DKos's Blockbuster: Open Letter to Al Gore ( A Must Read folks...)

[ourbluenation]

Dear Mr. Vice President:

There is a phrase from a book that keeps running through my head. John Steinbeck, in America and Americans, argued that we have not always had great presidents, "but," he wrote, "when the need has been great, we have found men of greatness." These words flood my brain as I listen, with interest, to the arguments both in favor and opposed to your entering the 2008 contest for President of the United States. You, Sir, have stated that you will not run, although you have recently allowed that as a "recovering politician" you may "suffer a relapse."

Whoever "wins" the presidency in 2008 will have the toughest job the world has ever known. Here are a few of the headaches and heartbreaks.

Restoring the respect of the world community after years of justifying "preemptive war," breaking international treaties, bullying and threatening third world nations.

Restoring reasonable corporate regulation in favor of the environment, the distribution of wealth, health and safety, and worker's rights.

Going to battle against the vast wealth of the telecommunications industry to restore the Fairness Doctrine and ownership diversity.

Finding a way out of Iraq which leaves Iraq and the rest of the Middle East secure and relatively peaceful.

Placing proper attention on world hot spots such as Darfur, in order to let the world know that we will leave each country to govern itself, but we will not tolerate the international crime of genocide.

Insuring that every vote in America which is cast will be counted.

Removing the money from politics, and placing it in public education where it belongs.

Declaring and proving to all the world that we will not use the tactics of terrorists to fight terrorism, but our own. We will use the law and the enforcement of the law to seek justice in public trials, rather than the smaller, darker animals of torture and secret detentions.

Restoring the public's faith in the right to privacy.

Creating social and economic justice for all Americans.

Recommitting to the United Nations and the World Court.

Investigating and punishing crimes which have been committed inside of government over the prior eight years.

Sir, this is a job you don't want. If you were my friend, I'd advise you to run far away from it.

But, after leaving Washington in 2000, you walked into a university classroom and locked the door behind you. A professor walked into that room, but a student walked out, and you uttered this simple phrase from Bob Dylan: "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." Once outside of the Beltway noise machine, you heard the voices of the people and not the voices of pundit hackery. Reversing Bhagavad-Gita, it is possible that you have become life, the restoration of worlds.

We are in desperate need of an individual with experience and knowledge in both real life and the fantasy land of the capital. This person must know all branches of government, know how to play the political games within it, and have the practical knowledge of where to find the pulse of the nation. We need someone with a tough hide because sacrifices will have to made by people who have already sacrificed more than their share. We need an individual of extraordinary courage and morality. As far as I can see, you are the most qualified man for the job.

I close with two quotes by a great Democrat, John F. Kennedy. I hope you will consider them in coming to a final decision, which I fear must come soon.

"It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours."

This applies, it seems to me, to more than the environment, but to the beacon of liberty which America represented for all the world. Well...

"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality."

I wish for you happy times, but I'd ask you to be a great president.

blockbuster

[smartvoter]

1. k&r nt

[NewJeffCT]

2. It is a huge task

Certainly not many would be up to the challenge. I think Gore is one of the few that could do it.

[Greybnk48]

3. I truly believe that Gore is the man who can get the country

back on track. What a fabulous and eloquent letter.

[ourbluenation]

4. I do too...Run Al, Run!

[Raster]

50. Now that's a bumpersticker that would sell:

Run Al, Run!

[jeanarrett]

68. I'm gonna go get one made right now.

:smile:

[slay]

15. Same here

We need you now more than ever Al! The country needs you. The world needs you. :patriot:

[mod mom]

45. I agree, and it would provide justice for the 2000 theft, as well.

[DURHAM D]

5. Well put - a better way of saying we need an adult to take charge.

Thanks for posting.

He is the only person with enough knowledge and courage to correct our course.

[byronius]

6. I'm-a beggin' and a-pleadin', Al. You're it.

Electable and Honorable. Please.

[AuntiBush]

10. I'm Begging with Ya!

Al Gore - RUN

[OKNancy]

7. I'm coming around..liking the idea more and more

My thoughts are, with all the different factions to come out of the "primary wars" of 2004 plus Hillary Clinton and maybe Warner, that Gore could be a good unity candidate. Add that to the fact that he is one hell of a guy and he seems to have developed that charisma thing people said he lacked last time around. I sure like Al.

