Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce Ellen McCarthy of the Washington Post:
Please Al and Tipper, don’t do this. For our sakes — don’t.
We can’t handle it.
These kinds of things stopped bothering us long ago. Name almost any famous couple, and we’re happy to place under/over bets on the date they’ll divorce.
But the Gores were different. We believed in them. Even if we didn’t agree with their politics, we admired their marriage — the way, after all these years, they still genuinely seemed into each other.
They’re like the couple down the block with the lush garden and the annual Labor Day cookout. The pair who are always power walking together and drinking wine on the front porch, who make you nudge your husband and say, “See? I want that.”
Also, what Digby said.
