Gore needs to give us an answer soon after the '06 elections

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

He's probaly the front-runner among the progressive wing of the party (though I prefer Russ). But if he's running or not, he needs to decide and fast so the Democratic side of the Democratic party can rally behind someone and stop the focus group-tested disaster of Hillary '08.

[catmother]

1. i agree.

:bounce:

[ourbluenation]

2. I read here that he's waiting so there' s less swiftboating opportunites

genious...

"As I stand here today, I am filled with optimism that America is on the eve of a golden age in which the vitality of our democracy will be re-established by the people and will flourish more vibrantly than ever. Indeed, I can feel it in this hall.

As Dr. King once said, perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is, let us trace its movements and pray that our own inner being may be sensitive to its guidance, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us."

Al GOre
January 16, 2006

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. smart move, if he's running...

I'm not convinced he is, though. And I fear that if he waits to long to make a choice, the left won't have time to find a horse for the race

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Didn't he do just that after 2002 and TPTB shut him out?

Seems to me, he was ready to make another run for President in 2004 and suddenly? he decided not too. I think he knows the right time to declare his candidacy, if he is considering a run in '08. I trust him.

[Pirate Smile]

4. No one is going to come out with whether they are running or not

before the November midterms.

I'm not sure how long after that people will wait but no one except Biden and the guy from Alaska have come out and said for sure they are running.

It is very early.

Patience. :)

[upi402]

6. answer?... to why he conceded??? why NAFTA is great???

just vote Republican, why lick around the edges?

[ThomWV]

7. Is That What You Said In 2000?

Sounds familiar. Look what we got the last time people thought that.

[upi402]

12. How's NAFTA working for ya? Were you FOR it in the 90's?

I bet you were...

[ThomWV]

13. Yes I Was

But then I have an educational background in economics and spent my working life as an economic analyst before retirement, so you probably know a lot more about it than I do.

[upi402]

15. I studied economics in college

the foundational premide is that folks will act in their best economic interest. FALSE! Obviously. Or do you think Americans are acting rationally?
Economics -- is utter bullsh*t -- until it gets to the level of John Kenneth Galbraith. Still in all, it's just jerking off more often than not.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

8. I have issues with the old Gore

Like I said, he's not my pick. I'm for Feingold, But he does have a lot of pull and, for the good of the movement, he should give some indication soon after the midterms.
That said, Goreruns I'll back him this time. I belive that he's sincerely reconnected with what matters, unlike his half-assed 2000 effort.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. Look at this way, at least the Corporate Media can't blame him for

anything that has happened since 2000 and that might be a good thing. Plus he did beat ** in 2000, won the popular vote and a lot of people are plenty pissed that the Supreme Court five circumvented the Constitution to install **. I think if he runs, he wins hands down, even with the corrupt electronic voting machines and all the dirty tricks from the pugs.

[upi402]

17. he wins and corporatists win again...

Who cares who blames who for history. Hell, now the media would blame him for conceding. You know they will ridicule the man, and he's 110% smarter than any journalist can ever hope to be.

I don't buy the 'new Gore' -come to Jesus- turn around crap. No DINO's for me. I'll vote Republican until we get our Democratic party back from corporate elites.

[Pirate Smile]

19. Could you explain the logic of this to me?

"I'll vote Republican until we get our Democratic party back from corporate elites."

[upi402]

24. Sure -someone's driving my car (not me) I call it stolen

If there is a Reichwing Republican in one part - and a moderate, corporatist Democrat in the other, by negation there is no real Democrat to vote for. And by extension there is no opposition party to corporatism.

The parties are, in many cases, just 2 sides of the same damn coin. If I want an opposition party, I have top vote out the corporatist who is supplanting a real Democratic candidate.

Corporatists of any stripe get the $$$
I figure it's like peeling a Band Aid -peel fast and it hurts less and is over with quicker.

[upi402]

14. Will you back him if he picks Lieberman again?

Think hard on that decision. He is a brilliant Republican, and in less critical times I would let it pass. But we absolutely MUST have REAL change. Not corporatist light, with hopes "maybe THIS TIME he'll change".
Me, I'm done getting the economic shit kicked out of me. And the economic house of cards that the corporatists have built is about to tumble.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. Gore would never pick Lieberman again. And I will back Gore if

he decides to run again in '08. I was so ready to back him if he decided to run in '04. That he didn't, disappointed me more than I can say.

[upi402]

18. How about NAFTA? Never sell out to corporations again either?

I know he will. You know he wont pick another Lieberman. So, does it bother you at all that he ran with a Republican tat is preventing a Democrat from holding a Democratic position in the Democratic party?
Don't you EVER want our party back? When will it be a good time to have a true alternative to the corporatists that control our former government? After we crash? Later? Never? It will probably be NEVER it seems. Democrats are completely brainwashed by the corporate media and have completely lost the plot.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. So you don't like Gore, I get that, don't vote for him. Geeze.

Back Nadar, Dog knows he isn't a corporate sellout.

[upi402]

22. So you refuse to look, at the big picture, so remain blind, geez

I like Gore -he's brilliant and a good man, but he's VERY wrong for the Democratic party if it is to be an opposition party to the corporate elites.

[Texifornia]

10. Are you kidding?

That's like saying that Gore and Bush are the same.....They are not the same. The United States would be better, stronger, and more free if it had been President Gore for the last six years instead of Bush, NAFTA notwithstanding.

[upi402]

25. LOL Bush is a national disaster -those are fascists.

We need non-corporatists to give us our Republic back. DINO's had their chance and it got further away from us under Clinton/Gore. Bush and his fascist cabal is a different case -a national tragedy. Toss the Supreme court in there now too.

B'leive me, I fought against Bush for Kerry and for Gore -relentlessly. I knew Bushco was evil.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. I think he's waiting until after the movie.

[blm]

20. I'm a progressive from the anti-corruption, open government wing of the

Democratic party. We want the president to open the books so no Bush cabal could ever get NEAR the WH ever again.

[lonestarnot]

23. Yes he does.