[SeattleGirl]

8. Al has become more and more appealing over time,

especially since he has been away from the Beltway, as the DKos poster wrote. His speeches and such over the past couple of years are better, and clearer, and to-the-point than they were before. I did vote for him in 2000, because I thought then he would be a good President, but now, I think he just may be a great one.

I sure hope he is seriously considering another run.

[ThomWV]

9. I Would Cosign That Letter In A Heartbeat nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

46. So would I. nt

[i miss america]

48. Me too.

[Uncle Joe]

74. Me Three!

:kick:

[ourbluenation]

11. FYI - There is a DU Al Gore-08 group...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=260

[ourbluenation]

12. We need some rich person to take out the mother of all ads in the NYT

and run this letter goddammit

[lildreamer316]

17. Great Idea. DU fundraiser? N/t

[ourbluenation]

18. I'm calling the NYT manana...it probably costs thousands and thousands....

but what the hell...it would be interesting to know.

[lildreamer316]

19. Always good to keep in mind. Keep us updated.

You never know. If someone else dosen't step up to the plate; we might want to think about it.

[wiggs]

49. I'm in for fifty if someone organizes it. nt

[ourbluenation]

66. Thanks Wiggs...it'll be $150,000 for a full page ad in NYT. Just checked

we may need ot noodle with this for a bit

[jeanarrett]

67. Call George Soros right now!

[katty]

13. yes, this cries out for full page newsprint

[eppur_se_muova]

14. correct form of address: "Mister President-Elect"

(NO, I'M NOT OVER IT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!)

[ourbluenation]

16. Here's his address...let's all write him letters...

The Office of the Honorable Al Gore
2100 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

[Nordmadr]

58. I sent him a letter to that address a few months back.

I would encourage everyone to do so. I think that idea about getting an ad in a major newspaper sponsored by citizens is great!

BTW, here was my letter:


Honorable Al Gore
2100 West End Ave
Suite 620
Nashville, TN 37203


Vice President Gore:


I do not even know where to begin with this letter. It is like an awakening of sorts. The passion your speech invoked in me brought tears to this man’s eyes. I am 32 years old. I am an Army National Guard and Navy veteran. I am a citizen. I have never seen a leader of this Nation give a speech like the one you gave yesterday. John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. gave speeches such as this, both gone early and before my time. You returned truth to us. Mr. Gore, yesterday you restored hope to many that were on the brink of losing it altogether.

I have never been so inspired. You have made me believe again that we the people can be the ones to decide which direction this Nation takes. Your use of quotes from the other great leaders of this Nation was perfectly applied. This is a time for change. It is a time for a new paradigm. Thomas Paine, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Gore. I do not put your name there to puff you up. I put your name there to show how desperately this Nation needs you to be the leader you have shown yourself to be. I put your name there to show that I believe you to be a patriot and that you must run for President again. As the Nation has needed leaders in the past to step up and take a stand; it needs you now. I have no shame in telling you that I beg you to run and take your place as the rightful President of the United States of America.

I fear we are at a dramatic turning point, not just for America, but for the entire world. This Country is beginning to reek of fascism. This is how it starts. We must put an end to it now! Our rights are being assailed, our environment is being assailed; even our basic ability to make a life for our families is being destroyed.

Where will the people be when the energy supply in the world continues to dwindle and we have not shifted our society to adapt with a responsible and sustainable alternative? We can not long continue to take from this world as we have done. Where will the people be as the climate conditions we created continue to wreak havoc upon us and our natural environment? Where will the people be as their rights are assailed from all directions? Where will the people be without truth?

Mr. Gore, yesterday you clicked on a flashlight in the dark room that so many of us have been living in, returning our hope. I can tell you where many of the people will be; they will be working with you, as you continue to shine your light into the dark places of our world and government. Mr. Gore, be that man. Be that leader I see in you. Your Nation needs you now more than ever. It is our time. Help bring this Nation and world to the Golden Age of which you spoke. From your words help lead us to action. Be that patriot. Become the President both in action and in title.


Olafr

[tnlefty]

22. Ha, neither am I. Anytime that I write to him I address him as President

Gore. I'll ensure that my 3 kids never forget what happened in FL with ChoicePoint's felony lists, etc. :hi:

FORGET HELL!!!

