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[babsbunny]

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Gore rules out bid for US White House in 2008

Feb 16 2:33 PM US/Eastern


Former US vice president Al Gore has ruled out a bid for the White House in the 2008 elections and will carry on his fight against global climate change.
"I have no intention to run for president," Gore said in an interview conducted in Los Angeles and broadcast Thursday by the BBC.



"I can't imagine in any circumstance to run for office again," said the former Democratic vice president under then-president Bill Clinton.

Gore was defeated in the 2000 presidential race by Republican President George W. Bush.

He has since been crisscrossing the globe with his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," a blistering indictment of pollution that warns against ecological catastrophe by climate change.

[PresidentObama]

1. That seems pretty consistent with what he's been saying.

Why does this rule him out of the race now?

By the way, didn't Obama rule out running in 2008? And he's the number two contender in the race right now.

I'm skeptical if Gore will run (OH PLEASE AL, RUN) but this shall and will be taken with a grain of salt.

[blm]

9. Gore is using EXACT same wording that McCain used. McCain's running now, isn't he?

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[PresidentObama]

11. Yes he is.

Obama said he wouldn't run either. He's in the race.

[PresidentObama]

12. self delete. dupe.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. That's pretty much the same thing he always says.

[Guaranteed]

29. Yup. And this is the same article the idiotic reporter always writes.

And the same article someone on DU interprets as him "not running" and posts with that headline.

[Auggie]

3. Damn

[Buzz Clik]

4. I guess he'll be making that announcement on a monthly basis ...

...until he declares his candidacy or until someone else is nominated, which ever comes first.

[Colobo]

5. He's being consistent

He won't run. Our candidates are all in the mix already or about to get in.

[PresidentObama]

10. I notice you have Obama in your avatar.

I like Senator Obama a lot, but think about it this way. Obama said he wouldn't run in 2008 many times, and he's obviously running.

I think saying "he won't run" may be true, but we don't know until he either announces he's running or comes out and endorses another candidate.

[AndyTiedye]

24. But None of Our Current Candidates Can Win

The Repiglican media either has destroyed them already, or can easily do so.
High negatives like Hillary Clinton's make one utterly unelectable,
and our negatives never go down, only up during a campaign.

Only Gore has managed to get his message out despite the media.

[PresidentObama]

31. With the incredibly weak GOP field of candidates....

...that are self destructing before the race even heats up, I'm convinced our qualified field can win in 2008. Gore and Kerry both won, and the media tore them apart. But of course we have to make sure the candidate in 2008 doesn't have the same fate, and win the battle but lose the war and get the WH stolen from their grasps.

We can beat any GOP candidate they have right now.

[Ninja Jordan]

6. But, but, but!

[Bicoastal]

7. Here it is folks....

The news many of us have been expecting but few wanted to hear. Not quite Shermanesque, but it's hard to find any glimmer of hope in the words "I have no intention..."

Oh well. He's fighting the good fight, and no one can deny he truly believes in the importance of what he's fighting for.

Wonder if there's any more room on the Obama bandwagon...

[Dhalgren]

8. The definitive statement would be one that echoes Johnson's:

"I WILL not seek, nor WILL I accept, the nomination of my party."

Gore said, "I have no intention to run for president."

Not quite the same finality in those two statements, eh?

[Bicoastal]

16. ARRRRRGH!!

I give up!

I've been beating the drum for Gore for months, but this is the last straw! If Gore said, "I'll run for president when pigs fly," someone on here would be tossing pot-bellies out the damn window!

He's well below Obama and Hillary in every majorpoll, and Edwards in most.
He hasn't kick-started his campagin a year before the primaries.
He hasn't even opened an exploratory comittee.
He hasn't lost weight from recent picture I've seen.
And now, he's very clearly stated he HAS NO INTENTION of running for president, meaning if he DID run, he would be seen either as a liar or indecisive--which I believe Al Gore is not.

Maybe only a black-hearted character like Nixon would jump back into the limelight eight years after losing the biggest race of his life, but it's now clear to me that Gore is done with politics. People are already accusing him of using climate change as a tool for political self-endorsement, and while WE know that's bogus, I can understand the predicament he'd be in if he did run. Suddenly, any good he tried to do for the environment would be met with skepticism and partisan criticism, which would only slow him down and ruin the mission he REALLY cares about.

I said in another post that Gore is now fighting the good fight. Let's leave him alone and let him do his work, shall we?

[Guaranteed]

30. He has said all of those things before, many, many times.

If you were pulling for him before, this shouldn't change anything.

[Grandrose]

13. We shall see...

"I have no intention to run for president,"
"I can't imagine in any circumstance to run for office again,"

This will only encourage some to draft him.:rofl:

[PresidentObama]

14. Could make for a funny political cartoon.

The Draft Gore people trying to pull Al Gore onto a campaign bus that says "Gore 2008" and Gore is trying to pull away saying "No, I have no intention to run"

:rofl: OK, so it was funnier in my head.

[flaminbats]

15. this doesn't surprise me..

Something tells me after winning the popular vote in 2000, Gore would be a great spokesperson for abolishing the Electoral College.

I wanted Gore to run too, both in 2004 and this time! But I am sure he isn't going to run, especially with Hillary Clinton now in the primaries. I only have this to say to other Democrats who wanted Gore to run, start looking for another candidate...but wait until you watch a few primary debates before you settle on another candidate.

