Posted on 05/22/2007 8:37:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
BEVERLY HILLS
It's been nearly seven years since Al Gore lost the presidency, and now the former vice president is set to promote his new book lambasting the Bush administration.
Gore was to launch his national book tour with an event Tuesday night at the Wilshire Theatre in Beverly Hills. Gore was scheduled to share the stage with actor-satirist Harry Shearer before signing copies of "The Assault on Reason."
Before the event, a line snaked around the front of the theater and the atmosphere was more in line with a campaign stop than a book signing.
Attendees wore "Gore 2008" buttons and some held signs that read "Re-elect Gore 2008."
"The guy's a visionary. He was right about climate change, he was right about the war. He was right about technology," said David Nemtzow, an energy conservation consultant who is hoping Gore will run.
Deborah Merlin, 53, of Los Angeles said Gore should run for president because she believes global warming is the top crisis facing the world.
"He's so knowledgeable and so intelligent. We need somebody enlightened in the White House," Merlin said.
In his book, Gore laments what he described as America's diminishing political discourse and eroding democracy.
The tour was one of several events in the coming weeks that will boost Gore's visibility and inevitably invite questions about his political plans.
Gore, whose documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Academy Award this year, is scheduled to headline the seven-continent "Live Earth" concerts in July to raise awareness on the threat of climate change. The concerts will mark the start of a multiyear campaign to fight global warming.
Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential election to Bush despite winning the popular vote, has said he is not running for the White House in 2008.
Deborah Merlin, 53, of Los Angeles said Gore should run for president because she believes global warming is the top crisis facing the world.
"He's so knowledgeable and so intelligent. We need somebody enlightened in the White House," Merlin said.
Hey Deborah come look at my garden,peas the size of your brain-no joke.
I had not heard that Algore had written an autobiography.
lol
He is also missing the part of his brain that registers irony. Who calls a book “The Assault on Reason”” It would be reasonable to expect the arguments in such a book to be, uh, unreasonable. Why not just call it, “Musings of a Looney?”
“What fools these mortals be”
The Goracle and his adoring minions of Gorons..
It’s been nearly seven years since Al Gore lost the presidency
There is no fury like a woman scorn.
An "energy conservation consultant"? Is that anything like an "independent media consultant"? or an "independent script consultant"?
IOW, either a trust-fund baby (no matter what the age), or someone who works out of, and sleeps in, his car.
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