Al Gore says he can't imagine running for the White House again. But Hollywood disagrees

[cal04]

Here's a scenario that sounds like it could only be invented in Hollywood. Al Gore wins an Oscar this weekend for his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Later this year, he is the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to raise awareness of global warming. At which point, why shouldn't he also run for president?

It's a scenario that has crossed more than a few minds in Hollywood this week, not only because of the Academy Awards on Sunday but also because the two current Democratic front runners, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, have already come to blows on their respective first big tours of the Hollywood fund-raising circuit.

For the moment, the former vice-president, who came maddeningly close to clinching the presidency in 2000, has ruled himself out about as categorically as anyone can. "I have no intention to run for president," he told the BBC last week. "I can't imagine in any circumstance to run for office again."

That, though, hasn't stopped some of his supporters, especially in liberal bastions like Hollywood, from imagining a scenario in which, later this year or early next, Senators Clinton and Obama have beaten each other senseless and Mr Gore is pressed into service in extremis as the voice of experience with the right issues on his side - starting with global warming - and plenty of public goodwill left over from his non-victory in the bitterly contested 2000 presidential election.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2296837.ece

[blm]

1. I think he comes in by mid September. And I'll support him.

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[jaysunb]

2. That's a 10-4 good Buddy

:hi:

[Me.]

7. Yep

Waiting

[BlueManDude]

3. Your country calls Al.

[LSparkle]

4. I've been dreaming of it for the past 6+ years

Wishing, dreaming, imagining, hoping ...

[Radio_Lady]

5. Interesting scenario, isn't it?

Thanks to our British friends.

[Radio_Lady]

6. K & R. Others should read this.

Thanks for posting, Cal04!

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8. If we can circulate this internationally ...

... we can probably get a global call for Gore to run.

Now, that would be amazing, no?

[Peace Patriot]

9. He says he won't "run." But will he agree to be drafted? Has he said "I will not serve"?

Nope.

We need someone who can unite the country as we face the most daunting set of crises we have ever faced in our entire history: from the $10 trillion deficit that the "Blue Dog" Democrats and the remnant Bushites want to use to FURTHER cut federal spending on everything but the military budget--when social spending is the ONLY way out of this mess--to a disaster in Iraq, which King Solomon himself would find intractable, to global warming, and the possible end of earth's atmosphere, which is additionally threatened by even limited use of nuclear weapons (quickly being proliferated under the Bush Junta).

We need wisdom, stature and vision. We need someone who is very steady on his feet. We need someone who is passionately committed to lawful government, and who can brilliantly articulate those principles--which Gore has done, time and again, over the last six years. He is also highly experienced in both the executive and legislative branches, and is a well-known and well-trusted public figure--someone from the Old Republic, our once decent and humane government--who has not been idle, but who has devoted himself to the world's most unprecedented crisis: global warming.

I don't think it's a far-out scenario at all, that he might be drafted, and would agree to serve. Most people know he should have been president all this time. So why not have a "Restoration"? Put the one person in charge who could do the most to wipe the last six years off history's map, and renew American democracy, and help us create the country that most us want this to be.