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."

[scott4261]

My dream ticket would be Gore/Edwards, but I'm not holding out much hope for Al Gore to run.

[bildooreilly]

Al Gore like George Bush is a descendent of the British Royal Family. The Royals promote a lot of the ecodictatorship ***, they're obviously out to destroy what's left of american manufacturing. They'd all like to take us back to the dark ages where we live like a bunch of stupid little peasants while they gloriously rule over us. Just look back to a few weeks ago when Prince Charles came over here, and Harvard University gave him some big Econazi award and his beloved cousin Al Gore Jr presented it to him.

And BTW Al Gore is just a big of a fraud as George W. Bush and his very closely connected to Occidental Oil Co. and the late communist Armand Hammer who owned Al Gores father.

[bildooreilly]

Al Gore goes around talking all his enviromental BS meanwhile he's big buddies and taking money from Occidental oil who commit all kinds of enviromental abuses and were directly responsible for the Love Canal tragedy years ago. You people that are stupid enough to let these scumbags lead you around like a bunch of fools deserve what you get.

[jonw1115]

Man that picture is creeping me out, take it away! His eyes look weird.

[bildooreilly]

Don't you think it's kind of strange that in the last 2 presidential races all the candidates were related to the British Royal Family? Wake up fools, the limeys have snuck back in while weren't looking...

[sickofemall]

Just because a bunch of Hollywood, like-minded leftists applauded him and gave him the Oscar for an already debunked documentary doesn't mean he's electable. Al's like Hillary, either you love him or you hate him. In today's polarized political scene, we need a different face to lead us. Unfortunately, neither political party seems to have the right one yet. Obama's close, but it's still too early too tell. Maybe Powell for Prez. and Obama for VP? That would be a neat ticket.

[bildooreilly]

all of the main candidates anyways.. Bush Jr, Gore, Kerry, they're all related to the british royal family, go look it up.

Now look at the sub heading in the article.. "could former vp go from red carpet to the white house"

Well the red carpet is symbolic of his "Royal Bloodine" which they keep royal by inbreeding by the way.

[oleander8]

Don't do it, Al! Take your success from this and enjoy it. Don't try to run it up the flag-pole because no one is going to salute it.

[bildooreilly]

Yeah lets all go vote for the guy that knowingly helped lie us into iraq Powell.. yeee haw... While I agreed with most of your post, then you spout out The Dishonorable Colin Powell, who has been nothing but a scumbag and government stooge his entire life. It's amazing what a fake autobiography or in Al Gores case a BS movie can do for you. Al Gore voted for the first Iraq war which was based on total BS also like the Kuwait baby incubator hoax where Bush Sr and the Kuwaits knowingly misled congress.




Maybe Powell for Prez. and Obama for VP? That would be a neat ticket.
Posted by sickofemall at 03:23 PM : Feb 26, 2007

[bildooreilly]

Yeah lets all go vote for the guy that knowingly helped lie us into iraq Powell.. yeee haw... While I agreed with most of your post, then you spout out The Dishonorable Colin Powell, who has been nothing but a scumbag and government stooge his entire life. It's amazing what a fake autobiography or in Al Gores case a BS movie can do for you. Al Gore voted for the first Iraq war which was based on total BS also like the Kuwait baby incubator hoax where Bush Sr and the Kuwaits knowingly misled congress.




Maybe Powell for Prez. and Obama for VP? That would be a neat ticket.
Posted by sickofemall at 03:23 PM : Feb 26, 2007

[bildooreilly]

Enough of the professional politicians most of whom like Bush and Al Gore are sons of professional politicians... enough of these parasites. How about getting some people who actually had a real job at some point in their lives or pump their own gas or do their own grocery shopping. This is freakin ridiculous, and most of you fools are in love with your revolving royal families.

[oleander8]

Don't do it, Al! Take your success from this and enjoy it. Don't try to run it up the flag-pole because no one is going to salute it.

[scott4261]

The Flat Earth Society is out in full force today!

[cdegolier]

Gore, the guy who not only invented the internet but the one who came up with global warming can't even get it straight.

