Gore's Oscar Success Fuels '08 Speculation

Could Former VP Go From The Red Carpet To The White House? Backers Hope So

(The Politico)  By The Politico's Mike Allen.

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Former Vice President Al Gore's triumph at the Oscars is already stoking activists' pleas for him to make a dramatic late entry into the fractious presidential race, and some key strategists insist he could announce as late as September or October and still win the nomination.

"Honestly, this was the inaugural parade we all envisioned," said Donna Brazile, his former campaign manager. "Gore's political stock is hot right now. I don't know if I would cash in now with so many players still on stage. There’s no reason to force him to declare tomorrow."

Indeed, Brazile said the former vice president could wait as late as the time states begin requiring delegate slates and statements of candidacy, since he could raise money quickly and much of the campaigns' budgets are devoted to a long nominating process he would avoid. "This was one of those rare moments, similar to the civil rights movement, when you experience the ground shifting," she said. "Perhaps it's not a movement for a presidential run, but a moment for the debate to start for real change on how we live on Planet Earth."

Friends who talk regularly with Gore say that he believes what he tells the press — that he's not planning to run for president. Backstage on Sunday night, he repeated his mantra: "I do not have plans to become a candidate for office again." No draft movement is being authorized or encouraged, and there are no internal discussions of a campaign, the friends insist. But they say he has deliberately not closed the door. It just doesn't feel right to him — and he's only 58.

So the crescendo will rise. Brazile, now the founder and managing director of Brazile and Associates, is neutral in the race but says she would work for Gore if he declared. She acknowledges that after the near miss of 2000, she was among those who said "hell, no" about a 2004 bid. But she feels very differently now.

"He could come in at the end of the day as a candidate who can truly unite his party as well as his country," Brazile said. "He can help repair our country's image abroad. He's someone who can go toe-to-toe with world leaders and doesn't need a crash course in diplomacy." She remembers back in the '80s when Gore was in Congress and used to often cite a quote from Gandhi, "'Be the change you want to see in the world.'" Brazile said: "I believe he has become that quote.”

"An Inconvenient Truth" was based on Gore’s traveling global warming show as he told audiences about what he calls a "planetary emergency." He threw himself into promoting the film, traveling to film festivals around the world and telling audiences he would take it "door-to-door" if necessary." The movie includes his stock laugh line: "I'm Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States of America."

Michael Feldman, who served in the Clinton-Gore White House for eight years and was a senior adviser and traveling chief of staff to the vice president, said the Oscar means that "more people are going to see the movie and more people are going to get information about the issue of global warming, which will help build the collective political will to get something done on the issue."

Feldman, a founding partner of the Glover Park Group, said Gore's stroll down the red carpet "must have seemed like a little bit of an out-of-body experience to him," but then much of the last year has been that way. "He still sees his job as trying to help create a better political climate for action on this issue," Feldman said.

Gore is the chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection, funded in part by proceeds he has donated from "An Inconvenient Truth." Others on the group’s governing council include Theodore Roosevelt IV, Carol M. Browner, and Brent Scowcroft.

The former vice president will be in the spotlight again with three major events in the next five months:

• On March 21, he'll star at global warming hearings in both the House and Senate, testifying before a committee he once served on. He will be the sole witness before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. On the House side, he will testify at a Joint Subcommittee Hearing on Climate Change, held by the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality, and the Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.

• A new book by Gore, "The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Fear, Secrecy, and Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision Making, Degrade Our Democracy, and Put Our Country and Our World in Peril," is due out in May.

• On July 7 (7.7.07), he will be among the luminaries heading a 24-hour "Save Our Selves" (SOS) concert marathon across all seven continents. The "Live Earth" concert will bring together more than 100 of the world's top musical acts and is designed to reach more than 2 billion people through attendance and broadcasts. SOS — The Campaign for a Climate in Crisis was founded by Kevin Wall, who won an Emmy as worldwide executive producer of the Live 8 concert marathon.

At 10:48 p.m. Sunday, when the nominees for "best documentary feature" were announced on the 79th annual Academy Awards broadcast on ABC, the clip from an "An Inconvenient Truth" showed a professorial Gore intoning: "Global warming creates more evaporation off the oceans. It seeds the clouds. But it sucks moisture out of the soil."

