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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:51 PM
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Al Gore is NOT running for President.
Edited on Thu Feb-08-07 10:57 PM by Finnfan
I wish he would, but he's not.

What he's doing is brilliantly exploiting the possibility that he MIGHT run as a way to continue to get publicity for his Climate Change awareness campaign.

I believe if he ran for President now, this would all smack of the opposite: exploiting climate change for his own personal ambition. I don't believe that that's what he's doing, and I don't think he wants to be seen as doing that.

Bookmark this thread. If he wins, someone in this thread who does not have a star will get one.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:53 PM
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1. I will not buy Snickers products and I mean it.
I am boycotting them for what are important reasons to me.
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:55 PM
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7. I understand.
My bet was meant as a little DU meta-joke, and not as an endorsement of the bigoted advertisements. I think maybe I'll change it, to avoid having this thread become something completely different then I intended it to be.
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Hosnon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:53 PM
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2. Seems like a win-win situation. If you're right, climate change continues
to get lots of attention. If you're wrong, Gore runs for President (and climate change probably gets equal attention).
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GainesT1958 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:54 PM
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3. Just as long as you don't...
Make two of us eat it together, I'll take you up on that bet!:eyes:

B-)
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:54 PM
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4. I won't bet but I did bookmark the thread
I really want Gore to run :)
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:56 PM
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11. I do too.
If he ran, he'd have my vote. I just don't think it's in the cards.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:54 PM
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5. I think you are right.
And although I'd LOVE to vote for him again, I think he'd be doing the best thing if he doesn't run.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:55 PM
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6. I'll take that bet
If he doesn't run, mailing you a candy bar will be the least of my woes.
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:55 PM
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8. You'd better write these people and let them know:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070208/ap_on_el_pr/draft_gore2008
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:58 PM
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13. That's kind of what I'm doing by starting this thread.
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:59 PM
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15. Doesn't seem like it's discouraging them. NT
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 11:02 PM
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16. It isn't discouraging them? Five minutes after I started the thread?
:D

I'm not really trying to discourage anyone. I would vote for him if he ran. It's just that I believe that it's very unlikely that he will run.

Continue to encourage. I've been wrong once or twice before.
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:56 PM
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9. Why mix doing the right thing with running for political office?
It just stinks.

:silly:
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-09-07 12:00 AM
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20. What does it say about the political system when...
doing the right thing and running for political office are mutually exclusive?

Wrong and corrupt.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:56 PM
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I'd rather have fresh pralines, please.
Here's to President Al Gore! :toast:
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:56 PM
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10. I really wish you are wrong. In an ideal world, everything you just posted would be wrong.
But you're right. If he runs it might, for a spell, seem like he was exploiting global warming. Certainly the American public who live within the penumbra of the right wing smear machine will hear nonstop that Gore was using the issue. But if he's drafted, it will seem less so. And either way, I hope, once he was to speak with his calm (albiet Grover-like) passion on the topic, I think most people will realize he's running on this issue because he really cares about it.

Of course I'm idealistic that way.
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:57 PM
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12. Statement of opinion -- portrayed as a fact in a headline.
*sigh* :eyes:
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 10:59 PM
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14. This is GD
It's ALL opinion. I've been here for six years and that's all it's ever been. :shrug:
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 11:44 PM
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17. bookmarked
but i don't see Gore as an exploitive kind of guy.

dp
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 11:46 PM
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18. it would be interesting to have both Gore and H. Clinton in the
primary. I wonder who would win, seriously. i have no idea who i would predict.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-08-07 11:47 PM
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19. Oh. Thanks. I'm glad that's settled.
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