Gore ex-campaign chief wishes on her star - Wait till Oscar night,' Donna Brazile says

[crispini]

Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are the hot early front-runners, while 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry has already bowed out.

But could former Vice President Al Gore be waiting to make a dramatic entrance into the 2008 presidential race, especially if he wins an Oscar next month?

His former campaign manager, Donna Brazile, strongly implied that possibility while speaking at Moravian College in Bethlehem Tuesday night.

''Wait till Oscar night,'' Brazile told an audience of about 100 people at Haupert Student Union. ''I tell people: 'I'm dating. I haven't fallen in love yet.' On Oscar night, if Al Gore has slimmed down 25 or 30 pounds, Lord knows.''

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[Apollo11]

1. She's not saying he will enter the race

She is only saying that if he has lost weight, then maybe he is getting to run.

On the other hand - like all of us - Al Gore has many good reasons to stay healthy.

It's hard for me to imagine that Al Gore would announce on Oscar night (Feb 25th).

I think he can wait until late summer before making a decision about 2008.

Even if he announces in November - he would still sweep the primaries.

Let's all find ways to show our support for Al Gore! :)

Read Rolling Stone magazine: WHY GORE SHOULD RUN -- AND HOW HE CAN WIN
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13248532/why_gore_should_run__and_how_he_can_win

Get ready for Al Gore's next book - The Assault on Reason - out in May!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600877.html

Visit the following pro-Gore websites:
www.algore.com
www.algore.org
www.draftgore.com - Sign the petition! :)
www.draftgore2008.org
www.patriotsforgore.com

[INdemo]

4. Yes ,he could wait until summer to announce and that would be about the

correct time..The media and others are acting as if the 2008 Presidential election is next week .......
Gore has plenty of time to act if he decides....

[Apollo11]

5. I hope he keeps his options open

He can make his decision in August or September.

If I were Al Gore, I would announce on Sunday November 4th - probably on "60 Minutes" or "Meet The Press". It will be exactly one year before election day. And it still gives him 10 weeks of campaigning before the first primaries. Announcing on live weekend TV means that people can watch what he says and there is less danger of his words being taken out of context.

Did you know that Bill Clinton announced his candidacy on 3 October 1991 and still went on to win the nomination, despite being virtually unknown on the national stage. But Al Gore already has the kind of nationwide respect and name recognition that other wannabees can only wish for! :)

On the other hand - if Gore decides not to run then he can endorse another candidate in November or December - like he did with Howard Dean in 2003.

So there's really no need for him to decide before September at the soonest.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Well, this may explain why Gore--who has been so right on, on so many

issues--has said nothing about rightwing Bushite corporations taking over our election system, with electronic voting machines run on "trade secret," proprietary programming code, with virtually no audit/recount controls. He's still got Donna Brazile advising him--who, next to Tom Delay, Bob Ney, Christopher Dodd and Terry McAuliffe, may be more responsible than anybody for getting the "Help America Vote For Bush Act" of 2002 implemented across the country, by her whitewash report about it and her collusion in the MIND-BOGGLING SILENCE of McAuliffe's DNC.

But now I notice that the article says "former campaign manager." No evidence that this traitor to democracy is still advising Gore. I was going to say that this is the first negative thing I've heard about Gore (besides NAFTA, of course, which he hasn't disavowed). But I take it back. I think this is more a case of Brazile trying to latch onto the one potential candidate who would likely win the '08 presidential election hands down, and whom increasing numbers of people are encouraging to run (for a lot of good reasons--experience, gravitas, positive vision, riveting and passionate analysis of the Bush regime, and also, most people now realize that he actually won in '00).

Be smart, Al. Keep Brazile out of it. Get new people.

[Apollo11]

3. You're right -- we don't know

We don't know if Al Gore has even spoken to Donna Brazile since 2000.

About election reform. Al Gore is not the right person to lead that fight, precisely because he was the losing party in the Bush v Gore case before the SCOTUS in December 2000.

If Al Gore would speak out about electoral integrity and vote counting, it would be too easy for the right-wing to dismiss him as a "Sore Loserman" who could not "get over the fact that he lost in 2000". And if Al Gore is the only person who cares about getting fair elections in this country - what does that say about America?? Is there no-one else willing to stand up and speak out on this issue? What about all our Democrats in Congress? We should be pressuring them to take the necessary action to ensure fair and honest elections.

[xkenx]

6. If Gore ever listened to Donna Brazile again, he doesn't deserve to be voted dog catcher.

She helped ruin his 2000 campaign. Lately she sounds more Rethug than dem.

[allskinners]

8. She's become

a shill for the RWM. I wouldn't trust her as far as I could throw her.

[blm]

7. She sounds like she's uttering for effect not sincerity, as usual. Why doesn't anyone ask

Donna Brazille to explain why she and Terry McAuliffe failed to secure the election process through the DNC's Office of Voter Integrity, a job they were charged to do for four years following the revelations of the RNC's tactics used in 2000 at the hearings on election fraud?

Why haven't Brazille and McAuliffe ever been made to answer for their serious neglect in 2002 and 2004 elections?