Al Gore wins Nobel peace prize. And this time, no one can take it away from him (Guardian)

[kpete]

Al Gore wins Nobel peace prize. And this time, no one can take it away from him


This is one prize the supreme court won't be able to take away from him. The five votes of a committee in Oslo yesterday awarded Al Gore the world's most exalted award, the Nobel peace prize, finally putting to rest the votes of the five judges who stripped him of Florida in 2000 and kept him from the White House.

It was the last laugh for a man who has, until recently, trod a lonely path to engage American opinion with the looming crisis of climate change and who was ridiculed by the benefactor of that supreme court judgment in 2000, George Bush, as "ozone man". If seven years ago Mr Gore suffered his annus horribilis, this year is undoubtedly his annus miraculous - February: Oscar for his film An Inconvenient Truth; September: Emmy for his Current TV channel; October: Nobel peace prize.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2190325,00.html

[malaise]

1. Nice article but I want him to run

Al Gore #44

[The River]

2. He Could Win A Second Nobel

if he just had the power to begin implementing
his policies. Advocacy is one thing but
as President he could actually begin bringing
about change he advocates.

Just as Kennedy challenged us to go to the moon in a decade
I can see Al leading America to become energy self sufficient
by 2020 and becoming the greenest country on the planet.

I've often wondered though, if he doesn't run,
might he barter his endorsement for
the creation of and his appointment to
a new Cabinet type position; Secretary of the Environment?

[kestrel91316]

3. IMHO his winning the Nobel Peace Prize is a FAR greater honor

than something as plebian as a political office like the Presidency. Any moron with money can do THAT, as we have sadly seen.