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| Saturday, December 15th, 2007 | 11:34 am
[joiseyguy]
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| | Saturday, October 13th, 2007 | 11:25 am
[joiseyguy]
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On Gore and the Nobel
There are several layers of irony and poetic justice wrapped into this honor. The first is that the greatest step for world peace would simply have been for Gore not to have had the presidency stolen from him in November 2000. By every just measure, Gore won the presidency in 2000 only to have George W. Bush steal it from him with the critical assistance of the US Supreme Court. It's worth taking a few moments today to consider where the country and world would be without that original sin of this corrupt presidency.
And yet this is a fitting bookend, with Gore receiving this accolade while the sitting president grows daily an object of greater disapproval, disapprobation and collective shame. And let's not discount another benefit: watching the rump of the American right detail the liberal bias of the Nobel Committee and at this point I guess the entire world. Fox News vs. the world.
And not to forget what this award is about even more than Gore. If half of what we think we know about global warming is true, people will look back fifty years from now on the claims that "War on Terror" was the defining challenge of this century and see it as a very sick, sad joke -- which rather sums up the Bush presidency.
But more than thinking only of what might have been, where can we go from here?-- Talking Points Memo | | Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 | 12:02 am
[joiseyguy]
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| | Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 | 1:42 pm
[joiseyguy]
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NY Times on Al
The last time Al Gore appeared publicly inside the United States Capitol, he was certifying the Electoral College victory of George W. Bush. He returns on Wednesday, a heartbreak loser turned Oscar boasting Nobel hopeful globe trotting multimillionaire pop culture eminence. For Mr. Gore, who calls himself a "recovering politician," returning to Capitol Hill is akin to a recovering alcoholic returning to a neighborhood bar. He will, in all likelihood, deliver his favorite refrain about how "political will is a renewable resource" and how combating global warming is the "greatest challenge in the history of mankind." He will confront one of his fervent detractors, Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, who derides Mr. Gore as an alarmist. He will also embrace old friends, pose (or not) for cellphone photos and greet the legion of climate change disciples who swear by the "Goracle" as a contemporary sage.[..] Almost everywhere he goes these days, Mr. Gore is met with the fuss of a statesman. His hair is slicked back in a way that accentuates the new fullness of his face. At the hotel, Mr. Gore's perma-smile folded his narrow eyes into slits as he milled his way into a ballroom. Afterward, he accepted his customary standing ovation, slipped out a back door and into the back of a Lincoln Town Car, looking almost presidential. source: NY TimesAlso video of his recent testimony: AL GORE: Global Warming Testimony before Congress 3.21.07 http://www.politicstv.com/blog/?p=1937 | 12:14 pm
[inspector_81]
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| | Sunday, March 18th, 2007 | 10:12 pm
[klarfax]
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| | Thursday, March 1st, 2007 | 3:55 pm
[albatrossumi]
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| | Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 | 1:05 am
[joiseyguy]
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| 12:46 am
[bingblot]
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In case anyone is interested...