"Global warming creates more evaporation off the oceans. It seeds the clouds. But it sucks moisture out of the soil."

The truth is global warming does not create more evaporation off the oceans, but the heat from the sun cause evaporation off the oceans in the form of CO2 which is a facture in global warming.

The guy is a complete moron. And for the idiots that say he is related to British Royality, so what you just might be also.

[anvilheadsix]

Take a moment andthink of how wonderful our country - in fact our entire world- would be right now if Gore had become president in 2000.

No war, strong economy, more fuel efficient vehicles, none of these "No child left behind" statutes that leave hundreds of thousands of kids behind and encumbered in red tape, good relations with other countries, No 9/11 incident because Gore would have paid attention to the Daily briefing a month before that was titled "Osama Bin Laden planning to strike inside of United States"..

[changeit4]

"He's someone who can go toe-to-toe with world leaders and doesn't need a crash course in diplomacy."

Isn't this the same Al Gore vilified for not being qualified for the handling of foreign policy in 2000?

While I have always respected Gore's intelligence, I hope the left doesn't confuse celebrity with credibility and get him distracted from his message.

[montraville]

There are plenty of other problems in the world for Al Gore to make documentaries about. He could do one on overpopulation, religious intolerance, poor education...

At this stage of his career, he's in "figurehead" mode. He should stay above partisan squabbles and be statesmanlike.

And while he's in Hollywood he should get a good personal trainer.

[scott4261]

Take a moment andthink of how wonderful our country - in fact our entire world- would be right now if Gore had become president in 2000.

No war, strong economy, more fuel efficient vehicles, none of these "No child left behind" statutes that leave hundreds of thousands of kids behind and encumbered in red tape, good relations with other countries, No 9/11 incident because Gore would have paid attention to the Daily briefing a month before that was titled "Osama Bin Laden planning to strike inside of United States"..
Posted by anvilheadsix at 03:39 PM

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Amen! 100% correct!

[scott4261]

The nutjob chorus still will not admit that George W. Bush is an incompetent boob beholden to the oil industry, whose administration is corrupt from the top down.

[anvilheadsix]

Nor will they admit that he ignored the numerous 9/11 warnings.

[anvilheadsix]

Nor will they admit that he ignored the numerous 9/11 warnings.

[scott4261]

True. Somehow any discussion of Bush and 9/11 turns into Bill and Monica!

[three-o-six]

Yes how wonderfull if gore had won -- our wives could wear berkas, -- we could bow toward mecca and pray to allah five times a day -- wonderful

The democrats need a new mascot -- A donkey no longer represents what they stand for -- A chicken would be more like it -- one with a yellow stripe down its back -- it would also be missing any type of spine

Gore should have never listened to the DLC in 2000. He won, he should have fought for the Florida vote to be counted. And so we have a very profound MORON for 8 years. taking us to the brink of oblivion.

Run again Al...you would win.....AGAIN.

http://www.draftgore.com

[three-o-six]

Gore is a pile od sh_t -- I wouldn't want him on my shoes!!!

[us_infidel]

Yeah Al, please DO run! At least then you wouldn't have the time to pump out more propoganda flicks.

[three-o-six]

Gore is the MASTER Liar [remember he invented the internet]

[tuckerndfw]

I would vote for Al.

He's the least offensive of all the candidates other than Romney, maybe.

And, I think it would be amusing for Hillary to lose to Al Gore. Maybe she could be his VP. But, if he did that, I wouldn't vote for him.

[cdegolier]

Take a moment andthink of how wonderful our country - in fact our entire world- would be right now if Gore had become president in 2000.

No war, strong economy, more fuel efficient vehicles, none of these "No child left behind" statutes that leave hundreds of thousands of kids behind and encumbered in red tape, good relations with other countries, No 9/11 incident because Gore would have paid attention to the Daily briefing a month before that was titled "Osama Bin Laden planning to strike inside of United States"..

