Gore has OFFICIALLY ruled out another run for President

[bigdarryl]

I don't blame him after the 2000 election was stolen from him and a Supreme Court handing this idiot we have now the keys to the white house. I think Gore just got feed up with politics all together.the question now is the people who were dying to get him to run where will they go now. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP197333.htm
Reuters AlertNet - Japanese business can lead climate campaign -Gore

[Demit]

1. Doesn't sound very official to me.

The only quote Reuters comes up with is Gore saying "I'm involved in a different kind of campaign." the rest is Reuters SAYING he won't run. But they don't quote him saying that, do they?

[bigdarryl]

5. Well hears another article from the Huffington Post

http://today.reuters.com/tv/videoChannel.aspx?storyid=42e6e16439492e529e13ef0f9e5165277761a7e1
No Al Gore in U.S Presidential race | Video | Reuters.com

[Demit]

17. That's the same Reuters article. No Gore quote re running on the video, either.

Their story is about Gore in Japan promoting his documentary. Regardless of the misleading headline, and regardless of the reporter not being able to quote Gore on "officially" not running.

[HeeBGBz]

9. Why didn't they quote him on the "ruled it out" part?

Asked whether he had plans to stand in the 2008 election, Gore ruled it out, adding: "I'm involved in a different kind of campaign."

The I'm-involved-in-a-different-kind-of-campaign has been his stock answer in numerous interviews. I don't see this as any kind of official refusal to run.

[rock]

Too bad, just when we need a statesman as prez

But I don't blame him in the least. They say a Democracy gets the leaders it deserves. Of course this is only true if the media is not bought and paid for.

[Junkdrawer]

2. Debunked...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=3126634&mesg_id=3126634

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/15/204332/123

[Rose Siding]

12. Thank you. -And I think that's the way he'll answer every time

There's absolutely no reason for him to be any more absolute one way or another until late this year -maybe Oct or Nov.

[marmar]

3. He certainly was my choice ......

and I'll support whomever the Democratic candidate is, but I'll have to find a new favorite candidate. (Other potentials, like Russ Feingold, have already dropped out, and I'm pretty sure Dennis Kucinich has no chance.) John Edwards has been saying the right things lately.

[tavalon]

16. Slow down there

I think you just got spun by our "liberal media". Don't switch allegiances just yet, I think you might be surprised.

[w4rma]

4. Another misquote. (nt)

[mzmolly]

6. Note how the only quote is "I'm involved in a different kind of campaign?"

No quote to the effect >> "I've ruled it out."

[HeeBGBz]

10. Exactly. n/t

[KKKarl is an idiot]

7. "The people who were dying to get him to run"

just wanted the best for the USA. But we still have many good candidates in the Democratic party that can easily take up & become a great president.

[HeeBGBz]

13. THIS person-dying-for-him-to-run

Doesn't buy this article as an OFFICIAL proof that he won't run. He's still my choice.

[buff2]

8. I wouldn't blame him either if he didn't run

Why should HE clean up this massive mess the Illegitimate little mental midget has created? Especially since the brainless wonder stole the Presidency from Gore in the first place.I pity the person who has to try to undo all the wrongs that have been done by this pretzeldent. That moron has made the job 1,000 times harder than it should be for the next President. :(

[wakeme2008]

11. Does not sound official to me...

:shrug:

[durrrty libby]

14. OFFICIAL???? I think not.

[tavalon]

15. So, where is the money quote (You know, like the money shot in porn)

I don't see it. They say he ruled it out but it looks like the same cagey non-committal thing he's been doing of late.

[Apollo11]

18. OFFICIALLY MY A$$ !!

The Reuters article tells us that Gore has ruled out running in 2008, but there is no direct quote to back up this assertion (also nothing in the video clip). Several times in on-the-record interviews Al Gore has been asked to rule out running in 2008, and each time he has refused to do so. My feeling is that he is keeping his options open, at least for the time being.

It's true that right now he is still focused on spreading the message of his book and movie "An Inconvenient Truth". He will keep this up for another 2 or 3 months. But he knows that eventually people will grow tired of seeing the same person deliver the same message.

Maybe this is why he is already preparing to start another national debate about how America is governed, by launching his next book - The Assault on Reason - on May 22.

So in late May and early June we can expect to see a lot more of Al Gore. By coincidence - right around the time that speculation around the 2008 election will be warming up!

Nobody is better qualified to be President of the United States than Al Gore.

Gore has been proven right on so many issues, from climate change to the invasion of Iraq.

Next Monday he will draw a crowd of more than 12000 people for a speech in Boise, Idaho !!

If he is ready and willing to seek the Dem nomination, I predict that Gore will lead the field.

Born in 1948, Gore is younger than Kerry, Clark, McCain, Giuliani ... even Hillary!

Unless and until he endorses another candidate, we should assume he is keeping his options open.

In Gore We Trust :)
www.algore.com
www.algore.org
www.draftgore.com
www.draftgore2008.org
www.patriotsforgore.com

[goodhue]

19. officially not

[Coyote_Bandit]

20. Ummmmm

"I'm involved in a different kind of campaign" sounds a whole lot different to me than "I've decided that I will not be a candidate for president in 2004." Both statements were made by the same man.

Al Gore is the Dem most likely to prevail in the 2008 election. Other possible Dem candidates are merely pretenders in comparison. None of them have any experience as a VP. None of them have carried a majority of votes from the American public. None of them have waged a Supreme Court battle to secure the integrity of the vote - and one Dem clearly had the opportunity to do so. None of them have the potential to benefit from buyer's remorse in the same way that Al Gore can. Some of them simply do not appeal to moderate and independent voters in the same way that Al Gore does.

Ideology be damned. Politics is inherently pragmatic. Dems would be well advised to select a candidate in 2008 that is likely to prevail in the general election. Al Gore is that candidate.

In the meantime your wishful thinking is, well, just that. And it is not reality based. You will know Al Gore is not a candidate when he says, "I've decided that I will not be a candidate for president in 2008."