America deserves the politicians that it elects into office. if the electorate is informed, educated, and moral, the collective wisdom of the people will produce a winning candidate who is capable, idealistic, and compassionate. and vice versa.

Al Gore comitted Treason in 1999 as defined in the Constitution of the United States when he approved the purchase of US Stealth Technology and the export of it to the Peoples Liberation Army in return for a $2,000,000 campaign contribution to him that ultimately came from China. When will Al Gore be tried and hung as the traitor that he is?

The Stealth technology that he sold to the Peoples Liberation Army of China has been used for now nine years to build modern weapons that are two generations better than the 1980's Reagan Legacy Weapons that Anerucans are using up every day in Iraq.

My question is simple, when will Al Gore, the obese, gay, Traitor, be tried and hung by the people of the United States? (I will personally provide the rope that will hold Al Gore's weight.)

Republican morons did not put George Bush in office. That was the idiot, John Kerry, and his "Reporting for duty."

Whether Gore was screwed in Florida in the 2000 election would have been a moot point had he won Tennessee. You don't deserve to be elected president if you don't even carry your home state. He only looks good now given the dreadful performance of the current president. This is similar to the revisionist history of Bill Clinton's presidency - it looks much better now given what followed it.

Everything we've seen in Al Gore for the last seven years represents who he really is. The complements and admiration voiced by all is a reflection of who the man is and what he is capable of doing as a free man. Why should he run for the presidency and be forced to make decisions where half the American public and media will want to crucify him. We all have our opinions on what constitutes a good president but don't go looking for concesus.

What Bob22003 wrote below ought to be on the front page of WaPo. Thanks, Bob22003.

Well, I don't blame the DraftGore folks for continuing to prod him. There is absolutely no one else who might--just might--be willing to address the despair Americans are currently feeling in growing numbers. Where is that talent for leadership that so many Americans used to have?

Your country is pathetic.

Al Gore's main claim to fame is the issue of man made global warming. Many of you in this thread believe global warming is caused by man yet not one of you can explain the mathematical models used to predict the earth will continue to warm. At some point you are taking someone else's word on faith. Belief based on faith is the basis of religion.

When Accuweather's mathematical models can tell me an accurate temperature a week in the future, I might have a little more faith in models trying to tell me the temperature of the Earth years in the future.

Al Gore may be this new religion's pope, but hoping for him to be president is the same as hoping America becomes some kind of Socialist Theocracy.

Make what happen? HE DOESN'T WANT IT. If he did he wouldn't have told his staffer to tell draft Gore to stop ballot initiatives. And please, "brokered convention?" This is a bought and sold system. That does not happen any longer and was the same rhetoric peddled by the same people in 2004 concerning him. You only embarass yourselves with this incessant hogwash about drafts and "brokered conventions" every single cycle. You want change? Get up off your butts and make it happen and stop whining about Al Gore. He has his eye on the prize. Where are yours?

Anadromus

You write exactly what I have been thinking for such a long time. He has all the potential in the World and now a real opportunity for success in his long life dream of becoming President but he is truly an odd duck. This country can not have a better man for President at this time but he is not running and the only plausible explanation is that he truly does not think like the rest of us mortals.

Want Gore to be the Democratic nominee? There is still a way to make it happen.

Run a slate of uncommitted delegates in each primary. If they can secure enough support, their presence can act to deny any of the big three (Hillary, Obama, Edwards) the necessary majority vote at the convention.

Then once it becomes clear that none of the top tier can gain the nomination, the deadlocked convention would be free to look elsewhere.

Any thoughts?

Al Gore will become President the day after the American people give George Bush a 3rd. term.

Maybe Gore realises what happened to the last three people who took on an American fascist, Richard Nixon.

John Kennedy, murdered, 1963.
Robert Kennedy, murdered, 1968.
George Wallace, severely wounded, 1972.

And Gore would want to politically challenge the American military/corporate/corruption complex for what reason???

