S'More Gore!

C'mon, someone tell me this guy's gonna run in '08.



He's pretty much everything I'm looking for in a candidate.

George Clooney as VP would be sweet icing. Ok, I'm dreaming.

great art direction......

(wish they could lose half the type.. it;s unneccessary
.. betrays unconfident editor... simpler is better )

still it's a beautiful cover.

Pleasing to the eye and comforting.

Who's the photog?

VM always has the best covers.

recount in 2000. I'm sure that he counted on folks forgetting how quickly he submitted to the BushCo. And given the opportunity both he and Kerry would do the same thing again in 2008. I will never vote for either of them again and I will most certainly not vote for DINO Hillary Clinton, (who I used to support to the nth degree).

Right now, John Edwards SEEMS like our best bet, but time will tell....

John Edwards seems like a good choice also.

After all, it was only the supreme court of the land that had handed the election off to the village idiot. What was Gore thinking? Why didn't he call for violence against the supremes and take over the white house anyway?

Nov 7 to Dec 13: he gave up too easily, indeed...

Right a most grievous wrong.

fought harder and longer and he most certainly would have had the entire Party behind him. Waste your vote on him again if you so desire. I don't think you will find much company in the voting booth.

getting on TV asking Gore to give it up before any of the courts had even ruled.

end of conversation. eom

that he punked out in 2000 and he will punk out in 2008. He doesn't have what it takes IMO.

and when there were no battles left to fight, he held his head high and went out like a noble elder statesman. Without exaggeration, his conduct during the election 2000 debacle makes him simply the most qualified person to fill the office of POTUS since George Washington.

You said it well Autonomy, and I totally agree. Al Gore is a true man of grace and magnitude. He rocks, and so do you for that post.

:yourock:

AFTER THE ELECTION. Lieberman begged him to quit. The entire party turned their backs on him. You are very wrong.

Among the Democrats who wanted Gore to give up were Toricelli, Breaux, Kerrey & Nunn.











on edit: Gore fought for 36 days to get votes counted. He didn't give up until the SCOTUS decision. If he had continued to fight after that he and the Democratic party would have been hurt.

Al Gore set the record, no one in U.S. history contested an election longer than he. It's truly amazing to me that anyone could believe he is not a fighter for the people. He has fought for the people his entire life and to this day has not stopped.

I've been interested in Gore in '08 ever since his unsung heroism in NOLA after hurricane Katrina. His speech on MLK day was electrifying. Since then, I've perused about every thread that comes up here regarding Gore. He's got a very large following, and well-deserved, IMO. I can't really hold him responsible for the fiasco in 2000; who would have guessed that such a twisted act of chutzpah would be so easily accomplished?

I agree with you there was nothing else he could haev done at that point.

Jeez. I thought he fought as much as he could and then was robbed. The court stopped vote counting. What could he do after that? He conceded with class and grace. When he had licked his wounds he came back stronger, more articulate and passionate, and braver. He now does not hold back from speaking truth to power in ways most Dems are still too afraid to even echo weakly.

Politicians aren't super heroes. They are human beings that make mistakes and have flaws. What you do after the mistakes is a true show of character. Gore has character and I welcome any effort he puts towards the greater good as a candidate or not. :patriot:

All during that time, he gave short civics lessons as well -- if the nation were half as interested as he was in the rule of law, we might have actually learnt the nuances of the constitution and the electoral processes. The grace he showed through the process was just amazing. If the media had had an iota of responsibility, they would have joined Gore in educating the public and revelled in the constitutional process and its beauty and comprehensiveness...What a colossal missed opportunity...

grace and class. I agree with you. This could have been an illuminating civics lesson and you're right, it was a missed opportunity. :-(

Gore is a renniassance man, forward thinking, self examining, and willing to admit mistakes and take action to correct mistakes. He thinks outside the box, has practical solutions to serious problems, and could have a HUGE base of democratic support.

All he needs to do is run. I'm with him all the way.

instead of telling people to get their guns and bombs.:eyes:

Should he have formed a militia?

If ever I met Al, I would apologize to Gore for not going to Fla to support him -- How the hell was he supposed to stand up to the demons of the Bush Family Evil Empire ALONE? His Dem colleagues abandoned him in their ignorance and so did we. :mad:

Kerry gave up more easily than Gore did, and Kerry KNEW the 2000 election had been stolen.

Gore did what he did because he respects the law and the Constitution. I vaguely remember what that's like. If he were a pushover, he would have capitulated on election night, instead of on December 12th, after he had exhausted all of his alternatives.

I'd support him in a minute. My slogan for his primary campaign will be, "you had me at 'hello,' Al."

the title:

A New American Revolution


You bet your ass!

Olafr

at least it's a good one. Adds some excitement. Makes people think they should be changing their views and that this is the next big thing. Stuff like this will not come from the party.

Gore presents clean, green theories in lecture at Drew
Calls environment a top concern, doesn't discuss political future

BY NAVID IQBAL
DAILY RECORD

MADISON -- Former Vice President Al Gore wants to change the way people think about the environment.

Gore visited Drew University Monday night as part of the Thomas H. Kean visiting lecture series to explain his theory, but media reporters were banned from the auditorium.

