Al Gore can't even deal with the fact that he's not running

That's why he keeps this not-quite-definitive word game going. I've been a fan of Al's for twenty years and I feel for him, but this is what I see.

In his mind he's thinking 'I'll keep the door open just a little bit, in case some huge change in circumstances occurs.'

Which is ridiculous, because if some huge change occurs, like say Hillary becomes gravely ill, he won't need to have left the door open to decide to run. The change in circumstances would be sufficient all by itself to support his change in plans within about three weeks of national political turmoil, involving without a doubt a torrent of speculation around 'Will Al Gore step in to the void?'.

Al should just get off the pot and pull his pants up, because he's not going to shit on long-running Democratic plans and throw the 2008 election into turmoil when Hillary and the Dems are really starting to kick ass. He knows that about himself even if you don't know it about him.

I feel for you guys that want him to run, but you really should understand that he's not. And just because he can't quite admit it to himself doesn't mean that he hasn't given you enough evidence for you to admit it to yourselves. So deal with it.

I'm looking forward to Al heading the Dept of Energy and/or maybe the EPA. It is the best thing for us and for him too.

:)

Energy and EPA are out, according to him.

and to me it was more along the lines of reading tea leaves, not definitive.

He's been saying that all along, and I have no doubt that if Al were called, he'd serve in about half a second.

it's for you al!

if they can't find one, the fault lies with them, not Al.

he's using the speculation to promote his global warming cause. As long as he keeps the door cracked, the media will pay more attention to him.

I wish he would run tho' ... I'm kinda discouraged by the current crop of candidates.

....tell the difference between "wanting" and "getting".

So deal with it.

Cheers

…I don't think he likes the sound of "President Ghouliani" or "President Huckabee" any more than we do.

He is certainly aware of what the Bush** regime has done to the environment over the past 7 years, and what another Repiglickin regime would do.

He knows that all of the Repiglickin candidates except Ron Paul are committed to continuing the Iraq war and attacking Iran.

And he can see that Bush**'s high disapproval ratings are not translating into support for Democratic Presidential candidates.
None of them have large leads over likely Repiglickin contenders, and in some surveys they are actually trailing.

With the Mighty Slime Machine shifting into election mode next year, as well as the Diebold Repiglickin Electing Machinez,
we need the best candidate to win, and that candidate is Al Gore!

GORE FOR PRESIDENT!

More sadism on DU.

As far as Al Gore is concerned, he's doing a disservice to Democrats with his coyly phrased denials because he can't face up to what he knows he's not going to do. And I'm far from the first person to point that out.

Really? Whose ass? I guess we all see what we want to see in everything.

in the polls and with increasing acceptance of her as the possible if not likely Democratic nominee for the Presidency of the United States.

That kind of see what we want to see?


I wanted to keep this more about Al Gore and his reluctance to fully let go when he knows he's not going to run. He most surely sees what you don't want to see. He should free his contingent of supporters from what looks to be an increasingly uncomfortable position for them.

I'm sensing that many of them are starting to feel the same way.

of inevitability. I wonder where anyone would get that idea? I have heard Newt Gingrich say it numerous times, perhaps it was from him. You may have wanted to keep this about Al Gore, but you did say Hillary was really starting to kick ass, so I appreciate the clarification.

they never displayed "An Inconvenient Truth" even after it became a bestseller, won an Academy Award or a Nobel Peace Prize, they never displayed "The Assault on Reason" even after it became a best seller and won a Quill Award, this in the home state of the former Vice-President.

Today I went there to check it out, the Ann Coulter books are gone and have been replaced by Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton's books, still no Al Gore book. The same people that supported Bush are know pushing the Clintons, this is just one of many red flags for me.

What is that, February? March? I don't think he can bring himself to let it go until the nomination is all but wrapped up.

What I'm afraid of is that he might keep the coyness going all the way through the formalizing of the nomination at the Democratic convention next summer. It will be sad if he can't let go until he has to, then pretending that he'd let go a long time ago, when he really never had.

Al got fucked, and it still pisses me off. Worse still he got fucked by the biggest pricks in the country - the fascist right and their mainstream media cohorts. And worst still - what they've done to this nation with their stolen power. It's a pure tragedy, but it's now eight years past. It is Hillary's time now. If Al had run in 2004 I would have voted for him. If two years ago he had said he was running in 2008 I would have probably voted for him. But he didn't, and it's not his time any more. He knows that; he just hasn't reconciled with it. I'm hoping he gets to that soon, for his and our sakes.

And he'd better take his drive and his passion and his talent and do tremendous things for us all under the next Democratic administration, or it will be an even bigger tragedy. I have no doubt he will.