[Bullet1987]

18. ...

The news many of us have been expecting but few wanted to hear. Not quite Shermanesque, but it's hard to find any glimmer of hope in the words "I have no intention..."

Unless you want to play semantics with what "intention" means (like what many of the Gore supporters are doing). The difference between Obama and Gore is that Obama was saying it a year back...Gore is saying it right when the campaigning is about to kick off.

[Peace Patriot]

17. A lot of candidates don't run, before they run. And this particular potential

candidate is in a very dicey position. If he entered the race now, a) he would be running against his former running mate's and boss' wife, and b) would blow her out of the water.

Tricky.

We may have to draft him.

As for me, I think Hillary's pasted on smile, and dubious record on the war and on corporate rule, make her a loser. Oh, she may, indeed, "win"--if the corporate rulers decide to do for her what they did for Bush. But she cannot pull the country together in any positive way, and her candidacy may destroy the Democratic Party's base, and even fracture the party. The war goes on, if Hillary "wins." And the corporate looting continues. But neither can go on for much longer without civil unrest, which may pave the way for Hitler II. (If you study Hitler's rise, this is exactly how it happened--the fracturing of the center/left, stolen elections, and usurped executive power, in the midst of an economic crash).

We need someone more committed to constitutional government, and more visionary. At the same time, we need someone very steady and grounded. Gore has all of these qualities, as well as extensive experience in both branches of government. He is also well-known--and this article is wrong that he lost to Bush in 2000. He actually won. The news consortium study established that--published on 9/12/01! Buried. But just about everybody knows it now. He SHOULD HAVE BEEN president all this time. He is the only potential candidate with any truly positive vision for the economy--conversion to "green" energy can be an economic boon, if it's handled right. And, finally, he has turned into a wonderful speaker. Not since JFK and MLK have I heard such moving speeches. This man is hot.

But it's probably going to take a grass roots draft Gore movement. He won't run conventionally. That's part of his hesitation. (I mean, consider what the man has been through!). He may be sick of the money game. (That's all politics is, these days--minus the grass roots.) But I do think he would respond to a draft, if we can get the party's voters to reject Hillary in the primaries, so that we go into the convention with no clear winner. It could be a very exciting convention!

[flaminbats]

26. I love listening to the vibrations of the grapevine!!!

something tells me Hillary wouldn't be running if Gore had told her he might still run. something tells me Gore will not even consider running unless Hillary calls Gore, and announces her plans to drop out!

the grapevine is delicious...A year before the 2004 primaries, I was really excited about John Kerry..because I thought he might defeat Joe Lieberman for the nomination. It wasn't until I watched my first Democratic debate that I started drifting toward Howard Dean. But it wasn't until Howard Dean dropped out that I finally settled on the candidate I would vote for..Dennis Kucinich!

the primary is a long, unpredictable, and fascinating process. But time has taught me that even I can't predict who I'll support in a year. ;)

[DKRC]

19. On a side note - I am truly sick & tired of this lie!

"Gore was defeated in the 2000 presidential race by Republican President George W. Bush."

I was livin in FL during the 2000 election and watched the Supreme Court appoint Bush.
There was no "defeat" for Gore during the election, only the theft of his rightful Presidencey by the Court.

:nuke:

[mnhtnbb]

23. It's the complicity of the media to not tell the truth.

[MasonJar]

20. He's always been my guy, but this last statement seems pretty

decisive. I would say that barring some amazing national disaster that Gore will not run. It does make sense that he keep doing the world's most important work, which he so good at.

[zulchzulu]

21. If true, my heart goes out to those who have been waiting for him to run

I've never thought he would run in 2008, although I think it would be great. But if he's made his decision, then my heart goes out to those who were hoping that he would indeed run.

As some have implied, he may still run. To that thought, I have no idea...just what he's been saying over the past couple of years... he'd be a fantastic Sec. of Environment in the Obama administration. I'm sure he wouldn't want to be VP again.

[BuelahWitch]

22. Is this topic the "Britney's shaved head" of GD-P?

Just sayin', cause there's two posts so far. Personally I'll stay in the "Draft Gore" campaign until he endorses somebody...

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. Same here

[evlbstrd]

27. I'm sticking with Gore, too.

[Guaranteed]

28. GOD DAMMIT. STOP POSTING THIS SHIT UNLESS HE ACTUALLY SAYS IT.

He has said those words thousands of times before. And I'm sick of these fucking reporters, again and again, thinking they "got the scoop!!" on Gore and that he's not running because he said that he has no intention to.

[MasterDarkNinja]

32. Hasn't Gore already said this some time ago about running in 08?

[Guaranteed]

33. Yes, many times. And he didn't mean it before, either.

He would make it much clearer if he absolutely was not going to run.

[Superman Returns]

34. I've said it about Kerry

I've said it about Gore. These guys are not running. And in the case of Gore, I'm glad. If Global Warming is the greatest danger humanity faces, as I believe it to be, then Gore needs to focus solely on that issue. By running for the presidency, and being involved in the long, grueling primaries and cauceses, his words on the global warming issue will be diminished because people will view them through a political lense as opposed to a scientific one.