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Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007

Advisers: Gore not a candidate, yet

By ALAN FRAM- Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — They say they love his advocacy for the environment, his intellect and sense of humor. The people urging Al Gore to run for president have not persuaded him to do so - not yet anyway.


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Former Vice President Al Gore speaks during a panel discussion, in this Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007, file photo at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York. Gore is a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize if you believe some experts. The coveted Nobel awards to be announced next week in October 2007, cover the range of human endeavor, from peacemaking to scientific discovery, yet share a tradition of mystery, deep secrecy and wild speculation about who might win.

The latest salvo from those hoping Gore would reprise his 2000 run for the White House came in a full-page ad in The New York Times sponsored by draftgore.com, which says it is a group of grass-roots Democrats. Gore has said repeatedly, if not definitively, that he is not planning to seek the presidency.

"Your country needs you now - as do your party and the planet you are fighting so hard to save," said Wednesday's ad, which group founder Monica Friedlander of Oakland, Calif., said cost $65,000.

Despite no overt campaigning for the presidency, Gore was backed by 12 percent of Democrats in this month's Associated Press-Ipsos poll. That's down from 20 percent in June, but enough to tie for third with former Sen. John Edwards, well behind Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and just trailing Sen. Barack Obama.

"Doggone him," Pat Sutton, 69, a Gore supporter and homemaker from Lincoln, Neb., said of Gore's non-candidacy. "That's the kind of president I want, who's willing to stand up to the hard stuff. And there's a lot of hard stuff out there."

"He's far and away more intelligent than the others," said Jason Thompson, 36, an environmental health inspector in Fort Myers, Fla. "I like his environmental stand, I think he's the more sincere of the candidates, and I think he got hosed in his first election" when George W. Bush defeated him in 2000 in a disputed election.

AdvertisementLongtime political aide Roy Neel, who runs Gore's office in Nashville, Tenn., said the former vice president is focusing on prompting action against global warming. He said he has seen no signs Gore is contemplating a race.

"He's making no plans, and we're doing nothing," said Neel, adding, "He's not ruled it out in the future."

Asked what "the future" meant, Neel said, "Sometime later than today."

Donna Brazile, campaign manager for Gore's bitter 2000 loss to Bush, said she believes he will not run - this time.

"He's very comfortable and committed" to his work on global warming, she said, and to business pursuits that include Current TV, a cable network he helped found. She would not rule out a future presidential run.

"Al Gore should be viable for the rest of his life" as a candidate, she said.

Gore has been in the public eye this year, particularly in February when the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" about his efforts to educate about global warming won the Oscar for best documentary. Current TV also captured an Emmy.

Friends hope a crowning third award will come later this week, when the Nobel Prize for peace is announced.

I wish Donna Brazile would shut her hole, she doesn't know everything. :angry:

"He's making no plans, and we're doing nothing," said Neel, adding, "He's not ruled it out in the future."

Asked what "the future" meant, Neel said, "Sometime later than today."

That basically says he has not ruled out changing his mind in a couple of weeks.These kinds of comments are why no one is giving up on a Gore run.

I don't think Donna is in his inner circle anymore so who is she to know? One thing for sure if he runs it will be in a totally new way with totally different people working for him. Considering she was part of a campaign that didn't make the best of decisions she must be feeling some guilt for some of them. Gore has said before he listened too much back then to his advisors instead of listening to himself, John Kerry also made that mistake. I don't think he would make it again. One of the articles I read had Tipper saying if Al decides to run again we will think over what we learned from the past.

So, next week could be the Future? ;)

I am inclined to listen carefully to what Roy Neel says. :coolwink:

The future is ...the future is...the future is...NOW,whoops since I wrote that it is now even later in the future... :clap:

Does Al Gore even know what the word is?

I will say it again- Al Gore (after he wins the Nobel) should go back home to Nashville, go to the Pancake Pantry that Sunday,(and in 2 weeks I might actually be there myself coincidentally enough) and tell the guy in the next booth
"My name is Al Gore, enjoy your breakfast, and oh, yeah, I am running for President" :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:

And let the word take off from person to person to person across the country
just by word of mouth
(most likely by the time Al finishes his incredibly fantastic pancakes and omelet), enough people in the nation who elected him in 2000 plus more would breathe a collective sigh of relief that might be so pure, it might help the environment just from that... :Y:
And all our blood pressures would drop to the lowest point since Dan Rather called the race for Al Gore in 2000 (and Dan Rather is one of my heroes, and he has never, ever lied to me).

Ha! I just had lunch there last week. And, when I eat at another joint about a block away where they call out your name to come pick up your food, I always tell them "Al Gore", just to hear it over the speaker and watch the reaction.

I've never run into Al out and about. I/we sometimes trip over folks like Brooks and Dunn, Nicole Kidman, Alan Jackson...you know, just the run-of-the-mill Nashvillians.

Gimme a shout if you're coming this way REAG. Where are you coming from?

NY born/NJ now...

Ahh, a fellow Jerseyite! (Well, I actually live in NY now, but my family is 100% Jersey blood). There seems to be a lot of support for Al around here-- I walk down the street with a Gore '08 button on my bag, and people make positive comments all the time . . . and I have yet to hear anyone say anything enthusiastic about Hillary. And this is her state, for cryin' out loud!!!!

That's hysterical, TNblue! How awesome are you! :clap: :clap: :clap:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Confession. I stole the idea from someone on the old forum who I think was doing that in a pizza joint in North Carolina, maybe.

Still, it's fun.

Ha! That's classic! :clap: