Posted on 12/14/2007 6:53:40 PM PST by Signalman
There he was again on the world stage--in Oslo this time--celebrating his Nobel Peace Prize with singer Melissa Etheridge and actress Uma Thurman, the Hollywood hottie who called him "adorable" and said listening to him talk was "like watching a beautiful racehorse run." But Al Gore isn't running. Which raises the question: maybe Gore's gotten a little too adorable--too comfortable in his role as a globe-trotting guru. What about his own damn country? Why isn't Al Gore--Nobel laureate and enviro rock star, embodiment of the alternative history that never was, winner of the largest popular-vote total in U.S. presidential history (at the time) --seeking the job that many people still think should have been his in 2000? Yes, we've all heard that Gore's reached a kind of peace within himself, and what fire that is left in his belly is guttering out. But shouldn't this Hamlet of the Hustings be tormented with a little of the melancholy Dane's anguished ambition, telling himself: "The time is out of joint; O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right?"
Gore is obviously not without ambition to set things right: he appears to want to save the entire planet single-handedly. "Without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on the earth itself," he said in his Nobel acceptance speech. "It is time to make peace with the planet." After receiving his prize, Gore flew onto Bali, where the U.S. government this week succeeded in single-handedly blocking a proposal that called on industrialized nations to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 25 percent to 40 percent by 2020. The Bush administration's lonely stand at the two-week-long meeting of nearly 190 nations--convened to start talks on a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012--
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He’s lucky he can walk.
He is still busy with his polar bear colouring book; it is easy to stay in the lines.
because he’s busy lining up votes for hillary; there’s more money in that than in being in the white house.
Why isn’t he running? That’s easy enough. If he had to run a campaign he’d have to verify all of the BS he spouts. His lies and hypocrisy would make him toast in a matter of weeks.
Couldn’t handle the debates! As Rush said today, he would have to answer questions about global warming …
Cause Al Gore Hates America
Just based on the title, Gore is running, running to every buffet in this country.
Not the way I heard it.
Why Isn’t Gore Running?
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R u kidding? and have to go on a diet?
ping
Who wrote this? It reads like the writer wants to be Al Gore’s Monica Lewinsky.
From sound science.
The truth.
And to the bank with his soon to be earned carbon credits.
If you thought Clinton was a crook, wait till you see what he steals from the world.
Because the Clintons know where the bodies are buried.
He can’t afford the pay cut.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Because he would not win...again...he hates the humiliation.
He is making so much money from all his scams, buying-and-selling carbon credits to-and-from himself, speaking to moonbats for $100,000 a pop, etc., etc., etc.
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