Please, Mr. Gore, it's time to Save America

[berni_mccoy]

Dear Mr. Gore,

I know you are busy working on Saving the World. You are doing very important work, no doubt. The world recognizes this by nominating you for the Nobel Peace prize. But I would say, America needs saving too. You are the only one who can do both at the same time. Let's say the world finds a way to reduce green house gasses and start reversing the effects of humanity on the environment. Without your leadership, it's unlikely America will participate. What's worse, without a great leader like you, America could still end up heading in the wrong direction on so many more issues. We need you. Do not give up on us. I know you refer to yourself as a recovering politician. I would argue that you need to, and are able to, change politics. Restore dignity to our system. Restore America to it's moral and ethical leadership. If you do not, we could end up being left behind and alone in the world. No one in America wants that. No one in America can live with that.

Please, I ask you, run for President again. It's time to save America.

[closeupready]

1. K&R

:)

[melody]

2. I have this feeling Al is going to run

It may be a hopeful delusion :) , but I really do think he will.

[kimmerspixelated]

3. Oh, I am riding your hopes

with everything! Maybe he is waiting for the oscars to announce!

[ninkasi]

5. I hope so

We have to get it right this time...we have to have a leader who will undo the years of destruction inflicted by Bush and his corrupt cronies.

[berni_mccoy]

8. I do hope you are right

[ms liberty]

4. I want this so much, there are no words to describe how much...

You are so right. Al Gore CAN do both at the same time, and more. He's one of the few that has the imagination, the vision, the drive, the qualifications, the experience, the abilities, the curiosity and the intelligence to supervise and manage the changes we desperately need to make beginning Jan. 21, 2009. America could lead the world in immediate climate change measures - just think what we could achieve if a creative, thoughtful government threw some REAL money at the new solar technology for homes, for hybrid cars, for production of biofuels, and other ideas - just as a short term beginning, but then also to longer term projects that would be more permanent replacements for oil and solutions for our problems. Because that's what we have to do.
We could make some diplomacy with the world instead of war, with someone the rest of the world sees as a statesman and leader. We could see our Constitution regarded as the supreme law of the land. We could honor our treaties and agreements, we could treat the rest of the world as fairly as we wish to be treated.

We're at one of those turning points in our history again. We need a true statesman who will step up and lead us into our future, the future we must have if we're to survive as a nation and avert the looming threat to the planet. I think Al Gore is the person who can do it best.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. K&R

I agree berni, Al gore is the best chance America has...maybe OUR last chance.

[porphyrian]

7. Or at least point someone out who can do the job, too. - n/t

[dalaigh lllama]

9. from your mouth to God's ear

...or at least to Mr. Gore's ear. :D

[BlooInBloo]

10. Saving the world from global warming in 40 years does no good....

.... if we blow it up in 20.

Please run, Al.

[Tyo]

11. Gore can't save America

He can only help US do it.

[berni_mccoy]

13. It's going to take someone like Gore to help us do it

We need moral and ethical leadership, in both the Executive and Legislative branches to lead America into a new age.

The age we are in now is dark. We need a bright light like Gore to lead us out.

[Tyo]

19. Man, I've got no problem with Gore

In the last few years he's totally won me over. Wish he could have gotten the passion and/or the confidence a long time ago
but we bloom when we bloom.

My concern is that we start thinking that our salvation is in a leader who will show us the way. I don't need anyone to show me the way or lead me anywhere. I need someone who is better than I am at getting the message out. If Gore can help us do this then great. If can articulate what is going on better than any of the rest of us then he's my man. But I'm still looking for a President. The last thing we need is a Savior.

[proud patriot]

12. Please

:patriot:

[sam kane]

14. Mr. President Gore, you are our shining (movie) star!

[tom_paine]

15. K & R!

[Wiley50]

16. Bernie, I Live about 10 Miles Up The Road From his Homeplace

The Farm He Inherited from his Dad.

