do you support Al Gore for President ?

lets assume Gore is the only one who hasn't entered the race that ends up running in the Primary. so do you support Al Gore or one of those who are already running such as Clinton, Edwards, Obama, Richardson, etc.


mostly i'm trying to see how much support Gore has compared to all the candidates already running combined.

He is the best candidate for the job!

gore would be like superman among midgets. though i suspect the clintons might still have some kryptonite socked away...

Easily.

The man couldn't complete one sentence without interrupting himself three times. He's never uttered a word about caring about those in poverty (you know, the poor need money if they're going to buy fluorescent bulbs, etc., to help the environment). He's never mentioned anything that doesn't involve money, as a solution to global warming--things like using clotheslines instead of dryers, to reduce energy consumption. Or combining trips, or moving closer to where you work, to reduce how much you have to drive.

I'm not saying Gore is a bad person--just kind of half-assed, saying the same stuff over and over, instead of offering more and more solutions to the problem.

John Edwards, on the other hand, is the ONLY politician I've heard even discussing the poverty issue. Given the way Bush is decimating the middle class, and the fact that health insurance is costing more and more, "poverty-stricken" could include YOU by the time the next President takes office.

When people are poor, they're too busy trying to survive, to be able to help save the earth. The day Al Gore grasps this is the day I'll support him for President.

it's especially difficult for those who are low income. it's something mostly wealthy types can do.

and right now he is focusing on a specific issue. if he were to decide to run then he would of course go into different areas and discuss more proposals about how to help individual communities.

I remember him, for the longest time, being pretty wishy-washy on Iraq. Not to mention that he wholeheartedly supported the invasion to begin with.

Seems that only recently, when it has become politically convenient for him, that he came around to the correct position.

JE does nothing EXCEPT campaign for himself. He has no other job. And when he was elected, what legislation did he spearhead for the poor??????? OR was he too busy campaigning to become POTUS then V-POTUS? He made lots of bad decisions in the short time he was in office working part time doing the job he was elected to do full time. ANYBODY can talk the talk, but JE has YET to walk the walk. How easily some people are swayed by pretty words alone.

Gore/Dean sounds even better.... well, I can dream anyway.

Can't we try someone else?

we can't try them both again. :)

would be a more attractive veep than edwards.

I support Wes Clark over anyone.

I can't vote because my answer would be 'Gore and someone else'.

Absolutely!

TC

because I think he needs a larger and deserves a better audience for his message.

I'm not sure I would support the candidate I saw running in 2000
(although I did at the time).

he didn't seem comfortable as a candidate. now, that's probably
because he has honor and integrity, and being a candidate requires
whoring yourself to a certain extent.

and there is a problem when the field gets too big, and I think we
are just about there; it makes it more possible that a relative fringe
candidate could place well, or even win, one of the early primaries.
then the MSM would cream all over itself hyping the "suprising dark
horse", and the next thing you know, we are stuck with the guy that
15% of the people in NH voted for, and the MSM annointed.

I am relatively comfortable with the field we have now. and besides,
gore is going a great job on global warming, and writing books that
are devastating to the current regime. he is moving public opinion
in ways he couldn't as a candidate.

The Iraq funding capitulation was the last straw. It should now be clear to everybody that both major parties are subsidiaries of the Establishment and don't represent our interests.

If Gore runs outside the Democratic Party and if he has no corporate funding, I might give him a glance.

I like Al Gore, but can't abide his coy attitude any longer about running, I think it's manipulative of him. Edwards isn't fooling around, or teasing his supporters with cryptic answers to the honest question of him being a candidate or not. And besides, I appreciate Edwards' combination of directness and overview; he's heartfelt and high-minded, speaking the core truths , not just resorting to shallow surface reactions. There's something deeply true about Edwards that is much needed now in a president. I don't care about his house or his hair, and I'm not falling for the early 'swiftboating' of him either by the right and center.

