” … of the year” – continued

The Goracle may have just missed out on being named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, but some of his fellow Tennesseans gave him the ‘honor’ of voting him as Tennessean of the Year:

Al Gore, seated on the side porch of his Nashville home, couldn’t be challenged on this one.

This year, the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, focusing on his efforts to educate people about global warming, won an Oscar. His television network, Current TV, picked up an Emmy.

He and an international panel of scientists shared the Nobel Peace Prize for alerting the world to the dangers posed by pollution-driven climate change.

And, one of his daughters got married.

An “interesting” year, for sure, for a man who, now 59, has served as a congressman, U.S. senator and vice president and won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential race — but not the job.

Gore, who has been named 2007 Tennessean of the Year by readers and The Tennessean’s editorial board, said he was honored and touched.

Considering the state of Tennessee didn’t vote for their hometown boy over the eeevil W back in 2000, this win is purely symbolic and likely rather hollow for The Goracle, and little more.

In other “… of the year” nonsense, The Dallas Morning News editorial board has named the illegal immigrant as their 2007 “Texan of the Year.” Noel Sheppard delivers the appropriate verbal smackdown here.