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Article: Hot air: an Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's new documentary about global warming, is intriguing, but fails to convince in the end.(Movie review)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- September 18, 2006
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Former vice presidents of the United States usually follow one of two paths upon leaving office: run for the office of the presidency and, achieving that post, move on to create their own presidential legacy, or fade into obscurity (also considered to be "Plan B" for those who fail at option one). Most vice presidents end up in obscurity. How many people today think about Spiro Agnew or Walter Mondale?
Al Gore chose to run for the presidency. But after failing to defeat George W. Bush, he has refused to follow "Plan B." Instead, he has gotten into the business of documentary filmmaking, and his first effort, An Inconvenient Truth, has been playing at theaters ...