After Davis Guggenheim, the director, was announced as the winner, the camera in the audience showed him gesturing madly for Gore and the rest of the team to walk up with him. As they walked to the stage, the announcer said: "Davis Guggenheim and the cast were scheduled to shoot in New Orleans the night before Hurricane Katrina hit — an event that brought the threat and the impact of global warming."

[abbe7]

RMainesRN -
"There are thousands of legitimate scientists, not politicians, or hacks on the government dole, who state that global warming such as it is, is NOT caused by humans. How arrogant of us to think that we can effect the balance of this planet with day to day living. All of these people are trying to hold us to standards they themselves don't even pretend to adhere to. You want to see how shoddy the global warming science is, just try and ask some legitimate questions about the theory behind it."


Let me second ... US seems biased one way and Europe the other way .. and where is the truth ?
Probably somewhere in the middle ...
Due to pollution, we are more likely to get
allergy-related medical problems before any kind of global warming problem and this is enough to adhere to the Kyoto protocol, but not under false pretences ...


Just google "Little Ice Age" ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

And if you really care about greenhouse effects, what about methane ? The cows are changing the climate ;-)

[abbe7]

RMainesRN -
"There are thousands of legitimate scientists, not politicians, or hacks on the government dole, who state that global warming such as it is, is NOT caused by humans. How arrogant of us to think that we can effect the balance of this planet with day to day living. All of these people are trying to hold us to standards they themselves don't even pretend to adhere to. You want to see how shoddy the global warming science is, just try and ask some legitimate questions about the theory behind it."


Let me second ... US seems biased one way and Europe the other way .. and where is the truth ?
Probably somewhere in the middle ...
Due to pollution, we are more likely to get
allergy-related medical problems before any kind of global warming problem and this is enough to adhere to the Kyoto protocol, but not under false pretences ...


Just google "Little Ice Age" ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

And if you really care about greenhouse effects, what about methane ? The cows are changing the climate ;-)

[navychief8]

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[scott4261]

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[navychief8]

***dallison7***,

***And*** ***his*** ***consumption*** ***has*** ***actually*** ***increased***. ***He*** ***just*** ***needs*** ***to*** ***fade*** ***away***. ***That*** ***would*** ***be*** ***his*** ***best*** ***contribution*** ***to*** ***the*** ***DNC***.

[dallison7]

***LOL***

***He*** ***hasn***'***t*** ***even*** ***said*** ***that*** ***he*** ***is*** ***going*** ***to*** ***run*** ***and*** ***the*** ***swiftboat*** ***tactics*** ***have*** ***already*** ***started***!! ***LMAO***!!

***The*** ***fear*** ***radiating*** ***from*** ***the*** ***right*** ***and*** ***the*** ***early***, ***but*** ***silly*** ***and*** ***mindless*** ***attacks*** ***are*** ***a*** ***good*** ***indication*** ***that*** ***IF*** ***he*** ***decides*** ***to*** ***get*** ***into*** ***the*** ***race*** ***it*** ***will*** ***be*** ***a*** ***bloodbath***. ***He*** ***would*** ***win*** ***with*** ***the*** ***greatest*** ***landslide*** ***in*** ***American*** ***history***!!

***Jusst*** ***read*** ***what*** ***some*** ***of*** ***the*** ***dopes*** ***on*** ***the*** ***right*** ***are*** ***already*** ***saying***. ***This*** ***is*** ***funny*** ***sh*******t***!!


***US_Infidel***
***Your*** ***information*** ***is*** ***true*** ***and*** ***correct***. ***This*** ***loser*** ***is*** ***telling*** ***us*** ***all*** ***to*** ***cut*** ***back***, ***use*** ***less***, ***while*** ***he*** ***uses*** ***more*** ***energy*** ***in*** ***a*** ***month*** ***then*** ***most*** ***of*** ***us*** ***use*** ***in*** ***12***.

***Leaders*** ***don***'***t*** ***do*** ***this***, ***they*** ***lead*** ***by*** ***example***, ***Gore*** ***is*** ***no*** ***leader***. ***He*** ***is*** ***a*** ***loser***. ***His*** ***hypocrisy*** ***is*** ***out*** ***shined*** ***only*** ***by*** ***Barbara*** ***Streisand***'***s***.
***Posted*** ***by*** ***thgdriver***

[rmainesrn]

There are thousands of legitimate scientists, not politicians, or hacks on the government dole, who state that global warming such as it is, is NOT caused by humans. How arrogant of us to think that we can effect the balance of this planet with day to day living. All of these people are trying to hold us to standards they themselves don't even pretend to adhere to. You want to see how shoddy the global warming science is, just try and ask some legitimate questions about the theory behind it.

