al gore for president

Nobelist or not, Al Gore is the man for '08, according to a number of people commenting on SFGate. But just as many had their doubts, even those who otherwise admire him. To see all the SFGate comments (edited for space), go to sfgate.com/ZBDJ. To read other reader comments, on Carla Marinucci's blog, go to sfgate.com/ZBDL.

Not only is Gore supremely qualified, brilliant, and damn well due a presidency, he is the only viable Democratic candidate. With all due respect to Obama and Clinton, I just don't think they will get elected.


- Carol Figueiredo, 45, San Francisco

Something about running a guy who has already lost just seems wrong. Politics is a pretty cutthroat game, and I just don't think that second chances are truly available. Gore as an informed intellectual is a great guy. Gore as a crusader for social change is a great guy. But as a presidential candidate? I just don't have faith that he could win.

- Hudi Brenman, 32, Oakland

One of the healthiest things for this country would be for Al Gore to jump in the race and take it under a third party representation. Whether you like Al Gore or not it would send a clear message to every politician that the people are fed up with the status quo, and would also give a sense of empowerment back, in that the citizens of this country can make a change and a powerful statement.


- David Ashcraft, 36, Santa Rosa

Oh please. Al Gore is a big hypocrite with his mansion that uses more energy than a dozen homes. This constant desire for him to run for president reminds me of the Bay Guardian's continual useless wish that Matt Gonzales is still going to run for mayor.

- Louis Perotti, 49, San Francisco

I, like many millions of others, would vote to re-elect the person I helped elect president in 2000. But I don't think Gore will run - and for that I am very sad for the Democratic Party, the U.S, and the world.


- Barry Cammarata, 52, Tucson, Ariz.

Even if Gore runs, he won't be able to catch up to Clinton or Obama on the fundraising front, or be able to get enough volunteers on the ground in key states. Maybe his contribution to the nomination will be to use his popularity to endorse one of the established candidates (rather than joining the race, Ralph Nader-style, and diluting primary votes for other "strong" hopefuls).

- Anna Cencioso, 41, San Mateo

I don't want Tipper Gore as first lady. We'll all be listening to Lawrence Welk.


- Dave Robison, 41, Magalia (Butte County)

I think Al should run for president. Of Sweden.

- Mitch Glassell, 53, San Francisco

Will Al Gore Run in 2008?
Everywhere he goes, the winner of the 2000 popular vote is asked: "Would you consider running for President in 2008?" His answer is that he has no intention or plans to seek office. But he hasn't decided not to run, either. We're convinced that Gore can be persuaded to run. The purpose of this website is to encourage him to do so, while helping build a grassroots movement that will put him into the White House.

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Al Gore's statement on winning the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Posted October 12th, 2007 by Janet in Al Gore Climate Crisis
Al Gore's statement on winning the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize:

I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis -- a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.



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Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize
Posted October 12th, 2007 by Janet in Al Gore Climate Crisis
Breaking - - The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore for "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
According to the official press release from The Norwegian Nobel Committee: "Al Gore has for a long time been one of the world's leading environmentalist politicians. He became aware at an early stage of the climatic challenges the world is facing. His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change. He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.
By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC and Al Gore, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is seeking to contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world's future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man's control."
Congratulations, Mr. Vice President!



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Al Gore for President (by Brent Budowsky)
Posted October 12th, 2007 by Janet in Al Gore Civil Liberties Climate Crisis Iraq War Politics Social Issues
As these words are written the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize has been chosen but not yet announced and for purposes of the future of America the great and inconvenient truth is that this does not matter.

America does not need another prize, we need another president.

Americans deserve a president who aspires not merely to wield power but to use the office of the presidency as the center of action to lift our land to the greatness that was bestowed to us by Americans who came before us.



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Nobel rumors energize groups hoping to draft Gore
Posted October 11th, 2007 by earthmother in Al Gore Politics
Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Thursday, October 11, 2007
Ex-Vice President Al Gore's chances of winning the peace ...

(10-10) 18:28 PDT San Francisco --

He has been honored with an Emmy and an Oscar as an innovator and environmental leader, but supporters of former Vice President Al Gore say he deserves still more - the White House.

