Would being an Oscar winner AND a Nobel laureate help or hurt Al Gore?

[Aristus]

If he ran for President again, I mean. B-)

Discuss. :popcorn:

[smoogatz]

1. Celebrity AND gravitas.

Hard to beat that combo. I say it helps.

[illinoisprogressive]

2. It would help in that it shows he is honored and highly thought of.

A person who gets the nobel peace prize is someone who is highly honored by the world community.

[Gatchaman]

3. To the carbon blobs, it would hurt

they want a guy they can have a beer with, dammit, even if he is a recovering alcoholic, cause, dammit, my brother in law is one too.

or something.

[Orangepeel]

4. I don't think he's actually nominated for an Oscar

The movie is, but Oscar.com only lists Davis Guggenheim as a nominee, so I guess he's not technically a producer. Now, the Nobel Prize, I don't know about. :-)

[smoogatz]

5. Technically you may be right--

But Gore's pretty much the movie. And his Nobel nom is legit, it appears.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

6. I am convinced bathing is enough to hurt you with certain groups,

[saltpoint]

7. It would help, seems to me. By adding to the already-significant

list of his personal and professional accomplishments.

More feathers in a well-feathered hat.

I hope he is awarded both. We'll all be waiting several lifetimes for Tom Tancredo to be nominated for either prize.

[driver8]

8. freepers would see Gore as part of the "Hollywood liberals"...

Not that they would vote for him anyhow, but they may manage to convince fence sitters not to vote for him.

I would love to see Gore win, however.

[BuelahWitch]

9. Lots of people not into politics think it's cool he's a "movie star"

Fuck the freepers they hate everybody anyway!

[AtheistInBabylon]

10. It would help

It would help. People are star-struck over relatively stupid things like Oscars, and the Nobel title would just re-emphasize and reaffirm what many already think about him. Both honors would be deserved, although of course it would be ridiculous to support a candidate on the basis of that (which many non-politicos would be inclined to do nevertheless). Nonetheless, it beefs up an already substantial resume even more substantially; it can only help among the uninitiated that Al Gore is an American everyone can be proud of, and he would more or less have the "initiated" wrapped up anyway. He is not my primary choice, but I do think he has the overall best chance in the general election and I would back him without hesitation, Oscar/Nobel or not.