Vote: Gore for President

[Zkribbler]

Gore also would not have invited the oil companies in to write the nation's energy policy. Nor would he have squandered the budget surplus on giving tax breaks to his billionaire buddies.

And maybe with the Republican Congress keeping an eye on Gore, and vice versa, the level of corruption and influence peddling would have been kept to a minimum.

[Shrapnel12]

If you think I'm going to waste time defending Bush, you're crazy. I never said I liked him, but you're fooling yourself if you think Gore has any more interest in helping his fellow man then Bush does. I guess who you like better depends on where you like being f***** the most.

[Wezil]

Yeah, Democrats have a knack for nominating unelectible candidates. It appears they are falling over themselves to make it three in a row.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Shrapnel12
If you think I'm going to waste time defending Bush, you're crazy. I never said I liked him, but you're fooling yourself if you think Gore has any more interest in helping his fellow man then Bush does. I guess who you like better depends on where you like being f***** the most.

In the 2000 election, California had open an primary. I was torn between voting for the Democrat Bradley or the Republican McCain because IMHO Gore and McCain had both sold out to special interests.

In the general election, I voted for Gore because at least he sold out to virtuous special interests (tree huggers and the like) while Bush had sold out to the evil, soul-sucking cartels.

[DanS]

Rufus brings up lots of good points. I suggest that the Dems nominate Gore pronto.

[Zkribbler]

We have enough good candidates. Let the Republicans nominate him...their current candidates are awful.

[DaShi]

He meets all the republican credentials for being a nominee: he's old, white, and a male.

[Dinner]

The current Republican line up is dead on arrival. That Barrack Obama has out fund raised the entire Republican line up just shows how little support the current hacks have. The second string Dem has put up numbers which the entire Republican line up can't match.

Hillary will win this election not because anyone really likes her but because Bush has made everyone hate Republicans and even the Republican faithful don't like their party's candidates.

[MarkG]

Gore Says He Doesn't Plan Run for U.S. Presidency

By Robin Wigglesworth


Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Al Gore, the former U.S. vice president who won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, said he doesn't intend to run for the presidency in 2008.

``I don't have plans to be a candidate again,'' Gore said in a televised interview with Norwegian broadcaster NRK shown today that was filmed at his home in Nashville, Tennessee. ``I'm involved in a different kind of campaign, a global campaign to change the way people think about the climate crisis.''

A group called Draftgore.com urged Gore, 59, to run for president in a full-page advertisement in the New York Times on Oct. 10. The ad said 136,000 people had signed its petition. The frontrunners in the race to be the Democratic candidate are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Gore won the popular vote for president in 2000, then lost the presidency to George W. Bush when the Supreme Court ordered the end to a recount in Florida.

Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were chosen as co-recipients of the Peace Prize by the Oslo-based Nobel Committee on Oct. 12, for their ``efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about manmade climate change, and counteract such change,'' according to Ole Danbolt Mjoes, the director of the committee.

``It's such a great honor,'' Gore said in the NRK interview. ``Personally, it means the chance to be more effective in delivering the message of the climate crisis and solving it.''

Oscar Winner

While Bush has grappled with record-low job approval ratings, Gore has spent the last year basking in the limelight from his Oscar-winning film ``An Inconvenient Truth'' and the best-selling book ``The Assault on Reason,'' which is highly critical of the Bush administration.

Other Democratic candidates don't have Gore's ``vision, standing in the world and political courage,'' the Draftgore.com group said in its advertisement, which took the form of a letter. The group criticized the Bush administration's policy on the war on terrorism and commended Gore's early stance against the war in Iraq.

``There are times for politicians and times for heroes. America and the Earth need a hero right now,'' the group said. ``Please rise to this challenge, or you and millions of us will live forever wondering what might have been.''

Forty-eight percent of Democrats would like Al Gore to run for president, down 8 percentage points from March, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll published yesterday. Gore would come third in the Democratic race behind Clinton and Obama if he were to run, the poll showed.

After graduating from Harvard University in 1969, Gore enlisted in the army and served for six months as a military reporter in Vietnam. He then spent five years at the Tennessean, a Nashville newspaper. Gore married his wife, Tipper, in 1970. He was first elected to the U.S. House in 1976 and later served in the Senate, representing Tennessee.

The Nobel Peace Prize will be formally awarded at a ceremony in Oslo on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.

[conmcb25]

I vote

[MarkG]

in other amazingly crucial news

Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are cousins

The wife of US Vice-President Dick Cheney has revealed that her husband is closely related enough to the Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama to call him “cousin”.

Lynne Cheney said that she had made the unlikely discovery of kinship between President George W Bush’s hawkish deputy and the charismatic black Illinois senator while researching ancestry for her new memoir, Blue Skies, No Fences.

The men are apparently eighth cousins, but Mrs Cheney said she did not include this in her memoir.

“This is such an amazing American story that one ancestor ... could be responsible down the family lines for lives that have taken such different and varied paths as Dick’s and Barack Obama,” Mrs Cheney told MSNBC television.

According to Mrs Cheney's spokesman, Senator Obama is a descendant of Mareen Duvall.

The French Huguenot’s son married the granddaughter of a Richard Cheney, who arrived in Maryland in the late 1650s from England.

The Vice President’s full name is Richard B. Cheney.

A spokesman for Senator Obama, who wants to be the first black US president, offered a tongue-in-cheek response.

“Every family has a black sheep,” said Bill Burton.

[Krill]

Wo. The ****. Cares.

[Zkribbler]

The Vice President’s full name is Richard B. Cheney.

His middle name is "B."???

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Zkribbler


His middle name is "B."???

They spelled it wrong. It's "Richard Be Cheney." The fact that his parents spoke Ebonics was the first clue about the relationship.

[Zkribbler]

Whew! I thought he might also be related to Johnny B. Goode.