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Democrats Look for Way to Avoid Convention RiftFormer Vice President Al Gore and a number of other senior Democrats plan to remain neutral for now in the presidential race in part to keep open the option to broker a peaceful resolution to what they fear could be a bitterly divided convention, party officials and aides said Friday.Democratic Party officials said that in the past week Mr. Gore and other leading Democrats had held private talks as worry mounted that the close race between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton could be decided by a group of 796 party insiders known as superdelegates.
The signs that party elders are weighing whether and how to intervene reflects the extraordinary nature of the contest now and the concern among some Democrats that they not risk an internal battle that could harm the party in the general election.
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Gore, U.N. Climate Panel Accept Nobel Peace PrizeOSLO, Norway — Al Gore received his Nobel Peace Prize on Monday and urged the United States and China to make the boldest moves on climate change or "stand accountable before history for their failure to act."Permalink [Category: Gore]"We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency -- a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here," Gore said in his acceptance speech.
Gore shared the Nobel with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for sounding the alarm over global warming and spreading awareness on how to counteract it. the U.N. panel was represented at the ceremony by its leader, Rajendra Pachauri.
Al Gore is the Democrats' Best HopeWhen you really think about the crop of Democratic candidates for president, it's clear that their best hope to win in 2008, is not even on the playing field. That current, non-candidate is Al Gore. He's the only one who can match the experience, accomplishments and gravitas of Rudy Giuliani and yet, the left ignores him.Permalink [Category: Gore]Do Democrats think that nostalgia for the Clinton years will propel Hillary to the presidency? More likely, when voters remember the scandal-plagued, triangulating double-talk of both Clintons, they will be less likely to want to return to those years.
Barack Obama? In a world that has become more difficult to navigate, does the left think that a not-even-one term senator is the right person for the job? Against a person with Giuliani's credentials, it wouldn't even be close.
Bush Welcomes Gore to Oval OfficeWASHINGTON (AP) -- Talk about an inconvenient truth. Al Gore finally won his place in the Oval Office on Monday -- right next to George W. Bush. Forever linked by the closest and craziest presidential race in history, the two men were reunited by, of all things, White House tradition.Permalink [Category: George Bush, Gore]Gore was among the 2007 Nobel Prize winners who were invited in for a photo and some chatter with the president; Gore got the recognition for his work on global warming.
The two men stood next to other, sharing uncomfortable grins for photographers and reporters, who were quickly ushered in and out.
Bush and Gore: An Inconvenient Reunion?ABC News' Jennifer Duck Reports: The man who hoped to win the White House in 2000 will finally be congratulated by the man who beat him in the end. George W. Bush and Al Gore will be face-to-face at the White House on Monday, November 26th.Permalink [Category: George Bush, Gore]Awkwardly, the President and former Vice President will meet at the place where Gore once thought he had enough votes to sit -- the Oval Office. Bush is expected to congratulate Gore and other US Nobel Peace Prize winners in a ceremony.
It's no secret that President Bush doesn't see eye-to-eye with most of Gore's talking points on the issue of climate change.
Gore Joins Major Venture Capital FirmSAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- To anyone still holding out hope that Al Gore will run for president, it appears he has potentially more lucrative interests.Permalink [Category: Gore]The former vice president said Monday he's joining a Silicon Valley venture capital firm to guide investments that help combat global warming.
Gore, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last month for his work on climate change, joins Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as it and dozens of other venture firms expand into so-called ''clean-tech'' investments worldwide. Gore is already a senior adviser to Google Inc. and a member of the board at Apple Inc.
Al Gore's supporters move onAL GORE'S Hollywood fans applauded him at the Oscars, cheered at the Emmys and wept proud tears when he won the Nobel Peace Prize. But even now they admit that they'll probably never get the chance to dance at his inaugural ball.Over the last few weeks, the core of Gore's Hollywood support has been quietly shifting its allegiance to other candidates. They have resigned themselves to that fact that, no matter how hard they press him and no matter what good fortune comes his way, the former vice president won't seek the presidency.
Rob Reiner said he has had conversations with Gore about his intentions and he takes him at his word."He's not running," said Reiner, who has remained loyal to the former vice president since campaigning with him in 2000. (The director still carries in his brown satchel a signed copy of Gore's speech declaring that he would accept the Supreme Court decision that, effectively, ended his bid for the presidency against George W. Bush.)
