Anyone here seen "An Inconvenient Truth" & still NOT wanted Gore in 2008?

Mark me down as a former fence-sitter. I managed to talk my hardcore right-wing co-worker into seeing AIT this weekend too, and he came out of it telling me that Gore would make a good president. You really must understand that this is a remarkable revelation coming from this particular guy.

I can't fathom a better candidate right now. Perhaps Feingold, but there's not enough mainstream recognition there.

By definition, that's a *big* losing position.

There is sufficient knowledge about this for the deniers to be totally ennervated. That doesn't happen because of our inane news media which insists on promoting *everything* as an artificial dichotomy. "Well, there's two sides to every story." There are *not* two sides to every story. In the case of global warming, the only ones denying are those who have financial interest in stopping any change in policy.

Science theory is not decided by public opinion, it's accomplished by very difficult work done in an environment of peer review by other scientists who have the requisite training and knowledge in the specific discipline. In a huge, 10% sample of peer-reviewed climate science papers (993 papers in the sample) not a single one takes the position that global warming doesn't exist, or that it is not caused by human-made CO2 emissions. The facts are clear. Mankind is causing this.

This summer is going to be another for the record books. How many more, and how much worse does it have to get before the public wakes up to the true situation? The answer to that question can only be that it is incumbent on all of us to make sure that the issue stays on the front line.

The only reason why global warming might not be a winning issue is that we have not made it a winning issue. The extent to which Dems stand there wimpering about it being a losing issue, it will remain so. I'm getting awfully tired of the cry-baby attitudes that give the opposition the upper hand.

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That was the one stat in AIT that burned into my head. If we don't fix the problem, nothing else really will matter much.

from. So make it a central plank of the Democratic platform. It would make sense in that the Democrats have to date been 100% ineffective in fending off the Bush Juggernaut.

Clark as my first preference...well, haven't seen the movie yet, but sure that won't change. However, after primaries, would I wholeheartedly support Gore if he came out ahead of Clark? Abso-freakin-lutely. I'm looking forward to the '08 primaries in part because I have a feeling there will be several Dem candidates that I really really like and admire. Gore is definately one of them, and this movie has made my respect for the man grow a ton even before I've seen it.

Mone, time, whatever it takes.

I think he's a great person, and would be a good president, but I think he's a mediocre at best candidate.

The people who dislike Gore, seem to dislike him for much the same reason they liked Bush; their gut tells them to. I get the same sense with Kerry opposers.

IMO, Clark would get more votes than any other candidate. Feingold might do well too, I'd love to see more "middle America" reaction to him (I suspect it would be very favourable).

environment and doing something about it.

Gore and Feingold as of today!!!

(And just because he's been working on the environment doesn't mean he doesn't know what else is going on - as his speeches so rousingly indicate.)

but I still eye him rather warily. Will he be strong enough to refuse all the "help" of the corporatist and conservative DLC, or will he be his own man this time?

That's what will make the difference between my support and my voting for the lesser of two more evils.

www.draftgore2008.org

I am in the "you only get one shot" camp, and he had his. That inflames some here, but there are a number of us who hold that position.

This is irregardless of how I feel about his fitness to be Prez, just that he won't get elected. Same goes for Kerry.