The Presidency of Albert Gore, Jr.

He won the popular vote. Yet, the electoral vote count in Florida was wrought with fraud and he was not able to fill the role of President in any official capacity

However, many in this nation still look to him for leadership and he did not dissappoint. Through a series of speeches over the last four years he has had the courage to say what others could not. His voice has been the voice of wisdom and has been an anchor of truth in these troubled times. He is, the President of our hearts, Al Gore.
Thanks, ErinB aka Goreforever

The Concession Speech
12/13/2000
http://www.algore04.com/news/gnn/EpEyAuVEpZPCAmGnNj.shtml

"Some have asked whether I have any regrets and I do have one regret: that I didn't get the chance to stay and fight for the American people over the next four years, especially for those who need burdens lifted and barriers removed, especially for those who feel their voices have not been heard. I heard you and I will not forget.

I've seen America in this campaign and I like what I see. It's worth fighting for and that's a fight I'll never stop.

As for the battle that ends tonight, I do believe as my father once said, that no matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

http://www.algore04.com/news/gnn/EpEyAuVpFyTazkHmwm.shtml

Remarks to the Congressional Black Caucus
Jan. 3, 2001
"When you are the conscience of the Congress, you of course have to do your best to reach across party lines, but you also have to know when to draw the line. When you are the conscience of the Congress, you have to work to build majorities, but you also have to fight for human dignity. When you are the conscience of the Congress, you have to seek consensus, but you also have to seek justice and fundamental fairness."

Keynote to Iowa Dem. Party
9/29/01
http://www.algore04.com/news/gnn/EpEyAuulAAfQiPjHLV.shtml
" A couple people have asked what I?m doing now. Tom mentioned I?m teaching. Tipper and I are writing a book. Former President and Mrs. Carter, Jimmy and Rosalyn both advised us not to write a book together. But it?s going pretty well, we?re writing a book on family. Part of it?s about marriage. There?s a lot more, but part of it?s about marriage and some of the experts say that a typical marriage has three stages: romantic infatuation, power struggles where each tries to remake the other and then mutual acceptance. The reason we?re getting along so well writing this book is that I?ve entered the fourth stage: abject surrender."

Commentary on the War on Terror
2/12/2002
http://www.algore04.com/news/gnn/EpEyAuuVlpmDnwgPVN.shtml
"A lot of people have let me know they wished I had been speaking out on public affairs long before now. But in the aftermath of a very divisive election, I thought it would be graceless to do so and possibly damaging to the nation.
And then came September 11th.

In the immediate aftermath, I expressed full support for our Commander-in-Chief, President George W. Bush. Tonight I reaffirm that support of the President?s conduct of the military campaign in Afghanistan, and I appreciate his candor in telling the American people that this will be a long struggle - - for which the nation must be braced and its political leadership united across party lines.

Indeed, President Bush deserves tremendous credit for the way he has led the nation in a highly successful opening counter-attack in the war against terror."

http://www.algore04.com/news/gnn/EpElZkyAVZkjaVUAzS.shtml
April 13, 2002
Standing Up: Florida State Democratic Party Conference

"After the last election I made you a promise that I would continue to speak out for the American people, especially for those who need burdens lifted, and barriers removed. Especially for those who feel like their voices have not been heard. And I intend to keep that pledge today, tomorrow, and for all the days to come. That's who we are, that's what we stand for as democrats. And those of us gathered here in Orlando today after all have a vision of the future in which we pull together to build a stronger and safer America. We have a vision of a country that is open and fair to all of our citizens. And let's be candid about this, that vision that we share is very much at odds with what the other party wants to do to our country.


http://www.algore04.com/news/gnn/EpFklEVVZFrTfONOYJ.shtml
Iraq and the War on Terrorism
September 23, 2002

FIRST THING FIRST: WAR ON TERRORISM

To begin with, I believe we should focus our efforts first and foremost against those who attacked us on September 11th and have thus far gotten away with it. The vast majority of those who sponsored, planned and implemented the cold blooded murder of more than 3,000 Americans are still at large, still neither located nor apprehended, much less punished and neutralized. I do not believe that we should allow ourselves to be distracted from this urgent task simply because it is proving to be more difficult and lengthy than predicted. Great nations persevere and then prevail. They do not jump from one unfinished task to another."

