Al Gore Should Run for President

[Pryderi]

http://www.vox.com/2015/3/16/8220537/al-gore-president-2016

Gore offers a genuinely different view of what the Democratic Party — and, by extension, American politics — should be about.

Climate change is a real and growing threat to the world's future. In 2009, nearly every country in the world agreed that global warming must be held to less than two degrees Celsius. We're on pace to blow through that — warming the planet four degrees or more is horrifyingly plausible. No one really knows what that kind of temperature change — a swing that approaches the difference between most of human history and the Ice Age — would mean for humankind. The World Bank says that there is "no certainty that adaptation to a 4°C world is possible."

Income inequality is a serious problem. But climate change is an existential threat.

[CBGLuthier]

1. Why bother. When he wins AGAIN they will still hand it to the nearest idiot.

[riversedge]

2. strange, I just read this article about 10 minutes ago. My initial reaction was NO...then

as I read, I saw the big issue he was making was climate change. I think he has a point there but is Al the best to articulate that point?? A millionaire who rides in his own jet etc. etc. yes, those would be RW talking points. yet they are true

[brooklynite]

3. So you want a 1%er who's on the Board of a company people love to hate to run?

Personally, I wouldn't support him because 1) he ran a lousy campaign in 2000 and 2) as important as the environment is, it's not an issue on the minds of voters today.

[Karmadillo]

4. We have to deal with global warming sooner rather than later. If a Gore candidacy

can help put it on the policy agenda in a real way, I'm all for his running. He doesn't have to win to do all of us some good on this issue.

[cali]

6. personally, I think it's way to late. that ship has sailed

[Orrex]

5. Al Gore would guarantee a Republican Whitehouse in 2016

And he'd probably cement a GOP Congress for at least the next few terms, too.

He was the right candidate in 2000, as evidenced by the fact that he won.

I like Al, but now he's the wrong candidate at the wrong time.

[Laurian]

7. Leave Al alone! He's spent his time in hell and

shouldn't be asked to go there again. The press would be merciless toward him (as they were the last time).

[TheKentuckian]

8. We are short of DLC corporate conservatives around 70.

Anything and I mean anything at all to avoid confronting the vulture class and taking care of our people, right?

Starve out enough proles and we can slow the growth of climate change without disrupting profits or the lifestyles of the rich and famous!

[Oktober]

9. Can we get someone new FFS?

Bushes and Gores and Clintons.... Oh my...

Move along people... Nothing to see here

[Warren DeMontague]

10. K&R