I'll be hapy to be the first. Al Gore dserves to President. What a no-brainer! NO ONE DESERVES the role more than he who has already won it!
Posted by DeminNewJ at February 9, 2007 02:36 PMAl's gonna wait until the rest of the field eliminates each other, then he'll sweep in and win the nom! Smart guy, isn't he?
Posted by iamcoyote at February 9, 2007 02:38 PMGORE/OBAMA 2008
Posted by Christopher at February 9, 2007 02:56 PMThe Presidency is Al's for the asking. It's right there, a Life yes/no switch on the most powerful office in the world.
I find it hard to believe Al would not do his duty with everything right there. The party would be instantly unified and all attention could realistically turn to congressional runs. We could smash 2008 if he'd just pull the trigger.
[sigh] It's way early yet, but we all hear the clock ticking. Run, Al, run!
Posted by paradox at February 9, 2007 03:01 PMGORE/RICHARDSON
Or my real fave:
GORE/FEINGOLD
These tickets, all of them, are nuclear smashers, the GOP would quit before they even tried.
Ha! The GOP quits, the party is unified, we lock in Congress seriously, and get this: on Inaugural Day the little war felon--if he's there--has to hand over the white house! In the past, war felon, you're gone and now Al is finally where he belongs.
Run, Al, run!
Posted by paradox at February 9, 2007 03:05 PMI have one for you, how do we draft John Kitzhaber to run for Senate against Gordon Smith? Anyone know if a draft is in place?
Kitz would destroy Smith in an election, and we would have 2 brilliant progressive senators from our state.
Posted by oldtree at February 9, 2007 03:22 PMHow about an Academy Award-Pulitzer-Nobel-prize winner for President....if that doesn't get the Presidency, I'm moving to Canada...hey wait...I already live in Canada...
Posted by Goyo at February 9, 2007 04:49 PMI'll have to admit, there is something sweet in George Walker Bush having to give Al Gore the keys to the WH. Justice, sweet justice.
Posted by Judith at February 9, 2007 05:24 PMtune into bob somerby. al is seriously damaged goods. the "liberal" press[pundits, bloggers, et alia] chopped him up, allowed him to be chopped up.
bob is particularly good on josh marshall, ej dionne, and that ilk who refrained from fighting back. "poor form" i think marshall called it.
and al made his own tactical error in not making the real fight in florida. was it the bushit threat that scared al out of fighting?
al gore is the past. and i didn't much like him in his past as veep. there are many aspects of his behavior then where i think he would have been better off resigning.
the real issue, who is the future?
Posted by albertchampion at February 9, 2007 05:42 PMOK, so Al made some mistakes, but you have to admit Lieberman would have made a great VP.
Posted by TIKI AL at February 9, 2007 05:58 PMreelect al gore..has a nice ring to it
and you're right judith... wouldn't that be sweet to watch the swearing in ceremony
Posted by dennis at February 9, 2007 06:57 PMQuestion: Can the Prelate of a religious movement (in this case, the Church of the Certainty of Global Warming) be President of the United States? After all, a belief in "global warming" is more based on faith than science -- and, no, the recent report on "global warming" from the UN does NOT count as science.
Also, are you people familiar with Gore's comments regarding Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction during the Clinton administration....are you people even aware of the Clinton administrations's public statements regarding Saddam Hussein and WMDs?
And by-the-way, Mr. Gore lost the 2000 election.
Posted by Bagley at February 9, 2007 08:17 PMBagley, you flunked math I presume?
Posted by Steve Soto at February 9, 2007 09:02 PMal gore got more votes..nationwide..and in florida as well...the people of this country elected al gore..the republican tilted supreme court selected that fraud..thats a fact..
Posted by dennis at February 9, 2007 09:09 PMHello Steve,
A pleasure...
"Bagley, you flunked math I presume?"
No, actually I did my post-grad work in mathematics: data modelling, actually.
...but I digress....anyway...
You and Dennis seem to be unaware of a little thingy that the founders created called the "electoral college." It involves mathematics. Look it up on the internets.
Oh, and Dennis,
"...and in florida as well..."
Please do direct me to one single legitimate source that Vice President Gore won in Florida (...and, no, the rantings of the posters on Kos are not a legitimate source).
Regards,
Bagley
P.S. Steve, does it mean....I mean...since you and I are "talking" again...does it mean that...that, well...I am allowed to post here at TLC....again....still...maybe....my heart be still!...but pandagon seems to be far more interesting these days....
Posted by aka "Bagley" at February 9, 2007 09:46 PM"I am allowed to post here at TLC."
God, I hope not.
Posted by Judith at February 9, 2007 10:56 PMal gore was elected president..thats a fact..the fraud is illegitimate..since he was born..a fraud..failure at everything..in business he was a crook..insider trading at harken..always bailed out by connections..a coward..who shirked his duty to his country when he had his chance to prove who he was..he was a drunk who found god ..is on a crusade..and is leading us down the road to hell..i am truly ashamed of our government..not our country..our government..he was not elected...and if you are still with this shell of a human being..then you too are a mindless shell of a human being..this war is wrong
Posted by dennis at February 10, 2007 05:51 AMBush would not have received the opportunity to become the worst president in US history if not for the concerted efforts of Katherine the Crook, the Supreme Conservative Court, and the Lebanese terrorist Ralph Nader who got 90,000 would be Gore votes in Florida.
Bush hit the trifecta.
Posted by TIKI AL at February 10, 2007 06:00 AMit's pretty simple..gore won in 2000..thats a fact..it's why the supeme court stopped the counting....republicans..bastions of belif in states rights..hear the case on a phoney premise..and stopped the count...gore won..and jim baker knew it the night of the election..the exit polss called it right..so jimmey boy..smart piece of shit that he is..knew right then and there that they'd get it to the supreme court...the people of this country elected al gore..and i'll never forget til the day i die..because our great democracy died a bit that day
Posted by dennis at February 10, 2007 06:09 AMhow do we draft John Kitzhaber to run for Senate
Convince him he can accomplish something there. While he really wants to make an impact on public policy (esp. health issues) he despises the inside-the-beltway mentality (not to mention he adores Oregon and would be hard pressed to fit in all his fishing/rafting recreation) and like Gore, is struggling w/ how he can be most effective.
He would walk over Smith, but at this point feels he is being much more effective working on public policy in the private sector.
The Presidency is Al's for the asking. It's right there, a Life yes/no switch
Paradox nailed it. This is probably the most fascinating aspect of a Gore run. I'm sure he is aware of this which is the basis for him not committing at this point. I'm not convinced that he really *wants* it though.
Posted by Simp at February 10, 2007 08:22 PM