Can Oscar Go to the White House? (Mary Lyon)

[Tace]

By Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust

“I don’t think this Academy Award will be known for anything other than Al Gore winning.” --Rich Marotta, KFI

Feb. 28, 2007 -- So said a Los Angeles radio newsguy during the postmortems on this year’s Oscars. Highly intriguing and significant, I think, that it was uttered on a station that boasts Rush Limbaugh and wall-to-wall radical conservative screech-meisters. But I think Rich Marotta is onto something. So are the “Members of the Academy,” AND a whole lot of other Americans, movie buffs and not. Hillary, Obama, Edwards, and those hapless Wrong-Way Corrigans on the other side notwithstanding, I think there’s a global warming to Al Gore -– and specifically to Al Gore in the White House. He may have hemmed and hawed and teased on the Oscar telecast, but I doubt much of America is doing so. I think the time has come. Al’s time.

At the moment, our poor, battered country couldn’t be in sorrier shape. Let’s look at just the most recent shades of our former self: it’s now reported that the White House has aided, abetted, and funneled money to none other than al Qaeda operatives in yet another in a continuing series of embarrassing mistakes, missteps, and catastrophic miscalculations. We have a vice president who’s sown so many seeds of lies, threats, intimidations and scary stories that he literally has become a WMD. We have horribly wounded soldiers languishing in a building filled with filth, vermin, and bugs, and a military that’s in ICU, even while a very likely new war looms on the horizon. We have more poor, homeless, disenfranchised, and uninsured than ever before. We have Democrats who don’t seem able to decide what to do about any of it, and willfully negligent republi-CON enablers who’d rather diddle and spin while our soldiers die and our people starve. We have international allies who no longer trust us, and are now pulling their troops out of our reach. We have a so-called “president” who doesn’t listen to ANYONE anymore. Probably has his fingers so far down into his ears that they’ve taken permanent root in there.

Our predicament has become so grave that we may just need Superman to intervene. We last saw a clip of him in a special effects montage on Oscar night -– in which we soon saw the next best thing savoring a Best Documentary award and ovation after ovation. Let the reactionary snot-noses sneer about how Hollywood Loves Al Gore. What they can’t face is that this romance has gone WAY beyond just Hollywood. Perhaps Gore himself is trying to shy away from it, too, but I think it’s one of those unavoidable inevitabilities. I think it’s becoming more accepted that we NEED Al Gore.

Certainly, we need all our guys and our girl(s). We need all of them to fight harder and fiercer and, yes, maybe also dirtier, considering the adversaries we’re up against and their vicious, selfish obstructionism. I can understand how some would rather see Gore stay exactly where he is – so he can concentrate on the environment. But I think he should go for all the marbles. I don’t think we can afford for him not to. It’s gotten THAT bad. I would like to see him put the heaviest of the heavyweight bully pulpits to work on his “Inconvenient Truth.” There’s nothing like the force of White House clout to further the fight against global warming. I think his message would go even farther, faster, and with a significantly greater impact if it came from the President of the United States (President Gore).

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[calimary]

1. Whoa, that was fast! You must be working late, Tace.

Thanks!

And kick, of course!

[Me.]

9. I Am Right, Correct, In Thinking You Wrote This Piece?

Terrific! And please keep writing. Someone on another thread worried about about the media and shills going after Gore already. Well, they're not all stupid, even if they act so, they can see the coming landslide and they are scared to death of AG. But this time round, I feel very strongly, that none of us can sit by and let them rip him to shreds. If we want him, let's fight for him. So please keep writing.

[Labors of Hercules]

2. I LOVE her!!

[calimary]

3. Oh, my!

Thanks!

:hi:

[ClassWarrior]

10. I do too!

:loveya: sis...

NGU.

[calimary]

27. Oh, my, 2.0!

:hi: bro!

I am ABSOLUTELY NGU!

[madfloridian]

4. Wonderful article....he looked so presidential.

His family looked great. I feel if this happens our country can heal...it really was his presidency after all, you know.

