DraftGore.com is an effort by a group of self-proclaimed grassroots Democrats who have created an online petition and web site aimed at trying to convince former Vice President Al Gore to run for President in 2008. You can click the above links to visit their web site and sign their online petition in support of the former Vice President and the guy who actually won the election in 2000.
Mr. Gore has been coy about his plans to run again for President, not (yet) saying yes or no. Personally, I would be leery of the system - would you want to run for President again after having won a Presidential election and then been told by the only nine people in the country who got to vote twice that you were not going to be allowed to serve? I’d grow a beard and go into hiding, too. I do, however, hope strongly that Mr. Gore will take seriously the fact that he has an enormous amount of support among the people of this country - and I also hope that he will consider serving our country again if called to do so. It would be especially poignant if he were called to do so by Hillary Clinton if she wins the Democratic nomination for President.
I believe that Mr. Gore would make an excellent Vice President to serve with President Hillary Clinton - he was a capable Vice President during the eight years that he served with President Bill Clinton, and his experience, coupled with the experience Mrs. Clinton gleaned from eight years as the First Lady, would be an enormous benefit to our country during the time of healing and progress that will begin on January 20, 2009. If he is not asked by Mrs. Clinton to be her running mate, or if he chooses not to accept, then certainly appointment to the post of Secretary of the Interior - or perhaps administrator of the Environmental Protection Agecny - would be in order.
The prospects look bright for the United States - come 2009, at any rate. The Democrats have a strong field of candidates and the Republicans are in a shambles. The dark days of a failed, disgraceful President are nearing their conclusion. Maybe I’ll even be proud to be an American again. Someday. In the meantime I’ll take a bit of pride in groups like Draft Gore and the good work they are doing - and I’ll sign the petition, too.
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Alright, I'll play devils advocate.
The one (actually a couple) of things that bugs me about Gore is the fact that he keeps constantly running away from any questions or debates about his global warming film. Now a court in Britain ruled that before another school can play Gore's flick the teacher (or whoever) must state 11 inaccuracies in his films, and these aren't little things, these are pretty big things. I was waiting for Gore to comment or react, but nope, he won't. Which basically makes his film propaganda. He has actually wasted a lot of energy and produced a lot of CO2 to tell people to conserve and stop making more CO2. His Live Earth concerts and movie produced so much waste and CO2 that it would take a million SUVs racing back and forth in America for decades to produce the same effect. Not only that it would take planting millions of trees to offset the waste. Plus he personally owns 3 mansions (with heated swimming pools and oodles of air conditioned rooms), a couple of zinc mines (which closed in 2003, but still), and takes private jets everywhere. For a guy who is big on the enviroment, he is anything but environmental.
The sad thing is that Bush has done more for the environment than him. He's made EPA laws stricter, he also signed bills to develop Hydrogen cell vehicles and more enviromentaly friendly locomotives and semis. I know it's not hip to defend Bush, but in this case I will.
In handing down its verdict on the film, the British court also noted that the film was "broadly accurate."
I don't recall about the film itself, but the book version was carbon-neutral according to the back flap or one of the pages near the end (don't have the book right next to me to check).
I don't pretend that Al Gore - or any of these candidates running for President in 2008 - is perfect. But I like what he's trying to do, which is to make people more aware of what we do to the environment.
Of course, I'm just one of those damn tree-hugging hippie liberals. What are you going to do, right?
Tree-huggin hippie liberal? Oh John-O what has become of you?
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