I don't know how often he's there these days
But, As far as I know, He still owns the farm

Would it be OK for me to print out your note
and stuff it inn the mailbox up there?

[RestoreGore]

21. Isn't that trespassing? n/t

[rman]

24. how could it be?

:shrug:

[RestoreGore]

29. It's Not Your Property?

At what point does this begin to border on harrassment? He has an office, you know.

[rman]

31. The mailbox is also not property of the mailman

Yet he's not trespassing when he delivers mail.

[RestoreGore]

41. That is just too ignorant to even respond to n/t

[rosesaylavee]

23. Mr. Wiley

It is now expected of you, on behalf of all DU, to print out all the Re-Elect Gore threads and hand deliver them to his mailbox until he announces his candidacy. :)

I am series. Because without him, I fear that we are truly screwn.

[mtnester]

25. Don't put it inside the mailbox

hang it in plastic somewhere else easily visible, or put it in an envelope, put the address on it and mail it to him.

Better yet, go up and knock on the door.

[walldude]

17. I like him better now that he's not a politician

Hate to see him ruin that by getting back in the game..

[Stephanie]

18. Oh I will K&R

AL 08!

[RestoreGore]

20. If The People Do Not Save This Country It Is Lost, And Al Gore IS Leading America

Once again the entire point of all he is doing is overlooked, and the work he is now doing reduced to nothingness. "I know you are doing important work", and etc etc etc... But this is the real following line that should be inserted... however, that isn't good enough for the American people who just can't or won't get their act together, so we need you to do that for them, because you certainly are not a leader unless you have a title next to your name and we won't listen to you otherwise.

It is really so sad to see that after all the work this man has done and is doing for America as well that it is constantly pushed to the side as insignificant because there is no partisan political spin to it or other campaign attached to it. And I believe Mr. Gore would be the first one to tell anyone that he does not own a cape. He cannot leap tall buildings at a single bound. He does not have a magic lasso that will pull all the global warming pollution we are ALL putting in this atmosphere daily as we continue to talk about this away. And there is actually no one bill he could ever sign that would have the impact of what he is doing now across the board, because the reality of this situation is that Americans on the whole in this country at this point are still uninformed, ignorant, complacent, distracted, lazy, and unaware of the affects their behavior is having on this world, and the political process is toxic and still too beholding to the special interests that are exacerbating this crisis (due to those very same descriptions above) to ever have one comprehensive enough NOW to face this as it needs to be faced NOW.

He must continue his work to lead the American people (which he is already doing with the Climate Project, the Alliance for Climate Protection, and other endeavors) from the grassroots. What do people think he has been doing in Nashville and around the world? Playing around? No, he was and is beginning what could be the greatest mass grassroots movement in the history of this country and perhaps even this world if only people would stop looking to one person to lead them and start leading themselves as well. By being the committed leader he is now (and yes, he is leading for those who simply refuse to see it) and doing so without the partisan political pretense attached to it, success with the grassroots seeing the urgency of this crisis and working with him across all lines to solve it from the bottom up is much more asssured than him turning this into a partisan political issue and making people believe he only did all of this for his own selfish aspirations.... and I tell you now, to run for President in this country's military/industrial complex, media propaganda, million dollar campaign corporate whore system, is to be an egotist, someone willing to be devoid of moral foresight, and someone willing to sell their soul for personal gain.

I refuse to believe Mr. Gore is still bound to the OLD way of making progress. Martin Luther King Jr. brought about a civil rights revolution without taking one step into the Capitol Building or White House as an "elected" official. Alice Paul, Susan B. Anthony, and other committed women changed the course of history and influenced an amendment to this Constitution without ever being "one of them." Most of the great people down through history who have done the greatest and most effective work to bring about real change have never held elected office. I see a pattern there, and with this crisis that goes so far beyond one political campaign, it is not the answer, WE ARE, and I think that Mr. Gore knows full well that after beating his head on that political brick wall for thirty years in that phony world, that a NEW way of making progress must be attempted. And it is working, hence the Nobel nomination, the UN Champion of the Earth Laureate distinction, and the Oscar nomination for the movie An Inconvenient Truth, besides the response this is getting from real people globally. This is not an isolated crisis by any means. This will have to be addressed with GLOBAL participation with means America leading the way as a whole, not just one person.

