Well, I think this rules out Al Gore's candidacy.

Al Gore's next act: Planet-saving VC
The recovering politician is teaming with a legendary venture capitalist and bigtime moneyman to make over the $6 trillion global energy business. A Fortune exclusive
Al Gore's next act: Planet-saving VC

TEAM PLAYERS
Blood, Gore, and Doerr all had long resumes before diving into green investing. Here's a snapshot.
David Blood (co-founder and managing partner, Generation)
Blood spent 18 years at Goldman, where he ran asset management and was a popular "culture keeper," before hooking up with Gore in 2003.
Al Gore (Chairman, Generation; partner, Kleiner Perkins)
You may have heard of him: The former Veep is an author, activist, cable TV exec, Google advisor, Apple director, Nobelist, and newly minted VC.
John Doerr (Partner, Kleiner Perkins; advisory board member, Generation
A deejay and debater at Rice University, then an Intel salesman, Doerr has been proselytizing on behalf of Kleiner startups since 1980.
(Fortune Magazine) -- It's lunchtime on Sand Hill Road, and Al Gore wants answers. "How does the efficiency decline with latitude?" he asks. "What size community could be served by one plant? If a manufacturer like GE wanted to make smaller turbines, would the technology support a smaller scale?"

We're sitting in the giant conference room at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where the partners hold their weekly meetings. After loading his plate with Chinese food from a buffet, Gore is firing detailed questions at the management team of Ausra, a Kleiner-backed company in Palo Alto whose technology uses mirrors the width of a flatbed truck that focus the sun's energy to generate electricity.

Once Gore is satisfied -- sunlight lags north of South Dakota, an Ausra plant can serve 120,000 homes, and yes, smaller turbines will work fine -- he shifts from inquisitor to fixer. He was chatting with California Senator Barbara Boxer "on the way over," he reports, and he isn't optimistic that Congress will extend the tax credits Ausra has been relying on. On the upside, he offers on the spot to organize a summit highlighting the company's solar thermal technology to educate lawmakers and other policymakers on its potential. He also thinks a powwow at General Electric (Charts, Fortune 500) would be beneficial, even though Ausra is a tiny customer.

More at link: http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/11/news/newsmakers/gore_kleiner.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007111208

Blood, Gore, and Guts would be an awesome company name.

:D

who are interpreting his comments differently. This VC initiative that he has just announced should end all speculation.

But you know, that's just the opinion of someone who, like, understands plain english.

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Can't write it however.

Many, many people here are holding out hope that he will run. This latest venture on his part obviously should end that speculation. He wouldn't have announced this VC initiative if he had 'other' plans.

I just recently came out of denial about Gore---last week, actually.

Be patient with those who hope for Gore. Many of us are just terribly
afraid for the future of this nation--and Gore seems like the perfect
antidote.

It's just hard to let it go. Be patient and gentle as everyone accepts
this really harsh reality.

I realize he can accomplish far more if he is
not shackled to the White House cleaning up
dumbya's mess.

as potus, gore could accomplish far more than he ever could as a private citizen.

as a venture capitalist, he has no power to direct energy policy, or focus the nations attention, energy, and resources toward finding and implementing solutions.

all the foreign relations problems and
resolving the Iraq war would monopolize his
time.

and there is no "bullier pulpit" than the office of potus- there's just no comparison as far as the amount of power and influence he could wield from the oval office.

HOWEVER- perhaps he would be just as well served(and the country and globe as well) if a new cabinet level position of 'global warming czar' were created for him, giving him the plenty of power, and the direct attention of the actual potus.

Not exactly a Madison Avenue award wining name for a VC outfit.

I think they need a better PR person in the team.

Confusing the freepers....we'd have their votes for sure !

Seriously, I wish Al all the best whatever his future holds.

Now there's a great thought:

Don't vote for the chicken hawks, vote for Blood & Gore!

Can't blame him.

Unfortunately. And prior to that, I was holding out hope that he would change his mind. This latest intiative should end the speculation that he is still going to run.

:D

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I saw this in the SJ Mercury News today and I knew it was over....but then again, I gave up about two weeks ago. When the Iran Resolution was passed, when Feinstein backed Mukasey and when I watched in disgust on CSPAN Steny Hoyer try to table the Impeachment of Cheney bill that Kucinich introduced, that is when I gave up. So when I saw that Gore chose capitalism and making money over the opportunity to make a difference by being in the White House, I knew it was over.....I'm so beyond disillusioned. Yes, I'll vote, likely for Kucinich in the Primary as a statement but praying its Edwards or Obama as the nominee, not Clinton. I don't know what's coming, I just know it will be bad. Call me crazy, but I don't even think Bush/Cheney intend on going....Sigh....

His Nobel Peace Prize and the difference it will now spawn globally is worthless? Surely you jest. You think this is about the money to him? He is actually donating his salary from this venture to the Alliance for Climate Protection, and I am absolutely sure that any stock options he gets will be from clean investments. Are you saying that it is somehow EVIL to invest in technologies that will work to preserve this planet and us? Did you even read the article? I simply cannot fathom the attitudes of some here who claim to support this man. This is actually a brilliant move on his part because he and those who now seize this moment will be working to bring about that paradigm shift he talked about last week. This is about all of us being a part of the solutions. How do you suppose these technologies will get support otherwise? The POLITICAL sphere in DC isn't really doing a damn thing to help. They actually want to take tax credits for alternate energies out of the climate bill and kill the momentum solar is now having. So, how else do you keep it alive? Al Gore is not doing this for the money. He is doing it because it is now the most effective way to bring about that paradigm shift of consciousness in thinking and doing business at the fastest pace that will hopefully bring us the technologies we need NOW that we needed yesterday that Congress and that system you think is so wonderful REFUSE to give us, and more than likely wouldn't then give him if he were stuck there. It is DEMOCRATS who wanted the tax credit out as well, btw...and that is because for all of their talk to the contrary, the majority of them are totally out of touch with the real world. So we will just have to go around them in that real world to get results.

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The answers to my questions must be yes then. And me again? I haven't posted in this thread but once. So I'll just take your non response response as corroborating what I thought already.

You show up whenever a Gore related thread appears and either attack or criticize anyone whose opinion differs from yours....

You can think anything you want too, I really could give a shit because anyone who does a search of you on DU knows what you think and do, so its really irrelevant to what the opinion of someone else is.

here's partly why http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/al-gore-times-person-year/story.aspx?guid=%7B5FEEFAE8-B39A-41A5-9DC6-58914AF53111%7D

what a time to announce a candidacy

and secondly - I just read in some financial article that he said very recently, "I have not made a Sherman statement" about running.

It's unlikely, but until the end of the year comes, I don't see us knowing 100% for sure. And who would argue that he wouldn't immediately receive over 20% of the poll votes just by announcing, and garner a large sector of the independent vote?