[calimary]

21. I think the message it would send to the entire world, if we reinstated

Gore to the office he rightfully won and that was meant to be his, would be SO healing and rehabilitative to us as a nation. The rest of the world would take note. The rest of the world would understand that we've decided to come in from the darkness and join the human race again, and (if anybody ever saw "Forbidden Planet") leave our raging, out-of-control, megalomanicacal, insane id monster buried in the local landfill where it belongs.

Thanks MUCH! XOXOXOXO

[midnight]

33. There is no better time than now to start the healing process.

It would be so great to have Mr. Gore re-instated. This is Lent, and my lenten work is on hope. I must say that I have this wonderful hope that Super Al will step up and redirect this wonderful country. It was a pleasure to give you my vote on this wonderful hopeful prospect.

[AtomicKitten]

5. If he wins the Nobel Peace Prize

... he must go directly to the White House without passing go.

[calimary]

32. Well, I'd certainly tell him that!

Heck, I'd drive him there myself if I could. He belongs there.

And he belongs onstage in Oslo, too - picking up THAT honor as well.

I mentioned what a great, formal repudiation his election as president would be of all things bush. Can you imagine if he gets the Peace Prize, too and has THAT to bring in with him to decorate HIS Oval Office along with his film's Oscar certification? YOWZA! Take THAT, duhbya. Your daddy and all the bucks in the Carlyle Group AND House of Saud combined can't buy you that. Slam AND Dunk.

[Apollo11]

6. Gore is the best person for the job -- period.

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

Read Rolling Stone magazine: WHY GORE SHOULD RUN -- AND HOW HE CAN WIN
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13248532/why_gore_should_run__and_how_he_can_win

Get ready for Al Gore's next book - The Assault on Reason - out in May!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600877.html

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

Visit the following websites:
www.algore.com
www.algore.org
www.draftgore.com - Sign the petition! :)

:kick:

[calimary]

36. Thanks for these - MOST worthy of note!

And a book of his coming out in May.

Plus, with Live Earth, just think how many new, younger voters he'll be able to reach, and motivate. He'll be the guy THEY will be eager to vote for, too.

Perhaps it all means the new millennium will have just gotten off to a late start. Eight or nine years late.

[blm]

7. Come September - then the race will REALLY be on.

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[calimary]

37. I think you're correct. At least I HOPE you are.

I swear to Dearest God - I think Gore's what we NEED. And rather desperately at this point, too.

[Me.]

8. Great Read

I particularly liked this line "there’s a global warming to Al Gore". I started thinking seriously about this last year, that Al had a real shot, after talking to a friend who is a political astrologer. We were going over the different candidate's charts and the dems as a whole. Then I asked her to look at his, and there was a surprise waiting there. In Al's chart, election day 2008, what was taken, is returned to him. Ever since then I have been hoping and waiting. And while I do understand it's asking for sacrifice on his part, I believe there is a higher calling thing going on and he will respond to it.

[Bake]

17. That's a terrific turn of phrase.

"A global warming to Al Gore." I LOVE IT!

Bake

[calimary]

29. Thanks, bake!

Hugs!

[calimary]

28. Cool news!

And thanks for the kind words. I sure feel the thaw... I think many more others do, too. Probably more than we realize. I think the first polls immediately after his announcement will tell the tale.

[glitch]

11. I'm visualizing Al's Oscar sitting on a table in the Oval Office. :) K & R nt

[Cha]

12. Davis Guggenheim(producer of AIT) will have

to put it out on loan to him. Which I'm sure he wouldn't mind!

[glitch]

13. What, he didn't get his own? I thought all involved got their own.

What about Laurie David, did she not get her own either? Shows what I know about Oscars.
He should've gotten his own.

[Cha]

15. No, Al, didn't get his own

but I think he's gotten something better!

[glitch]

16. Our adoration? :) nt

[Cha]

19. Thaat and spreading

the word Globally. What an international melting pot those Oscars were..I loved it!

[glitch]

20. Ah! Yeah, that is better. nt

[calimary]

24. Perhaps the Academy will provide copies. I'm not sure about this

and actually, I apologize because I probably should know this, having been an entertainment reporter. But I know that when our station won a Golden Mike for Best Documentary, our news director at the time was the one who went up onstage and accepted it. She then ordered duplicates for everybody on the team - and each of us got our names engraved on the plaque on the front. I'm just guessing here, but I think that if there's a producing team, maybe there's one statuette that's actually given on awards night and then the other members of the team get duplicates. Again - not completely sure about that.

