Gore's campaign slogan; "I was right."

Would Gore running be his ultimate revenge on Clinton for his loose zipper which had much to do with Gore's defeat in 2000? I wonder how much of Hillary's support would shift to Gore.

Hoppy in Sacramento

Gore didn't break my heart; America broke my heart. 

When I was a kid my friend wrote a condolence letter to Adlai Stevenson after his second defeat.  Stevenson answered:

I feel like a kid who is too old to cry, but too young for it not to hurt. 

Gore represents the return of great statesmanship to politics.  We need him. 

Neoboho

I even admired greatly the excerpt from Gore in the same magazine. He can be eloquent like Obama while talking real issues like Edwards. Of course, it's also the kind of intelligent, in-depth treatment that alienated the media in 2000. Funny how they cut Bill Clinton a break on his being literate and, often, long winded. Or maybe Maureen Dowd, Frank Bruni, and the pundit machinery weren't in place and powerful enough yet in 1992. (This will appear all run in because the friggin editor has turned itself off even after preview and I'm so sick and tired of having to coding paragraphs that I'm not going to.)
John
http://www.haberarts.com/

Right on Iraq both times- supported Gulf War I, opposed Gulf War II. And he was prescient about the Internet, and now global warning. I can't imagine any American politician who has been as consistently right as Al Gore has.

Yes, Gore lost because he was the smart dorky guy running against the amiable country bumpkin. Well, see how well that worked out! People are going to want proven competence in 2008 which is a problem for both Edwards and Obama - not enough of a track record for tough times - but I don't think they want war as the only answer. I can see either McCain or Guiliani beating the fear and war drums to death and I think people want a positive alternative to that. Can we please have someone with the guts to stand up and say that war is not the ONLY answer and it isn't even the ONLY problem.

This is the year that Dems MUST win. We MUST start to fix all the things the current administration has broken (and has yet to break) or we won't have much of a country left.

Hilary has too much baggage & Obama's lack of experience is going to be a problem for many voters. (Not to mention the reluctance of too many citizens to vote for anyone except a white, Christian male.)

This is Gore's year! I think he would win easily.

Al, we need you.

"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier - just so long I'm the dictator." -gw bush, December 18, 2000

When I see the personal fortunes being used to campaign to be Top Dawg(ette), and then look at how Al Gore is using his resources to get the important issues upfront, helping young people to empower themselves, leading by example -- that is inspiring for me.

Politicians talk. That's what they do. And it's important. But you cannot "walk" ideas forward on one leg. So honest movers and shakers must be part of the program. And that's how I see Al Gore -- the other leg that will help turn the political "talk" into "walk."

He was my hero in 2000 and every day since. Look what he's done out of office. It's impressive -- far more impressive than what the rich kid GeeDubya did with the title.

Political hacks?

Really?

Seriosuly, why Gore and not Obama, Clinton, or Edwards?

Gore is the one who ran with that loser Republican Lieberman... Doesn't that make him a hack?

thosethingswesay.blogspot.com

For now, I'm sticking with Ron Paul...

In general, I think that Hillary's Wal-Mart connections will cost her too many votes (as well as her failed attempt to fix health care) and too many of my friends would either stay at home or vote for somebody else.

I'd give Gore a chance though, if Ron Paul doesn't get the Republican nod. Actually, if Ron Paul doesn't get the nod, I'd even consider Obama, but not Hillary.

To boldly go..

So glad to see all the love and interest for our Beloved Al Gore. I want so much for it to happen, and happen in the right way. Am all ready to hit the bookstore this week and get my copy of Al's new book -- which is about the demise of Reason in our Politics -- something I suspect could become the dominant campaign theme that would have staying power right through to Election Day. I believe the time has arrived.

My hope has always been that Gore holds off on a decision and an announcement till late Summer, perhaps around Labor Day. In the meantime with his book and his huge International July Rock Concert supporting efforts to deal with Global Warming -- he has a chance to build a mass movement based on a mixture of good science, healthy discourse, something that brings many new voices into the public realm -- and then comes the key work, converting all that into an authentic but a different kind of Presidential Campaign.

To cure many of the diseases Bush has seeded in our Government and Society we need something like a New Deal -- and a Mandate from the Voters to lead it, and of those running, I think Gore is the one to achieve that Mandate. That's how we have to think -- not the narrow margin of perhaps ten or twenty electorial college votes, and a couple of million in the Popular Vote, but the kind of Mandate that comes from a popular landslide -- an LBJ sized one (64) or an FDR sort, (1936). That means a fully united Democratic Party plus perhaps 80% of the Independents, and every Moderate Republican still breathing. Much as our Dem's who are running now are good quality -- none of them offer a vision of an authentic Mandate -- and I think, properly organized, a Gore Campaign could do precisely that.

