Reply #85: Run in what? The toxic system no one is going to change first? [View All]

If you really are reading his book or read his interview in Tennessee from last Saturday, you would know how he feels about that. Or are you like so many others in this country willfully oblivious to that on purpose because it ruins your illusions? And please, cut the rhetoric about my feelings for Mr. Gore. It is because I care for him so much that I have a distaste for people who continue to beg and PUSH him without substance or regard for him as if nothing the man himself says means anything. I only see this as people wanting Mr. Gore to jump into this muck because they just don't like what they have... and that is not really a reasoned summation of why anyone would want the man to give up all he has now and all he could do unfettered by that crap just to clean the mess made in this country due to our inability to take action to restore a constitution and Democracy that we let be put on life support these last seven years. So excuse me if all this begging after the fact is somewhat anti-climactic and hollow to me under the circumstances. The only way he would ever seriously consider it in my view is if people make an effort to change it. Begging him 24/7 is not exactly the way that will be done now.


Saturday, 06/02/07

Interview with Al Gore


How do you resist running? Everybody from CEOs down are asking you to run. Do you just not have it in you to go through another campaign?

No, that's not it at all. That is not it at all. (laughs) A couple of my friends have said over the last year, 'Al, why don't you take a break and run for president?' "

It's not the hard work or the controversies or the constant battles. I'm going through that right now. If you look at the analysis of what's wrong in the political system that is contained in this book, that's really the most important reason why I feel it may be better for me to focus whatever talents and experiences I have on trying to fix that system and to mobilize a majority in favor of solving the climate crisis, rather than throwing myself once again into that system before it is fixed and getting into the same set of incentives that create the kind of political dialogue we have today. It may be easier to fix it from the outside.

Again, I haven't ruled out for all time thinking about politics again. It's just that the way it works now, I don't think that the skills I have are the ones that are most likely to be rewarded within this system. It's like a washing machine that is permanently set on the spin cycle. It doesn't stop spinning. That creates real problems for a politics based on reason
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But hey, don't pay attention to his words, just bash those who do.