Instead, Gore's aides arranged for him to sit for five-minute interviews with each of three reporters.

Link:

http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060404/COMMUNITIES26/604040323/1203

- Front Page of local paper. I only wish I knew of this ahead of time. I far perfer Kerry, but respect and admire Gore. Thought you Gore supporters would like this.

they HAVE to hammer, hammer, hammer the evil, incompetent, lying, cheating, stealing neocon nazis. They have to hammer free and fair elections within our own borders. They have to hammer the illegal war and the torture and the scandals and the bribery and the outing and the domestic spying and the corruption.

Right now, we can wait to be Green until after we clean house.

If Gore comes out as a tree-hugger rather than a champion of truth and justice, he and those who stand with him, are toast.

my .02

in college. He CAN DO two things at once.

Remember it was the hurricanes that helped wake people up to the incompetency and corruption of this administration. It also made a lot of Americans - the ones that wouldn't listen to us before - to start questioning our involvement in Iraq and the amount of money we've spent over there. Add to this the yo-yo-ing of oil prices and people are starting to think about alternative fuels and America's fuel dependency. All of a sudden people who didn't ask questions before are now wondering about wisdom having two oil men in the highest positions in the United States government.

We can be green now. We have to be green now or we'll win battles but lose the war the really counts.

Here's an excerpt from an article published in 2004.



Just my .02

:) good people

"I'm not planning to be a candidate again. I haven't reached a stage in my life where I'm willing to say I will never consider something like this," he said. "But I'm not saying that to be coy; I'm just saying that to be honest -- that I haven't reached that point."

Al Gore March 20, 2006

We need someone who can counteract the effects of this administrations global warming deniers. The planet is gonna fling us off like the parasites we are.

they make a lovely Cabinet for President Gore??

I think the two people mentioned in that article title would make a good ticket.

Gore/Kennedy, Jr.

Works for me.

I still am carrying a grudge for him running such a crappy campaign and most of all for picking Joe Lie-berman as a running mate, we've been stuck with Joe-mentum ever since!

from 2000 and you'll see that Gore started his campaign behind in the polls and fought his way back to win the 2000 election. He did this despite the attacks on him in the media, Clinton's blow-job and Bradley's attacks. Why did he start so low? According to a contemporaneous CNN story



So, he started from behind because he was vice-president. Moreover, 52% of the American public said they would be less likely to support Gore if Bill actively campaigned for him.

Suppose the year 2000 presidential election were being held today. If Vice President Al Gore was the Democratic Party's candidate and Texas Gov. George W. Bush was the Republican Party's candidate, who would you be more likely to vote for?
Bush 54%
Gore 40*


Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for Al Gore for president if President Clinton were actively support him and campaign for him?
More likely 29%
Less likely 52

May 26, 1999 - source: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/05/26/president.2000/poll/index.html

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If Vice President Al Gore were the Democratic party's candidate and Texas Gov. George W. Bush were the Republican party's candidate, who would you be more likely to vote for?

Bush 56%
Gore 40
June 8, 1999 - http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/08/poll/index.html

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June 15, 1999
Web posted at: 6:12 p.m. EDT (2212 GMT)

WASHINGTON (June 15) -- Vice President Al Gore faces a difficult task as he prepares to officially declare his presidential candidacy on Wednesday. Forty-five percent of all Americans say they definitely will not vote for him next November if he wins the Democratic nomination -- regardless of who the GOP puts up against him. http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/15/president.2000/poll/index.html

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If Vice President Al Gore were the Democratic Party's candidate and Texas Gov. George W. Bush were the Republican Party's candidate, who would you be more likely to vote for: Al Gore, the Democrat, or George W. Bush, the Republican?

Gore 41%
Bush 50%




Now March 30-April 2
Bush 50% 46%
Gore 41% 45%

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/04/10/poll.cnn/index.html

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CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll June 23-25

If Al Gore were the Democratic Party's candidate and George W. Bush were the Republicans Party's candidate, who would you be more likely to vote for?

Now

Bush 52%
Gore 39

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/06/26/cnn.poll/index.html

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If Al Gore and Joe Lieberman were the Democratic Party's candidates and George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were the Republican Party's candidates, who would you be more likely to vote for?

Now


Gore 49%

Bush 49
Sampling error: +/-4% pts

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/21/cnn.poll/index.html

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October 4-5

Asked of likely voters: Suppose the election for President were being held today, and you had to choose between Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman, the Democrats; George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the Republicans; Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke, the Green Party candidates; and Pat Buchanan, the Reform Party candidate. For whom would you vote -- Gore, Bush, Buchanan, or Nader?

Bush 47%

Gore 45

Nader 4

Buchanan 1
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/10/06/cnn.poll/index.html


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Likely voters' choice for president

Bush 49%

Gore 43

Nader 3

Buchanan 1

Sampling error: +/-3% pts
October 25-26 - http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/10/27/cnntime.poll/index.html
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This last poll, about a week before the 2000 election showed Bush up by 6% points. What happened when the voters came out: Gore won the election and the majority of votes. So, despite accusations that he ran a crappy campaign, Gore managed to come from behind and win.

Now I have to go smoke a cigarette.

gotta get me a copy of this edition...

:argh:

:kick: