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Although he has so far refused to declare his candidacy Al Gore remains a very strong contender in various polls against the various Democrats who are currently running for President. After his "loss" to George Bush in 2000 and the subsequent battle that went all the way the Supreme Court, Gore has remained a sympathetic high profile figure with his Academy Award winning film An Inconvenient Truth and his new best seller The Assault on Reason. In a field full of strong candidates from H. Clinton to Edwards and Obama the drive for something and someone different in the field driving many proclamations of Gore's Imminent Entry into the Race is palpable - but none of these are reasons to support Al Gore as our next President. Most of his own strongest supporters don't seem to even know just why we need him as desperate as we do. It is true that Al Gore never voted for the Iraq War as did both Clinton and Edwards. It's true Al Gore wouldn't have to explain why he "voted for the troop funding bill, before he voted against it." It's true that by voting to take it from an internal government/university development project for protecting our vital assests and information from nuclear war to the world changing public information and publishing system - Al Gore really did help "create the Internet". Vinton Cerf: Good evening, or whatever time zone you are in, hi!! While we're waiting for questions, I'd like to clear up one little item - about the Vice President ... He really does deserve some credit for his early recognition of the importance of the Internet and the technology that makes it work. He was certainly among the first if not the first in Congress to realize how powerful the information revolution would be and both as Senator and Vice President he has been enormously helpful in supporting legislation and programs to help further develop the Internet - for example the Next Generation Internet program. It's true that Al Gore has been way out on the bleeding edge of telling truth to power with his speeches to Moveon.org four years ago on fact that 9/11 could have been avoided by good old fashion good police work rather than ever intrusive electronic surveillance and no knock warrants that have become so massively abused under the Patriot Act. (Not to mention Gitmo, Extraordinary Rendition and "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques") * "In late August 2001, Nawaq Alhamzi and Khalid Al-Midhar bought tickets to fly on American Airlines Flight 77 (which was flown into the Pentagon). They bought the tickets using their real names. Both names were then on a State Department/INS watch list called TIPOFF. Both men were sought by the FBI and CIA as suspected terrorists, in part because they had been observed at a terrorist meeting in Malaysia. In addition, Al-Midhar and Nawaf Alhamzi, the two who were on the terrorist watch list, rented an apartment in San Diego under their own names and were listed, again under their own names, in the San Diego phone book while the FBI was searching for them. It's true that Al Gore has blasted the Administration for ignoring the contrary information about the Niger forgeries and aluminum tubes and for concocting phony connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein (again way back in 2003 just one year into the Iraq War long before it was either fashionable or politically expedient to do so. For example, according to the just-released Congressional investigation, Saddam had nothing whatsoever to do with the attacks of Sept. 11. Therefore, whatever other goals it served -- and it did serve some other goals -- the decision to invade Iraq made no sense as a way of exacting revenge for 9/11. To the contrary, the US pulled significant intelligence resources out of Pakistan and Afghanistan in order to get ready for the rushed invasion of Iraq and that disrupted the search for Osama at a critical time. And the indifference we showed to the rest of the world's opinion in the process undermined the global cooperation we need to win the war against terrorism. In the same way, the evidence now shows clearly that Saddam did not want to work with Osama Bin Laden at all, much less give him weapons of mass destruction. So our invasion of Iraq had no effect on Al Qaeda, other than to boost their recruiting efforts. And on the nuclear issue of course, it turned out that those documents were actually forged by somebody -- though we don't know who. As for the cheering Iraqi crowds we anticipated, unfortunately, that didn't pan out either, so now our troops are in an ugly and dangerous situation. http://www.truth2powerproject.com
Indeed! Gore & Obama or Gore & Clark -- slam dunks! Either of these combos would be as tsunami which would utterly overwhelm the predictable voter fraud. by
W. Christopher Epler (Bill) (210 articles, 44 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 461 comments)
on Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 6:46:20 PM
Name is Rose Martinis, age 64, married. Atheist and retired dental tech. Hobbies: archeology, history, science, woodworking, wood carving and volunteering for non-profits.
GORE and HILLARY! Both the most intellegent of any contenders. by
uluro (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 58 comments)
on Monday, July 2, 2007 at 6:31:53 AM
My passion is that the Worker Ownership of the Mondragon Cooperative of the Basque of Northern Spain is the future of this world.
Al Gore Mr. Gore,
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Carolinanickel (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 17 comments)
on Monday, July 2, 2007 at 7:32:55 AM
Gore/Edwards 08! Gore/Obama 08! I don't care who he runs with, as long as he runs. He won in 2000 by over 500,000 votes, if anyone deserves a shot, it's Al. by
John R Moffett (79 articles, 14 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 595 comments)
on Monday, July 2, 2007 at 10:47:04 AM
exactly He won in 2000 by over 500,000 votes, if anyone deserves a shot, it's Al. Exactly. He is a ringer basically. He gets half the population automatically because of their indignancy that Bush beat Gore in a fishy fight. His campaign can begin from there and move toward a landslide victory. It is the Dems turn by cycles and they will all be hungry for a guaranteed victory. The primaries would go his way almost for sure. If he runs it may be the biggest landslide presidential victory ever. I really hope so because I trust his understanding of science. I'll bet he is even up on the details of the leading "non-anthropomorphic greenhouse" theories. He's been writing respectable books about science for literally decades. And I mean respected by other scientists. David Suzuki used to praise and quote Gore way back in 1988 I believe. If anyone could ever put together a team of people to try and save the world from environmental destruction, it is President Gore. by
Peter Dearman (7 articles, 13 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 104 comments)
on Monday, July 2, 2007 at 12:50:11 PM
You will probably want to read this Consortium News about the lies told about Gore. by
Blue Pilgrim (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 998 comments)
on Monday, July 2, 2007 at 12:12:45 PM
Ex Marine, University of Maine, ex-paralegal-public defender, retired, wife, two grown children, a yellow lab, 2 birds and a super dislike of the war-mongering bush administration.
Al Gore I have just finished reading "The Assault on Reason". It is a must read. Al talks a lot about the Constitution and how it has been decimated by the bush administration. How many democratic candidates have you heard say anything about the constitution. Al Gore is certainly the only person qualified to rebuild this country and make it what it was before bush. by
Johnny T. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 15 comments)
on Monday, July 2, 2007 at 12:32:35 PM
Al Gore May Be the Most Underrated Leader We Have I heard Gore speak to the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco last December. It was very impressive -- a very thoughtful, cogent, intellectually powerful examination of our present situation, not only with regard to climate change, but with regard to the allover situation. Vlan has stated something important which none of the current crop of presidential candidates -- not even the Democrats -- seem to get at all: The federal government and judiciary will need to be completely restructured and reformed once the NeoCons are booted out. There is NOT ONE agency of the federal government that has not been corrupted in some way, usually to ensure that Republicans win elections. The WashPo Cheney articles are just full of examples of corrupt partisan influence being brought to bear in even the most obscure agencies. There is in fact no one with the broad expertise and knowledge of the federal government that Al Gore has. If he does not run, I hope the winner of the next election has at least the good sense to turn to Gore as the "Reform Tsar" that we will so desperately need. Just imagine the number of resignations that must be demanded at the commencement of the next "unsullied by Neo-Con" administration -- at least, we are desperately hoping that nothing happens to turn the election toward the incompetent GOP, but they are so conniving and so remorselessly vicious, anything can and probably will happen as they strive to stay in power. It has got so bad in some areas that even the local dog catchers are asked if they support the president before they are allowed to go catch some dogs. And of course, they must be sure to collect many more yellow (i.e., Democratic) dogs than any other kind! I, too, would like Al Gore to run. And if he announces he's running, I'd like all the others to hang up their ambition and throw their support to him -- NOW -- before there are any primaries. There are certain Democratic candidates who have such overpowering ambition that they would do real damage to the overall cause, and therefore the longterm good of our country, if they stay in and attempt to smash Gore. The logical "compromise," if Hillary Clinton can accept it, is that she become the vice presidential candidate and Gore becomes the presidential candidate and they announce that they are running on a Unity Ticket. Otherwise, the blood-letting in the way-too-soon Democratic primaries could sink all of them. That's just my opinion. Vlan, thank you very much for bringing the subject of the necessity of federal government re-structuring to the front of the debate. It is an extremely critical issue, and none of the current Democratic or Republican candidates has sufficient knowledge or experience to accomplish it. by
S. E. Hoffman (2 articles, 2 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 12 comments)
on Monday, July 2, 2007 at 4:02:55 PM
Oh, For Crying Out Loud! Are you people nuts? Gore didn't even have the guts to support the Democratic Black Caucus when the needed JUST ONE Senator's agreement to protest the Electoral College debacle in 2000. He put his tail between his legs and went home. And why in hell was the 2000 election "close" anyway? Gore has said NOTHING about the millions of disenfranchised black voters whose votes were denied in 2000. Gore is a mealy-mouthed Centrist just like Kerry, Hillary and Obama. These are the pro-corporate swine you're going to support in 2008? Your kids may deserve these chickenshit panderers at the helm, but mine don't. by
JonmarkP (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 64 comments)
on Monday, July 2, 2007 at 8:29:44 PM
I liked watching Al Gore in his movie. I enjoy somebody who is articulate. And he -appears- to be a decent person. by
richard (0 articles, 4 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 709 comments)
on Monday, July 2, 2007 at 9:35:59 PM
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