"Nevertheless, President Bush is telling us that the most urgent requirement of the moment - - right now - - is not to redouble our efforts against Al Qaeda, not to stabilize the nation of Afghanistan after driving his host government from power, but instead to shift our focus and concentrate on immediately launching a new war against Saddam Hussein. And he is proclaiming a new, uniquely American right to pre-emptively attack whomsoever he may deem represents a potential future threat."

http://www.algore04.com/news/gnn/EplAlZypuycISFOvFo.shtml
August 7, 2003
The Move-On Speech

The direction in which our nation is being led is deeply troubling to me -- not only in Iraq but also here at home on economic policy, social policy and environmental policy.

Millions of Americans now share a feeling that something pretty basic has gone wrong in our country and that some important American values are being placed at risk. And they want to set it right.
"I remembered all that last month when everybody was looking for who ought to be held responsible for the false statements in the President's State of the Union Address. And I've just about concluded that the real problem may be the President himself and that next year we ought to fire him and get a new one."
"And as for honor and integrity, let me say this: we know what that was all about, but hear me well, not as a candidate for any office, but as an American citizen who loves my country:

For eight years, the Clinton-Gore Administration gave this nation honest budget numbers; an economic plan with integrity that rescued the nation from debt and stagnation; honest advocacy for the environment; real compassion for the poor; a strengthening of our military -- as recently proven -- and a foreign policy whose purposes were elevated, candidly presented and courageously pursued, in the face of scorched-earth tactics by the opposition. That is also a form of honor and integrity, and not every administration in recent memory has displayed it.

So I would say to those who have found the issue of honor and integrity so useful as a political tool, that the people are also looking for these virtues in the execution of public policy on their behalf, and will judge whether they are present or absent.

I am proud that my party has candidates for president committed to those values. I admire the effort and skill they are putting into their campaigns. I am not going to join them, but later in the political cycle I will endorse one of them...."


http://www.algore04.com/news/gnn/EplAlZVZFFtZoVhTIq.shtml
Freedom and Security
November 9, 2003
"So it seems to me that the logical place to start the discussion is with an accounting of exactly what has happened to civil liberties and security since the vicious attacks against America of September 11, 2001 – and it’s important to note at the outset that the Administration and the Congress have brought about many beneficial and needed improvements to make law enforcement and intelligence community efforts more effective against potential terrorists.

But a lot of other changes have taken place that a lot of people don’t know about and that come as unwelcome surprises. For example, for the first time in our history, American citizens have been seized by the executive branch of government and put in prison without being charged with a crime, without having the right to a trial, without being able to see a lawyer, and without even being able to contact their families.

President Bush is claiming the unilateral right to do that to any American citizen he believes is an “enemy combatant.” Those are the magic words. If the President alone decides that those two words accurately describe someone, then that person can be immediately locked up and held incommunicado for as long as the President wants, with no court having the right to determine whether the facts actually justify his imprisonment."

The Endorsement of Howard Dean
December 9, 2003
http://www.algore04.com/news/gnn/EplAlZVkyEMyGfzIWW.shtml
"I said when I announced last year that I was not going to be a candidate for President myself that I would endorse one of the candidates who is running. And I had no idea at that time which candidate that would be. But I have watched this campaign and I have listened to all of the candidates. I think it’s a great field. There are a lot of great Democratic candidates out there.

But what I’m about to say doesn’t come as a secret or as a surprise to anybody within the sound of my voice. And that is that Howard Dean really is the only candidate who has been able to inspire at the grassroots level all over this country the kind of passion and enthusiasm for democracy and change and transformation of America that we need in this country. We need to remake the Democratic Party, we need to remake America, we need to take it back on behalf of the people of this country."


Global Warming Speech
January 15, 2004
http://www.algore04.com/news/gnn/EplAlZFApkaoZNCevq.shtml

All right now - - I have made a series of speeches about the policies of the Bush/Cheney administration toward the major challenges that confront America: National security, economic policies, civil liberties, and today the environment.

Now for me, this issue is in a special category, because I believe so much is at stake. I don't want to proselytize, but my own religious faith has been a - - has played a role in my strong feelings about this issue. But I think all of us, from whatever point of view we begin thinking about the environment, put it in a special category. And I'm particularly concerned about this issue because the vast majority of the most respected environmental scientists from all over the world have sounded a clear and urgent alarm. The international community, including the United States, began a massive effort several years ago to assemble the most accurate scientific assessment of the growing evidence that the earth's environment is now sustaining severe and potentially irreparable damage from the unprecedented accumulation of pollution in the global atmosphere.