People are turning out for our Candidate Events for one simple reason -- they want George Bush to be done and over with, and looking at the alternatives is a way to stay sane. But at the events, they are getting small bore politics from the first tier, and small bore is not what the times call for. That's why Gore coming in late but with a different kind of campaign can change all our calculations.

Re: Gore is the one who ran with that loser Republican Lieberman.

This is a little unfair unless you think our candidates must be gifted with precognition too. In 2000 Liebermann was a reliable New England liberal who gave no fore-sign of the disgraceful Bush groupie he has since become.

Gore is appearing May 29 at Lisner Auditorium on the George Washington University campus to discuss his new book, Assualt on Reason. Politic and Prose, a leading nat'l independent book store is hosting the event. (Full disclosure: my wife Carla Cohen is the founder and an owner.) It's a sell out crowd, meaning at least 2,000 people.
Of course, Nader is a spoiler who has the current Supreme Court as one of hids legacies--Roberts and Alito. Of course the Court cheated Gore the winner out of the election. But Gore ran an inept campaign that made a run away election close. His refusal to use Bill Clinton effectively, and his arrogance, cost him Arkansas, Tennessee and West Virginia. He bears significant responsibility for the 8 years of Bush.
Gore, if he is to run, has to show far beyond any doubts why he'd wage an effective campaign. Does he know who he is? Is he still a self-righteous person who cannot reflect on his earlier mistakes? Right now An Inconvenient Truth and The Assault on Reason--worthy books with important ideas and messages-- do not make Gore a worthy replacement for any of the top tier candidates and the Obama spark demonstrates a quest for something different than what Gore has shown politically.
David Cohen

Gore is the only democrat with the courage to stand in public and state the FACTBASEDREALITY and incontrivertable TRUTH that the President "...is repeatedly and insistantly breaking the law"!

If Gore runs, the DNC, all the potential candidates, all democrats, and theleft in general should support, defend, and put our hearts and minds behind his candidacy.

How about the others aren't qualified to be President?

Just because the Republicans are currently putting up an even weaker group of candidates, that doesn't just makes ours good.

I like Gore a lot more now that he's decided to put his money where his mouth is...$2,500/mo electric bill + high-minded rhetoric = no sale.
Instead, he has now decided to follow through, go flourescent with the lighting, solar panels, even rich people can be consistent, given enough pressure from the public...now, do we make him our next de facto king, or does he have fiscal reforms in store also?

I agree wholeheartedly. Why can't we just look for the person who would be best at the job and not whether he/she is sufficiently marketable? We're not talking about a bar of soap, for crying out loud. We could use a real statesman right now, not someone who appeals to the tv watching crowd. Look what we got last time. I have my doubts that anyone could pull us out of the fire Dumbya has created, but Gore comes the closest. And I like the idea of a Gore/Obama ticket. Something for everyone. Smart, dynamic, eloquent. Polar opposite at the moron in WH now. It's going to take every brain cell we can muster to save us. No more marketable idiots, please.

I view the election as basically a tie. If he had carried his own home state of Tennessee (something that almost all candidates do) he would have won the election. The fact that his own home folks didn't want him says something about him.

what's your logic. christ was crucified but barabus was saved. isn't the south republican leaning?

To boldly go...

Corvid

How about an independent Gore-Bloomberg ticket, with Bloomberg spending a billion on it? I like Gore so much that I'd hate to see him get sucked back into the DLC/Rubinomics-dominated Democratic Party. Would seem to be a bit of a waste at this point. And given the appalling but understandable public ratings of the Democratic Congress (actually lower than the president's numbers, which is pretty hard to believe), what would Gore gain by reattaching himself to the Dems?

And for all you Republicans or Republican-lites out there - he could be the only southern white Christian guy with one wife on the ticket!

Interesting that you should bring up the south. I don't remember Gore winning one single State in the south in 2000, and I was especially dissapointed that he could not even win in his home State of Tennessee.

On the positive side, if Gore runs this time he would be free from the slime ball factor of supporting Bill Clinton and his antics involving seducing Ms. Lewinsky, a woman younger than his daughter to have sex with him by promising her a cushy job at the Pentagon. That's a plus this time around.

On the other hand this "rock star" status so many claim he has may play well with the tongue pierced, tatooed kids who have been raised to believe science is god, but how many of these people actually vote? I don't believe it will play as well with average Americans who actually vote in large numbers. Immersing himself into the world of global warming theorists is a wise move in an age when one can make billions re-packaging Agent Orange into Agent Green and marketing it to enviromentally minded yuppies as an eco-friendly herbacide, but I don't know if it will really help Gore gain votes with clear thinking, mature, well educated voters who can smell junk science from a mile away.

For goodness sakes! I can't believe I am reading all this blather about how the US isn't ready for a woman or African-American president!

I mean listen to yourselves. Many of you seem to be saying: We have great candidates but none of them are white men, so we are in danger of losing.

