DraftGore Demos Won't Take No For An Answer

[Nbadan]

Gore the savior?

Al Gore's Fans Make 2008 Draft Pitch
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 10, 2007
Filed at 11:34 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (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 pe ion, 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.

Monica Friedlander, founder and chair of Draftgore.com, said the timing of the $65,000 ad was a coincidence and not related to the prize.

''All we're trying to do is persuade him that it's a moral imperative for him to be a candidate,'' said Friedlander, 47, a public relations specialist in Oakland, Calif. She said the group raised the money for the ad with an e-mail solicitation sent out last week, receiving more than 2,000 donations.

NY Times

[Nbadan]

Mr Gore has said nothing to indicate he might run, and his Nashville headquarters is silent on the question. But people close to the former vice-president are convinced that he is looking for an opportunity to jump in the race as a candidate who really is prepared to bring about urgent change in the face of the looming disaster posed by global warming.

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The next few weeks are considered crucial for a Gore candidacy. A pe ion drive for New York State must gather 5,000 signatures between the end of October and early December if he is to be legally en led to be on the ballot. In Michigan, Gore supporters must get more than 12,000 signatures, and a signed statement by Mr Gore himself to get on next year's primary ballot. His backers are hopeful, however, looking to a recent local TV poll that had 36 per cent of Democratic voters backing him, beating Mrs Clinton with 32 per cent.

But even those who expect him to get the Nobel Prize are unsure they can persuade Mr Gore to run. "I know it's still a real long shot that he'll run," said Fred Koed, of the Massachusetts Draft Gore group. "If I were in his shoes, after the devastating and painful loss in 2000, I'd really have to search inside myself to see if it was all worth doing again. He'll have to determine if this is right for him."

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[Nbadan]

Al Gore watch continues...

18:12 PDT San Francisco -- Former Vice President Al Gore, urged by grassroots supporters to run for president, avoided all talk of the White House or a possible Nobel Peace prize during a Thursday appearance in San Francisco on behalf of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer.

Instead, Gore focused on what has become his signature issue - global warming - telling the crowd at the Westin St. Francis that it is critical for citizens and leaders alike to be "coming to an agreement on how we can work together, quickly, to solve these moral imperatives and crisis."

... The hall erupted in thunderous chants of "Run, Al, Run" as Gore concluded his speech. He acknowledged the cheers, but made no comments.

"Oh my God, I didn't know it would take this kind of turn," laughed Boxer, the California Democrat who stood with the party's 2000 presidential candidate.

... Asked by reporters if she would support a Gore presidential run, Boxer said "the decision to run for president is not mine, it is his."

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Right now, I would say 60-40 against......

[BradLohaus]

Surely he won't take on the Clinton machine.

[Nbadan]

Gore's bigger than Clinton.....the person who has the most to lose if Gore runs however is Edwards. Let's not forget that he was a pre-Iraq war hawk himself, even voted to not put any restrictions on the Iraq war resolution.....Plus, he recently made a 'Ahmedjadine is the devil and we need to bomb Iran speech...

[Wild Cobra]

Al Gore lost against president Bush. Does anyone really thing he has a chance against a republican that has a good vocabulary?

You lefties like to make fun of how dumb president is. How bad must Al Gore be to lose against him?

[BradLohaus]

Al Gore would be bad news for Obama as well; Gore would probably take alot of his support. It would be a 2 horse race on the dem side pretty quickly I'd say. But Clinton has so much big money behind her.

[Nbadan]

Big money don't vote....remember that in 00 and in 04 the Republicans had a sizable money lead on Demos and looky how that turned out....I agree that a Gore candidacy would hurt Obama, but it would also hurt Hitlary too.....

[Nbadan]

Does anyone really thing he has a chance against a republican that has a good vocabulary?

What Republican candidate would that be?

[BradLohaus]

Dan - what do you think would be better for Obama: Gore or no Gore?

What Republican candidate would that be?

Here's hoping that a minor miracle occurs and he wins the nomination, becuase he is the only one who could take down the Hillary monster.

[Nbadan]

Gore/Obama

[j-6]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/...ore/index.html

Gore shares Nobel Peace Prize with U.N. panel

(CNN) -- Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to raise awareness about global warming.

"An Inconvenient Truth," a 2006 do entary featuring Al Gore, won two Academy Awards this year.

In a statement, Gore said he was "deeply honored," adding that "the climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."

The former vice president said he would donate his half of the $1.5 million prize to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a U.S. organization he founded that aims to persuade people to cut emissions and reduce global warming.

The White House offered an initial reaction to the Nobel win by President Bush's 2000 opponent. "Of course, we're happy that Vice President Gore and the IPCC are receiving this recognition," said deputy press secretary Tony Fratto.

During its announcement, the Nobel committee cited the winners "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."

The award ceremony will be held December 10 in Oslo, Norway.

In recent weeks, Gore has been the target of a campaign to persuade him to enter the 2008 presidential race.

