He's not running. Deal with it.

Hey, Al Gore...you've just won the Nobel Peace Prize. What are you going to do now?

Well, he MIGHT go to Disney World (though I doubt it), but I'll tell you what he's NOT going to do...he's not going run for president.

If you were Al Gore, would YOU run for president? Would YOU subject yourself and your family to endless ruminations in the media and attacks from the right about your weight, your clothes, your son's legal problems, their exhumation of old (and largely imaginary) scandals? Would you want to endure another year of Maureen Dowd saying you're "practically lactating" and the press accusing you of lying -- and that's before you have to endure four to eight years of nonstop attacks from the media if you're not able to clean up Bush's mess quickly enough?

Does someone who's been battered by the press and the political process the way Al Gore has really need to get into that snake pit again?

Congratulations, Mr. President, on a well-deserved award. You've earned it...and then some.