GORE Press Conference in about 2 minutes (1:54pm) W/take NO questions.

[cyberpj]

MSNBC News on cable.

[cyberpj]

1. Deeply Honored to accept award.

thanking committee.

[cyberpj]

2. Donating all proceeds to climate change. nt

[cyberpj]

3. Hey - He looks thinner - wasn't that supposed to be a clue for him to run? nt

[cyberpj]

4. This is just the beginning. I'm going back to work right now (on climate change). No annoucement

on running.

Good move not to jump right on it today.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

5. Would you say that door is left just a bit open?

:-) MKJ

[cyberpj]

6. I would. But I may be coating that guess in a lot of hope.

Gore/Biden
or
Gore/Clark

would be unbeatable.

But Hillary and Bill would hate him forever and probably even take him out so I truly understand his reluctance.

[tomg]

7. I would give anything to see

Al Gore run. I truly believe it would be best for the country, but I honestly don't think he will. It is the same thing that they say about Jimmy Carter- "He used the Presidency as a stepping stone to a higher office." ( God - I would love that ticket - Gore and Carter). To be president, you have to be a politician. Al Gore, like Jimmy Carter, is really something else at this point. I wonder if we would have seen the remarkable character traits he shows now had he not gone through what he did in 2000.

[xxqqqzme]

8. I share your sentiments.

I believe, because this country has been so deeply divided since that horrible SCOTUS decision, Al Gore is the one person who can repair that divide.

[tomg]

10. You're right that he is

probably the only American with the ethical stature and the ability to do so. There is, though, another issue. Right now the country is so screwed on so many levels and Al Gore's reputation is so justifiably high, that the expectations for a Gore presidency would be impossible to meet. Seven years ago, Al Gore was anything but charismatic, but at this point he has taken on the aura of a semi-charismatic figure. And the problems that go with it. In other words, the American electorate - given that most it has the memory of a gold-fish and the attention span of a gnat - would not have the immediate fix they have come to expect. Anything short of immediate "salvation" for the country would be viewed as failure. Actually, I am worried that whoever wins the Dem nomination ( and there is no way the nominee will lose the presidential election short of even greater fraud than in 2000 and 3004)is a one-termer for some of that reason.

The irony is that given a full eight years, it is exactly someone like Gore who can set the country back on track. If we think back on the things that really galvanized the nation and had us working toward some kind of a common purpose - the New Deal, comes to mind most obviously - and that called for common sacrifice for a greater good, the nexus of issues attached to the immediacy of Global Warming - true environmentalism, re-tooling and re-thinking our economy, developing new sources of clean energy, a real health policy - would be exactly like this. Unfortunately the concept of a national purpose was hijacked by Bush for his "War on Terror" and in place of sacrifice we have tax cuts and semi-fascist ( okay, eliminate the semi) corporatism.

[tsuki]

9. Good for him! The boys in the club are livid. Don't give them an

opening. Cut them out and go around.