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Gore in 2008? All signs point to noWASHINGTON -- Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize set the political world abuzz Friday with speculation that he might finally join the 2008 race for president.Permalink [Category: Gore]All signs suggest otherwise.
The former vice president made no comment on whether the Nobel had sparked his interest anew in a campaign for the White House.But Gore, 59, has laid no groundwork to build the vast organization needed to run for president. He has repeatedly said he has no plans to run for public office again. And longtime advisors say he should be taken at his word when he says he wants to stay focused on a crusade to persuade the world to take stronger steps against global warming.
With Prize, Gore Is Vindicated Without Having to Add President to RésuméWASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — Al Gore’s seven-year journey from loser to laureate began in bitterness, settled for a time into self-imposed exile and led him in the end to rediscover his voice on climate change.Permalink [Category: Environment, Gore]The question now is what he will do with the prestige and attention that comes to him with the Nobel Peace Prize. The answer appears to be that he will neither embrace nor reject another quest for the presidency, but harness the speculation about his intentions to become a more formidable force on environmental policy and a power within the Democratic party.
Mr. Gore’s close friends and advisers said Friday that he had no desire to be drawn into the race for the presidency but that he saw the clear advantage of leveraging the acclaim. The clearest expression of his true feelings, they said, was his brief statement of thanks for the prize in an appearance in Palo Alto, Calif., where he talked about planetary politics and uttered not a word about the kind unfolding in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Gore and U.N. Panel Share Peace PrizeFormer vice president Al Gore, who wrapped up a remarkable year of honors yesterday by sharing the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with a U.N. scientific panel, said he will use the award to heighten awareness of "a true planetary emergency" from global warming and press the world's nations to combat its threats.Permalink [Category: Gore]For Gore, the award was a measure of vindication for his passionate commitment to the issue of climate change in the face of occasional ridicule and pointed political criticism dating back two decades. Coming seven years after a bitter defeat in his bid to win the White House, it also rekindled speculation about a possible 2008 presidential run, which his aides quickly sought to squelch.
In a statement issued shortly after the award was announced in Norway, Gore said he was deeply honored to be cited for his work and to share the prize with the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Geneva-based committee of scientists established in 1988.
"The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity," Gore said. "It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level."
Feats Divide Pair Linked by ElectionMIAMI, Oct. 12 -- Somehow, it seemed only fitting that at the moment of Al Gore's triumph, George W. Bush would spend the day in Florida, scene of the fateful clash that propelled one to the presidency and the other to the Nobel Prize.Permalink [Category: George Bush, Gore]What a difference seven years makes. The winner of that struggle went on to capture the White House and to become a wartime leader now heading toward the final year of a struggling presidency. The loser went on to reinvent himself from cautious politician to hero of the activist left now honored as a man of peace.
For the Gore camp, it was a day of resurrection, a day to salve the wounds of history and to write another narrative that they hope will be as enduring as Florida. "We finally have their respective legacies," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and a veteran of the Clinton-Gore White House. "Bush earned the Iraq war, and Al Gore earned the Nobel Prize. Who knew Al Gore would one day thank the Supreme Court for their judgment?"
The White House stuck to polite, if restrained, congratulations. "Obviously, it's an important recognition, and we're sure the vice president is thrilled," spokesman Tony Fratto told reporters aboard Air Force One heading here Friday. Another senior official, commenting on the condition of anonymity to speak less diplomatically, said the Nobel Prize is nice, but the presidency is still better. "We're happy for him," the aide said, "but suspect he'd trade places before we would."
Gore Gains Power as Well as PrizeWASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — Al Gore’s seven-year journey from loser to laureate began in bitterness, settled for a time into self-imposed exile and led him in the end to rediscover his voice on climate change.Permalink [Category: Gore]The question now is what he will do with the prestige and attention that comes to him with the Nobel Peace Prize. The answer appears to be that he will neither embrace nor reject another quest for the presidency, but harness the speculation about his intentions to become a more formidable force on environmental policy and a power within the Democratic party.
Mr. Gore’s close friends and advisers said Friday that he had no desire to be drawn into the race for the presidency but that he saw the clear advantage of leveraging the acclaim. The clearest expression of his true feelings, they said, was his brief statement of thanks for the prize in an appearance in Palo Alto, Calif., where he talked about planetary politics and uttered not a word about the kind unfolding in Iowa and New Hampshire.