A source involved in Gore's past political runs told CNN that he definitely has the ambition to use the peace prize as a springboard to run for president.

But he will not run, because he won't take on the political machine assembled by Sen. Hillary Clinton, said the source. If the senator from New York had faltered at all, Gore would take a serious look at entering the race, the source said. But Gore has calculated that Clinton is unstoppable, according to the source.

Gore repeatedly denied he has any plans to run again, but this week a group of grass-roots Democrats calling themselves "Draft Gore" took out a full-page ad in The New York Times in a bid to change his mind. Watch more on the movement to draft Gore

"Your country needs you now, as do your party, and the planet you are fighting so hard to save," the group said in an open letter.

"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."

The Nobel committee praised Gore as being "one of the world's leading environmentalist politicians."

"He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted," said Ole Danbolt Mjoes, chairman of the Nobel committee.

In making the announcement, Mjoes said, "Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades, the IPCC has created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming.

"Thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming."

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established in 1988 to study climate change information. The group doesn't do independent research but instead reviews scientific literature from around the world.

The U.N.-sanctioned group was formed by the World Meteorological Organization and U.N. Environment Program.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "delighted" with the news that Gore and the IPCC will share in prize.

A spokeswoman for the IPCC, which draws on the work of 2,000 scientists, said the panel was surprised that it had been chosen to share the award with Gore and praised his contribution to environmental campaigning.

"We would have been happy even if he had received it alone because it is a recognition of the importance of this issue," spokeswoman Carola Traverso Saibante said, The Associated Press reported.

The Nobel caps a series of prestigious awards associated with Gore, including two Oscars this year for the 2006 do entary film, "An Inconvenient Truth," which followed him on a worldwide tour publicizing the dangers of climate change.

Last month, he also picked up an Emmy -- the highest award in U.S. television -- for "Current TV." The show, which Gore co-created, describes itself as a global television network giving viewers the opportunity to create and influence its programming.

Previous American recipients of the peace prize include former Presidents Carter in 2002, Wilson in 1919 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.

In 1973, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger shared the award with North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. received the honor in 1964.


Gore was vice president for eight years under President Clinton. He won the Democratic presidential nomination in 2000 and ran against Bush.

But he failed in his bid for the White House -- despite winning more popular votes than Bush -- when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his challenge over voting results in Florida, securing an Electoral College majority for Bush.

[smeagol]

The Nobel peace price is left wing oriented

[IceColdBrewski]

(CNN) -- Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to raise awareness about global warming.

I don't see what any of this has to do with peace.

I wonder if he'll use a private jet to get to Oslo.

[101A]

The Nobel peace price is left wing oriented

A. Al Gore


B. Martin Luther King, Jr.


C. Albert Schweitzer

Which of these doesn't belong?

[Holt's Cat]

There's the fresh new face America has been longing for.

No Clintons, no Bushes, no Gores, no Giulianis, no McCains, etc...let's get some new blood please. Preferably Ron Paul, but I digress.

[clambake]

Ron Paul has already been labeled the lunatic fringe.

sad

[101A]

Bill Richardson

congrats to gore -- even if he's movie's not perfect (which it wasn't intended to be) at least he's talking about global warming

EVERYBODY'S talking about global warming!

Today they were blaming the drought in Georgia AND the floods in Texas this Summer on global warming!

(they being Good Morning America)

[word]

I'm still trying to figure out the link from global warming and world peace. He wins an academy award for a factually incorrect film on global warming, then wins the Nobel prize for PEACE for his work on GLOBAL WARMING ? The world, has gone completely mad. Why not just give the Nobel Peace prize to Reggie Bush ?

[Nbadan]

...depends on what you consider 'factually correct'.....the whole basis for doubting Gore is based on the wing-nut spin that Global warming is not based on a tautology, but on a model.....the difference being that one is proven while the other is not....

[Nbadan]

Ummm..yeah...........

Just days after former Vice President Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on global warming, the United States Supreme Court handed Mr. Gore a stunning reversal, stripping him of his Nobel and awarding it to President George W. Bush instead.

For Mr. Gore, who basked in the adulation of the Nobel committee and the world, the high court's decision to give his prize to President Bush was a cruel twist of fate, to say the least.

But in a 5-4 decision, the justices made it clear that they had taken the unprecedented step of stripping Mr. Gore of his Nobel because President Bush deserved it more.

"It is true that Al Gore has done a lot of talking about global warming," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority. "But President Bush has actually helped create global warming."

Huffington

[xrayzebra]

Oh, please do draft Gore. It would do my heart good to see him
and Billary go at each others throat. With all of Gore's awards
he has a fighting chance at getting the nomination.

Go Gore, Go! Draft Gore for world peace and cooler times.....yeah,
babe!

[Nbadan]

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[xrayzebra]

Gore/Obama

Nah, it is going to be Billary/Obama. How can they
lose?