Title: Could Nobel Win Push Gore Into '08 Race?
Texan for Gore - October 8, 2007 04:17 PM (GMT)
IanOC - October 8, 2007 08:34 PM (GMT)
Nice article, and in Newsweek, no less!
If Al wins the Nobel, this is his moment. Whether he rises to the occasion or not remains to be seen...
If Al wins the Nobel, this is his moment. Whether he rises to the occasion or not remains to be seen...
IanOC - October 8, 2007 08:35 PM (GMT)
Alot of people are going to read that article. Great news for the DraftGore movement, especially if Al gets that Nobel on Friday.
ALGOREismylife - October 8, 2007 09:12 PM (GMT)
Here's the article to the link Texan for Gore and mikeporter posted earlier. And yes AL is looking very presidential as he always does. :good:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21192478/site/newsweek/
A Nobel Candidate
Thousands of activists are hoping to convince Al Gore to run for president. Could a Nobel Peace Prize give the reluctant candidate a push?
Does He Protest Too Much? Gore, looking presidential, at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting on Sept. 26
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Jamie Reno
Newsweek
Updated: 7:39 a.m. PT Oct 8, 2007
Oct. 8, 2007 - Al Gore is not running for president. But might the publicity and sheen of a Nobel Peace Prize change his mind? Some Democratic activists sure hope so.
Grass-roots Gore loyalists have been buzzing for weeks about the Nobel Prize announcement scheduled for Oct. 12 in Oslo, Norway. Gore was nominated for his work on global warming, and several longtime Nobel observers believe this could be the year that a champion of climate change gets the prize. “We feel that if [Gore] wins the Nobel Prize … then he can’t not run for president,” says Roy Gayhart, a San Diego-based organizer of a California draft Gore group.
For Gore supporters like Gayhart, the real inconvenient truth is that the former veep is not a candidate—and may never become one, no matter what happens in Oslo on Friday. Gore, who won an Emmy last month for his Current TV channel and whose film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” won an Oscar last February, has said nothing to indicate that he would run, and his Nashville office didn’t return several phone calls and e-mails seeking comment for this story. But unlike 2004, when his Shermanesque statement stopped supporters dead in their tracks, Gore has not completely closed the door on the idea.
Encouraged, "Draft Gore" organizations from Washington to Michigan to Massachusetts are working to put Gore’s name on 2008 primary ballots. The number of volunteers in the California 4 Gore group has more than doubled to 1,100 since early August, enough to circulate petitions in all 53 congressional districts. The national DraftGore.com group, which has gathered about 127,000 signatures this year—10,000 of them on Sept. 28 alone thanks in part to a segment on Randi Rhodes’s Air America radio show—plans to place a full-page ad in The New York Times in the coming days as an open letter to Gore urging him to run, says the group’s Eva Ritchey. Meanwhile another new coalition called America For Gore initiated a “Two Cents Worth” campaign to encourage supporters nationwide to mail two pennies in an envelope to Gore’s office to encourage a run.
Gore supporters figure a Nobel win would burnish his reputation and remind Democrats that he’s been a leader fighting what voters consider the world’s premier environmental battle. “It makes him look like the knight in shining armor,” says Stephen Cohen, president of the New York Draft Al Gore PAC. No one but the Nobel committee knows how Gore might fare. He’s one of 181 candidates, a list including Bolivian President Evo Morales, Finnish peace broker Martti Ahtisaari and Chinese dissident Rebiya Kadeer. Some Gore backers think he's already decided to run, but speculate that he doesn't want politics to interfere with his Nobel chances.
Even most diehard Gore supporters agree the next few weeks are do-or-die for a Gore candidacy. The New York state petition drive must gather 5,000 signatures during a short legal window between Halloween and early December. Gore supporters in Michigan launched a petition drive last week that must secure 12,396 valid signatures by Oct. 23—and a signed candidate affidavit from Gore himself—to place his name on next year’s primary ballot. (Gore backers there draw hope from an Aug. 14 Detroit News/WXYZ-TV statewide poll of 400 likely Democratic voters in which Gore had 36 percent, beating Hillary Clinton, who had 32 percent, and the rest of the field.)