I just made these two icons and thought I'd post them here-- Feel free to use them if you want to. Just credit and comment. ( The man who should be President ) I loved the jokes at the Oscars about an important 'announcement' and the way the orchestra cut him off like that- a wonderful moment. I wasn't expecting him to announce at the Oscars- it wouldn't have been an appropriate arena but I did enjoy the hints and I'm still holding out hope... | | Sunday, February 25th, 2007 | 7:58 pm
[loitered]
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Al Gore at the Oscars
If you watched the Oscars, Gore went on the stage two times. Once, to thank Hollywood for listening to his message, standing beside Leonardo DiCaprio. Leo did ask Gore about running for the '08 elections twice, but, of course, Gore did not make his formal announcement about running. Yet, he did not provide a firm no. Then, An Inconvenient Truth won for Best Documentary. I'm beginning to think less and less of Gore's plans to run for '08, even though it is what I would want most. Melissa Etheridge also won for Best Song so that makes it 2/2 for An Inconvenient Truth. | | Saturday, February 24th, 2007 | 8:02 pm
[klarfax]
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I got a letter from Al Gore responding to my letter asking him to run in 2008! Of course, the letter said that he currently has no plans to run but thanked me for the support. This'll be a nice thing to have around if he does run and wins. The rest of you should write letters too! | | Friday, February 16th, 2007 | 6:39 pm
[joiseyguy]
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| | Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 | 10:26 pm
[klarfax]
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This sounds to me like a political manifesto which will lead up to a presidential campaign. This is an awesome way to start such a campaign, and I am already inspired: The Assault on ReasonBook Description A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terrorism. We live in an age when the thirty-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the electorate's thinking, and America is in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous administration in sharing the truth with the citizenry. Related to this and of even greater concern is this administration's disinterest in the process by which the truth is ascertained, the tenets of fact-based reasoning-first among them an embrace of open inquiry in which unexpected and even inconvenient facts can lead to unexpected conclusions. How did we get here? How much damage has been done to the functioning of our democracy and its role as steward of our security? Never has there been a worse time for us to lose the capacity to face the reality of our long-term challenges, from national security to the economy, from issues of health and social welfare to the environment. As The Assault on Reason shows us, we have precious little time to waste. Gore's larger goal in this book is to explain how the public sphere itself has evolved into a place hospitable to reason's enemies, to make us more aware of the forces at work on our own minds, and to lead us to an understanding of what we can do, individually and collectively, to restore the rule of reason and safeguard our future. Drawing on a life's work in politics as well as on the work of experts across a broad range of disciplines, Al Gore has written a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking. | | Friday, February 9th, 2007 | 9:20 am
[inspector_81]
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Former Gore campaign staff met in Boston to discuss a 2008 campaign to draft Al. The former staff were careful to point out that Gore himself was not involved. Here's the AP article.How many 2008 Presidential candidates are nominated for a Nobel Prize and an Oscar? | | Thursday, February 8th, 2007 | 11:14 am
[scarcrest]
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Quick poll action
One of the biggest hurdles to getting anything done about global warming and climate change is skepticism about the phenomena themselves. Politicians can look at polls and say "my constituents don't think it's happening, so why should I do anything?" If you have a moment, drop by jacksonsun.com and fill out the front-page poll, which asks "Do you believe global warming is a serious, man-made crisis?" The Yes vote was up by 9 points at one point this week, but the deniers are gaining ground, and are within 5 points as I type this. (If you wait about 5 minutes, you can vote a second time, or third time, etc., which is how I suspect the vote has started closing in within the past 24 hours. You can help turn the tide.) I should note, this is a newspaper in Jackson, Tenn., where Al Gore's mother grew up and an uncle still lives. | | Saturday, January 27th, 2007 | 12:52 am
[klarfax]
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I haven't been on LJ as much of late, and I apologize for being a bit lax in posting to this community. I expect that Gore will run. I know he's been saying he "has no plans to run"--notice that is carefully phrased not to completely rule out running. There's a ton of support for Gore on http://www.dailykos.comIf you'd like to encourage Gore to run, you can try writing a letter--I did and sent it to: The Office of the Honorable Al Gore 2100 West End Avenue Nashville, TN 37203 | | Thursday, January 25th, 2007 | 3:40 pm
[inspector_81]
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| | Friday, December 15th, 2006 | 9:52 am
[albatrossumi]
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Not running :-(
 I am not planning on running for President. I'm not trying to be coy. I kind of fell out of love with the political process. 
— Al Gore asked about possibly making another run for the presidency | | Friday, September 29th, 2006 | 7:26 pm
[ytterbius]
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It seems to me that if we want Al Gore to win in 2008, one of the things we can do to support that now, is to lend support to his position on Global Warming, and specifically, to do all we can to support individual investment in Green Technology and companies in whatever way possible. Just as Bill Clinton and Al Gore are getting high level financial commitments to Clean Technologies, we should be out on our own supporting Clean alternatives within our own circles. People who see the potential economic and personal financial gains inherent in a fossil-free economy will vote for Al Gore in 2008. A person who, in the near term, hopes to take part in the energy equivalent of the 90's tech stock boom will certainly vote for the guy who can demonstrate the vision to make it happen. Do you know a person who owns stock? Convince them that it may just be worth it to invest $1000 in a clean energy company. Just a thought. |
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