[Raksha]

20. K&R, although it's not a job I'd wish on my worst enemy.

Hercules had it easy...cleaning out the Augean stables was a cakewalk compared with what the next POTUS is going to have to deal with!

[peacetalksforall]

21. I hope that Hillary and Bill don't make too many assumptions about a

run for Hlllary.

We need an Al Gore and a Russ Feingold or a Barbara Boxer or a John Conyers. We need people who support life, not death ... our country, not our corporations, right wing/PNAC, reverends, barons.

[Peace Patriot]

23. I would like to see a Restoration Ticket: Gore/Kerry '08.

To me, this is not a matter of finding a "white knight" to save us, nor is it a matter of policy, really. Feingold or Boxer would be better on policy. Although I've been very impressed with Gore's speeches on the use of torture and other matters of lawful, constitutional government (brilliant speeches! --the man is on fire), I have serious reservations about NAFTA and other US trade policy that make me fear he could be some sort of stealth candidate for the Corporate Rulers. It was his man, Clinton, after all, whom I was protesting, along with 50,000 other Americans, on the streets of Seattle in 1999. What if the Corporate Rulers, seeing that awesome protest, decided to give us the hell of a Bush junta for a while, so that then we would be GRATEFUL for a Corporate Democrat/Clintonite, instead of uppity about workers' rights, unfair trade, global corporate predation and a trashed planet.

What I'm saying is that I am not 100% pro-Gore or a Gore worshiper. What I want to see is RESTORATION of DEMOCRACY. Gore was elected by the people. So was Kerry. Gore, provably so. Kerry, by overwhelming inference of the available evidence, in highly non-transparent conditions. It is the American people who are the sovereigns here. THEY get to choose! They CHOSE. Ergo, we should RESTORE their choices. That is the thing to do, if you believe in democracy.

What we are suffering now is disorder. We need to RESTORE order. We need to RESTORE transparent elections. We need to RESTORE the will of the people.

Gore is the more experienced, having spent eight years a heartbeat away, and he won first. Kerry has a lot of experience in government, but none in the executive branch, and he won second. So that's the rightful order of the ticket. Gore has a lot else going for him as well, and Kerry is a highly intelligent man who can learn from him. The two would put together a fabulous team. One almost weeps to think of it. Gore is tainted by NAFTA. Kerry by the Iraq war. Those are my main arguments with each of them. But that's not the point. The point is that they were elected! And it's those votes, and those expressions of the will of the people, that I want honored and obeyed, goddammit!

THEN we can talk about what else needs to be done--with a re-empowered, re-inspired, re-energized, and re-enfranchised American people, acting as the sovereigns that they were meant to be.

[ourbluenation]

24. Interesting...but THE winning ticket is Gore/Clark

in my view...

[troubleinwinter]

25. I share your view.

[progressivebydesign]

27. I like Clark.. but haven't found an answer to one thing...

At some point last week, I saw a paragraph quote from Clark, praising Hayden for CIA, and saying what a great guy he was for the job. This totally goes against what we've all be saying about Hayden. Does Clark have a history with him in the military? Or have we misjudged Hayden, and he's really an alright fellow?

[Old and In the Way]

30. I agree...it has a certain symmetry to it.

And we are going to need 2 Presidential class leaders to run things. Gore can deal with the macro issues: International relations and global warming. Kerry can run the domestic investigations to root out the embedded corruption that has infected our country for as long as I can remember.

[ourbluenation]

31. I think it would be poetic frigging justice to every swiftboating muther

flucker to make Kerry the Sec of Defense. Bam.

[Peggy Day]

43. I agree

If anyone has the link to the proof that Al Gore won in Florida (before the stealing of elections was commonplace) please list it. It will become important to any argument I have. People that don't read much STILL think Bush won the popular vote in Florida. Thank you

[Peace Patriot]

79. Peggy Day, here are two links about Gore's win of Florida.

The study was done by a consortium of major news organizations, but the story of Gore's win was, first of all, repeatedly and deliberately delayed until two months after 9/11, and, secondly, very mis-reported. Several recount methods--partial and full--were used in the study. The full recount showed a Gore win, but the headlines were all about the Bush win of partial recounts (the ones the Sup Court stopped). Since Gore won Florida--the crucial electoral votes--he should have been inaugurated.