[glitch]

30. That sounds most fair. It would be nice if that could happen.

And it would make the visualizing much more realizable if it's actually possible :)

[calimary]

26. That would be a MOST excellent visualization.

Even if only symbolic. Wouldn't it look great on the Resolute Desk?

[Cha]

14. Well done, calimary!

Richly woven words for Al Gore from The Oscars to the White House. I like these lines.. "If Gore were in charge, we’d all stand taller. The rest of the world needs Al Gore, too. His is the face I'd like to have as America's face to the world."

I keep thinking of Al Gore's poignant concession speech back in 2000 when we were all so tearful for our country and then came the 2007 Oscars and the dam broke with tears of happiness for this man and what he has steadfastly done against all odds.

[calimary]

25. At my house, we had an Oscar party, and everyone stood and

applauded and cheered and jumped up and down. It was really cool!

And YES. I REALLY WOULD like to have his face as America's face to the world.

Thanks, zidzi! :thumbsup:

[Uncle Joe]

18. Outstanding column from Mary Tace!

:applause:

Thanks for the thread Tace

Kicked and recommended

[ClassWarrior]

22. Or from Mary and Tace as the case may be.

B-)

NGU.

[calimary]

35. Y'know, I've gotta say that, too!

Thanks for the thread, Tace! Thanks for the opportunity!

:yourock: and so do you, Uncle Joe!

[Uncle Joe]

39. Can't believe I typed Mary Tace

:blush:

Thank you for the letter calimary:yourock:

[Samantha]

23. Anything can happen in politics at any time

It's a given. For those who say he is not running, that he can contribute much more doing what he is currently doing, I disagree.

There is no more powerful office than that of POTUS. There is no much better caretaker of our environment than Al Gore. He's been working on this for about 30 years. All he needs is the power behind the throne to influence those who need to participate.

In the background as I type this, commentators are telling Chris Matthews (a) Al Gore has become so "Hollywood" and that in itself is a "voter repellant" and "I don't think Gore can make a comeback. Matthews, to his credit, is saying the voters are looking for a hero. I think Gore is already that -- a hero -- to many people for many reasons. I have nothing against Obama, I kind of like the guy and wish him well, but I totally agree with The Nation magazine -- we need a guy with experience. I feel we need someone with a resume because the country is in such bad shape there's little time for OJT. A Gore/Obama ticket would fill the bill perfectly for 16, count 'em, 16 years.

No one knows what will politically happen tomorrow. We can only hope for the best. The best is Gore, the man who should be president, in the Oval Office.

[calimary]

34. Completely agreed - but then again, you and I have been down that

road before! :D

Another reason to add to yours regarding Obama and Gore. Yes, experience. But something else. I would want the first black president in American history to be able to get working on more than just cleaning up some cretin's multiple messes. What if it takes more than the first four-year term? Can't you just bet that Obama's enemies from the knuckledragger crowd would almost literally pay to see him fail, or to see him not succeed up to everyone's expectations (especially since cleaning up after the schmuck-in-chief will be one galactically HUGE job)? They'd be waiting to pounce on him and drag him through every kind of shit because of it. It might cost him a second term, and it might risk leaving some - um - shall we say unenlightened voters pointing at him and saying - "See? They can't handle the job!" Truly. I hate even to think about it, but these are inhabitants of the Dark Side. Some of them are truly Satan's spawn. Look what one of the vilest of them tried to do on his radio show to Michael J. Fox, for heaven's sakes! Look what they did to Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Max Cleland, and even to john mccain. They'll do ANYTHING they think will work to bring down ANYBODY on our side. No matter how low they need to stoop to do so or how much they feel compelled to distort or obliterate the truth. BET ON THEM TRYING to appeal to the baser nature and deeply-buried, hushed-up demons of their lowest-of-low-life constituents. Anybody remember the campaign against Harold Ford in Kentucky? Talk about low-life!!! And it might not only deny Obama a second term, but make it that much harder for more African-Americans to seek the highest office. The same effect, I think, would also be at work against the first woman president. And it would be horrendously unfair, but then again, when have these human vermin EVER bothered themselves with genuine fairness?