But even the optimists are philosophical about their chances of talking Gore into the race. “I know it’s still a real long shot that he’ll run,” acknowledges 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 just have to determine if this is right for him.” In the meantime, Koed and his cohorts hope the Gore faithful—and the Nobel committee—can help him make up his mind.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21192478/site/newsweek/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21192478/site/newsweek/
A Nobel Candidate
Thousands of activists are hoping to convince Al Gore to run for president. Could a Nobel Peace Prize give the reluctant candidate a push?
Does He Protest Too Much? Gore, looking presidential, at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting on Sept. 26
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Jamie Reno
Newsweek
Updated: 7:39 a.m. PT Oct 8, 2007
Oct. 8, 2007 - Al Gore is not running for president. But might the publicity and sheen of a Nobel Peace Prize change his mind? Some Democratic activists sure hope so.
Grass-roots Gore loyalists have been buzzing for weeks about the Nobel Prize announcement scheduled for Oct. 12 in Oslo, Norway. Gore was nominated for his work on global warming, and several longtime Nobel observers believe this could be the year that a champion of climate change gets the prize. “We feel that if [Gore] wins the Nobel Prize … then he can’t not run for president,” says Roy Gayhart, a San Diego-based organizer of a California draft Gore group.
For Gore supporters like Gayhart, the real inconvenient truth is that the former veep is not a candidate—and may never become one, no matter what happens in Oslo on Friday. Gore, who won an Emmy last month for his Current TV channel and whose film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” won an Oscar last February, has said nothing to indicate that he would run, and his Nashville office didn’t return several phone calls and e-mails seeking comment for this story. But unlike 2004, when his Shermanesque statement stopped supporters dead in their tracks, Gore has not completely closed the door on the idea.
Encouraged, "Draft Gore" organizations from Washington to Michigan to Massachusetts are working to put Gore’s name on 2008 primary ballots. The number of volunteers in the California 4 Gore group has more than doubled to 1,100 since early August, enough to circulate petitions in all 53 congressional districts. The national DraftGore.com group, which has gathered about 127,000 signatures this year—10,000 of them on Sept. 28 alone thanks in part to a segment on Randi Rhodes’s Air America radio show—plans to place a full-page ad in The New York Times in the coming days as an open letter to Gore urging him to run, says the group’s Eva Ritchey. Meanwhile another new coalition called America For Gore initiated a “Two Cents Worth” campaign to encourage supporters nationwide to mail two pennies in an envelope to Gore’s office to encourage a run.
Gore supporters figure a Nobel win would burnish his reputation and remind Democrats that he’s been a leader fighting what voters consider the world’s premier environmental battle. “It makes him look like the knight in shining armor,” says Stephen Cohen, president of the New York Draft Al Gore PAC. No one but the Nobel committee knows how Gore might fare. He’s one of 181 candidates, a list including Bolivian President Evo Morales, Finnish peace broker Martti Ahtisaari and Chinese dissident Rebiya Kadeer. Some Gore backers think he's already decided to run, but speculate that he doesn't want politics to interfere with his Nobel chances.
Even most diehard Gore supporters agree the next few weeks are do-or-die for a Gore candidacy. The New York state petition drive must gather 5,000 signatures during a short legal window between Halloween and early December. Gore supporters in Michigan launched a petition drive last week that must secure 12,396 valid signatures by Oct. 23—and a signed candidate affidavit from Gore himself—to place his name on next year’s primary ballot. (Gore backers there draw hope from an Aug. 14 Detroit News/WXYZ-TV statewide poll of 400 likely Democratic voters in which Gore had 36 percent, beating Hillary Clinton, who had 32 percent, and the rest of the field.)