Who Won the Election? Who Cares? (this is a good article)

Florida recount consortium muffles results of months of efforts ... (11/12/01): "Gore Could Have Won Florida Vote with Full Recount, Says Media Study"; ...
www.fair.org/index.php?page=1095 - May 18, 2006

Not That It Was Reported, but Gore Won

Not That It Was Reported, but Gore Won. by Jim Naureckas ... That's because the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court - as well as the more limited ...
www.commondreams.org/views01/1115-02.htm

[Peace Patriot]

80. In 2004, of course, no recount was possible, because Tom Delay, Bob

Ney and Christopher Dodd had arranged for a NON-TRANSPARENT election, with Bushite electronic voting corporations 'counting' all our votes with 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code--code so secret that not even our secretaries of state are permitted to review it--and virtually no audit/recount controls.

The damage done by their "Help America Vote Act" of 2002--a $4 billion boondoggle to enrich Bushite corporations and entirely corrupt our election system from one end of the country to another--has yet to be tallied up, but, at a minimum, includes a $10 TRILLION deficit, yet another tax cut for the rich (last week), thousands of deaths in Iraq, torture of prisoners, to our lasting shame as a nation, and loss of our sovereignty as a people, which we exercise through our right to vote.

[progressivebydesign]

26. Beautiful. I was about to pen my own open letter to Al Gore.

I can't imagine I could have said anything differently, or better. Just my heartfelt plea for Al Gore to reconsider a run for the White House. Al Gore is an amazing story yet to be written in American politics. I honestly cannot think of anyone I'd want more to clean up the mess the Bush admin. is leaving for us. It's a Herculean task, but America (and frankly Earth) cannot suffer 4-8 more years of deliberate negligence, nor can it suffer simply a band-aid fix of all that's been torn apart since 2000. I completely respect Al Gore's belief that his fight now is global warming, but there is no way to ever affect that change if we have no power in the White House. Al Gore's new film states that decisions made in the next ten years have the power to devastate the Earth's environment... so I say to Al Gore: "Wouldn't YOU want to be the leader of the Free World for EIGHT of those TEN years??" Is there really a better way to change the world?

After watching the unseen campaign video the other day, I have zero doubt that Al Gore is up to the challenge. He has grown so much, and learned to express who he really is, and learned to trust himself and those closest to him. We will not see the 'handled' Al Gore if he runs again... the passion cannot be contained this time.

Oh.. please.. please.. run in 2008. :grouphug:

[lividtiff]

53. Here here!

You spoke my mind!

[newyawker99]

56. Hi lividtiff!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[cain_7777]

71. Thanks!

This place is great! Living in Texas, you don't get to express your political grievances very often. The DU is a stress relief for sure

[cain_7777]

72. oops!

This is lividtiff. I forgot to log Cain off

[ourbluenation]

28. Blockbuster...your fab letter has 35 recs here!

Good for you!

[ladjf]

29. If Gore is the person I believe him to be, the time has come for

him to step up and lead. Don't worry about the swift boat attacks. Their weapons are powerful enough to harm you. You are going to be protected by masses of goodwill from hopeful and grateful Americans, yearning to be delivered from this chaotic nightmare.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

32. As an unrepentant Nader 2000 voter, I never thought I'd say this...

...but Al has an developed an almost FDR quality and he may be the only one who can reverse the mess of the last 26 years. He wasn't that guy in 2000, but there's something about him now-maybe it's dealing with the media, the 2000 theft, the party establishment backstabbing--but something se him on the right path.

i want feingold but there's a voice that keeps telling me that gore is the guy who can save america.

---and i don't think that 'he's stiff" crap is gonna stick anymore. if there's one thing we've learned about him over the last 6 years is that the man is fucking funny.

[BrklynLiberal]

33. kick

[ms liberty]

34. Eloquent & heartfelt, I agree 100%. K&R. n/t

[slybacon9]

35. Run Al.... RUN.

take Obama as your VP and go the distance.

[Peace Patriot]

38. Obama? I'm sorry, but if it's Obama for vp, I would really be worried

that the fix was in. He is much too careful and middle of the road--the way Hillary is. I don't find him inspiring. He has little experience. And if you want a long overdue black American on the ticket, give me John Conyers--as shrewd and strong a man of the people as there ever was.

