No matter how much I want to deny it, Al Gore and I have a lot in common. We both profess a strong love of family, a deep and abiding faith in the Savior whose birth we celebrate - and we're both going to spend the upcoming week between Christmas and New Year's Day looking for work. It turns out that Al Gore wasn't the only one to lose his job with the election of George Bush. So did some seven thousand other executive branch employees who came in with the Clinton-Gore administration. The day after the U.S. Supreme Court decided that George W. Bush would be our next President, they joined Al Gore in the job search sector of our economy.
Live TV has all the excitement of working on a high wire without a net.
And I can't say I won't miss it. And those times require the same kind of teamwork that a well-trained Marine Rifle Company employs in the accomplishment of a mission. In short, it was a great experience. And now it's over. If I'd had my way it would have continued.