“This obviously turns everybody toward the presidency, but I think he’s saying what he means,” said Paul Begala, a political adviser in the Clinton White House who prepared Mr. Gore for his 2000 presidential debates against George W. Bush. “He knows there’s a Democratic field that Democrats are happy with, and that they don’t need a white knight riding in.”
Analysis: Gore's Back, but Not for a BidWASHINGTON (AP) -- An Oscar, an Emmy and the Nobel Peace Prize. Will Al Gore now seek the ultimate reward and Oval Office mantel space? Don't count on it. Odds are that the former vice president won't risk his Nobel-burnished image and huge public platform with a return to the rough-and-tumble world of presidential politics -- at least not in 2008, advisers say.Permalink [Category: Gore]''We face a true planetary emergency,'' Gore said in a statement shortly after winning the prize on Friday. ''The climate crisis is not a political issue.''
Actually, it is. Years after Gore adopted climate change as his signature issue, Democrats and Republicans alike now face the scientific certainty of global warming and a public that wants something done about it.
Al Gore's Fans Make 2008 Draft PitchWASHINGTON (AP) -- Draftgore.com, which describes itself as a group of grass-roots Democrats, underwrote a full-page open letter to Al Gore in Wednesday's New York Times, imploring the former vice president to enter the presidential campaign.The ad, which says 136,000 people have signed Draftgore's online petition, was published two days before this year's Nobel Peace Prize is expected to be announced. Gore has been nominated for the prize because of his campaign to bring attention to global warming.
''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,'' Draftgore's letter said.
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True believers refuse to give up on Gore runState movements to draft Al Gore for a presidential bid are strengthening, with his fans from Iowa to California pledging not to give up and saying they are undeterred by the former vice president's insistence that he won't run.As speculation mounts about whether he will win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, supporters in California today will start collecting signatures to put his name on the Feb. 5 ballot, timed with a Gore speech in the Bay Area.
Reports out of Oslo suggest that the Democrat is a favorite to win the Nobel for his work on climate change, an accolade that will likely reignite calls for his candidacy.
California Draft Gore organizers think that time is running out for him to make a decision about 2008, so they timed the petition kickoff with his speech to personally send him a loud message. In case he ignores that one, some Gore believers have set it to song and will perform "Run, Al, Run" at an Iowa concert in his honor next month.
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Poll: Gore Endorsement to Sway Some DemsWASHINGTON (AP) -- What would former Vice President Al Gore's endorsement mean for a Democratic presidential candidate? Most Democrats say absolutely nothing, but about a quarter say it would influence their vote -- though not necessarily for the hopeful he backs.Permalink [Category: Gore, Polls]More than two-thirds, or 69 percent, said Gore's endorsement would not influence their own decision about which candidate to support, according to a poll released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.
Twenty-one percent said his endorsement would make them likelier to back that candidate. Another 7 percent said his endorsement would have the reverse affect and make them less likely to support that contender.
Gore Endorsement -- Potent but Not FoolproofFormer vice president Al Gore's pronouncement that he is likely to endorse one of the Democratic candidates for president before the primary season is over has set off a slew of speculation about who his choice might be.Permalink [Category: Gore]Truth is, the courting of the "Goreacle" began many months ago. Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and Gore huddled in Nashville in December, and Gore has also met with former senator John Edwards (N.C.). Gore and Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (Conn.) conferred as recently as last week.
Not surprisingly, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) has not met with Gore. Neither has Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.) nor New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.The falling out between Gore and the Clintons has become the stuff of political legend. Then-Vice President Gore's decision to distance himself from Bill Clinton in the 2000 presidential campaign did not sit well with the Clintons, who resented that Gore was willing to accept credit for the administration's achievements while at the same time criticizing the president's personal conduct.
Gore Likely to Endorse Before PrimariesNEW YORK (AP) -- Democrat Al Gore says he will probably endorse one of his party's 2008 presidential candidates. And it won't necessarily be Hillary Rodham Clinton, the wife of his former boss.Permalink [Category: Gore]''Uh...no,'' the former vice president told 02138 magazine when asked if he feels ''some obligation'' to endorse the senator from New York.
''I have friendships with her and with other candidates, and they're all on equal footing at this point as far as I'm concerned,'' he said.
Gore said several candidates had called and visited him to seek advice. He declined to name them.