These honors were also not bestowed on a "politician". They were bestowed on an environmentalist, a statesman, and a champion of the preservation of our future sustainability. ONLY after shedding that beltway skin that devoids a good man of his ability to truly speak and live by his convictions has Mr. Gore been able to bring this crisis into the consciousness of the world, including America... now, if America doesn't listen and take action, that is America's fault. Mr. Gore is already doing his part.

[halobeam]

33. Al Gore doesn't have to do the door to door himself in order for

his pursuit on the grass level roots to be continued. He can direct those he entrusts. RFK, Jr. is one who comes to mind, as I'm sure there are many that Gore knows well enough to trust to take his direction. As leader of this country, he can do MORE by inserting his Inconvenient Truth lecture and teachings INTO policy that is enacted. To me, THAT is even MORE ACTIVE.

I understand what he is doing is working, but do you give him enough credit that maybe he could work out how to implement the fundamentals of climate change even more effectively as POTUS, and ALSO work on issues that are taking this country down as well?

I believe he can do both.

I believe the American people can ask him to run for this presidency AND "FOLLOW AND ABIDE BY" his teachings regarding climate change. We can do both.

[RestoreGore]

40. I trust him.. Just not harrassing him, especially when I believe his heart really does not want it

And I don't TRUST THIS SYSTEM and I do not believe he will have instant success in the same system that STONEWALLED this issue for the last thirty years. I also think many are just using it now to try to get him to run for their own political reasons, because if I'm not mistaken, this crisis wasn't even a blip anywhere before An Inconvenient Truth came out even though the warnings have been here for YEARS, even before 2004. So where was the urgency then? And since he has been doing this slideshow since the seventies, why didn't Bill Clinton let him put it into POLICY then? I'll tell you why, because this political system WILL NOT ALLOW IT.

[halobeam]

42. I understand not trusting the system.

I do believe with a Democratic congress, many things would get done with Gore as president. Didn't Clinton have a repub. congress and senate? (not sure)..

personally, I don't think anyone deserves the disaster they will be jumping into, in taking the office. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Yes, it's kind of selfish to want Gore (if I look at it from your perspective), when I see whats going on around me, knowing he is genuine and gives a shit. I want that on my side. Not totally selfish though. I think of my kids. I think of our troops and more to come. I think of Katrina survivors. I think of the blue tarps STILL covering roof tops in Fla. from 2 1/2 years ago. I think of stem cell research. I think of poverty and a dying middle class.. but that's just a personal note on this discussion.

[Nikia]

54. I agree

When I read the book Inconvient Truth I became convinced that this was his passion and what he should be doing. In many ways, he has more power to affect change as a private citizen than as a politician.

[rosesaylavee]

22. Mr. Gore - Just do it.

[Swamp Rat]

26. k&r

:patriot:

[byronius]

27. K & R with a vengeance.

[earth mom]

28. Please save us Al!

[SaveAmerica]

30. That's what I've been trying to say since I joined DU!! It's past time

[tex-wyo-dem]

32. America and the world needs you, Mr. Gore...

Please run...it's yours for the taking.

[LaPera]

34. Yes, the Democratic Messiah...I hope no one here has diabetes....

If Al Gore wants to run, believe me he'll run... Gore is well aware of how the political tide works and changes.... If Gore knows he can absolutely win the nomination he'll run on his own...He doesn't need you or me to tell him. Gore is a very rich old political pro, he knows exactly what he's doing...He loves the power just as ALL who run for president do.

However, Al Gore certainly is no savior, who is? Although Gore may look like one to many after six years of the republicans "seconding coming" the idiot, incompetent frat boy. - Save us Jesus!

