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Posted on 05/17/2007 2:29:51 PM PDT by MooseMan
Former U.S. vice president Al Gore says he has "fallen out of love with politics" and does not want to run for president although he has not ruled it out completely.
"If I do my job right, all the candidates will be talking about the climate crisis," Gore said in an interview with Time Magazine released on Thursday.
"And I'm not convinced the presidency is the highest and best role I could play."
He added, "It would take a lot to disabuse me of the notion that my highest and best use is to keep building that consensus."
Asked what it would take for him to run, Gore said, "I can't say because I'm not looking for it. But I guess I would know it if I saw it. I haven't ruled it out. But I don't think it's likely to happen."
The Time article also includes an excerpt from Gore's new book, "The Assault on Reason," in which he writes: "It is too easy and too partisan to simply place the blame on the policies of President George W. Bush.
"We are all responsible for the decisions our country makes. We have a Congress. We have an independent judiciary. We have checks and balances. We are a nation of laws. We have free speech. We have a free press. Why have they all failed us? ... American democracy is now in danger not from any one set of ideas, but from unprecedented changes in the environment within which ideas either live and spread, or wither and die."
Gore, a Democrat, served as Bill Clinton's vice president for eight years and lost the 2000 presidential election to Bush.
Hogwash. No liberal ever falls out of love with power. He is just setting the stage so that when he enters, it appears like he is doing so unwillingly but at the behest of his supporters.
<<<”And I’m not convinced the presidency is the highest and best role I could play.”>>>
I think the office of “God” has been taken already, Al.
Could this man actually have convinced himself that the "climate crisis" is the most important issue of our day?
"And I'm not convinced the presidency is the highest and best role I could play."
Plus you'll take a hell of a pay cut, eh Al?
Ditto that.
NO! Don't throw me in that briar patch! Anything but that!
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Hey perhaps Politics is OUT OF LOVE with Al....
Anyone think of that?
... and my enviro-pals and I will become richer than Donald Trump just watching those cap'n-trade carbon credits flow uselessly around the world stopping only to pass through our cash registers to drop off our totally undeserved commissions.
Life is good - if you're Al Gore.
Algore is now a prophet, and he has carbon offsets to sell,
so he has bigger fish to fry than something as insignificant as the US Presidency.
Guess those years he spent in Seminary school are finally working out for him!
“If I do my job right, all the candidates will be talking about the climate crisis,”
Boy, I am sure glad he’s an incompetent leader.
What Al is saying is that there is more money in selling Carbon Credits than in the Presidency.
Al Gore always reminds me of a turd that just won’t flush.
Money got in his way of running for President. Although it is curious for someone that lived his whole life just to become President. It was a big slam for him to get rejected by the people.
“If I do my job right, all the candidates will be talking about the climate crisis,”
OH my GOD. This guy thinks he is Jesus Christ!
Al Gore is definitely running for President in 2008. In that Time Magazine article, the photo shows that he has already started losing weight, and the article mentions that he is dieting and working out hard. There’s only one reason why Gore would be doing this—he’s going to be a candidate again.
I’m 95% sure of this.
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