Former Vice President Al Gore has posited a doozy of a possible explanation for President Obama’s poor debate showing.
He says Denver’s mile-high altitude might have been to blame – to which I must ask: Huh?
I’m pretty sure Mitt Romney was on the same stage as the president the other night at the University of Denver, which would have exposed him to the very same altitude as the president.
Is the former Massachusetts governor some kind of bionic man who is immune to these things? Probably not.
I have much respect for the former vice president. I happen to think he’s right on a lot of things, including his concerns about global warming and whether human beings’ overuse of carbon fuels is at the root of its cause.
However, he ought to refrain from nutty diagnoses about the president’s poor debate performance.
My own guess is that President Obama just didn’t spend enough time getting into fighting trim. Don’t expect him a repeat performance from him the next time.