Maybe we are captivated by him because he comes from “middle of the road” politics and if HE’S getting nervous, well so should we.

As for the Greens … I come from a deeply Conservative background (but you love and adore me anyway) and I am actually struggling for the first time with choices this election. I have a family now and I was sustainable development and REAL action re: glocal warming and the envionment, so my kids don’t have to wear gas masks.

Then the logical side of my brain wakes up and I realise it comes down to 2 party preferred and they are so similar it would make the most passionate activist feel apathetic.

I am still left of right — but then so is Rudd…

A) Canadians are boring.

B) David publicly said this about Al’s prize “I am ecstatic and over the moon,” said Dr. Suzuki. “This was a richly deserved honour. The entire environmental community is jumping for joy at this recognition of the importance of the issue and Mr. Gore’s role in bringing it to the fore.”

C)The Nobel peace prize stands for nothing. Former winners have included Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin for creating peace in the middle east in ‘94 even though the area is still in conflict. Also in ‘73 Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were awarded the prize for being peace back to Vietnam. Kissinger is down in the history books for starting the war in the first place and Duc Tho declined the award because the war destroyed his country!

D) The award is named after the man who created dynamite because he thought that if governments controlled such power war would cease to be because no one would want to destroy the world!

I wouldn’t put to much stock into the Nobel peace prize or who wins it.