Reply #121: From this paragraph and you also answered my question in your reply

[Uncle Joe]

"Even though the real message of An Inconvenient Truth is exactly that because that really will be the only way to save this planet NOW, because we are Americans obsessed with the presidency and aristocracy and title even though our forefathers like Thomas Jefferson abhorred all that pomp and circumstance because he knew what it really meant to be a great man without it and from where the REAL power in this country came from, which sadly is now gone on a large scale."

Former President Jefferson may have abhorred it, but it didn't stop him from becoming President.

"How do you get that question from my comment that I find the constant begging of him embarrassing? Do you not think the man intelligent enough to make his own decisions after all of the years he was part of it? It is one thing to want him to run (and in a truly Jeffersonian Democracy which we don't currently have I wouldn't mind it at all) but quite another to constantly harrass and push on him about it every single day. It is bad enough that seems ALL the media and cable pundits are concerned about to the point that when he does his slideshow presentations and speeches he doesn't even allow them in or only addresses the media for five minutes on the topic. How many damn times can he say the same thing?"

I believe the difference in our perspectives are the two different motivations for asking the same question of Al Gore. On the one hand his supporters are asking, begging, pleading, encouraging or praying Al Gore runs because they recognize the power of the Presidency even if you have written it off as you state here.


"And really, isn't the presidency of this country just the placement of a titular corporate head? The people don't really vote for the president of this country. Is that what you really want Mr. Gore to have to conform to in that beltway prison in lieu of what he is doing now freely? I don't."

On the other hand, I will grant that, some in the mass corporate media, are pushing him to announce to give them more time to trash and slander him, but this is an entirely different motivation from his supporters and should not be confused. I also believe Al has ascended past the conformity requirement of the beltway prison.

Personally I hope and pray Al runs, not because I expect him alone to save our earth, this will require everyone's effort, but because I still view the power of the Presidency as critical in fighting the looming catastrophe of global warming. Even though I am encouraging him to run, I believe he should wait as long as possible to announce, I will leave the timing up to his judgment. If he announces he will absolutely not run in 2008, I will respect his decision and pray he runs in 2012, but I will not accept the mass corporate media's interpretation of his decision. No shermanesque statement in my book leaves the door open.