Draft Gore petition approaching 200,000 sigs - A letter from me to Al & The Dream Team

[IndyOp]

Draft Gore petition approaching 200,000 sigs! :D

For comparison:
Thursday at 2:01 EST: 159,794
Friday at 1:51 EST: 186,016
Saturday at 3:00 EST: 199,065

Saturday is a slow day for collecting signatures, I would think, because people are off doing errands and not attached to their computers for as long as on workdays. At this rate, though, I would expect Draft Gore to hit 200,000 signatures sometime this evening...

Check DraftGore Petition here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/algore2008/signatories-3195.html


A letter from me to the Honorable Al Gore & The Dream Team (Barack, John, Joe Biden, Dennis & Bill Richardson)

Al, I decided this morning, that no matter what happens next with the campaigning and elections - you will be my next President. Whether your desk is in the oval office or elsewhere, your leadership will allow millions (billions?) of concerned people to take action to contribute to solving our dire ecological problems and to take action to make the most of our opportunity to make meaningful, long-lasting, amazing progress.

I know that you trust your instincts. I trust your instincts, too. If they guide you to step into the race so that you can use the campaign to educate or, if at the Democratic convention, the people call for you and you answer -- that would make my heart sing.

If your instincts guide you to continue on your current trajectory then I thank you. For a man who has been groomed all of his life to become President, to be willing to give that up to take on a task that you believe is more important for the good of us all, that is tremendous. I think we all know that the people who simply MUST live in the spotlight are rarely the ones who do the most important work in our world.

At this point, though, I urge you to think about the following opportunity to unite the Democratic Party and to become our Presidential candidate: Call Barack or John now and ask them to be your VP - run as a complete ticket. If Barack or John were very smart they would call you and ask to be your VP. Then make clear who would be in your administration:

Barack - VP ... 8 years as VP and then -> :)
John - Sec of Labor ... his heart is in this issue
Joe Biden - Sec of State ... he has the experience, he just needs to be convinced we want the US empire to be o-v-e-r
Dennis - Sec of Peace ... head of the new Department of Peace
Bill Richardson - Sec of the Interior ... in recognition of his success at getting New Mexico to meet Kyoto goals
Chris Dodd - some position where he can revive the United Nations, Peace Corps, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

I know this leaves out Hillary. I just think she is so tremendously valuable to New Yorkers as their Senator that you should allow her to remain their representative. :eyes:

If you run as part of a team, you won't have to waste extraordinarily valuable time raising money and you will have people who can represent you wonderfully well on the campaign trail so you won't have to spend as much time on the trail.

It is time for some really new ideas to become reality. The Democratic Party needs to be unified at this time and your running with a dream team could do that.

Sincerely, IndyOp :hi:


President Al Gore


...and 6 members of the Dream Team



On edit - Clarify that "Joe" meant "Joe Biden" and use diff pic of Al