Glinton/Core?

After a full week of climate change meetings, YEK concludes that:

[I]n their post-White House activism, Clinton and Gore have engaged in a bit of a role-reversal. Clinton has assumed in the vice-president's traditional task, toiling on smaller initiatives and reaching out to various constituencies and interest groups to build consensus. Gore, conversely, is taking on the presidential responsibility of offering the grand vision and using the bully pulpit to push for transformative legislation. And both are making strides. Gore/Clinton may prove able to force the sort of large scale change that Clinton/Gore wasn't.

I suppose that's true to an extent. But I think what's really changed about the two men has very little to do with what niche each man fills vis-a-vis the other. Clinton, after all, is still charming the sorts of people who would never have otherwise moved on an issue into making big commitments to change, and Gore is still wonking around the world in the professorial way he always has. The difference--and Ezra is no stranger to this idea--is that neither is any longer hamstrung (or for that matter assisted) by the peculiar requirements of politics.