Since Al won the Nobel Peace Prize on October 12 he has not spoken to the United States news media. He has only given interviews overseas.

He has not issued any statement pro or con on the Draft Gore movement? But he refuses to stop it? Al has been extremely quiet recently. Why?

He knows over 219,000 have signed the Draft Gore petition. He knows he is within 5% of Hillary in a new CBS poll. He leads the DFA poll online with a write-in.

We want Al to run for President and Al is fighting to save the earth from Global warming. I think Al hoped another of the Democratic candidates would take on Global warming. It has not happened. I think his silence means he is thinking about running.

Al is smart and knows that it will be a very hard fight to defeat Hillary. Im sure Al would defeat Hillary, but Al does not want to split the Democratic party in doing so.

My personal opinion is that a write-in campaign in New Hampshire led by the Draft Gore movement would succeed and give Al a reason to get in. I think Al could get 20% as a write in New Hampshire.

Being from New Hampshire over the last two weeks I have had the Edwards and Obama people canvass the house. I have told them Im waiting for Gore to decide if he will run. They tell me many other people they canvass say the same thing. Many undecided in New Hampshire.

I think we can Draft Al in New Hampshire with a successful write in campaign. New Hampshire should be ground zero for the next two months.

gore for president :good: :Y:

Yes, where IS Gore? I rely too heavily on the other folks here to keep me up to date on his whereabouts. I feel like the media put a huge damper on the draft effort soon after he won the Nobel, now people are losing hope and giving up. Guess I'm not getting the hint. I need an unambiguous statement first.

Good luck in New Hampshire!! I'm pulling for ya!

Here's the latest from New Hampshire, for those who are interested:

And to address the issue of Gore's silence . . . we, too, are wondering where he is and what he's doing. He does seem to be avoiding the U.S. press. Difficult to read what's going on . . .

Thanks, Earthmother, for the information. It sounds exciting. There are a lot of hard-working people out there and I believe they can do it!! :clap: :good: :Y:

Thank you, Earthmother. I needed a little bit of something.

Silence is golden....take a moment to pause yourself and see what you feel in your heart of hearts.....then trust that feeling it may be the most genuine.

with loving thoughts to Al......... ;)

QUOTE (earthmother @ Oct 29 2007, 09:17 PM)
And to address the issue of Gore's silence . . . we, too, are wondering where he is and what he's doing. He does seem to be avoiding the U.S. press. Difficult to read what's going on . . .


I wish the NH write-in effort well. DFA proved they can work at a national level.

But my hopes rest on the chance that Al Gore knows 11/2 is a very significant date. I understand that voters know the candidate so the following is not wholly accurate for Al Gore. But I'll say it anyway:

If you want to run for president, you need to fill out the NH form. You don't have to be a 600 day candidate, but you do need to be a 367 day candidate.

Throughout this whole effort, Al Gore has always said that he has not decided to run. No plans. The decision has not been made. I sense that he's been graciously pushing aside data, the polls the good letters and the nasty ones. All that toxic stuff we've been pouring over. He's simply not been looking at it, waiting until the last moment to do so.

I'm hoping Al Gore is right now reviewing the data. It's a damn good read, all things considered.

Maybe he's taking a well deserved rest. He was in several different cities overseas in less than a week. I know the waiting is hell, I hate it but we have to be patient. Let him enjoy some peace and quiet it that is what he's doing.

Agreed. I doubt very much that "11/2 (NHPRI REG): DECIDE TO POTUS" is something on Gore's outlook calender :). But I still read this downtime potential positive.

Gore has been travelling abroad for the last week or so. He is not paying much attention to U.S. presidential politics, but focusing on climate change issues. I'm pretty sure that Al is "silent" because he has already said he is not running for president, over and over and over again. I have concluded that "I have no plans to run" = "I am not running." There is not a single piece of information that suggests otherwise. I would love to be proved wrong, of course. But Friday, the date for filing in New Hampshire, is the end for me. I'm very disappointed, but you have to look reality in the face sometime.

Ian O'Corrain
www.gore-obama2008.blogspot.com

For me the end is Nov. 1 which is the deadline for the South Carolina and Georgia primaries. Which makes the effective end today (Oct. 31) which is the date that he will have to overnight mail his registration for those primaries unless he plans to personally go to both of those states on Nov. 1 to register which I think is highly unlikely.

The members of this forum are not about quitting, we're about persevering. General Sherman hasn't directly thumped us upside the head yet. But as I ponder things tonight, it does not appear that Al Gore is going to declare that he's a candidate for President in the upcoming election. I hope he does sometime this week, he could skip the first few primaries and still win, I'm pretty sure. But just supposing he does not... forgive my speculation..

