Atonement

Lance Mannion spells it out:

Al Gore has done much to atone for blowing the 2000 campaign, but there's still one offense he committed that continues to do harm, and for which he has not yet paid the full price: He made anyone outside of Connecticut aware of the existence of Joe Lieberman.

This will be on my Readings list in the sidebar.

(The link is to Part Two of a desk set on the subject; don't miss Part One, in which Mannion tees up the whole Lieberman problem: Even when Joe's right [as my dad used to say, even a blind sow finds an acorn every now and then], he's more wrong than right. Too wrong to be worth the bother.)