"The earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit? Yes. Settle? Not yet. So like it or not, for the moment the earth is where we make our stand. "

The Politics of Fear
February 5, 2004
http://www.algore04.com/news/gnn/EplAlylFAucykyYLbr.shtml

"People react to fear, not love.

They don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true."

The night before that election, 33 years and 3 months ago, Senator Ed Muskie of Maine spoke on national television for the Democrats and said,

"There are only two kinds of politics. They are not radical and reactionary, or conservative and liberal. Or even Democrat and Republican. There are only the politics of fear and the politics of trust.

"One says: You are encircled by monstrous dangers.

Give us power over your freedom so we may protect you.

"The other says: The world is a baffling and hazardous place, but it can be shaped to the will of men. ...©ast your vote for trust ...in the ancient traditions of this home for freedom...."

The next day my father was defeated. Defeated by the politics of fear.

But his courage in standing for principle made me so proud that I really felt he had won something more important than an election.

In his speech that night, he stood the old segregationist slogan on its head and defiantly promised:

"The truth shall rise again!"

I wasn't the only person who heard that promise. Nor the only one for whom that hope still rings loudly and true. "


Democratic Unity Dinner
March 25, 2004
http://www.algore04.com/news/gnn/EplAlyyEEkPVHvNkoM.shtml

"I want to ask all of you to consider, just for a moment, what it was that happened in the election year of 2000. I want you to remember - - briefly - - how you felt after the voting was over with, and all of that long thirty six day period began, leading up to the Supreme Court decision. Do you remember what you were going through during that time?
Do you remember watching on television and talking to your friends and wondering how it was going to come out? Do you remember what you felt when the Supreme Court handed down its decision the case called "Bush versus Gore"?

I remember.

- - I want you to remember for one simple reason. Every time since then that you have felt that this guy that's down there in the White House now shouldn't be there because the job he's doing is hurting this country - - we heard it from his own Secretary of the Treasury; we just heard it from his own Head of Anti-Terrorism - -

- - We've heard it from his own people, about how he does. Every time you have felt that he shouldn't be there, every time you have felt that you would like to get him out of the White House, I want you to draw on all that energy, and I want you to channel it in support of John Kerry to elect him the next President of the United States of America."


Speech on Abu Ghraib
May 26, 2004
http://www.moveonpac.org/goreremarks052604.html/

"How dare they blame their misdeeds on enlisted personnel from a Reserve unit in upstate New York. President Bush owes more than one apology. On the list of those he let down are the young soldiers who are themselves apparently culpable, but who were clearly put into a moral cesspool. The perpetrators as well as the victims were both placed in their relationship to one another by the policies of George W. Bush.

How dare the incompetent and willful members of this Bush/Cheney Administration humiliate our nation and our people in the eyes of the world and in the conscience of our own people. How dare they subject us to such dishonor and disgrace. How dare they drag the good name of the United States of America through the mud of Saddam Hussein's torture prison. "


The Democratic Convention 2004
July 26, 2004
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/conven...ech_at_dnc?pg=3

"I love this country deeply, and even though I always look to the future with optimism and hope I do think it is worth pausing for just a moment as we begin this year's convention, to take note of two very important lessons from four years ago.

The first lesson is this: Take it from me -- every vote counts.

In our democracy, every vote has power. And never forget: that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away."

Thank you ErinB! :D Al Gore ALWAYS inspires me and ALWAYS will! I like how ya put ALL his speeches in order for us to enjoy :clap:

Hope ya had a relaxful SATURDAY.............HA HA HA!



Peace to everyone.......................Andrew Paul

Thanks, Freebird. We had a relaxing Sat. though I can't seem to get away from this computer. :rolleyes:

Added some dates I had left out and will find some pics to go with it from the net.

To me, the man really is the President...he was just not allowed to take office.

Erin,

Please add this to the PFG forum as well in our support Al Gore folder. I would appreciate that very much! And you are so right, he IS our President who was denied his term, which was why PFG was started. I truly wish there were some legal constitutional way to restore him to that denied term, and we will not give up on exploring that option. I try not to think too much about what we lost these last four years. However, when you look at what is, it is very hard not to feel melancholy, and yes, anger at how this was all allowed to transpire to this point. How I pray we can make this right!

Jan

Patriot for Gore, the legal procedure to overturn the injustice of 2000 would be to file a legal brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider it's Bush vs Gore decision. There's more than ample evidence to prove how wrong and illegal that decision was.