Posted on 02/16/2008 5:57:07 PM PST by COUNTrecount
Al Gore, who lost to George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election, is becoming a key potential power broker in the increasingly bitter battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to win the Democrat nomination.
Gore emerged yesterday as a possible mediator who could negotiate a resolution if the primary campaign ends in a stalemate and has to be decided by the party convention, where divisions are likely to run deep.
The former vice-president, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his environmental campaign, is among a number of party 'elders' who plan to remain neutral in order to keep such an option open, the New York Times reported .
They are increasingly concerned that the momentum built up by Clinton and Obama's enthralling race could be squandered if neither lands a knockout blow and the nomination is decided at the convention by an elite of 796 Democratic 'super-delegates'. A perception that a backroom deal had ignored the wishes of millions of voters could be a gift to the Republicans, who have already settled on John McCain as their candidate.
Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, and three candidates who have dropped out of the contest - former senator John Edwards and senators Chris Dodd and Joe Biden - have spoken to Gore recently. None has declared allegiance, although Gore is said to have been wooed by supporters of both Clinton and Obama.
Gore's possible role is especially intriguing because of his complicated history with the Clintons. Some of his allies accused Bill Clinton of concentrating more on his wife's run for the Senate in 2000 than on Gore's bid for the presidency. In turn, Bill Clinton felt snubbed when Gore did not call on his famed campaigning abilities in the final weeks of the battle with Bush.
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He’s a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, ya know.
Gore the Robot. Sigh. Ah, the memories. My husband and I protested with hundreds of others outside his mansion on Massachusetts Avenue during the 2000 Bush-Gore Florida recount. “Get out of Cheney’s house, get out of Cheney’s house!” The good old days!
Gore is going to endorse Obama. Bill Clinton left Gore to hang out to dry, now it is payback time.
Obama baby it’s coming down the tracts of conspiracy and you need to be aware that the Clinton's will kill who ever stands in their way.
Having Hilary for a VP would have me afraid for my life should I be the President.
I sure would not make any scheduled trips to Dallas.
NEWSWEEK: AL GORE NOW WORTH MORE THAN $100 MILLION
[Since 2000, according to published reports, the former veep has transformed himself from a public servant with around $1 million in the bank to a sparkling private consultant with a net worth estimated to be north of $100 million. He’s a senior adviser to Google, a board member at Apple and now a newly minted general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm that made billions investing early in Netscape, Amazon and Google. . .If Gore’s profit-sharing deal is anything like the firm’s other 23 partners, he’s also in line to collect tens of millions of dollars a year. That’s because partners carve up 30 percent of the profits if and when the alternative-energy start-ups that KP supports go public or are sold. . .]
Maybe Gore can trade Hillary some superdelegates for carbon credits.
Whadda’ house of cards these Democrats have built under themselves.
How’s that? He hates the Clintons.
“C’mon Al, don’t make me beg!”
that can’t make Hillary! happy, the Gores despise the Clintons.
Gork was just a preppie failed candidate til Clinton picked him for the VP slot. He has to have some memory in that thick head of his.
well, at the time Gore was a sitting US Senator representing the great state of Tennessee. He was even fairly ‘moderate’ in those days.
He's a total jerk, too.
True , he was a Congressman and then a Senator....
He was more sensible back then and well respected as a matter of fact.
If this moron gets the nomination, will some of you still not vote for McCain(and I am NOT a McCain supporter). Would the United States be better under this self-deluded, self-appointed messiah who barely made it through college? Can you imagine the socialist crap this idiot would put us through?
Come on, Al! Don’t let this upstart, Obama steel your rock-star-ness!
Give the ol’ girl your nod.
I recall that Gork ran at least twice for President and went nowhere. He was a bad campaigner and he had an attitude. He occupied the senate seat that his daddy bequeathed him and he was stuck in the long shadow of his father until Bubba made the call. I think that he was that crazy back then, but nobody was listening.
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