Al Gore eschews any "Boss Tweed" role for himself

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in selecting the nominee. Per 60 Minutes interview.

[elocs]

1. The trouble is that you have people here who just will not believe he is a candidate.

No matter what he says, they will spin it the way they want it to be. They refuse to take Gore's statements for what they plainly mean and prefer to spin thim into what they want them to mean.

I believe our nominee should be someone who has taken the time and effort to campaign for the nomination. Why on earth would Gore ever want to be president anyway? He already has his life's calling and if he was president he could not do as he pleased, when he pleased. Reality is a bitch, but it's time to face it.

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2. So true. Politics is a life of soil and compromise.

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3. Hubert Humphrey once addressed a farm audience

as "Tons of Soil". Dislexia is a bitch. Unless you actually meant "soil".

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4. Was he trying to say Sons of Toil and effed up?

[pscot]

9. Yes

Hubert also coined the phrase "Brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of god". Which led to the acronym BOMFOG, to describe unusually vacuous political speech. He was gifted in that direction.

[VolcanoJen]

5. Boss Tweed? Oh, that's good!!

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6. Jim Broadbent in Gangs of New York!

May I recommend Topsy Turvy to you, in which Jim Broadbent plays W.S. Gilbert (of Gilbert & Sullivan).

[VolcanoJen]

7. You may suggest that I watch it again, yes!

HUGE Broadbent fan here! :-)

[loyalsister]

8. Al Gore is an advocate

Advocates avoid partisanship on issues like global warming because they need support from both sides to succeed. This is the very antithesis of canidadacy.

If you listened to the 60 minutes interview, you will see that he enlisted people of all political stripes for PSAa on global warming.
He also said that he did not think the SC was being partisan.

He is working on being neutral because he knows that will advance his cause.