What Gore might learn from Teddy

[BridgeTheGap]

What Gore might learn from Teddy
Admirers hope the Nobel Prize spurs him to enter the presidential race
By Tom Curry
National affairs writer MSNBC - 10/12/07

The Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision Friday to award Al Gore, along with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize is certain to delight Gore admirers, who hope the recognition will persuade the former vice president to jump into the presidential race.

But the record of the American politicians who have won the Peace Prize since it was first handed out in 1901 shows that if you win, it’s an indication that your peak has passed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21253004/

[ShortnFiery]

1. Another damn "hit piece" minimizing this honor = Thanks M$NBC

:eyes: :puke:

[BridgeTheGap]

2. More of a "soft" hit piece

It's very "reasonable" - people who receive this award are past their prime!?!
Hah- Gore would STILL make a great President. Besides, Regan really was past his prime when he was elected (did he ever have a "prime"?).

[comtec]

3. Bedtime for bonzo

that was the gipper's prime LOL
I don't really see it as a hit piece, it's honest... but most winners are, O L D ! ! !
Thankfully Gore's young enough he can still raise 5 kinds of hell for at least anther 20-40 years! :)

[Uncle Joe]

4. Even the problem with Roosevelt wasn't because he was past his prime,

the problem lay in his progressive belief that the Republican Party, specifically Taft; his former Secretary of War whom Roosevelt endorsed earlier for President had become too conservative. Now keep in mind this was during the age of monopoly and trust busting, also Roosevelt had become our nation's first environmental President.

From Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason" pages 89-90 two quotes from Roosevelt and how his attitude changed.

"The Progressive movement in the first decade of the twentieth century gave voice and force of law to a growing desire to ameliorate these harms. Because reformers were still able to use reason to mediate between wealth and power, the boundary line between democracy and capitalism began to move back in favor of democracy. Theodore Roosevelt, two weeks before becoming President in the fall of 1901 after the assassination of President William Mckinley, said, " The vast individual and corporate fortunes, the vast combinations of capital which have marked the development of our industrial system, create new conditions, and necessitate a change of the old attitude of the state and the nation toward property."

"Halfway through his second term, after winning many battles against monopolies on behalf of the public interest, Roosevelt said in April 1906, Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day"

I believe this is what caused problems between Roosevelt and the Republican Party, not the B.S. the O.P. was alluding too about being past your prime in order to win the Nobel Peace Price. I believe this is just more of corporate media standard operating procedure of belittling the import of the Nobel Peace Prize because Al Gore and the scientists won it.

[struggle4progress]

5. Oh, pooh! Gore is younger than * and not nearly as old as Raygun was when elected.