But I repeat, what I want--and what I think we need--is the RESTORATION OF ORDER. The American people have been sneered at too long by both fascists on the right, with their absolutely insulting junta and its "little Napoleon" front man, AND too often by the left, who throw words like "sheeple" around, and stand on their superior knowledge and intellects, blaming the peons for their own oppression, and heaping them with poor self-images and further disempowerment.

I want the American peoples' will to be done! I want the two men people voted for to take their rightful place in the White House and start undoing the harm that two stolen elections have brought upon us.

I don't believe in "saviors" and "white knights." I suffered through too many assassinations when I was young to ever put all my political hopes in one person. I want the AMERICAN PEOPLE to rule--as it should be! I want DEMOCRACY, not more kinglets and emperors-with-no-clothes.

I like the American people. I trust them. I think they know what's what. But I think there is a lag time on their understanding of certain blackholed information--such as Bushite corporations having gained control of our election system, with "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, and virtually no audit/recount controls--the damage wrought by the wrongly named "Help America Vote Act," brought to us by the biggest crooks in Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney.

Ask most Americans, and they will tell you the elections are rigged, but they might not know exactly how--nor that it IS fixable. I want the American people to stand up and throw Diebold, ES&S and all election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor'! And I think they will, but they need a boost. They need re-empowerment. And what I think a Gore/Kerry ticket will do is immensely energize the country. I think the whole nation will stand and cheer at this Poetic Justice ticket. I think the vote will be so overwhelming that it will swamp the election theft machines. There will be no rigging THAT vote! It just won't and can't happen.

This ticket has MAGIC! For all my reservations about Gore and Kerry on policy, I can FEEL that magic. And I think Kerry will want to be part of it. He will be vindicated by it. And Gore will permit him to be a great vice president--the greatest we've ever had--because Gore has that kind of generosity in him. He will use talent well.

I think this is the only ticket that can beat the machines.

I'm sorry to be so sour on Obama, and I apologize for putting your choice down that way. I think he's a young man after the main chance--as so many politicians are. That is not necessarily a fault in the young. I just sense greenness (too young) and inexperience, and his feeling his way too carefully. We need tested people right now, and people with extraordinary wisdom and courage. Obama's time may come, if he can stand away from the money/war corruption in the Democratic Party, and become a true populist. And he was not elected president, as Gore and Kerry were. He is not the peoples' choice, going in, as they are.

I wouldn't want Kerry at the top of the ticket. He does have some baggage, that he needs to work on (mainly, his vote on the war, and his early concession*). But by Bushite corporate vote 'count,' he got 60 million votes. The real count was probably 65 million (a 4%-5% margin of victory). He inspired a Dem blowout success in new voter registration, nearly 60/40, Dem/Repub. He pulled most of the new voters, most of the independent voters and most of the former Nader voters. (How then could he have 'lost,' you ask? Long story.) In my judgment of all of the evidence, he won.

How often can you have both a presidential and a vice presidential candidate, on one ticket, both of whom won the presidency--but were unfairly denied the office?

Not often. We should take advantage of this and run them both. Gore and somebody else just doesn't do it. Gore and Kerry. Wow! What a statement!

-----

*(I think this baggage will be easy for him to shed running with Gore on a very energized, "restoration," poetic justice ticket. The Gore/Kerry ticket itself will represent REVERSAL OF ELECTION FRAUD--the thing that Kerry couldn't do for us. The POSITIVE energy of it will mean the END OF THE WAR. No more wars of choice. No more fear mongering. Put "terrorism" in its place as an international police matter, and get on with restoring good government and saving the planet--and saving our country's reputation in the world. Thus, Kerry's great qualities--his intelligence and his tenacity, his essential beliefs in peace and justice, and his prosecutorial skills--will be able to shine.)

[corkhead]

77. I totally agree. I don't think Al would make another lieberman mistake

Repuke lite hasn't worked and especially won't this time. It seems like Al learned from the past and I think would do more to stand up for true democratic (small d) principles this go around...

if he runs of course...

[OneBlueSky]

36. beautiful . . . a great checklist for our next president . . .

(assuming, of course, that there's an election in 2008 . . . and that the next president is someone other than Jeb Bush -- or any PNACer) . . .