Gore Daughter: '08 Run Not HappeningABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: During a Friday book signing in Washington, D.C., one of former Vice President Gore's daughters seemed to go further than her father in saying that a 2008 White House run was not going to happen.Permalink [Category: Gore]"He's really not going to get in the race," said Kristin Gore when asked if she has any special insight into her father's political plans. "He's really liberated working on things he cares about."
The former vice president regularly says that he has "no plans to be a candidate for president." But by stopping short of a "so-called Sherman statement," completely ruling out a presidential run, speculation has continued to surround the future plans of the man who won the 2000 popular vote for president.
Gore on Libby, son’s arrest, and '08 electionAl Gore was determined to talk about Live Earth, a series of concerts around the world this weekend to raise climate change awareness, in an interview on TODAY. But the show’s host, Meredith Vieira, was able to get him to address his son’s recent arrest, Bush’s controversial commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence, and his own aspirations for the White House.Permalink [Category: Gore]Insisting again that he will not run for president in the 2008 election or in a future one, Gore told Vieira he is focused on his campaign for the environment and his belief that accumulating greenhouse gases have put Earth on a collision course with a climatic catastrophe.
“I don’t have any plans or any intentions of being a candidate again,” Gore, 59, told Vieira on Thursday. “The main reason is I am involved in a different kind of campaign to try to raise awareness to what I believe is truly the most serious crisis our civilization has ever faced.”
Poll Suggests Gore Entry No Threat to ClintonIf Al Gore runs for the Democratic presidential nomination, the former vice president appears to draw evenly from the top two contenders, Sens. Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois.Permalink [Category: Gore, Hillary Clinton Archive]Each loses roughly five percentage points to Gore if his name is included among the hopefuls, according to a new nationwide Gallup survey of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents. Clinton holds a wide lead over the field, either way — suggesting that a Gore run might not affect the outcome at all.
Bill Clinton, Al Gore Get Rich After White HouseFormer Vice President Is Worth at Least $100 Million, Thanks to Smart Business Ventures
When Bill Clinton and Al Gore left the White House, they both had serious financial problems. Now they both have serious cash.President Clinton left power in 2001 dogged by legal bills. Last year he made more than $10 million in paid speeches, according to federal filings released by his wife's presidential campaign.
"I like to kid my husband we never had any money, and then he gets out of the White House, and he starts making it, and that's fine with me," New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has joked.
But it's Gore, Clinton's former No. 2, who is really raking it in.
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AL Gore explains what went wrong with Democracy...things went awry with the decline of print. "Just as the printing press," Gore says, "had overturned the medieval information monopoly that supported feudalism, a half-century ago the printing press itself was replaced as the dominant medium by electronic broadcasting in the particular form of television--over the air, over cable, over satellite. ... To take one example, in the last elections in the contested races, candidates in both parties spent an average of eighty percent of their campaign budget not on the Internet or pamphlets or magazine ads but on thirty-second television ads. That's what works now, and the way it works is troubling. It's not a multi-way conversation or even a two-way conversation. It is often a manipulative exercise utilizing the tools of persuasion that were developed by advertisers of commercial products in conjunction with psychologists and researchers who plumb the inner workings of our thought process in order to devise ways to de- emphasize logic and facts and reason."Permalink [Category: Gore]
Gore visit spurs speculation about another presidential bidIn an event that felt more like a campaign appearance than a book signing, Al Gore's visit to Chicago this afternoon brought the usual speculation about another presidential bid.Permalink [Category: Gore]"Run, Al, run," some chanted on the third floor of the Borders on State Street, where some of his biggest fans started arriving before sunrise for an event that started shortly before 1 p.m.
The former vice president, of course, is asked the same question almost everywhere he goes: Are you running?"I'm not planning to be a candidate again," Gore said, after a six-minute campaign-style speech that touched on everything from his trademark issue of global warming to the Iraq war.
Gore unsure of political aptitude: reportCHICAGO (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore isn't sure he has the 'aptitude for politics' it would take to be elected president, but he has not ruled out running in 2008, he told the Tennessean newspaper.Permalink [Category: Gore]Gore, who has repeatedly said he has no plans to run for president, said on Friday at a signing event for his new book "The Assault on Reason," that he wasn't sure he has what it takes to be elected president in today's political climate.
"I don't expect to get into this race," he said in a story on the paper's Web site. "I have given the reasons why. I strongly prefer to serve in other ways.