Change requires that you actually _change_. Hilary and Obama both are smart, effective politicians, and we are in a country that is profoundly unhappy with current direction. How else do you think we will ever break through barriers? If not now, when?

sheesh.

Sheesh, yup, sorry. Not just any woman, but a polarizing former first lady representing New Yawk. And even if Barak were 55 years-old instead of 45, and had done something he had not done, it's also hard to see 270 Electoral votes there. (His resume isn't great but it's pretty good.) Sorry, America is just too racist. You haven't learned that yet?

No, it's not fair. It's just reality. Take a look at the elections of the last, oh, 40 years. How does two-thirds of white America consistenly vote? It's wrong, but it's reality. And unless the thought of Mitt Romney deciding torture policy and the make-up of the Supreme Court is of comfort, you'd better get over it, if we are to win in '08.

Independent tickets never work, not with the Electoral College. We've been over that one, right? All they can do is act as spoilers. (Go, Chuck Hagel!)

Gore's campaign slogan; "I was right."

YES: "I was right that in an era when there were at least a 20 highly publicized sexual harassment lawsuits a month backed by women's rights groups, I supported Bill Clinton against the dozen or so women who claimed he harassed, boinged, whipped it out in front of them, and even tried to rape them!" I was right because even in that era, NOT ONE SINGLE "non-partisan" women's rights group backed up any of the brutalized women Clinton left in his wake from Little Rock to the White House! "I was right!"

"I was right." I supported the 168 meetings at the White House between President Clinton and Johnny Wong discussing opening up more free trade and job exports to China. Today we can buy underwear from Wal-Mart for $3 a dozen; I was right!" I was also right in supporting Clinton on NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO agreements sending millions of jobs abroad." "Yeah, but I hope my hired campaign liars can help me convince voters that those agreements weren't signed during the 1990's!"

"I was right, I invented the internet, and now I am inventing global warming!" I have thousands of global warming theorists backing me up on this and as long as we can keep the people in a constant state of fear, WE CAN WIN!"

*****Al Gore/Charlie Sheen 2008*****

That's right! I almost forgot! He won WITHOUT the south!

Wow, the parodists are in top form today -- kudos!

I feel kinda silly going here, but one of the comments on this thread reminds me that lately I've seen more than a few comments hereabouts claiming that Monica Lewinsky was (a) a teenager when she had an affair with Bill Clinton, and/or (b) younger than Clinton's daughter, and neither of those things is true.  Monica Lewinsky was 22 when they had the affair, and she is seven years older than Chelsea Clinton.

Just sayin'.

And she was actually the seducer -- remember the thong? (and btw, I'm not throwing stones at her -- I can point to stuff in my own past that makes me sympathetic to her, actually; but just for the record...)

And on another point, I really wish those who are moaning about our current crop of candidates would just stop. I've got my own issues with all of them, but they've also all -- all -- got some terrific traits that would make them perfectly fine presidents, and maybe more. People always seem to think the current candidates suck because they're not Washington, Lincoln or FDR. Just stop it already; there could actually be FDR potential here, really. (Shoot, even FDR didn't show that potential until he was in office.) Would I love to be able to consider Gore? Sure. But am I happy with our choices? Hell, yes. Now, for contrast, imagine you're a Republican...

NEO-GORE IS DIFFERENT AND HE IS ENERGIZED

The nation needs to cleanse itself of our collective guilt for stealing the election from him in 2000 and handing the Presidency over to a person who almost destroyed our nation.

Dr. Rick Lippin
Southampton, Pa
http://medicalcrises.blogspot.com

Dave Adams,

how dare you introduce facts to dispel the
mindlessness of a Rush Limbaugh dittohead's
post.

I fine you $10.00

Destor, I know what you mean, but give me a chance to explain.

Gore was a political hack.  That is why he chose Lieberman, and why he was afraid to campaign on the successes of the Clinton administration.  He was wooden, his voice was not authentic, and he took bad advice about the Florida recount. 

Being a political hack is kind of like being a teenager.  You just want everyone to like you.  You want to be validated, and you will do things (like say things you don't believe, or say nice things about the popular people [financial backers], and generally act like a phoney) because in your immaturity, you think it is the only way to get to be Prom King President.

What happened in all these years is that Gore grew up.  Listen to him.  He thinks about his answers.  He believes what he says, and he says it without insulting those who disagree.

Hillary Clinton desperately wants to be Prom Queen.  She believes fervently that she deserves it.  She will do whatever it takes; say whatever she has to in order to be in the "in" crowd.

As much as I like Obama and Edwards personally, I believe that they simply don't have the chops to take us through the morass that is coming.  I believe they would all be immediately running for 2012; much to the detriment of our country.  The next presidency is not going to be a picnic.  Bush is leaving a bigger mess than has ever existed in our history.

It is time for an adult in the White House, and I believe Gore is the man for that unenviable task.

Jan