Hell-ooooo! Al Gore was already elected President once. He doesn't need to do it again. And the best part is that he let born again frat boy Bush, Karl Rotund, and Darth Cheney screw the pooch so royally that the Right Wingnuts will take years to recover. (Think Tricky Dick.)

Why won't he run? Perhaps he has more important things to think about than obsessing over the presidency of this country which no longer holds any special appeal. Why Americans are so obsessed with it instead of their own responsiblity in keeping this Democracy gives a good insight into why this country is so screwed. Perhaps if more people were actuallly writing about and doing something about the problems we face instead of spending all of their time on the Internet BSing about why Al Gore won't do what they want we might be able to get somewhere in actually changing this world for the better.

THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE VOTES FOR PEOPLE WHO MOST RESEMBLE THEM AND THEIR VALUES. THAT IS WHY WE GOT GEORGIE BUSH, THE VILLAGE IDIOT. WHY WOULD AN INTELLIGENT MAN WANT TO RUN FOR AN OFFICE IN THAT ELECTORATE SWAMP OF RETARDS?

why should he?

he knows more about this crooked political system than any of us.

I predicted a year ago that Al Gore would somehow be "drafted" by the Democrats as a result of 1) Clinton/Obama/Edwards bashing one another so bad than none were electable or 2) None of the big three could gather enough delegates to win the nomination or 3) Something cataclysmic would occur that would require the emergence of an alternative to the big three and the also-rans. Alas, it is looking more and more like I am going to proven wrong.

Nevertheless, imagine the contrast of having an intelligent, compassionate, competent and insightful president (Gore) after suffering through eight long years with the current boob-in-residence (Bush). I found plenty to disagree with his father about but never thought George the elder was dumb or unqualified for the office. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for his son.

What people might want to spend time analyzing is why anyone in the United States ever thought that George W. Bush was qualified to be president. He dropped out of the National Guard early, failed repeatedly in business, was a drunk (by his own admission) until the age of 40, covered up a DWI conviction for years, was massively ignorant of foreign affairs, and was the governor of a state that has one of the weakest such offices in the country. Many of his public statements are far more off the mark or much more stupid than anything Al Gore ever said and some are outright lies, yet Bush managed to get himself elected to the presidency twice!

No, the question isn't "what's wrong with Gore" or "what's wrong with Kerry", it's what's wrong with the American electorate and perhaps with our news media. And it gets worse. Despite the fact that the Republican Party has spent seven years running up massive deficits, fleecing the middle class, tolerating massive illegal "immigration," failing to address health care, the environment, energy, climate change, and economic competitiveness, and led us to a massive strategic disaster in Iraq, there's a good chance Romney or Giuliani will win the White House in the 2008 elections -- because people think that Obama doesn't have enough experience and many find that Hillary Clinton isn't very likeable. Think about that a while. I mean how stupid do you have to be to even consider rewarding a political party that has screwed up as badly as the Republicans have in the past seven years. It's some sort of mass masochism.

I've met Gore.
The guy is brilliant and has incredible vision. He sees where things are going and what's going to be important years before anyone else.

If he were president we'd all be a lot richer.
There's a saying out here in Silicon Valley: "There's no substitute for raw brainpower"

Gore is the Anti-Bush.
He's book smart and street smart at the same time.
Gore thinks things through before doing them, he surrounds himself with the best people, gets the best information, and then makes great decisions.

People around here fall all over themselves trying to get him as a board member because they know he's going to help them make the right tactical and strategic business decisions and make them a lot of money.

Even people with huge egos like Steve Jobs look up to him and take his advice.

Kleiner Perkins is the most successful venture capital company in the world.
They've made Billions betting on start-up companies by being able to judge both people and technology trends better than anyone else.

They funded Apple, Genentech, Sun, Google, and practically every other super successful company in high-tech.

Nobody has a track record like they do.

Now Gore has joined their team as a partner along side people like John Doer and Vinod Khosla.

Gore won't be president because he doesn't need to be.

He has more power to change the world for the better working at KPCB than any president could ever hope to.

And he'll make people lots of people millionares doing it.

Why should he bother to put up with all the BS of politics?

