For what it's worth: Gore rules out presidential bid

[cali]

Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth was an unlikely box office hit
Former US Vice-President Al Gore has ruled out again making a late entry into the 2008 presidential race.
In an interview with Norwegian broadcaster NRK, he said he would not make a fresh bid for the White House.

Mr Gore told NRK he wanted to focus on his climate change campaigning, which won him a Nobel Peace Prize last week.

Mr Gore, the beaten Democratic candidate in the 2000 election, had repeatedly stated he had no interest in standing again for president.

But a national organisation which has campaigned for him to stand once more for the White House said traffic on its website had surged in the wake of his Nobel triumph.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7048370.stm

And yes, I realized that the first sentence of the third paragraph will provoke irritation, if not anger.

[JNelson6563]

1. Sackcloth and ashes

[maine_raptor]

2. You know what, I say "Good for AL"

Lets him do what he wants, spend his time on what he does best; pounding some sense into people and saving the planet.

By not running, he's helping the planet already:

Just think of the rise in sea levels that would result from Tweety's salivating over a Hillary/Gore primary fight! Why that alone would be on the order of what, 20-39 feet? Not a pleasant thought is it?

Good for you, Al, I say.

[cali]

4. I tend to agree

but if he isn't going to run, he really needs to get out there now and make that Shermanesque statement loud and clear. He know's that all this speculation and grass roots effort to get him to run is going on.

[maine_raptor]

14. Sherman is over-rated.

While it comes to politics, but as a General he was damm good.

If he (Gore) wants to keep his options open, let him. It's always handy to have an "ace up the sleeve" and it'll be a new feeling for the Dems. As time wears on, and the election draws nearer, the political AL Gore can fade gracefully, and the humanitarian Al Gore can continue. Then, if things go south even further in the 2009-20013 presidential term, he can still be available.

Making a "Sherman" now could be used against him come the next Prez election.

[Junkdrawer]

3. "I don't have plans to be a candidate" - Al's standard statement on the question....

Asked how it would affect his political future, he replied: "I don't have plans to be a candidate again so I don't really see it in that context at all.

"I'm involved in another kind of campaign. It's a global campaign to change the way people think about the climate crisis."


The only thing definitive here is the BBC's spin.

[cali]

6. Don't you think that Gore

owes it to all the people who want him to run to make a definative statement? I'm beginning to find it a little odd.

[Breeze54]

12. What part of, "I don't want to run", don't you get?

he has been saying over and over for over a year or more!

He does not want to run again.

He is not going to run for the presidency.

It ain't going to happen.

Al Gore is not going to make a bid for the White House.

Al's out!!

Gone!

Fini'

Kaput!

Gone!

Done!

[cali]

16. I accept that.

Others obviously do NOT. All you have to do is read this board, and follow all the efforts to get him to announce. He could end all that easily.

[Junkdrawer]

15. After every award, there's usually a press from BOTH would-be-opponents...

and from would-be-supporters to get Al to make a definitive statement.

Thus far, he's disappointed both.

[Grateful for Hope]

5. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2065635

[cali]

9. Yeah, I know

but the other one wasn't on the list of recently posted when I posted this; it's dated 6:18 and this is 6:20. I think GD can handle both posts, and I don't think it's worth deleting at this point.

[seemslikeadream]

10. lol

JTFrog (958 posts) Wed Oct-17-07 05:30 AM
Response to Original message
1. Lol.
This will get posted 100 times today and his comment is no different than it's been any other time he's been asked.

He still hasn't made a shermanesque statement. What's so definitive about this one?

I'll wait until he endorses another candidate before throwing all my hopes out the door.

[Grateful for Hope]

21. Looking forward to those additional "98" duplicates

in addition to this one.

:sarcasm:

[lvx35]

7. Good news. I like him just as he is.

The perfect nobel prize winning president we COULD have had if the SCOTUS hadn't picked us a dipshit. Let him go down in history as such, and let Hillary take the fire and brimstone and blame that's headed for us now.

[Breeze54]

8. "Gore Has No Plans to Seek Presidency" - (Not unexpected at all)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101700384.html?hpid=moreheadlines">Gore Has No Plans to Seek Presidency

From Associated Press
October 17, 2007 5:29 AM EDT

OSLO, Norway -

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore says winning the Nobel Peace Prize
has not pushed him into entering the 2008 presidential race.

"I don't have plans to be a candidate again"
~ Al Gore ~

so I don't really see it in that context at all," Gore told Norwegian
state broadcaster NRK in an interview broadcast Wednesday. "I'm involved
in a different kind of campaign. It's a global campaign. It's a campaign
to change the way people think about the climate crisis."

NRK said it interviewed Gore in Nashville, Tenn.

At a press conference last Friday in Palo Alto, California, Gore sidestepped
the issue of a U.S. presidential run, saying then that he wanted to "get back
to business" on "a planetary emergency."

more...

Well; now we know and we can finally move forward to the declared candidates.

[malaise]

11. Sad if this is true

He's speaking later today.

[cali]

13. I hope he clears things up once and for all today

This is getting old.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

22. Hear Hear. Do it or Endorse, Today.

It's making me nuts.

[lazer47]

17. How many ways does this man have to say "NO" before people

leave him alone, and they stop being delusional about him running???

[cali]

18. I suspect the only thing that would do it is if he endorsed

one of the candidates.

[Subdivisions]

19. It would be nice to have a definitive

"I WILL NOT be running for president in 2008." instead of the patent "I have no plans...".

He's starting to annoy me with his non-denial denials.

[lazer47]

20. He has to want it, to do it, if he feels pressured into it,

and only doing it to appease the masses, then I couldn't support him anyway

[La Lioness Priyanka]

23. gore wants to save us, just not in the way DU wants him to save us.

i say good for gore!