Al Gore, Global Statesman (The Nation)

[marmar]

| posted March 23, 2007 (web only)
Al Gore, Global Statesman
Nicholas von Hoffman


Al Gore is not one of those Power Point politicians whose standard spiel is to pledge to carry on:

• The war against cancer

• The war against terrorism

•The war against sexual exploitation of children

• The war for medical insurance coverage for all

• The war against poverty

• The war against the war against the middle class

•The war against drugs

•The war for family values

•The war for God

•The war for diversity

Plus other wars which momentarily slip my mind.

Al Gore does not play those politics. Instead of a war-against list, Gore can speak on a single topic for half an hour, an hour, an hour and a half. He has facts. He has figures. He has long thought out complicated ideas. The man has something to say.

There Gore was testifying before Congress the other day on the subject of global warming, and he pigmy-tized many small-minded Senators and Representatives. They dwarfed out when they were caught in the same room with him.

On the subject of global warming Gore has more to contribute than the politician's standard ethanol pitch and the promise that if you wait, the science boys will come up with something to save us from having to make changes or adjustments or do anything at all. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070409/von_hoffman

[RestoreGore]

1. Good article.

He is not a "politician" and doesn't play their games. He is beyond that now, he is a global statesman. A man who plays by his own rules, guides his own fate, and is free to devote his time to this one issue which is the right thing to do to see progress on it. He has a focus, and a man who has such a focus can be nothing but successful.

[jwirr]

2. I like that "a global statesman".

[glitch]

3. And this is why they are happy to hate him:

"They dwarfed out when they were caught in the same room with him."
It's just a twofer that their corporate overlords demand it.

[rosesaylavee]

4. And he did it effortlessly ... without a script...

unlike our current pResident who can't even read a sentence without stumbling.

Run, Al, run!

[young_at_heart]

5. Every American should be required to see "An Inconvenient Truth"....even Bush

I watched it recently and kept thinking, as I was watching, what would the world be like right now if he was our president? If the Supreme Court had not intervened and the sleaze balls who went to Florida with their dirty tricks had not prevailed, the hopelessness many of us feel would not exist!

[AlGore-08.com]

6. Gore is like this on almost every subject

If he was testifying before the Congress on national security, or health care, or information technology, or the media, or campaign finance reform, or balancing the budget, or... you just name it. He would blow everybody away the same way he did testifying on global warming.

IMNSHO it might not seem so bold though, because most of those topics are already being discussed a lot in the media. It might not be so easy to see his leadership in the cultural and policy shifts like we've just seen on global warming.

[ShamanaSZ]

7. Scandals

Hi, I have a favor to ask all of you. I am arguing on another forum that the current administration has been plagued by a lot more scandals than the last one, including (but not only) in defense. Can anyone point me towards a comprehensive list of the scandals of the current and, if possible, the last administration?

[byronius]

8. Still The Last American President.

[Name removed]

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[RestoreGore]

10. Right, and global warming is a myth n/t

[Apollo11]

11. In Gore We Trust

"If (Al) was going to run in the future, of course I would support him. I think he'd be a fantastic president. He already got a majority of votes of people in this country once, and so that says something."
-- Tipper Gore on Good Morning America, June 13, 2006
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2069724&page=1

Let's all find ways to show our support for Al Gore! :patriot:

Read Al's blog: http://blog.algore.com

Get ready for Live Earth on 7/7/07: www.liveearth.org

Sign the petitions at www.algore.org and www.draftgore.com

:kick:

[CGowen]

12. .

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