Posted on 07/24/2016 8:31:15 PM PDT by PROCON
Al Gore’s self-imposed exile from politics will extend to this week’s Democratic National Convention.
Citing “obligations in Tennessee,” the former vice president’s spokeswoman told POLITICO that Gore plans to skip the festivities in Philadelphia where his former boss’s wife will accept the Democratic presidential nomination. The Tennessean first reported Gore's decision earlier Sunday.
Gore remains one of the last Democratic Party luminaries not to make a formal endorsement of Hillary Clinton. Betsy McManus, Gore’s communications director, told POLITICO last fall that he’d wait until a nominee had been formally selected to weigh in. But it’s been more than a month since Clinton sewed up the necessary delegates, and Gore has maintained his silence on the 2016 presidential race.
Gore’s close friends and allies have in the past said he was staying quiet in order to make climate change a more potent issue with the presidential candidates and also because of his complicated relationship with the former first lady that dates back more than 20 years.
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that is allegorical
Oh, well. So much for snow and freezing temperatures in Philly this week.
The press won’t be making a big deal of this... they’re in the tank for the DNC...
She looks like a porta-potty with legs.
I think it’s hil lar y ous that Gore won’t be there.
Slick Willy, Hellery & alBore certainly know how to screw you, even after impeachment !!!
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