Gore won't run in 2008 (on Drudge but from Chris Matthews)

FLASH: CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC: The 2008 presidential campaign will not include Al Gore. I'm reporting here tonight that the former vice president and 2000 presidential nominee will not run for president in 2008. I've been given this scoop from a perfect source, I must say, who informed me that the purpose of this disclosure at this time is to end speculation about a campaign that will never occur.... Developing...

http://www.drudgereport.com/

Please don't provide $$$$$ to that dickhead Drudge by clicking on the site link.

JB

But there is no such position in Imperial Amerika. No such position at all.

Plus Amerikan "elections" have all the suspense and believability of Saddam's "elections" and Al knows a Democrat will NEVER be allowed to be Emperor and only then to preserve the pathetic illusion that Amerika is still free (and only after the Democratic Party has been reduced to full Bushevik Front Group and therefore UNDER CONTROL).

If true, I cannot blame Al as I did in 2004.

Firm in Florida election fiasco earns millions from files on foreigners

Oliver Burkeman in Washington and Jo Tuckman in Mexico City
Monday May 5, 2003
The Guardian

A data-gathering company that was embroiled in the Florida 2000 election fiasco is being paid millions of dollars by the Bush administration to collect detailed personal information on the populations of foreign countries, enraging several governments who say the records may have been illegally obtained.

US government purchasing documents show that the company, ChoicePoint, received at least $11m (£6.86m) from the department of justice last year to supply data - mainly on Latin Americans - that included names and addresses, occupations, dates of birth, passport numbers and "physical description". Even tax records and blood groups are reportedly included.

Nicaraguan police have raided two offices suspected of providing the information. The revelations threaten to shatter public trust in electoral institutions, especially in Mexico, where the government has begun an investigation.

The controversy is not the first to engulf ChoicePoint. The company's subsidiary, Database Technologies, was responsible for bungling an overhaul of Florida's voter registration records, with the result that thousands of people, disproportionately black, were disenfranchised in the 2000 election. Had they been able to vote, they might have swung the state, and thus the presidency, for Al Gore, who lost in Florida by a few hundred votes.

Legal experts in the US and Mexico said ChoicePoint could be liable for prosecution if those who supplied it with the personal information could be proven to have broken local laws. That raises the possibility that any person whose data was accessible to American officials could take legal action against the US government.

"Anybody who felt they were affected by this could take the US government to court," said Julio Tellez, an expert in Mexican information legislation at the Tec de Monterrey University. "We could all do it ... We are not prepared to sell our intimacies for a fistful of dollars."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,949709,00.html

I voted for Al Gore in 2000, but I am not sure I would do so again. I would however, enthusiastically support and vote for John Kerry again. I don't think people were given a honest and true picture of this great man. I have come to respect his opinions and his dedication to democratic values. I trust his good judgment. I think that is a quality we need in a president and one which is sorely lacking presently. I am sorry you have not had an opportunity to come to respect John Kerry as I have.

he needs to get over the 2004 election and move on.

I won't vote for him or any Dem who voted for IWR in 2008.

Has there been some push for Gore to run? Or is this just Tweety hyping himself with a scoop that doesn't seem to be much of a scoop (IMO)?

He was someone who I could support. Maybe a few others will materialize when the time comes. I can think of one or two.

look at it this way. if the repubs overturn the 22nd amendment, bill clinton can run again! wow! i would love to see that!

or Matthews...

Yeah, sure. The election is three years from now.

I can't find a link to anything though.

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