Gore Against Funding U.S. Troops Without Timetable for WithdrawalABC News' Teddy Davis and A'Melody Lee Report: Former Vice President Al Gore tells ABC News that if he were still in the United States Senate, he would have voted "no" on a war funding bill without a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq which passed both house of Congress last week and was signed into law by President Bush.Permalink [Category: Gore, Iraq]Gore staked out his position for ABC News after speaking about his new book, "The Assault on Reason," at The George Washington University on Tuesday evening.
Gore-Gingrich 2008Al Gore took to the stage at the 92nd St. Y in New York Thursday night to talk about his new book, The Assault on Reason. It was classic Gore: a moralistic sermon so forcefully articulated in his pronounced drawl that at times, particularly during the long harangues on global warming, one could be forgiven for mistaking him for a tent-show revival preacher. These days, however, Gore reminds one less of an Inconvenient Truth-telling Billy Graham than a Democratic doppelgänger of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.Permalink [Category: Gingrich, Gore]Think about it. Both men are flirting with the idea of running for president. Both have used their time away from politics to establish lucrative sidelines as authors and advocates for their core political causes. And both have acquired the habit of frequently criticizing the way the media cover politics in general and presidential campaigns in particular.
Gore, Gingrich, Bloomberg Scenarios in '08?It's time to deal with it. Could it be possible that the top contenders for President in 2008 are not even running just yet? Will Al Gore jump in and take the Democratic nomination? Is Newt Gingrich really going to run? Will Mike Bloomberg once again prove the greatness of this country: any man with a dream and a billion dollars can reach great heights?Permalink [Category: Bloomberg, Gingrich, Gore]Let's examine the pros and cons - the political calculations - to each of these men getting into an already crowded field. First of all Gore. I could argue that the time is ripe for the former Vice-President to run. He never supported the war in Iraq, thus he has nothing to back away from. He also represents perhaps better than anyone else the essence of multi-lateral foreign policy. Both of these put him right where the base of the Democratic party is on foreign policy. He has over two decades of public service experience - but can make the claim that he does not have any of the negative experience of the past six or seven years. What a perfect mix: the right stuff at the right time.
The user's guide to Gore feverIt's been a good week for the Al Gore un-campaign, beginning with a Time magazine cover that implicitly compares him with Jesus: "The Last Temptation of Al Gore."Permalink [Category: Gore]Even if the former vice president is not tempted to make a third run at the White House -- and he insists he is not -- it is plain that many others are tempted on his behalf. They include inhabitants of the political-media industrial complex -- rooting for Gore to run for reasons of professional self-interest or neurotic obsession. There is also a core of dreamers who believe that justice and history alike hurtled off-track in the disputed 2000 election and are yearning for a Gore comeback to set things right in 2008.
Al Gore, uncensored, in 'The Assault on Reason'WHY do our leaders feel that they can speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth only after they have left politics? After spending nearly half his life in public office, from which he was separated involuntarily in the 2000 election, Al Gore knows the answer. As he explains in his new book, the American political system has degenerated into a rigged game that suppresses honesty and rewards deception.Permalink [Category: Gore]To anyone paying attention over the last few decades, the underlying causes that Gore identifies will be familiar, including the ascendancy of mindless television, the domination of corporate money, the concentration of ownership in influential media and the decline of engaged citizenship. In "The Assault on Reason," he lingers over those well-worn topics and others, employing the same didactic method that used to provoke irritation or even ridicule during his hotly contested presidential campaign.
Yet Gore's professorial style, with its touches of sarcasm, omniscient tone, erudite asides, and yes, its occasional exasperated sighs, elicits a different response today than it did seven years ago. Many of the same publications that once poured scorn on him now offer up paragraph after paragraph of admiring prose.
Gore's 'Assault on Reason' an Assault on BushOn one hand, Gore has written an stark look back at the previous six years that lays out his case as to how the world might look today had the chads fallen another way -- a world where U.S. troops would not be fighting in Iraq, Abu Ghraib would be known as the prison where Saddam Hussein tortured Iraqis not where American soldiers did so, where the nation would have been better prepared for Hurricane Katrina, global warming, and, yes, perhaps even 9/11.Permalink [Category: George Bush, Gore]But on the other hand, "The Assault On Reason" is an assault on President George W. Bush -- 308 pages of professorially rendered, liberal red meat that shuns the cautious language employed by any politician standing to the right of Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and the left of Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.