Now take a look at things when gore was in the Vice Presidents seat and a perfect opportunity arose to not only take out Osama but Saddam and the administration whimpped out and left once allies in the dust. Geeee, no Osama no 9/11. Quite blaming Bush for Clinton and Gores mistakes of ignoring and not stopping the threat when the chance arose. I am so glad he wasn't elected and yes he wasn't elected, did not win ever, no matter how many recounts still he did not win get over it. If he had won, he probably would have invited Osama over for tea and peace talks after 9/11.

I'm sure he doesn't fly commercial and that limo he and his hollywood friends ride around in I'm sure is not electric.

[anvilheadsix]

Maybe his next "propoganda flick" will be about why Bush ignored and August 2001 briefing titled "Osama Bin Laden planning attack inside of United states".

Al Gore NEVER said he invented the internet. That was a PNAC GOP talking point that their 25%er lemmings simply mindlessly regurgitat.

[scott4261]

cdegolier,

Yes. It's always Bill Clinton's fault. Bush can do no wrong (at being a failure).

[anvilheadsix]

Now take a look at things when gore was in the Vice Presidents seat and a perfect opportunity arose to not only take out Osama but Saddam and the administration whimpped out and left once allies in the dust. Geeee, no Osama no 9/11. Quite blaming Bush for Clinton and Gores mistakes of ignoring and not stopping the threat when the chance arose. I am so glad he wasn't elected and yes he wasn't elected, did not win ever, no matter how many recounts still he did not win get over it. If he had won, he probably would have invited Osama over for tea and peace talks after 9/11.

I'm sure he doesn't fly commercial and that limo he and his hollywood friends ride around in I'm sure is not electric.

Posted by cdegolier at 04:05 PM : Feb 26, 2007



As I recall the Republican Congress wouldn't support them. They kept saying Clinton shouldn't send any troops because he had no credibility becasue he didn't serve in Vietnam (neither did Bush or Cheney).

[gabulldog66]

I have always wanted to ask Mr. Gore what he feels was the cause of the end of the Ice Age. It certainly could not be the sames things he believes are causing global warming.

[us_infidel]

Maybe his next "propoganda flick" will be about why Bush ignored and August 2001 briefing titled "Osama Bin Laden planning attack inside of United states".

Posted by anvilheadsix at 04:06 PM : Feb 26, 2007

Sure man.....just keep your eyes closed and keep clicking your heels together. one day, you will wake up and be back home in Kansas. Jeeezzzzzz. I love the way libs revise history. Which pantywearing lib website did you get that from????

[us_infidel]

Posted by gabulldog66 at 04:13 PM : Feb 26, 2007

UGA class of '66??????

[us_infidel]

He did ignore it. Condosleeza dropped the ball! She had the info. There's no excuse.
Posted by jh6379 at 04:18 PM : Feb 26, 2007

I see. And Sir-Sexa-lot didn't take bin Laden from the Syrians when they offered him to us in '96 or '98 becauseeeeeeeee.............????????????

[billpl-2009]

can you say.... "two time loser"?

[anvilheadsix]

Sure man.....just keep your eyes closed and keep clicking your heels together. one day, you will wake up and be back home in Kansas. Jeeezzzzzz. I love the way libs revise history. Which pantywearing lib website did you get that from????
Posted by US_Infidel at 04:14 PM : Feb 26, 2007

Please explain the revision of which you speak. Rice has admitted the date and title of that report.

[us_infidel]

Please explain the revision of which you speak. Rice has admitted the date and title of that report.
Posted by anvilheadsix at 04:28 PM : Feb 26, 2007

Send me the link. I want to see it.

[anvilheadsix]

I see. And Sir-Sexa-lot didn't take bin Laden from the Syrians when they offered him to us in '96 or '98 becauseeeeeeeee.............????????????
Posted by US_Infidel at 04:22 PM : Feb 26, 2007


Republican Congress refused to authorize.

[scott4261]

Maybe his next "propoganda flick" will be about why Bush ignored and August 2001 briefing titled "Osama Bin Laden planning attack inside of United states".

