When I met Mackenzie Yeager while speaking at San Marino High School, she was just your average, precocious teenager. Just from spotting her out in the audience, I could tell she was extremely smart, especially for a girl in public school.
After my speech which, let's be honest, could have used a little "Mack-ing-up" (I coined that phrase) she pulled me aside, and gave me some interesting campaign strategies. I quickly applied her strategies to my rue for Presidency, and soon, I was hob-knobbing with Leonardo DiCaprio! What a tiger.
A few years later, I ran into the young woman at a hot club in West Hollywood. I LOVE clubbing. Recognizing me, she told me she was sorry I wasn't the President of the United States, and I told her it was okay. There's always time. She then told me after visiting her in high school, that she started an underground book club called ALGORE (A Little Group of Readers Everywhere).
I remember her cooing, "It was a pretty underground, very elite society. The club consisted of me, a couple Asian friends, (who are now working at The Pentagon), the entire A.P. English department, and... The Principal. VERY underground. Our first novel was "The Lovely Bones."
By that point, she had me swooning.
So, as the former almost-camander-in-chief, I demanded Mackenzie Yeager to write a blog. A simple Blog. A REAL Blog.
A blog that will follow her every move, so I can keep myself in check.
If I can't save the planet...at least I can learn to be an IT GIRL.
- Al Gore
Washington D.C, July 2011
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