Hundreds of loyal "Draft Gore" activists in California and around the nation hope Gore hits a trifecta of public recognition on Friday when the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize is announced. The award of a Nobel Prize could prompt the 2000 Democratic presidential candidate to change his mind and launch a 2008 presidential run, they believe.

Read the rest of the article here: A stiff vice president campaigns on his administration's legacy of unprecedented prosperity. Looks terrible on TV. Bows out, following a disputed vote count. Then, two terms later, with no incumbent in the race, he re-enters the fray. Promises to change the course of a disastrous war founded on lies. And charges to victory. I'm referring, of course, to the 1968 campaign of Richard Milhous Nixon. But four decades later, history has a chance to repeat itself for Albert Arnold Gore.

If the Democrats were going to sit down and construct the perfect candidate for 2008, they'd be hard-pressed to improve on Gore. Unlike Hillary Clinton, he has no controversial vote on Iraq to defend. Unlike Barack Obama and John Edwards, he has extensive experience in both the Senate and the White House. He has put aside his wooden, policy-wonk demeanor to emerge as the Bush administration's most eloquent critic. And thanks to An Inconvenient Truth, Gore is not only the most impassioned leader on the most urgent crisis facing the planet, he's also a Hollywood celebrity, the star of the third-highest-grossing documentary of all time.

"He's perceived very differently now than he was six years ago," says Frank Luntz, the Republican consultant who advised George W. Bush to dispute global warming during the 2000 and 2004 elections. "He's an icon. Imagine that: Al Gore, Mr. Straight and Narrow, Mr. Dull on Wheels -- now he's culturally cool."

Indeed, Gore is unique among the increasingly crowded field of Democratic contenders. He has the buzz to beat Obama, the substance to supplant Hillary, and enough stature to enter the race late in the game and still raise the millions needed to mount a successful campaign. "Very few people who run for president can just step in when they want, with a superstar, titanic presence," says James Carville, the dean of Democratic strategists. "But Gore clearly is one of those. He's going to run, and he's going to be formidable. If he didn't run, I'd be shocked."

Look at what Gore has been up to lately, and it's hard to escape the impression that, on some level, he is already running for president. Over the past few months he has made high-profile appearances on the Today show, the Tonight Show and Oprah, and he displayed his trademark deadpan humor in a stint on Saturday Night Live. "He's keeping himself viable by keeping himself in the public eye," says Donna Brazile, who served as Gore's campaign manager in 2000.

He has also been active under the media radar. In December, Gore quietly took part in the year's largest event organized by MoveOn, the grassroots group that helped make Howard Dean the front-runner in 2004. After tens of thousands of MoveOn members gathered at house parties across the country to watch An Inconvenient Truth on DVD, Gore joined them in an Internet conference call. Although global warming was the call's official topic, the discussion was charged with electoral expectations.

As the Internet crowds submitted questions for Gore through an online interface, the text of each query popped up on an animated map of the United States for all to read on their computer screens. There were hundreds of submissions -- and at least a third of them dealt with regime change rather than climate change. "Would you please run for president," wrote Rhonda in Poway, California. "What are the circumstances under which you would run for president again?" asked Doug in Marshal, North Carolina.

Eli Pariser, who was moderating the call as MoveOn's executive director, finally rose to the bait. "I have to ask this one because it's come up so many times," he told Gore. "Carol from Indianapolis says, 'Would you please, please run?'"

Gore, on speakerphone with Tipper from his home in Nashville, offered his stock response. "I'm not planning on running for president again," he said -- stopping well short of an actual denial.
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He has spoken and written tirelessly on the subject and his Oscar-winning documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth" has become required viewing in English schools ― even if the High Court has now said it should carry a "health warning" of political bias.

Some Gore supporters have speculated that winning the Nobel might spur the 2000 Democratic nominee for president to enter the lists again.

Gore has not ruled this out, as he did in 2004, but he would have to move fast and his spokesmen say he is more interested in his global warming campaign than in trying to secure the Democratic nomination again.

What do you think? Should he try again for the presidency? Would a man with such strong views on climate change make a welcome change in the White House?