I am so glad that Al Gore now supports single-payer, but it is kind of sad that this decision wasn't made until after he had decided that he was essentially through with politics. I wish he would choose to be a an ardent and vocal voice for this issue the way he has been for environmental issues. Knowing that he now supports single-payer, I wish that Barack Obama would ask him to be his running mate, and I wish he would accept the offer. Obama used to be for single-payer, back when he was a state senator, but I guess when he decided to run for president he lost courage as he began to see the way Dennis Kucinich was being excluded from all of the events and debates because of his single-payer stance. Still, if Obama and Gore were working together toward this goal, I really do think they could rally the people and the Congress and Senate and get it done. Maybe I'm dreaming, but if we can't even dream the dream of a future where sick people are more important than insurance company executives, we have no hope. What would make Al Gore a powerful leader, now, is the very fact that he has lost his political ambitions. If he no longer wants to be in politics, he has nothing to lose by taking positions that are not popular with wealthy and powerful interests. I wish he would decide to be in politics again, because only a politician who has lost his personal political ambitions will be free enough to help us.