Gore indeed has an excellent film out, (An Inconvenient Truth) that all should see...a very important film...

There are many other Democratic candidates, non candidates and important voices out there, it's hard to believe with over 300 million people in this country, only the Clinton's & Gore's are all we have.

The Dem's have won the last four presidential elections...

And they'll win the next one...doesn't mean they'll take office...not with the electronic voting machines that will be in place in over 90% of the country in 2008...

As the Dem congress hasn't done a thing to change or put any legislation forth concerning the easily hackable electronic voting machines, (though it's still early, I don't see them making any significant changes in our voting apparatus before 2008). Since the democrats have taken over the majority, most Dems no longer see any problem in our voting machines...even though republicans stole races all over the country this past November elections...it could of been a lot worst for the republicans if not for their electronic voting machines.

But, a Dem WILL win the presidency again in 2008!

If Gore decides he wants to run and he wins the nomination---I will, as I have my whole life, vote for the Democratic nominee--No questions about it.

But the democratic process is grueling on a presidential candidate, the way it's should be done, if one wants that power so badly....so Gore is just waiting....There's still sooooo much time left before the first primary in New Hampshire in spring of 2008.

If Gore wants to run, he will run, only if he absolutely knows he will capture the nomination.

[Greyskye]

35. Happy to give the 50th rec.

My dream ticket is Gore/Clark.

[JNelson6563]

36. Kick

:kick:

[WindRavenX]

37. in light of all the "new" announcements today re:global warming--he needs to

Come on Al!!!

[FogerRox]

38. Dear MT GORE

RUN

I have presidential, House, Governor & Senate races under my belt, working in campaign field operations.

I will quit my job and work for you in any location in the US.

Together we can reshape the world.

It does not have to be like this.

[RestoreGore]

39. Is that what all this is about?

Interviewing for a job? Oh yes, run Al, but make sure you take me with you so I get acclaim as well.

[FogerRox]

43. Thats right, I choose who I work for.

[RestoreGore]

45. Then why aren't you helping him now?

Are you?

[FogerRox]

49. Who wants to know?

[FogerRox]

51. Come on back...

reason #1, In NJ we have muni elections in may. I am interviewing for a position managing 2 council races, 4 schoolboard races, a pay to play referendum. Then we have state Assembly & Senate elections in Nov. While working for my friend who is again running for congress in '08.

Yes I am supporting Al, now. Thanks for the interest. Now get to work.

[RestoreGore]

52. Stick your insolence n/t

[FogerRox]

55. How was I offensive disrespectful or impudent ?

[FogerRox]

56. ya got back up? or no?

[bdamomma]

44. Nothing against Mr. Gore, but we are the only ones to save ourselves

[Red Right and BLUE]

46. PLEASE LET IT BE SO. nt

[John Gauger]

47. I wouldn't worry about Gore being disinterested.

I am absolutey certain that Gore will tender another Presidential run. It is clear to me that he has been carefully planning for it for the past six years. Every time I have heard from him in the past six years, he has said or done something helpful to his prospects as a candidate. In 2004 he was still "Sore Loserman," so he couldn't attempt to otherthrow George, even though he had proven that he could beat him in an election. But his position right now is golden. He's walking on water. Look at the number of people on the Internet that are _begging_ him to run. Gore has always been promoting apocalyptic views of the environment, and people are finally waking up to the dangers of global warming. People are saying, "Gee, this guy has been right about this for over thirty years." His only problem right now is Hillary. He wants Bill on his campaign trail. He's just waiting to get right of Hillary. Then his prospects will be perfect.

[Kurovski]

48. K&R for a heartfelt request that captures the feelings of many.

[leftstreet]

50. What is Gore's PLATFORM?

Does he support single payer healthcare?

Does he denounce American Imperialism? Does he want the troops home?

What's his position on immigration and outsourcing?

How's he liking NAFTA and free trade now?

Is he still associated with the DLC?

:shrug:

[nam78_two]

53. K&R.nt