Al Gore has already won. He has made a comeback like no other in recent American history. Where lesser men would be bitter and retreat from public life after his experience in 2000, Al Gore has become more relevant than ever. How many people come to personally lead the world to awareness of an issue like the Climate Crisis? :?:

I'm sure he must be thinking about what would happen if he became a political candidate again. There would be a risk that all his hard work of raising awareness about global warming would be seen as some kind of political chess game to further his presidential ambitions.

Am I trying to rationalize an outcome very different from what we have devoted years trying to achieve? Yep, probably so.

In the end, Gore needs to decide on the basis of what he understands to be best choice for America and for the world, not necessarily what will make us happy.

Whatever the result, I feel totally at peace in supporting Al Gore and grateful to have the opportunity to get to know all the wonderful friends I've come to know at this forum.

:Y:

Sorry, I disagree with you.

If he doesn't run, it was all for naught.
Unless he is part of the power, the next president will do as much as Bush did-which is nothing.

What if Martin Luther King Jr. did not reach the mountaintop he so eloquently spoke of, what if 2 years earlier, he just chucked it all and did not continue his quest?
What if Bobby did not heed the call?
What if there was no protest movment in the 1960s? Would we still be in Vietnam today?
What if Rosa Parks(symbolically as she was not the first, but the one remembered), did not stand her ground?
What if Jesus ran the other way knowing what was coming?

I don't see how one can call it a victory.
It's personal awards and such, but that doesn't do the rest of the world that is being destroyed any good, if the next President does as much as bush did to ruin it.

And sorry folks, I am not a Clinton fan, and I do not believe a Hillary administration without Gore right next to her 24/7/365 will roll anything Bush has done back. She has done nothing to indicate she will. And if Gore doesn't run, it means Hillary is inevitable, and it means Gore feels he can live with her doing nothing to roll anything Bush has done back.

And that is losing, not winning, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, which is why, when all you others go off this week and leave, I will still be calling for Al to run third party

And while I am happy to have made some friends, I did not come here to make friends, I came here to hope Al Gore ran for President. In reality, the ones here will have shown they all cared more about bettering this country, in the end, than Al Gore himself did.
(and I don't care if you don't agree with me, I am not looking to be popular).

To Wayne I add a few words to your statemnt-it appears Al is NOT jumping into the race and declare as a Democrat. That does not to me say he is not going to jump in some other way, hence no Sherman statement, just all the deadlines passing...

BTW- is Mario Cuomo's jet still all fueled up and waiting on the tarmac as it was in 1992? Shades of what we lost in the 16 years since the last time a sure thing left a plane running and didn't hop aboard it.

This wouldn't be an interesting place if everyone agreed with me, would it? :lol:

Martin Luther King Jr., Jesus, Rosa Parks; they did not seek high political office. And yet we remember them. There lives were not for naught. I feel Al Gore has earned a position in the world that I don't quite comprehend yet, but he's going to be a very important man whatever happens.

I hope he runs. I hope he can articulate a platform of healing; healing the planet, healing America, healing the international system, healing our bitter partisan divides. If he chooses to do that in a 3rd party campaign I'm all ears. But I'm from Missouri about that scenario.

We remember Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks because when the call for battle was sounded, they went forward, Rev. King even fortelling what was going to happen, yet he didn't give up, he went forward, and that is why we remember him today as one of the greatest of great Americans ever to live.
Not as a footnote.

You gotta be in it, to win it on all accounts.

Can someone here HONESTLY say, that Al's issue will be dealt with as the #1 concern when any of the pretenders to his throne take office in January 2009?
I don't see it happening (unless he is also on the stage that inauguration day taking an oath of office right next to the new president).

When the call for battle was sounded, many implored Dr. King to take up arms and lead the charge to defeat the Klan with rifles and bayonets. He chose a different path. That does not mean to me that he did not have the courage or fortitude to forge ahead. There are multiple levels of carrying on the struggle. I cannot argue against those who wanted to defend their families against the Klan with force. Neither will I argue against the choices Dr. King made.

Well if you are going to go that route, then insert Malcolm X into the equation and say the same thing

And Other (of my) heroes took up the call afterward

Eldridge Cleaver and The Black Panthers, The Chicago 7, Mark Rudd, Abbie Hoffman, etc...all would not have happened had Martin Luther King not taken the route he did

The protest movement would not have been successful if they all gave up

(and some say their later day ennui with what they started led directly to the Yuppies, the allmighty dollar, and not continuing

The only mistake Abbie Hoffman made was (assuming he actually killed himself, some say there are other answers), but saying he did, his biggest mistake was not to keep fighting for us. He is sorely missed.

That is what happens when one doesn't take that next needed step

Happy Halloween

Yeah, I know this says Edwards 08, but it's scary, isn't it?



:o

:laugh: @ Scary Times.

As for the more serious stuff, it had to be done. We had to build it.

/staresatcornfield