TPMCafe: Gore Insiders Speculate Gore Not Running

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Last night a bunch of longtime aides to Al Gore held a much-ballyhooed reunion dinner that had prompted speculation about a Gore run in 2008 — but the gathering in fact turned out to be an at-times personal and emotional gathering suffused with an acceptance among many that Gore won’t run for President, a person who was there tells me.

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  1. 2)
    Phil said on 5/10/2007 @ 3:47am PT: [Permalink]

    Yeah but Al, has a mission. A serious spiritual mission. You only need look within to see the non-adept-ness of your and MY own failure.

    Nothing’s gonna change my world.
    (maybe 100Mile High Ocean Waves?)

    Nothing’s gonna change my world.
    (maybe the ground melting to molten lava rock as the crust of the earth sinks in another X=x depth as pyroclastic flows turn everything to ash.

    Nothing’s gonna change my world.
    (perhaps the idiotic crap we have guarding our borders, controlling our airwaves (ala Emergency Alert System) , and the FCC cronie apointee by GWB the Oath Of Office Breaker!!)

    Nothing’s gonna change my world.
    (maybe microwave lasers on human flesh)

    Nothing’s gonna change my world.
    (prison Camps)

    In-Om-Ni-Ee-Sa-Ta-Na-eS
    Nothing’s gonna change my world.
    Nothing’s gonna change my world.
    Nothing’s gonna change my world.
    Nothing’s gonna change my world . . . . .

    Who is really screwin us?
    Who is really in control of the electronics?
    Who is really in control of lasers from space that can WIPE OUT CITIES?
    Nothing’s gonna change my world.
    Nothing’s gonna change my world.
    Nothing’s gonna change my world.
    Nothing’s gonna change my world . . . . .

    I’m sure you know the Beatles version.

    You ain’t heard MY version. (Honestly ain’t wrote it yet with all the crap going on lately)

    And yeah I played guitar for a LOT of years.
    Since 1974! bay-bee!

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    big dan said on 5/10/2007 @ 4:35am PT: [Permalink]

    Here’s my prediction: Gore is going to come out with a film about e-vote machines, much like his film about global warming. Gore will be “the one” to expose e-vote fraud on a wide-scale basis. Gore knows the CMSM is neglecting and blacklisting important issues. Maybe Gore will come out with one on health care, too.

    GO, AL GORE!!!

  3. 4)
    KestrelBrighteyes said on 5/10/2007 @ 7:21am PT: [Permalink]

    Sorry for the Off Topic post this morning, but wondered if anyone else is watching Gonzales’ testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee this morning? Things are getting pretty heated over there.

    And our ol’ buddy Sensenbrenner is being a dick again.

    Liveblogging at Firedog Lake, plus the hearing is being broadcast at http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_...&Code=CS3

  4. 5)
    Dredd said on 5/10/2007 @ 7:25am PT: [Permalink]

    Deja voodoo all over again … here is the song Gore is singing:

    I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more.
    No, I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more.
    Well, I wake in the morning,
    Fold my hands and pray for rain.
    I got a head full of ideas
    That are drivin’ me insane.
    It’s a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor.
    I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more.

    I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s brother no more.
    No, I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s brother no more.
    Well, he hands you a nickel,
    He hands you a dime,
    He asks you with a grin
    If you’re havin’ a good time,
    Then he fines you every time you slam the door.
    I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s brother no more.

    I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s pa no more.
    No, I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s pa no more.
    Well, he puts his cigar
    Out in your face just for kicks.
    His bedroom window
    It is made out of bricks.
    The National Guard stands around his door.
    Ah, I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s pa no more.

    I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more.
    No, I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more.
    Well, she talks to all the servants
    About man and God and law.
    Everybody says
    She’s the brains behind pa.
    She’s sixty-eight, but she says she’s twenty-four.
    I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s ma no more.

    (Bob Dylan is still singing it).

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    Blow Me, I'm Irish! said on 5/10/2007 @ 10:40am PT: [Permalink]

    I really hope this is not the case.

    To me, Gore is the only logical choice for Dems.

    Hillary is intolerable – if for no other reason than the fact that TWO FAMILIES should not occupy our Executive Branch of government for 24 straight years!

    Obama? Puh-Leeze. I wish it weren’t true, but bigotry is alive and well in the US… Lieberman hurt the ticket in 2000 because of BIGOTRY.

    Edwards? The MSM is far too interested in painting him as a lightweight, but I prefer him to either Hillary or Obama.

    But Gore could run away with the nomination and trounce the living shit out of any Repugnantcan in the general election….more importantly, he’d be the BEST OPTION for our nation.

  6. 7)
    Dredd said on 5/10/2007 @ 3:48pm PT: [Permalink]

    BMII #6

    Seems reasonable to me. Plus, it would be the inverse of the debacle, and signal the proper way things should have been done.

    It would negate the 5 bu$hitters on the Supreme Court, and signal that Americans still live here!

    They gave preznit blush the thone to shit on … and he has been stinkin up the place since then.

  7. 8)
    czaragorn said on 5/11/2007 @ 7:38am PT: [Permalink]

    Oh, how I wish Al would run. The last thing we need now is another professional politician in the White House. We need a PUBLIC SERVANT for a change. I’d be way psyched for a Gore/Edwards ticket!

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