[thgdriver]

US_Infidel
Your information is true and correct. This loser is telling us all to cut back, use less, while he uses more energy in a month then most of us use in 12.

Leaders don't do this, they lead by example, Gore is no leader. He is a loser. His hypocrisy is out shined only by Barbara Streisand's.

[hawksprings]

j0hnwi11iams,
Algore is a National Treasure or National Lampoon?

[j0hnwi11iams]

Gore is a national treasure. You are grasping at finding faults so you can continue to DENY what a great man he is. Some of you idiots deny the earth orbits the sun so it is no surprise you deny the SCIENCE of global warming. You would rather cling to your superstitions. Pathetic.

[cdegolier]

Let's get together and be the co-campaign managers for Gore's Green Party nomination!
You'll bring in the Left, I'll bring in the Right. It will be awesome!
Posted by HawkSprings at 03:27 PM : Feb 27, 2007

Unfortunately I don't think the Green Party is going to welcome the Hypocrite gore with open arms unless he sells his mansion, which uses enough electricity to power the average household for one year.

Typical, gores gone Hollywood for the money and fame in hopes of getting closer to the White House. If he or any of the others actually gave a sh*t about global warming or the environment they would change their ways. Install solar panels on all their energy hog mansions, lose the private jets, fly commercial, stop riding around in limos- actually go green instead of telling everyone else to. Not everyone has the money or resources to go green, everyone in Hollywood including gore does.

[hawksprings]

Scott,
Let's get together and be the co-campaign managers for Gore's Green Party nomination!
You'll bring in the Left, I'll bring in the Right. It will be awesome!

[hawksprings]

Oh Come On macusweil!!

Gore is nothing more than a Liberal Elitist Snob. Telling us peasants to all reduce our energy consumption while his mansion uses the energy of 20 average homes! "Do as I say, not as I do!"

Gore says: "Global Warming is a moral issue!"

If that's true, then Gore is one big freakin' immoral prostitute.

It looks like Gore doesn't really believe his own documentary.

When the ocean levels rise 20 feet like he says, Gore should be blamed for 19.9 of it because of his hot air, his mansion and his hypocrisy. It's a moral issue.

[macusweil]

"Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. His 20 room, 8 bathroom mansion burns PLENTY of energy. "

Ahhmazing!! the neo.cons just never get get it.. we need to have national energy policy and world focus based on migrating to sustainable resources that do not harm the environment.

Not one like Bush / Cheney have adopted that does nothing but keep the Gas, Oil and Petroleum (GOP) lobbists happy.

Do we really want to start playing carbon cob on folks!? Energy policy is not a p8ssing match about who is using the most energy @ home.

[us_infidel]

Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth'? -- $30,000 utility bill http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=5072659

[us_infidel]

Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy. His 20 room, 8 bathroom mansion burns PLENTY of energy.

"Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh%u2014guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore%u2019s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359."

Like a true nouvo-lib....say one thing but do another. Quite a carbon footprint there, Albore! :)

[anvilheadsix]

Isn't it wonderful how Clinton worked with the Republcan Congress to advance the Republican Contract With America
Posted by HawkSprings

Do you also think it was wonderful of those same Republicans to cover up a pedophile in their midst?

[dallison7]

So - if you think that the Republicans upheld the contract then reelect them. if not then it's time to throw the bums out and drain the swamp.

[dallison7]

Isn't it wonderful how Clinton worked with the Republcan Congress to advance the Republican Contract With America
Posted by HawkSprings

It was just 12 years ago that the Republicans took control of Congress with their Contract with America. In this contract the Republicans pledged to do the following:

"Require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress; select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse; cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third; limit the terms of all committee chairs; ban the casting of proxy votes in committee; require committee meetings to be open to the public; require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase; guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting."

This historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public's money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family."

"Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act "with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right." To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves."

[anvilheadsix]

dallison7 knows her stuff.