We need him a lot more than he needs us.

He'd make a great president, but we'll never get that chance.

Cosmic Al is a fraud. He should be put into a cage.

Since the time that I caucused for Al Gore in the 1988 presidential primaries, I have watched his career with interest. He has been, and continues to be, a leader on so many vanguard issues. But he also flummoxes me by the "way" he does things and the way he projects himelf to others. For instance, in 1992 Gore refused to run against Bush because of the success of the first Gulf War. Clinton however recognized Gore's value and plucked him out of his obstinate and obscure thinking patterns. But when Gore's time came, he couldn't use Clinton to his own advantage in 2000. And to this day. I do not know why he conceded to Bush so early on election night in such a tight race, or why he didn't ask immediately for a complete state recount in Florida instead, he letting the lawyers cherry pick a few counties in order to prove their case, and Gore got screwed by the Supreme Court's unjust ruling.

Lately, I have come to accept the fact that Gore will not run in 2008, even though all the stars have aligned to bring him and us redemption from the errors of the past 8 years. He simply couldn't pull the trigger when he needed to.

So, over the years I believe I've come up with a frustrating answer to explain why he does things the way he does.

Al Gore is an odd duck.

Now I personally don't mind flakes and oddballs...as Paul Simon has apocryphally said: "The more weird-os I meet the weirder I get." He is an innovative, moral man. But, speaking from a strictly anadromous perspective, I recognize that in national politics, the electorate does not want its leader to be unpredictable or flaky. I seriously doubt most people want a president that " marches to his own beat."

Sad to say, some politicians simply miss their star.

Gore has a better gig than President. He is now a Partner at Kleiner Perkins.

Oh, Michael G, what a tool you are!

A debate? You mean in the manner of the Republican Presidential Debates? I tell you, now THERE's a vehicle for uncovering the truth....if you think that clouds of bad-smelling hot air is truth.

What's the next topic? "Will Bush ever show evidence of a working cerebral cortex?"

I'm a life-long Democrat. As much as I admire Mr. Gore, I don't envision him as being "electable",again. In order to have some sembalance of winning, my party must begin to show some signs of unity.

There are plenty of good Democratic candidates for President, enough to fill the White House with great leaders for a generation. Being President is hard, but running for the job is an incredible strain. He's offered himself to the electorate in the past and not been given the job. There's no real reason he should be obliged to throw himself into the media meat-grinder again. He can serve his country and the rest of humanity in other ways.

Just heard somebody being interviewed about a book they wrote, about crises. The gist: that most major changes to society happen in crises, when society looks around for new answers in a hurry. They then pick an answer from whatever ideas are lying around.

Methinks Gore thinks that the next crisis is global warming, and that it is inevitable. Nothing meaningful will happen in politics until the crisis, so why spend time in the White House? Just make sure that the right ideas are "lying around" for use when the time comes. And that's what he's doing.

Al Gore, like him or loathe him, is not stupid. He is, agree with his position or not, seriously interested in climate change as an issue. Outside conventional politics, he can have a greater impact on the climate change debate than if he were inpolitics. So, it is sensible for him to decline to run.

The really interesting (and scary) issue is just what it means that someone with all his advantages would decide he can influence things far more by avoiding being a part of government than by being a part.

Hey Tyler Durden ...

Anytime!

in the meantime why don't you give me *just one* instance in the last two years of Gore engaging in a public debate with someone of an opposing view on the topic of GW ...

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The Democratic nominee, whoever that may be, will undoubtedly approach Gore on bended knee pleading for him to take the VP slot.
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Hey Michael G - I am not chicken - care to talk that trash in person?

Why won't Gore run?

Spend 30 seconds watching Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, or any other landed gentry of the so-called "liberal" media. You'll have your answer.

You wrote: "I don't presume to know why Gore isn't running, or whether he seriously considered it. But I do know that few people could have a better appreciation for the cruel fickleness of the electorate."

The electorate caused him to win the popular vote. It was you lot who made up the false stories about him.

Why won't Gore run?

