Gore: 'Tell Everybody I'm Not Running'

[Incident_command]

Posted Sunday, May 28, 2006
Al Gore used to joke that it was easy to pick him out in a roomful of Secret Service agents: He was the stiff one. So he was the first to say how surreal it was to find himself the toast of Cannes last week. Over two days at the celebrated film festival, the former Vice President conducted what he figures were 48 interviews, many of them roundtable sessions, to accommodate the kind of interest that entertainment reporters usually bestow on people named Halle and Beyonce. And then there was that encounter with Hugh Jackman, the Australian heartthrob whose expected summer blockbuster, X-Men: The Last Stand, was set to open in some 16,000 theaters around the world.

Everyone in the Democratic Party seems to be asking the same questions: Could all this be a prelude to another presidential run? Could the new Al Gore be the answer for a party in which so many are discomfited by the fact that Senator Hillary Clinton is looking increasingly inevitable as the 2008 nominee even though she's commonly seen as unelectable? "I'm not planning to be a candidate again, ever. I have no intention of being a candidate," Gore says again and again. But he also notes, "I haven't made a Shermanesque statement because it just seems odd to do so."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1198863,00.html




Damn I liked watching him get beat. Give it time though, if he smells blood he'll run.

[Betrayed]

Thank God too, because he is even worse than the current dick we got in office. I pray that we don't have to suffer another four years after 2008, 16 years of having two of the most horrible leaders in history rule our nation is enough.

[DesertFox]

Bush is nowhere near being one of the most horrible leaders in American history. You must be too young to remember Jimmy Carter or LBJ and too uneducated to know about FDR.

[Betrayed]

And your eyes must be glued shut by Bush's man juice to realize what is going on right now in Congress. Worst of all, Bush supports it.

I did say 16 years, but Reagan wasn't a bad leader so I didn't include him. Carter was horrible, I don't doubt that. But I don't know why you dislike FDR. I don't consider him a horrible leader, nor will any amount of information on him convince me of such.

[DesertFox]

FDR was the worst "leader" America ever had EXCEPT for Jimmy Carter, whose ineptitude was more effective than were his witting efforts in taking America down. FDR stretched the Constitution waaaaay out of shape, and because of him we've never gotten away from the idea of govt as our caretaker.

[Naturalized-Texan]

Despite several disagreements with President Bush, he is easily the 2nd best president (after President Reagan) in my lifetime (73+ years). BTW, we knew exactly what he was planning to do when we voted for him in 2000 and in 2004, yet we still voted for him. He kept his promises and, in addition, he has been a strong and unwavering leader in the War on Terrorism.

[Eagle1]

yeah, he is super serial this time

[Riverboat]

And your eyes must be glued shut by Bush's man juice to realize what is going on right now in Congress. Worst of all, Bush supports it.

I did say 16 years, but Reagan wasn't a bad leader so I didn't include him. Carter was horrible, I don't doubt that. But I don't know why you dislike FDR. I don't consider him a horrible leader, nor will any amount of information on him convince me of such.Kid, you arter bring your post level up to a couple hunnert before you go in swinging like that. You're gonna get hurt.

Reagan wasn't a BAD leader? Not exactly the seal of approval, but if you like FDR, I can see where you're coming from.

[Riverboat]

Hey, if Al Gore went to the woods and said, "Tell everyone I'm not running for president," and noone was there to hear it, would he still make a sound?

[Eagle1]

16 years of having two of the most horrible leaders in history rule our nation is enough.

as if we needed another example of why almost no one has any historical perspective

[CzechPrince]

But I don't know why you dislike FDR. I don't consider him a horrible leader, nor will any amount of information on him convince me of such.

FDR is responsible for the socialism we have in this country to this date, period.

[sunsettommy]

And your eyes must be glued shut by Bush's man juice to realize what is going on right now in Congress. Worst of all, Bush supports it.

I did say 16 years, but Reagan wasn't a bad leader so I didn't include him. Carter was horrible, I don't doubt that. But I don't know why you dislike FDR. I don't consider him a horrible leader, nor will any amount of information on him convince me of such.

Really?

FDR?

His vice president was a communist.

He tried to "pack" the Supreme Court.

His economic ideas along with the majority Democrat party greatly prolonged the depression.

He was fond of a mass murderer.The USSR leader Stalin whom he called uncle Joe.

He destroyed Admiral Kimmel and General Short for their supposed "Derelict of Duty" leadership based on the results of Pearl Harbor being attacked on december 7 1941.

The poor men were never given the intelligence they needed from Washington about several events and the Radar discovery of a mass of incoming planes.

He created a number of programs that promoted socialism.

Then of course the vile order creating Japanese internment camps.Most of them lost their homes and jobs because of it.

There is more fella to see that FDR was not a good president.