I think if Al Gore were in that position, his years and years of experience and battle-hardening would leave him a lot better able to weather any such assaults. Plus, he's got an ungodly amount of political capital built up - more than Obama OR Hillary OR Edwards OR anybody else - on our side OR the bad guys' side.

And one other thing that makes me hesitate about Obama and/or Hillary. I'd hate to take a strong Democrat out of the Senate when we need EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM in there keeping our majority intact.

[Cameron27]

38. I had no idea that

you were Mary Lyon!

The Republicans will never change until their slime tactics stop working, but I think Gore would be pretty close to unstoppable this time around.

Great writing!

K&R

On edit; too late to recommend :-(

[calimary]

43. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Deeply appreciated!

:hi:

[Samantha]

41. Well, I agree with most of what you say but how you would feel

if you were passed up for a promotion because your current job was more difficult to fill than the more prestigious job you applied for. This happened to me twice by the same employer so I left altogether. I do not think Obama should be held in place in the Senate because that seat would be up for grabs in Illinois by a Republican. The man deserves a chance to step out simply because he's earned it. Let's not hold him back for reasons less than fair to him (we need him in the Senate). I agree with most of your thoughts, just that one gave me pause....

So I am going to stick by my dream team because I think Gore and Obama would compliment each other perfectly. What Obama lacks in Washington (inside the Beltway) know-how and foreign affairs experience, Gore has. What Gore lacks in charisma (which he more than makes up for in smarts and personal integrity) Obama ooooooooooooozzzzzzzzzzzzzzzees. Together they could make the Oval Office ours for 16 years, and the Dems could accomplish a lot in 16 years.

So thank you so much for posting this thread, and congratulations on getting your political passions aroused enough you invested the time in hosting a thread here. I hope to read more of them in the future.

Regards,

Sam

[calimary]

44. Thanks, Sam! I think Gore/Obama would be a DREAM ticket.

I understand your viewpoint and, yeah, I do agree with it. And having been held back in some jobs, myself, I can completely sympathize. Obama, I think, is a rare jewel. Loaded with potential. And he does, indeed, bring HUGE amounts of good things to the table. I'm just glad he's OURS.

I think this kind of dialogue is one we all should be having, a LOT, because we are indeed talking about a possible 16-year lock on the White House with these two.

One thing you can say about our side - WE'VE got bench strength!

[AtomicKitten]

31. K&R

[jenmito]

40. Another great column!

Thanks for sharing it! :hi: :yourock:

[bobbolink]

42. Fine article! A part of me wants to see, as you say, AG restored to his rightful place.

But, the other part of me must know first.... WHERE, EXACTLY, IS AL GORE ON POVERTY ISSUES?

I havent' heard him speak at all on this, and, as you know, that trumps all for me.

Too many people in this country are dying needlessly (AND SILENTLY AND UNMOURNED!)simply because they are poor. Does Al care about that enough to take the bull by the horns and do what it takes to house and feed and heal the health issues of all us poor folk????

Or is it only the environment he's passionate about?

I'm not willing to have one more poor person sacrificed on the altar of the planet!

[calimary]

45. Hate to plead ignorance on this issue, but I do not know where he

stands on the poverty crisis, per se. What I do know, enough, about him is how spot-on he's been about so many other issues. That obnoxious smart-ass Maureen Dowd, of all people, listed a whole slew of things she declared Gore "prescient" about, back in the day, from the environment to Iraq to the internet. Just considering his nature and which party he sides with, I'd say he was/is far stronger on poverty issues than many of the rest of 'em are. He is manifestly more genuinely compassionate, just by nature. Plus, what he's been through in terms of the 2000 election debacle, being forcibly pushed into outsider status and laughed at and sneered at and villified and left in the wilderness, I would guess he'd have to be extraordinarily sympathetic and sensitive to others who are forced to live that way around the clock. No one's been slapped in the face the way he has by the power elite. In that respect, he's had a taste of what it's like to walk in the shoes of the truly disenfranchised.

I don't know this for a fact, but I'd suspect he's one YOU would be proud and satisfied to have representing you. If not, then it isn't the Al Gore I feel as though I know.