Posted by anvilheadsix at 04:06 PM : Feb 26, 2007

....Jeeezzzzzz. I love the way libs revise history. Which pantywearing lib website did you get that from????
Posted by US_Infidel at 04:14 PM

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As the late great senator Patrick Moynahan once said. "You can entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts..."

And the FACT IS that memo was ignored by President Bush. And we all know what happened less than 1 month later....

[anopinion1]

its president luvs-to-******

[cdegolier]

As I recall the Republican Congress wouldn't support them. They kept saying Clinton shouldn't send any troops because he had no credibility becasue he didn't serve in Vietnam (neither did Bush or Cheney).

Recall actual history, Clinton claims %u201Cthe CIA and the FBI refused to certify that bin Laden was responsible [for the Cole bombing] while I was there.%u201D But he could replace or direct his employees as he felt. His helplessness was, as usual, self-imposed

Why didn%u2019t the CIA and FBI realize the extent of bin Laden%u2019s involvement in terrorism? Because Clinton never took the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center sufficiently seriously. He never visited the site and his only public comment was to caution against %u201Cover-reaction.%u201D In his pre-9/11 memoirs, George Stephanopoulos confirms that he and others on the staff saw it as a %u201Cfailed bombing%u201D and noted that it was far from topic A at the White House. Rather than the full-court press that the first terror attack on American soil deserved, Clinton let the investigation be handled by the FBI on location in New York without making it the national emergency it actually was.

[macusweil]

"can you say.... "two time loser"? - billpl"

Oh right you mean baby Bush?, the guy stole two election, then lost the war on terra and the conflict in Iraq,, does that count as two or four?

Plus he was able to loose the '06 midterms for the rest of the GOP.. guess that's five!!

If they had done a legal recount in FL '02 Dubba would still be picking hey seeds out his *ss down in Crawford. The US would still have a budget surplus and 3000+ plus US troops would still be alive and we would have had a proper federal response to Katrina &c

[anvilheadsix]

Send me the link. I want to see it.
Posted by US_Infidel at 04:30 PM : Feb 26, 2007


LINK??? Dude, she testified before Congress. The video was every freakin' network. Take your head out of the sand.

In addition I fail to see where President Clinton's extramarital love life 1995 correlates with deaths of 3000 innocent people on 9/11/01.

[us_infidel]

Rather than the full-court press that the first terror attack on American soil deserved, Clinton let the investigation be handled by the FBI on location in New York without making it the national emergency it actually was.


Posted by cdegolier at 04:34 PM : Feb 26, 2007

Thank you, sir for the FACTS of the case. Of course, their Michael Moore "real truth" fortune cookies will tell them differently.

[scott4261]

US_Infidel,

It is quite apparent to me that you view politics in a conservative vs. liberal, Republican vs. Democrat, US vs. THEM mentality. Politics as sport. Buut it is not a sport to me. This my country too and I am determined to take it back from the lunatic fringe.

I want my country back!

[cdegolier]

The former president says, %u201CI worked hard to try to kill him (Osama).%u201D If so, why did he notify Pakistan of our cruise-missile strike in time for them to warn Osama and allow him to escape? Why did he refuse to allow us to fire cruise missiles to kill bin Laden when we had the best chance, by far, in 1999? The answer to the first question %u2014 incompetence; to the second %u2014 he was paralyzed by fear of civilian casualties and by accusations that he was wagging the dog. The 9/11 Commission report also attributes the 1999 failure to the fear that we would be labeled trigger-happy having just bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade by mistake.

As for Saddam, the men were already there with help from the Kurds. At the last minute clinton pulled out and the Kurds were sacrificed.

[anvilheadsix]

The 9/11 Commission report also attributes the 1999 failure to the fear that we would be labeled trigger-happy having just bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade by mistake.

As for Saddam, the men were already there with help from the Kurds. At the last minute clinton pulled out and the Kurds were sacrificed.
Posted by cdegolier at 04:37 PM : Feb 26, 2007


The entire world has labelled us as trigger happy right now and I don't think it's because of Clinton.