John Edwards owns a house. JE isn't my first choice, but it irks me to no end that he is singled out for his possessions when he isn't any wealthier than most of the rest of the politicians these days that run for the POTUS.

Believe!

I think Gore has the credibility and frankness that would be needed to end this trend of giving more and more unchallenged power to the executive branch, while giving back those powers that should have never been surrendered by the other two branches.

I think Gore would be running the kind of campaign Edwards is now running, but with more support and money than the current frontrunners would have combined. but I feel certain that Gore will not run this time. I have been closely following all of our primary candidates, and look forward to supporting someone who will do for our party..what FDR once did, or what Reagan did for the Republican party. not only do I want a candidate with an agenda I can be proud to support, but someone who will make history! ohh well, it doesn't hurt to try.

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No one else comes close to articulating the truth about the state of our democracy, speaking the truth about the Bush cabal, speaking the truth about OUR responsibility to remedy our current course.

No one I've seen comes close.

Gore/Clark 2008

He's strong enough, He's smart enough, and doggonit, people are really starting to like him even more than they did before he won the first time!

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If he were to declare his candidacy, Gore would quickly be swiftboated, the Democrats would start to nitpick each of his stands (as we do with the other candidates), and if he were to become the frontrunner, the ABG (Anybody but Gore) forces would come out of the woodwork. We don't need another candidate. If Gore were to run, his popularity would drastically fall; thats the nature of politics.

but if any candidate is really beyond the swiftboat style of shitpicking, it's Al Gore. There really isn't anything they could throw at him that hasn't in some way been thrown at him before, and given the man has been PROVEN RIGHT TIME AND TIME AGAIN, they'd just look like the idiots they are. The man isn't playing games. He's saying what he wants to say, using the best resources and making changes happen where he can. So never mind the nature of politics, if anyone can make the political environment what it should be, it's him.

know him. He has a groundswell of support both feet on the ground and $$ just waiting for him to say the word. Take your time, Al. No rush. We will wait!
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these desperate times call for the best possible leadership, there is simply too much at stake.

In my opinion no one fills that bill better than Al Gore, whether it be empowering the people and democracy by championing the internet, warning us of the planetary emergency of global warming/climate change, opposing the foolish,unjust and tragic war in Iraq, opposing the invasive grasp of the Big Brother Bush administration on our privacy via unwarranted wiretaps, etc. and their raping of our Constitution via eliminating Habeas Corpus, speaking out against the Bush Administration trashing of our treaties such as the Geneva Conventions thereby encouraging torture and our resultant pariah status around the world, speaking out against our dysfunctional press and their Orwellian Manipulation of critical information vital for the American People to make sound, wise judgments via elections, going to war or anything else for that matter, with his latest book The Assault on Reason, Al Gore has been front and center on the paramount issues of our time.

On top of that, he's already been elected only to be denied his rightful place in the White House because those in power, particularly the ownership of the media didn't care about the people's will or even believe there was a public interest.

I'm technology challenged, but there is a nice photo of Al over at Daily Kos from when he answered the call coming to the aid of the victims of Katrina.

Edit for link of Daily Kos thread.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/26/04732/3375

i wish he would get his ass into the race. we need to let him know that we will stick by him against the negative attacks that will follow .

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I would definately support Gore over any of the current candidates.

you guys are dreaming and wasting your time with fantasies.
I love Gore but, I also know what reality is. he is not going to run.
sometimes I think this obsession is due to his movie or as one put it 'he's 'in' right now.' and I bet if he was running half the people hear would be bitching about something about him.
Get a grip people. please.
Look, I planned to support him a year ago until I figured out he was being for real in saying he was not going to run so I moved on.

I think he's just got the idea he can't win, it helps to have support. besides, its fun to speculate.

He'd simplify my choices.

Sadly neither of the two men I'd like to support have entered yet. If neither Gore nor Clark jump in, I'm not sure who I will support.

I am not sure he would win but man would I love to have him as president.

But he would move into a slight lead for me. I really haven't concentrated on this yet because I feel it's all bullshit at this point.