I not only hope that Al Gore accepts the challenge -- I hope that he does with no help from corporate interests of any stripe . . . he needs to declare his independence to do what's right for the country and the planet by removing excessive corporate influence (and control) from government . . . he needs to reject the easy corporate dollar and trust that the people will provide what is needed . . .

recommended . . . :)

[me b zola]

37. I'm also asking, Al

:kick:

[eviltwin2525]

39. that speaks for me, too

I'm proud to add my sig to this prayer. The time for Gore is now.

[madokie]

40. If there is ever a man to lead us out of this darkness it is Al Gore

He knows the ways, the means to do it, like no one I know of. The man is a true born leader and has never asked of us anything that wasn't in our collective best interest, that he wouldn't do himself first. Mr Russ Feingold is the man to stand with him as the Vice President too.
peace to all

[AlGore-08.com]

41. K & R for President Gore

A beacon of light in these dark times...

[ourbluenation]

42. Is the algore-08 website yours? If so are you getting increases in hits?

[Ganja Ninja]

44. Please run Al, we need you.

[Z_I_Peevey]

47. Another voice for Al Gore.

I'll work for his election harder than I've ever worked for ANYTHING political. We simply must restore our democracy; there is no other choice.

[Minnesota_Lib]

51. I have my "Re-elect Al Gore in '08" bumpersticker ready to go ; )

[Nordmadr]

59. I've got a "Draft Al Gore 08" sticker already on my car. N/T

[bleedingheart]

52. That was awe inspiring!

He would be the FDR of my generation if he was finally in the office he was elected to....

[otohara]

54. Wow, Just Wow

crossing my fingers this comes true

[leesa]

55. I'd go for Gore now that he has shed the shackles of the the DLC and

the beltway...Gore/Feingold sounds great to me.

[sasha031]

57. This is our man

http://cdn.news.aol.com/aolnews_photos/03/06/20050909195109990020


sorry folks, I couldn't download it, this pic speaks volumes, it was during Katrina

[Uncle Joe]

60. Triple Kick!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

I keep thinking of FDR and Churchill when I think of our current times and Al Gore.

[karlrschneider]

61. It's almost impossible for me to imagine any sane person WANTING

to be the next prez. Even if it weren't broke, there ain't enough money in the treasury to get -me- to do it...
:eyes:

[JNelson6563]

62. Dear President Gore

Please run for re-election.

Oh and also consider Russ Feingold for your running mate.

:toast:

[AX10]

63. Seriously, who would want to be President now?

They would have to repair the damage done by Bush.

Don't forget that massive debt that Bush racked up. That's going to be with us for a
L -- O -- N -- G time.

[ourbluenation]

64. update on the full page NYT ad space for an open letter to Gore...

The fella from the NYT emailed me back and asked if I'd want black and white or color, weekday or sunday...

I said black and white (it's a letter...hello!) and the first Sunday after the Mid Terms...waddya think?

I havn't heard back yet...

[otohara]

69. Great Idea -

I wonder how long it would take to raise that much here? We need a famous type person with lots of money.

[ourbluenation]

78. we would need $100 from just 1500 people. I'm working on it....

stay tuned...

[BattyDem]

65. Come on Al .... we NEED you!

Pretty please? B-)

[WiseButAngrySara]

70. This is wonderful! I put off reading it yesterday. I'm glad that I

didn't miss it altogether. Thanks for posting. A :kick: for now, as I think the time for recommending is passed!

[no name no slogan]

73. I like Al Gore. But not for President. Not in 2008

He had his chance in 2000. Yes, he won, but the stink of defeat still clings to him, even six years later.

However, he may pull a Nixon and resurrect himself. There is a precident, after all.

[VOX]

75. Wow. I am speechless. Terrific piece.

"...I wish for you happy times, but I'd ask you to be a great president." :patriot:

[Roland99]

76. I've long said it will take great sacrifices on all fronts to fix the US.

Sacrifice on the part of Americans (stop living beyond one's means, paying more in taxes, getting less in social benefits)

Sacrifice on the part of politicians (doing the right thing to fix the deficit and control spending and reign in the massive military in spite of pressure to remain 'electable')

[Disturbed]

81. Gore/Feingold 2008

Where can I get that bumper sticker?

[Roland99]

82. I'm warming to that possibility