I liked this recent article from The Hindu (great name - the piece originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement) http://www.the-hindu.com/2000/11/19/stories/1319017i.htm
two of my favorite parts:
Discussing Gore's book Earth in the Balance, Hitchens writes "Some of it is religious in a slightly fundamentalist way; Gore affirms belief in a Creator who is presumably willing to see his Week's worth of labour go to naught."
"The genius of Clinton lay in his ability to emasculate his party's Left, and to make that party a guarantor of Wall Street and NAFTA and NATO and the Federal Reserve, while managing to appeal incessantly and successfully to correctness. In other words, if Al Gore has now abandoned his former moralism and become a supporter of gay rights and abortion, it is, paradoxically, as part of his move to the Right. (The recent rather unconvincing feminisation and Rainbowing of the Republican Party illustrates the same point in a different way). The new "vital centre" is far more conservative than the old one, but it has constituencies of "inclusion" to be appeased."