For Progressives, Gore's the One in 2008

[MagickMuffin]

Great article describing the differences between and the other candidates.

http://www.alternet.org/stories/55036/

[Solo_in_MD]

1. I think its too late

As another thread as discussed, its looking to be a HRC v Obama race now.

[mod mom]

2. Certainly NOT too late. Gore has the prestige to raise vast amounts needed to run

quickly over the internet (from small donors) and has the activist base -read those willing to hit the turf to GOTV as opposed to those who only write checks, behind him. He is polling very well considering he is not in the reace-YET!

[Solo_in_MD]

3. Hope springs eternal from the human heart...

put the growing consensus is that he is not going to run and that its down to a two way race. My favorite has been Richardson, so its not like I like the current state of affairs

[JacquesMolay]

6. I hope it's not too late ...

... he needs to get in, otherwise it's going to be Hillary and probable defeat. If Gore does come in, he's got to sell himself as a progressive for sure, but he's also got to remind people that he was part of a successful administration that oversaw peace and prosperity in the country. Something we haven't had in quite a while now.

[oldgrowth]

4. It was started by the media so early ,I'm getting sick them

Hope gore runs it's not to late!!
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[MagickMuffin]

5. Gore and the War

from the article

Al Gore also distinguishes dramatically from several Democratic candidates on the issue that voters rate as the single most important -- in some polls by 20 percentage points.

Iraq.

In September 2002, the former vice president spoke before the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, excoriating the very idea that our country might be about to launch a pre-emptive, illegal, unilateral, unwarranted, and unwise march of folly in Mesopotamia.
"The president is proclaiming a new uniquely American right to preemptively attack whomsoever he may deem represents a potential future threat," said the veteran of Viet Nam about the veteran of the Texas Air National Guard in September of 2002.
"The administration has not said much of anything to clarify its idea of what would follow regime change, or the degree of engagement that it is prepared to accept for the United States in Iraq in the months and years after a regime change has taken place. ... If what America represents to the world is leadership in a commonwealth of equals, then our friends are legion. If what we represent to the world is an empire, then it is our enemies who will be legion."

Those words were spoken a month before Senator Clinton, in voting on the defining war and peace resolution of our time, spoke the word "aye."

I remember that speech, I thought where was this man hiding in 2000...

And yes, I am well aware of how the media portrayed him:grr:

[MagickMuffin]

7. Gore, the Critic of Contemporary American Democracy

from article

On a more prosaic and immediate level, he delivered a blistering critique of the Bush Administration's Iraq debacle, its inaction on climate change, its obeisance to the rich and the powerful and the corporate elite, and its casting aside the long-standing American ethos against torture -- first insisted upon, he reminded us, by George Washington.
And he made my own anti-nuclear heart beat more quickly when he delivered a one-word verdict on Bush's plans to build a new generation of nuclear weapons while hectoring countries like Iran and North Korea (and likely soon others) to forego nuclear weapons.

"Insane."

INSANE, indeed