Gore in the News - July 21 & 22, 2007

Weekend Edition

Today's talk . . .

http://pundits.thehill.com/2007/07/20/amer...-the-inaugural/
America's best days are ahead: President Al Gore's inaugural address
America, where we will fight when necessary for our freedom, stand like lions with those who serve, but never surrender our fundamental freedoms under the false flag of fear and never fail in our duty to faithfully execute the laws of our land, or to preserve, protect and defend the very liberties that give meaning and purpose to our American idea.

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/Idaho%20Poll...nces%20July.pdf
Poll shows Gore and Romney preferred by Idahoans for president in 2008 - July 16
Among 156 Democrats, former V.P. Al Gore (at 31%) leads Sen. Hillary Clinton (23%), Sen. Barack Obama (22%), and former Sen. John Edwards (10%).

http://www.nobosh.com/Article/Al-Gore'...cast-World/691/
Al Gore's Current TV: making waves in the broadcast world
Interestingly, the content isn't just the same old humdrum television programs. From gay marriage rights to stem cells, drug trafficking to the Iraq war, and including the issues that the current media doesn't deem important enough to air, people all over the world are telling a story that matters to them. Chances are, it matters to you too.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/19/131519/456
Draft Al Gore meeting at the YearlyKoz - August 3
If Gore sees a groundswell of support for a run, that will increase the chances he decides to do what he has pointedly not ruled out. His no doubt increasing frustration with the way the other candidates are not addressing and offering real solutions to the climate crisis will also play a factor in his ultimate decision, I suspect.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19878584/site/newsweek/
Adrift
Hamilton offers some tantalizing groundwork on the reportedly tense relationship between Hillary and Al Gore, starting with the First Lady's attempted land grab of the Vice President's West Wing office and coursing like a virus through the rest of the Clinton presidency. Within weeks after Clinton took office, Hamilton reports, Hillary and Gore were duking it out over the role of "co-president." It was "a struggle of Othello-like proportions, involving suspicion, rivalry and downright skulduggery.

http://campaignsandelections.com/sc/articl...ndex.cfm?id=405
South Carolina Poll
Former Vice President Al Gore nabbed 10 percent when he was included in the questioning.

http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1635
Growth affecting inland political and civic engagement
Ramakrishnan's survey is part of a larger project funded by the James Irvine Foundation on community organizations, civic participation and political participation among residents in Riverside and San Bernardino counties (in California). Democratic voters favor New York Sen. Hillary Clinton (35 percent) over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (16 percent) and former Vice President Al Gore (16 percent), who has not entered the race, beats out fellow Democrats John Edwards and Bill Richardson.

http://www.dailypilot.com/articles/2007/07.../dpt-fair21.txt
Political parties slow Friday afternoon (at the Orange County Fair)
"Everybody's wondering if people are ready for a woman or if they're ready for a black [president]," said Peg Marshall, who was working the Orange County Democrats' table. "And, of course, they're wondering if Al Gore's going to run." "I've had a lot of people coming by, a lot of angry people," he said. "They're not very happy with the two status-quo parties."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/polit...emain100399.htm
The life of Al Gore
A 15-part series from the Washington Post published in 1999 and 2000.

Today's resources . . .

http://www.officialgorestore2008.com/
Official Gore Store 2008
Al Gore for President campaign merchandise...all Union made and Union printed in the USA. A preferred supplier.

http://www.gorehub.com/
GoreHub
News and information supporting Al Gore for president in 2008

Today's related news . . .

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/21/2673/
No future for nuclear energy
If this insensitive industry cannot be revived by Uncle Sam's tax treasury, Wall Street certainly has given no indication that private investment would take on the risk. Investment money is pouring presently into wind power, solar and other renewables and this is just the early springtime for these benign sources of energy.