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Title: Nobel Prize likely to increase pressure on Gore to run
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CNN
URL Source: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/12/gore.politics/
Published: Oct 12, 2007
Author: CNN
Post Date: 2007-10-12 10:14:17 by robin
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(CNN) -- Political analysts expect that Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize win will increase the pressure on him to run for president. But those who know him well predict he'll resist the pressure and stay out of the race. The former vice president and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the honor early Friday for their work in drawing attention to global climate change. One source, who has been involved in Gore's political campaigns, told CNN that he won't get into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination because he doesn't want to battle Sen. Hillary Clinton. Gore would have given serious consideration to a run if Clinton's campaign had run into problems, the source said, but he has concluded her momentum is unstoppable. "If she faltered, I think Democrats would probably turn to Al Gore because their argument is, 'Of course he's electable -- he's been elected,' " said CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider. But Schneider said he thought Gore's response would be that he had no interest in running. A Gore adviser made a similar prediction to Slate.com's John Dickerson. "The view this morning is this will be energy he can just channel back into this cause he cares so much about," said Dickerson, a CNN political analyst. Time magazine's Eric Pooley, who has reported extensively on Gore and his environmental efforts, makes the same prediction, but for a different reason. "Running for president would mean returning to a role he'd already transcended," Pooley wrote on Time's Web site. "He'd turn into -- again -- just another politician, when a lot of people thought he might be something better than that." Gore has said repeatedly this year that he doesn't "have any plans to be a candidate again." But a group called draftgore.com apparently isn't listening and hopes to change his mind. The organization, which describes itself as a group of grass-roots Democrats, took out a full-page ad in Wednesday's New York Times. Its open letter urges the 2000 Democratic presidential nominee to enter the 2008 race for the White House, saying "your country needs you now, as do your party, and the planet you are fighting so hard to save." The letter goes on to say that "America and the Earth need a hero right now, someone who will transcend politics as usual and bring real hope to our country and to the world." The ad also states that 136,000 people have signed Draft Gore's online petition. Eva Ritchey, from the Draft Gore campaign, said the signatures are coming in by the thousands. She also said the group will start a radio campaign in Florida. Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said the former vice president "truly appreciates the heartfelt sentiment behind the ad; however, he has no intention of running for president." But some Democrats aren't giving up. In the most recent CNN-Opinion Research Corp. national poll, 13 percent of Democrats surveyed supported Gore for their party's presidential nomination. In the poll, he was in fourth place in the Democratic race, two percentage points behind former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and seven points behind Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, and ahead of five declared candidates. Clinton leads the poll with 39 percent. Even if Gore changed his mind and decided to join the fray, the clock is ticking on any run for the White House. "Gore would certainly shake up the race if he changed his mind and decided to get in, but less than three months before the Iowa caucuses, his window of opportunity to actually make a serious run for the Democratic nomination probably has passed him by," said CNN political editor Mark Preston. Gore was vice president under President Clinton. In 2000, he won the Democratic presidential nomination and faced Texas Gov. George W. Bush in the general election campaign. Gore won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his challenge of voting results in the key state of Florida. "An Inconvenient Truth," a 2006 documentary featuring the former vice president, captured two Academy Awards in February. The film focuses on Gore and his worldwide travels to educate the public about the severity of global warming. Last month Gore picked up an Emmy -- the highest award in television -- for "Current TV," which he co-created. The show describes itself as a global television network that gives viewers the opportunity to create and influence its programming.
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#1. To: robin (#0)
Nobel Prize likely to increase pressure on Gore to run At least Carter was smart enough to know when to quit.
21% interest was his wake up call.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
Count on it. I agree but perhaps we underestimate political arrogance?
I am trying to figure out who or what Gore "made peace" with. Mother Nature? Of course, this prize lost all legitimacy when it was awarded to Henry Kissinger, not to mention Yassir Arafat.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
The consensus is Gore will not run against Hillary, but will he throw his support her way and open the door to a nice comfy position in her admin?
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"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
Being somewhat of a difference between personal and political arrogance, I suggest it would indeed be arrogant politically for Gore to actually believe that if he were president somehow he could put this country right. A one theme man, global warming resonates with few of the electorate. Gore is just one more political has been that needs to be given the hook off stage.
Transcript: Former Vice President Gore's Speech on Constitutional Issues. I wonder if you heard this speech.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
No. Oddly enough, at the time I supported Gore for president, not Clinton. Myself I consider it past time for someone to steer this country in a new direction. There has to be someone out there with a voice and a new road to travel.
Have people forgotten that Gore didn't even carry TN in '00?
Perhaps you ought to read that speech, to which I provided the link. It's from January 2006, and I found myself agreeing with almost all of it.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Yes... I admit I have tried to forget a lot about Gore over the years. I have not forgotten his Daddy and Armand Hammer however.
There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again. You've got to understand the nature of the regime we're dealing with. This is a man who has delayed, denied, deceived the world. Little did we know at the time he made this speech that the Chimp was referring to himself and not Saddam. That only came out later. Oh, yeah. Tennesseeans should be REAL proud of themselves for choosing the Chimp over their native son, even if the latter did grow up in D.C. And they voted for him twice, so they DID get fooled again.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
Gore is the only politician I recall that that was raised in a hotel.
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"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
What I think is of no relevance, rather it is what voters perceive him to be is what counts. One has only to ask the man on the street, "what is Al gore noted for"?
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
Ghost.. I try always to not use the term "you", it takes me places I should not go.
The same way Bush didn't carry Florida.
I woke up this morning to the BBC and this news, along with a debate between reporters from The Guardian and Rupert Murdoch's paper. It was pretty funny. The wingnut was the perfect case of sour grapes; not only does HE not like Gore, no one on the left does either. I think you would be very, very hard-pressed to find an American liberal who doesn't like the guy. These far-right idiots will just say anything to piss on someone else's parade. The White House then came out and basically said, so what? I dunno if he deserved it or not, but I am enjoying how much it pisses off the wingnut loonies.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
#2. To: Cynicom (#1)
At least Carter was smart enough to know when to quit.
#3. To: robin (#0)
#4. To: ghostdogtxn (#3)
He's not gonna run.
#5. To: robin (#0)
#6. To: Cynicom, ghostdogtxn, Sam Houston (#4)
#7. To: Cynicom (#4)
#8. To: robin (#6)
#9. To: ghostdogtxn (#7)
political arrogance?
#10. To: Cynicom (#9)
A one theme man, global warming resonates with few of the electorate.
#11. To: aristeides (#10)
I wonder if you heard this speech.
#12. To: Cynicom. the thread (#11)
#13. To: Cynicom (#11)
#14. To: lodwick (#12)
Have people forgotten that Gore didn't even carry TN in '00?
#15. To: lodwick (#12)
#16. To: Sam Houston (#15)
even if the latter did grow up in D.C.
#17. To: All (#0)
ANALYSIS-Nobel is sweet revenge for Gore, blow to Bush
#18. To: Cynicom (#9)
#19. To: ghostdogtxn (#18)
If you think Al Gore is a one-theme man, you are utterly clueless about him.
#20. To: Cynicom (#19)
#21. To: ghostdogtxn (#20)
#22. To: lodwick (#12)
Have people forgotten that Gore didn't even carry TN in '00?
#23. To: robin (#0)
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