I don't know if any of you have noticed but for the last few years Mr. Gore has not spoken in a situation that was not highly controlled by him *and* sympathetic to his views. He has also not engaged in any real debate with an opposing view even though many have asked that he do so.

It started with the Danish Newspaper interview that he canceled when he found out that Bjorn Lomborg would be asking some of the questions.

Mr. Gore is fully capable of going on Keith Olbermann's show and taking softball questions but his thesis on GW is so fragile that his is unable or unwilling to submit himself to a less than sympathetic interview, or god forbid, a real debate.

So why won't Al run? Because he would actually have to defend his position in an uncontrolled situation. As it is now he can waddle around the world pontificating as he likes never having to do the work of defending his position or taking on real adversaries.

He's chicken

Nobel prize for studying Al Gore's psyche. Hoho, good one.

Which Al Gore are you talking about. He'd be president today if he hadn't morphed into a second and then a third identity during the 2000 election. I thought I knew good ol' Al before the campaign started but by the end of it I was confused about what man I'd be voting for.

It isn't anyone now running for president that i trust.i am a dem.but would vote for any party for the best person.To me al gore is the only one that doesn't have the baggage like a lot of the others he is the one that i think can strighten out the big problems we have.

In the Obama hit piece by Perry Bacon, a reporter does not even know that the swearing-in ceremony for the House of Representatives never includes a religious book. The Office of the House Clerk confirms that the swearing-in ceremony consists only of the Members raising their right hands and swearing to uphold the Constitution. How can you trust a newspaper that lazily picks up the latest "conventional wisdom" or talking points of the GOP?

What Bacon wrote -- if elected president, he (Obama) would take the oath of office using a Koran, rather than a Bible, as did Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the only Muslim in Congress, when he was sworn in earlier this year.

What is true is that occasionally, members pose for symbolic photo-ops with their hand on a Bible. Following the official swearing-in ceremony for the 110th Congress, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) was photographed with his wife Kim and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Ellison and Pelosi placed their hands on a copy of the Koran once owned by Thomas Jefferson.

It would have been nice for some context but that would require actual work and research that the Post apparently does not pay some of their reporters to do.

Because Al Gore has tried to push Global Warming Crisis to the forefront. Even every step of the way, it was "are you running for President". He wanted to give the attention to the bigger problems.

While the DC Insiders were pushing up the election for an ever earliest Primary election, they were trying to make sure a true candidate for the people and our future, would make it very difficult if it wasn't done almost 1 1/2 years before the election.

However, being things are too early and folks are very inspired with the offerings, and Mr. Gore refuses to rule out another run and recently said in his Rolling Stones interview, for his supporters to "keep their energy stored and we'll have a go at it then". And that was after he said he may re enter politics.

But he is giving every opportunity for all sides to be engaged and share ideas on this important crisis.

He could not put something together after the Nobel Announcement with the Primary schedule, so we shall have to wait to see what the future brings us.

I remain hopeful, because, he really is our only hope. We have seen the Republicans don't even care to address these issues and the Democrats won't create the change we need.

Time for
a COOL
change,
GORE
2008

If you morons don't want to read an article, ignore it! That's pretty easy, but you just can't help yourselves, can you?

and thank god for brainwashed morons who put Bush in office

Besides, if Al Gore were back in the White House, he wouldn't be able to keep making guest cameos on "Futurama".

"At last I can save the world with deadly lasers instead of deadly slide shows."
Al Gore, "Futurama: Bender's Big Score"

"Arnold Schwarzenegger has turned out to be a pretty good governor."

Well, Arnold II is better than Arnold I, but what if there had been a real governor from the beginning instead of three years of Arnold I?

This is pure and unadulterated rubbsih. Why do we have to read about Gore;s ambitions yet again. Haven't you got a day job?

Will Al Gore ever be President? NO! Thank GOD.

Instead of printing something worth reading, we get this. I answered the question with three words, it took this person 11 paragraphs. I guess the WAPO doesn't mind wasting space.

John Dalessandro has it right.
Political journalism at its worst.