Mr Gore, If you are not going to run, Please endorse Rep Kucinich, Soon.

Thank you,
Bob

that's just the kind of guy Al Gore is.

Unfortunately, it was the Democratic machinery that didn't want Dean. Even today, that same machinery is quite irritated that he part of the DNC

My suspicions are that Gore will endorse anyone in the primaries

aha ha hah ha ha aha haaa haaaa haaaaaaaaa :rofl:

i dunno... Lieberman for example.

oh wait, didn't he ask ol' joe to be his running mate?
and wasn't joe... joe back then too?

I have a good friend that thinks Gore has really changed ... but i am just a bit more skeptical.. alot more skeptical.

when gore "debated" bush on foreign policy, he said "i agree" a couple dozen times. it was hard to see where they differed. gore certainly never opposed a US military intervention in his life (the recent one in Iraq may be the only exception, but he supported the deadly sanctions against Iraq of Bush1 and Clinton1 that killed tens of thousands of children)

Integrity?

http://current.com/items/87142871_mr_gore_if_you_are_not_going_to_run_please_endorse_rep_kucinich_soon

Thank you.

,..than he ever could in the fucked-up system of politics.

Please.

Allow the man to be impactful, WHERE HE IS.

Please.

that I believe he believes the corporate media would turn on his pick unless it was a corporate media favorite from the beginning.

Edit for P.S Of course the dynamics are different today than 2004, with Al Gore's stature having grown so much and we have a stronger Internet to counterbalance the media, so I could be wrong.

He was a Senator for many years; it's a club.

Gore and Kucinich don't share the same views on a LOT of issues. Gore is slightly more conservative, even though he is liberal for a southerner, than some people seem to think.

Just because he likes the idea of a clean environment doesn't mean that he's onboard with a "Department of Peace."

It's helpful to know the candidates'--and the non-candidate's-- views on the issues.

The idea that he's some sort of leader willing to take on corporations is absurd.

when he championed opening up the Internet, thus enabling you to post your wisdom for all the world to see, only to be trashed and slandered by the corporate media for his vision and dedication to the people. I guess it's like they say "no good deed goes unpunished".

You think there'd be no Internet without Al Gore?

the defense dept and a few universities, Al Gore was the primary political driving force to open it up for the people, later they would give him a WEBBY for it, to my knowledge, he's the only politician to receive one. We might have an Internet today with out his contributions and we might not or it might have come along much later and be weaker than it is now.

Prior to that the corporate media controlled everything the American People read, heard or saw on television. People were easily divided in to categories with out mass two way interaction, when the people are easily divided and or dumbed down, they become easier to manipulate. It's all about information and information = power, money and influence, this is why Karl Rove is attacking it today.

Do you think there would be no Internet, without Al Gore?

Unless you think the defense dept would have 'naturally' shared this technology with the rest of us.

Uncle Joe is right.

for picking the up slack while I was out.

From my previous post.

"We might have an Internet today with out his contributions and we might not or it might have come along much later and be weaker than it is now."

:hi:

:D

Published on Sunday, August 20. 2000 in the Boston Globe
Thank You, Al Gore
by Robert Kuttner

A funny thing happened to Al Gore on the way to his surprisingly effective acceptance speech. He became a liberal.

The speech was as liberal as anything FDR or LBJ or Jesse Jackson or one of the Kennedys might have delivered. It was built around a commitment to fight for ordinary people, against large and powerful interests. This, of course, is precisely what made it effective.

The emotional heart of the speech, Gore's honoring of four ordinary American lives, did not just salute the struggles of workaday families, the way Ronald Reagan often did. It identified who was dishonoring their struggles - corporations. He singled out heartless HMOs who pressure a family to sacrifice a child; drug companies that force a pensioner to choose between food and medicine; corporate polluters; corporations that pay workers inadequate wages.

And he identified the solution: strong, reliable public Social Security; better Medicare; welfare reform that rewards work rather than punishing the needy; higher minimum wages; and more investment in public - not voucher - schools, so that working families don't have to send kids to crumbling classrooms.

What is the evil? Corporate power. What is the remedy? Effective government.

-snip
http://www.commondreams.org/views/082000-105.htm

It's rare to find a fellow Gore critic on Du but glad to meet you.

Unless Gore is corporate-owned, and I'm not educated enough to know but hope he isn't, I think that he will endorse Edwards. Obama and Clinton have proven to be part of the shop-machinery. Unfortunately I agree that Kucinich is too liberal for Gore. Even if Gore does support Edwards and not Kucinich that is a better option over the others, in my opinion.

so, he would be my guess too.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/environmental-organization-endorses-edwards/


I hope Al waits until after the nominee is selected, he still has to work with one of them ... why burn this bridge :D

that the intel vs iraq was fixed when he voted to authorize an invasion.

if he wants to prevent Clinton from being the nominee.

If i was the betting kind, i'd put money on his not endorising.

her.

I still wager he'll endorse Edwards.

DK has highest point from the League of Conservation Voters, very Green Group!

I'm a DK guy, but I can live with that. Edwards is high on my list.

He's happy with the work he's doing. He'd just get harassed again by endorsing anyone. Let's just let him do the good work he's doing.

Well, at least, I'm endorsing Chris Dodd, and he's always taken my advice really seriously. ;-)

He will be a part of the solution whatever role he choses. I think we just need to still wait and see.

Thank you,
Bob

I'll send him the link to this thread on Current probably.

To avoid a repeat from 2004.

after the furthering of Bush's disasters since he took office again? Gore's endorsement would be seen as a light in the darkness now.

unless he decided to endorse Clinton or Obama.

would be fine by me. The only viable endorsement options for keeping a sliver of hope alive for Democracy are Edwards and Kucinich.