Paul Begala just finished an online chat at the washingtonpost.com touting his new book with Carville. I can’t claim to have followed this, but at the discussion’s end, I had to look twice as he pointed out that a President Gore would have prevented 9/11 from happening:

Al Gore comes off awfully well in our book. We make a convincing case that if he’d been allowed to take office after winning the 2000 election, he would have prevented the 9/11 attacks. It’s unimaginable that he would have shelved Richard Clarke’s 2000 plan to roll back al Qaeada, the way Condi Rice and Pres. Bush did. It’s unfathomable that he would have gone golfing after reading a CIA report that BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO ATTACK AMERICA, as Mr. Bush did. Gore had deep knowledge both of aviation security (having chaired the Gore Commission on airline security in 1996) and he was keenly aware of the al Qaeda threat.