But even the optimists are philosophical about their chances of talking Gore into the race. “I know it’s still a real long shot that he’ll run,” acknowledges 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 just have to determine if this is right for him.” In the meantime, Koed and his cohorts hope the Gore faithful—and the Nobel committee—can help him make up his mind.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21192478/site/newsweek/
ReElectAlGore2008 - October 8, 2007 09:19 PM (GMT)
I just have one question
The vote is NOT counted yet, is it?
If so, articles like this could cause the winner to be changed
One should not count on the Noble (as I have constantly said)...most people don't guess right on this issue each year and sometimes people win it 15 years after the time they thought they would win it
So this could be premature, this article, and could lead to a negative result
The vote is NOT counted yet, is it?
If so, articles like this could cause the winner to be changed
One should not count on the Noble (as I have constantly said)...most people don't guess right on this issue each year and sometimes people win it 15 years after the time they thought they would win it
So this could be premature, this article, and could lead to a negative result
ALGOREismylife - October 8, 2007 09:30 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (ReElectAlGore2008 @ Oct 8 2007, 03:19 PM) |
| I just have one question The vote is NOT counted yet, is it? If so, articles like this could cause the winner to be changed One should not count on the Noble (as I have constantly said)...most people don't guess right on this issue each year and sometimes people win it 15 years after the time they thought they would win it So this could be premature, this article, and could lead to a negative result |
Are you trying to say it could be rigged against AL??? It wouldn't be the first time something was rigged and stolen from him. :angry:
gore for president - October 8, 2007 10:02 PM (GMT)
Announcement of Nobel Peace Prize
The names of the year's Nobel Peace Prize Laureates are announced during a press conference at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, October 12, 11 a.m. CET.
The vote is taken the first part of October and is final.
gore for president :good:
The names of the year's Nobel Peace Prize Laureates are announced during a press conference at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, October 12, 11 a.m. CET.
The vote is taken the first part of October and is final.
gore for president :good:
ReElectAlGore2008 - October 8, 2007 10:09 PM (GMT)
First part of October? We are only up to "the first part of October", no?
gore for president - October 9, 2007 01:02 AM (GMT)
Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize
The rules for nominating for the Nobel Peace Prize shows that the vote takes place in early October.
That might be why Al has been so quiet? The vote just took place!
gore for president :good: :clap:
The rules for nominating for the Nobel Peace Prize shows that the vote takes place in early October.
That might be why Al has been so quiet? The vote just took place!
gore for president :good: :clap:
Jonathan Pollard - October 9, 2007 02:38 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (ALGOREismylife @ Oct 8 2007, 03:12 PM) | ||
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Gore didn't exactly look very presidential last week.
Former Vice President Al Gore reacts after accidentally hitting a man while waving in Mexico City at an event with members of Mexico's tourism industry.
earnAlGore - October 9, 2007 04:04 AM (GMT)
Great article!
Thanks for posting it!
whybaby - October 9, 2007 05:06 PM (GMT)
From what I've read, the winner has already been chosen. So nothing we say could have any effect on the outcome. So, go ahead - be farklempt! Talk amongst yourselves! Discuss!
As has already been posted (from http://nobelpeaceprize.org/index.html), the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 will be announced on 12 October at 11:00 am local time.
Oslo is on Central European Summer Time,
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=187
which means that their 11 am local time will be:
5 am Friday EDT, 4 am CDT, 3 am MDT, 2 am PDT, Alaskans 1am, and Hawaiians a civilized 11 pm on Thursday night. Some of us will be getting up early to watch; others will be staying up late. Most of us should probably be chewing on chocolate-covered espresso beans, to be followed (hopefully) by champagne.
:Y:
As has already been posted (from http://nobelpeaceprize.org/index.html), the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 will be announced on 12 October at 11:00 am local time.
Oslo is on Central European Summer Time,
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=187
which means that their 11 am local time will be:
5 am Friday EDT, 4 am CDT, 3 am MDT, 2 am PDT, Alaskans 1am, and Hawaiians a civilized 11 pm on Thursday night. Some of us will be getting up early to watch; others will be staying up late. Most of us should probably be chewing on chocolate-covered espresso beans, to be followed (hopefully) by champagne.
:Y: