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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 05:29 PM
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200,000 signatures for Draft Gore!!
Edited on Sat Oct-13-07 05:43 PM by IndyOp
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/algore2008/signatories-3195.html

Signer #200,000 says: "Al, Congratulations on the great honor of winning the Nobel Peace Prize. PLEASE RUN! You can be far more effective as President leading the response to the climate crisis, restoring participatory democracy and the Constitution, and reversing the Unitary Executive. You are uniquely qualified to serve as President, and can be far more effective than Hillary Clinton in responding to ALL the crucial issues facing us today, as you outlined in Assault on Reason. Your service as President, rather than as a private citizen, is the most effective means for us to go as far as possible as quickly as possible, to refer to an Old African proverb. I can not even fathom how you could come to the opposite conclusion. But I trust your reason and judgment and know that you will make the right decision. I just hope that my reason leads me to the same conclusion that yours does. With great respect, David"

:woohoo: B-) :party: :bounce:


:toast:


Way to cute: Signer #199982, Claire, says: "Because I'm 8 and I want a good country when I grow up too. Thank you Mr. Gore."

Wow - more signature statements:

Sylvia - Dear Vice President Gore, You are probably still ecstatic from your Nobel Peace Prize, and very contented from your work with Global Warming, but I and thousands of Americans are imploring you to run and give our divided and distressed nation the visionary leaddership we desperately need. You were and are right regarding this evil and unnecessary Iraqi War, the Palestinian/Israeli Crisis, and a multitude of foreign and domestic problems.I know you do not like to campaign, because it is highly tainted with dirty money, but you and I CANNOT let the morally challenged, Machiavellian Hillary again occupy the White House. In addition Tipper is a great campaigner, and she may even win over few "Religious Righters" with her fight for decency since the 1980's. In conclusion, I respectfully ask you to lead our country out of the unacceptable morass that Bush and his war profiteering Neocons have selfishly plunged us into.

Charles - On the news they were asking about this possibility. I found myself closing my eyes and saying to myself how much HOPE it would bring to the world if ONLY Al Gore chose to become (the election would be practically a formality) President. I don't know what would make him choose to do so. What he's doing now is very important too, however, as President I'm sure he could do even more, given all of our support. God bless you, Mr. Gore.

:wow:

Can you feel the :loveya: Al? You deserve it, no matter what you decide...


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
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 05:31 PM
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1. What a great way to throw the nomination to Hillary.
All we need is to divide the progressive vote even more.
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 05:33 PM
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3. Gore/Obama would concentrate the primary progressive vote -
they can declare they are a ticket before the primary.

We need new ideas that will increase our power - Yes?
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 05:46 PM
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4. And maybe the tooth fairy will run too.
Sorry, but that's not how the primary process works.
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 05:57 PM
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7. I've not been rude to you, why be rude to me? I heard the suggestion
Edited on Sat Oct-13-07 05:57 PM by IndyOp
yesterday from several different sources - one being Thom Hartmann who knows a great deal about American history.

Perhaps I could've been more clear -- After making an agreement with Obama, Al puts his hat in the ring for the primary and makes a public announcement that should he be the nominee, Obama will be his running mate in the General Election. Obama withdraws from the race and asks his campaign people to go to work for Gore. Gore wins the primary and we are off to win the general election.
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Bjorn Against Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 06:28 PM
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11. Actually I think Gore is our best hope of defeating Hillary
Gore is widely respected among the entire spectrum of Democrats, from progressives to conservatives. I have no doubt that if he entered the race many of Hillary's supporters will jump ship.
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angstlessk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 05:31 PM
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2. That means they have added 50,000 since the Nobel Prize!!!
GO AL GORE!
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 05:52 PM
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5. Not to dampen any spirits, but it has been about 40,000 in 52 hours...
Since the afternoon before the Nobel until now...

Thursday at 2:01 EST: 159,794
Friday at 1:51 EST: 186,016
Saturday at 3:00 EST: 199,065
Saturday at 6:27 EST: 200,001

I wonder if it will be 2 days more until 250,000?



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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 05:53 PM
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6. K&R!
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 06:11 PM
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8. More signature statements -
Carrie in PA: "For the first time ever, I would make a monetary donation for a political campaign. Please run!"

Llucia in CA: "who better to restore justice than the man we elected president 7 years ago."

David in IN: "Mr. Vice President, One of the greatest mistakes that I have ever made was not voting for you almost 8 years ago. Because of that mistake we have suffered greatly as a nation. I know that there are others, democrats and republicans, out there who feel the same but who don't have the courage to admit it. That is a mistake that cannot and will not be repeated again. We ask for your courage in considering this request by us all and please restore this nation by running for President of the United States."

Ferdinand in MD: "We need someone with your vision and dedication to lead this country. I have never voted before, because I have never found interest in our politics. Being 21 of age now I want to help lead our country towards success, not just economically but sociological, and that is where you come in. You are my voice and many others. Thank you. And God Bless"

Ann in CO: "How about a Gore/Obama ticket? Gore has the experience and Obama has the chrisma. How could they lose?"

Richard in AZ: "In an election year in which Democrats should easily regain the White House after the national disgrace of the Bush administration, Hilary Clinton is about to be nominated? I have finally reached the point, as a lifelong Democrat, that the "lesser of 2 evils" vote turns my stomach. I beg you, Sir, to become a candidate or at least endorse someone other than Ms. Clinton or Mr. Obama. I do not believe that either of them can win. You have the platform, the integrity, the ability to call in the financial resources, and the charisma to win this thing for us. Please, Mr. Gore, help us make this a respectable nation again."

Yes, there are some assholes signing with fake names -- I hope Draft Gore has the staff to clean those out -- if not, I could help! Just PM me if you are associated with Draft Gore and I can trim out the obvious crap signatures.
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 06:20 PM
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9. 0.067% of Americans
There's a mandate for ya.

I'm underwhelmed.
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 06:28 PM
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10. I'm not overwhelmed, then again every big movement was small at one time.
Edited on Sat Oct-13-07 07:08 PM by IndyOp
Also -- the corporate media has already concluded that Hillary has won the primary -- I just heard from my well-informed neighbor that this is so...

With the corporate media reporting that Hillary has already won, that Al won't step in (period!), and with this effort being online - on a not-so-well-known website it isn't surprising that there are 200,000 signatures... some of which are obviously bogus and need to be deleted.

On edit: Remove a complete unnecessary "or anything"...
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 07:50 PM
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16. and the number of people signing is closing in on the number of donors for the declared candidates


Mr. Obama announced Monday that he had attracted more than 93,000 new donors over the last three months and that he met his goal for this period of signing up more than 350,000 donors overall this year.

The Clinton campaign said this morning that it had drawn more than 100,000 new donors over the last three months, and declared, in a statement from campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, that it had raised “substantially more than any other candidate in the race.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/clinton-raises-27m-in-3rd-quarter/index.html?hp





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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 10:12 PM
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19. Mabus - Good point!
Also - check your inbox - I sent you a PM...

Somebody cranky signed the Draft Gore petition <- :eyes:

:rofl:
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 10:25 PM
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20. I saw that
:rofl: X 1000


I thought I'd check the numbers because I remembered that they weren't that much higher. And, when you consider the amount of money that the rest of them have spent to get the donors they've got I think the petition is doing incredibly well.

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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 06:32 PM
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12. The powers that be have spoken, - Gore will not run, now, get over it
The powers that be I speak of are the same ones who installed Bush ...TWICE!
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 06:57 PM
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13. How come the powers that be are okay with Obama? I think your statement
implies that they are okay with Obama but not Gore...

:shrug:
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ms liberty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 06:58 PM
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14. And RFK Jr as head of EPA...n/t
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 07:01 PM
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15. Yes! Definitely, RFK Jr could recreate the EPA so it would once again
PROTECT the environment.

:applause:
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Nimrod2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 09:12 PM
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17. Why is this exciting? The country has 300 million people, 116 million or so voted last time
why is 200K exciting news? Even 1 million signatures will NOT add up to 1% of potential votes...I am not trying to be a smart ass, this is a serious question.
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 10:03 PM
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18. It is exciting to me because I am signature #500 and something...
So I've been watching this for a while now and have seen it move from 500 to 201,243 (as of 11:00 p.m. EST) -- so a change of over 200,000 signatures.

Also, a good point made by Mabus upthread is that Barak Obama has had 350,000 donors -- and that is a huge number. Getting over 200,000 signatures at Draft Gore is not a guarantee of getting 200,000 donations, but it is pretty exciting that the number is so large because people are reaching out to support Gore even though he has not declared his candidacy, even though the corporate media keeps saying Hillary has it in the bag so we might as all go back to watching football.

You don't have to be excited. I am. I have no idea what will happen next, but I am pleased to see that 100,000's of people care enough to find the Draft Gore website and sign.

:hi:
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Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 10:27 PM
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Barack has approx. 350,000 donors and the rest have fewer
And, considering the amount of money and time the rest of them have spent getting that many, I'd say that over 200K is pretty damned significant.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 10:27 PM
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21. Done.
:)
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 10:30 PM
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22. sfexpat2000 ---
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:yourock:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-13-07 10:34 PM
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23. What a big slap in the face to BushCo it would be
to re-elect Al Gore!

:yourock:
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