did not do this to Ross Perot and it probably cost them the 1992 election and perhaps the 1996 election.  I didn’t like George Bush Sr. or  Bob Dole, so I voted for Perot both times.  Like many Mr. Perot voters, voting for Bill Clinton would never have been an option.  By the way Mr. Clinton never won the majority of the American vote. Mr. Nader was not allowed to even participate in the debates and was physically bared from entering the auditorium.  Why not let the voters decide if his ideas are without merit?

We all know what happened after the election, where you then refused to abide by the voters decision, even after crippling our democracy by refusing them to consider alternatives before the vote.  Your latest book should be placed in the comedy section of bookstores, or perhaps put directly into a recycling bin.  

Here is a little snippit of Mr. Gore's hypocrisy
American democracy is now in danger—not from any one set of ideas, but from unprecedented changes in the environment within which ideas either live and spread, or wither and die. I do not mean the physical environment; I mean what is called the public sphere, or the marketplace of ideas.