"I'm not a candidate and this is not a political book, this is not a candidate book," Gore told Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America Monday. "It's about that there are cracks in the foundation of American democracy that have to be fixed."
Some in Silicon Valley still dream of Al Gore 2.0 for president
Even with 18 presidential candidates to choose from, it is Al Gore who draws the allegiance of many high-tech elite.Permalink [Category: Gore]Since losing the 2000 election, Gore has become an environmental crusader and technology insider. He is on Apple's board of directors, advises Google and has his own startup.
The former vice president, who insists he is not running again for the White House in 2008, has close ties to some of the biggest names in the technology industry.
The Last Temptation of Al GoreLet's say you were dreaming up the perfect stealth candidate for 2008, a Democrat who could step into the presidential race when the party confronts its inevitable doubts about the front runners. You would want a candidate with the grass-roots appeal of Barack Obama—someone with a message that transcends politics, someone who spoke out loud and clear and early against the war in Iraq. But you would also want a candidate with the operational toughness of Hillary Clinton—someone with experience and credibility on the world stage.Permalink [Category: Gore]In other words, you would want someone like Al Gore—the improbably charismatic, Academy Award–winning, Nobel Prize–nominated environmental prophet with an army of followers and huge reserves of political and cultural capital at his command. There's only one problem. The former Vice President just doesn't seem interested. He says he has "fallen out of love with politics," which is shorthand for both his general disgust with the process and the pain he still feels over the hard blow of the 2000 election, when he became only the fourth man in U.S. history to win the popular vote but lose a presidential election.
None of the AbovePresident McCain? President Giuliani? President Romney? President Thompson? Yeah, well. As one of my NRO colleagues has correctly observed: The GOP could run the Risen Christ as a candidate in ’08, but if the Iraq/Afghanistan war has not been brought to some satisfactory conclusion, or to well within sight of such, by voting day, we shall lose.Permalink [Category: Conservatives, Election Process Archive, Gore]
Al Gore: Waiting In The Wings?Al Gore could not be clearer.Permalink [Category: Gore]"I don't plan to run," he said on The Daily Show, a phrase he has repeated several times.
But diehard fans are unconvinced, reports CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker.
Former Gore Strategist On Dems, '08Political Players is a weekly conversation with the leaders, consultants, and activists who are shaping American politics. This week, as about 50 former Al Gore fundraisers gathered in Washington to mark the 20th anniversary of his first run for the White House, CBS News' Brian Goldsmith talked with Gore's longtime political adviser Carter Eskew about Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and whether his former boss might be persuaded to try for the presidency one more time.Permalink [Category: Election Process Archive, Gore]
Fans hope Gore will change his mind and go for it in '08WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Al Gore has not been running for president in 2008, and he says he doesn't plan to run for president in 2008.Permalink [Category: Gore]He even resisted the chance to take the White House plunge in front of millions of viewers while on stage at the Oscars.
But that hasn't stopped some hard-core Gore-a-philes from hoping against hope that the former vice president will change his mind and seek the Democratic nomination.
Gore backers hold on to cashProminent political fundraisers who backed Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign are reserving support for the current slate of 2008 Democrats in hopes the former vice president will swoop in for another White House bid.Permalink [Category: Gore, Money]H.E. "Sonny" Cauthen Jr. told The Washington Times he has been flattered to get calls from candidates asking for his help this time around, but said he is hesitating on picking one while he waits to see what Mr. Gore decides.
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"I just don't see any reason for him not to run," Mr. Cauthen added. "He's the only prospective candidate we have who has already won one time. He didn't serve -- he was denied the presidency -- but he won that race."
As Potential Candidates Wait in the Shadows, Thompson Flirts With the SpotlightFred Thompson may not have been onstage at Thursday night's Republican debate. But there's no question the former Tennessee senator -- and "Law and Order" actor -- is a growing presence in the presidential race.Permalink [Category: Election Process Archive, Gore, Thompson Fred]Friday night, Thompson had the stage to himself, speaking to an enthusiastic crowd of Orange County Republicans. Introduced as a "concerned citizen who is considering a run for president," Thompson made clear he sees an opening for a different kind of candidate.
Methane He Doth Protest Too MuchWhen we wrote about Gore in our first book, we intended to leave him behind like a chewed-over pastrami sandwich left on a delicatessen table and move on to other Schmucks in our on-going tour of Schmuckville. But he does not permit us to do so.Permalink [Category: Gore]
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