Will Al Gore run for President in 2008?

[CalebHayes]

Poll question: Will Al Gore run for President in 2008?

I don't think he will. DU needs to understand that. Just IMO. oh yeah... and same goes for Clark.

[orleans]

1. i don't know how soon but i think he'll run n/t

[Bicoastal]

3. Here's how I know he won't

Remember that sham hit piece about Gore's HUGH energy bill? It would have been so easy for Gore to have gone on a few cable talk shows, do a few press conferences, and explain to the average TV viewer that his bill is only representative of how much money Al spends, and that the Gore house runs on 100% GREEN energy. As stupid as it was, that story got a lot of attention, and if Gore was planning to run for office, he would have addressed it immediately.

However, Gore didn't release a single public statement, as far as I know. He just ignored it. That's proof to me that Gore is out of the political game.

[Larkspur]

4. Yes, Gore did release a public statement refuting the electric bill crap

I can't find the link, but he released it about a couple weeks ago.

[WePurrsevere]

8. I believe the link and snip I posted above may along the lines

of what you may have been thinking of. :)

[WePurrsevere]

6. Gore's statement has been at the bottem of most of the stories

about his usuage (a claim made by a RW spin machine btw, as can be read about in the paragraphs following the ones I've quoted below. not to mention addressed on DU when this nonsense hit the fan. :))

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/02/charges_counter.html

Missing from much of the coverage is a response from the Gore camp. The liberal blog Think Progress, though, has a statement from the former veep's office. Among the points they make:

• "Gore's family has taken numerous steps to reduce the carbon footprint of their private residence, including signing up for 100% green power through Green Power Switch, installing solar panels, and using compact fluorescent bulbs and other energy saving technology."

• "Gore has had a consistent position of purchasing carbon offsets to offset the family's carbon footprint -- a concept the right-wing fails to understand."

ABC News adds that Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider says both the former vice president and his wife Tipper work out of the mansion -- activity that presumably pushes up electricity use there.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Hope So!

Hope So Hope So Hope So!!!

[deacon]

5. I think we will have to draft him into the race- at this point

it's gotta be done.

[jzodda]

7. I wish he would!

I support him as strong now as I did in 2000 (I worked for the campaign) In fact I support him even stronger now. The fact is he is enjoying his role as an outsider now and so I think it will take a ground swell of pressure by other Dems to get him interested. I think this would be his race to lose and none of the other candidates are of his stature.