Iowa radio ads encourage Gore to run for president

[Veronica.Franco]

Source: Associated Press

Iowa radio ads encourage Gore to run for president

Associated Press - June 25, 2007 5:25 PM ET

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Grassroots supporters are ramping up their efforts to encourage Al Gore to run for president in 2008.

The Draft Gore Committee launched its first radio ad today in Iowa. The 30-second ad, dubbed "You Who," will go national in July. It features a chorus of voices seeking Gore's attention and urging him to seek the Democratic presidential nomination.

The political action committee claims to have gathered 94,000 signatures on an online petition. It's not officially affiliated with the former vice president.

Gore, of Nashville, has repeatedly said he has no plans seek the nomination, though he hasn't ruled out a bid.



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Come on, AL! ... you are being called to serve your country ... we need you! ...

[Spangle]

1. This is COOL!

I can't wait to see it.

[Veronica.Franco]

22. EMAIL AL and ask him to run ...

I sent this entire thread to PRESIDENT AL GORE this morning with a note:

Subject: YOUR morning paper, Mr. President, Sir ... Good Morning, Mr. President ...

Perhaps some of you here would like to email him also ... let's send our own little DU grassroots movement directly to him ...

[e-mail] ....

[ooglymoogly]

34. Thank you for the address.

this is the message I sent

Dear Mr. President....There have been desperate times in the history of our republic that great men were called to the service of our country and they rose to save our republic....THIS IS ONE OF THOSE TIMES and we the people are calling on you to come to the aid of our country. YOU ARE THE RIGHT MAN AT THE RIGHT TIME...never mind the CROOKED pug machine and the treasonous and self serving Trilateral Commission that runs it, that makes it near impossible for a true dem to win....A landslide will cancel all that out. AND YOU WILL COMMAND A LANDSLIDE...and will owe nothing to anyone except the people of this great country of which you are a part.

So please when you think the time is right, you must come to the aid of this country for I know in my heart that that is what you are contemplating. I know you will do this because you are an honorable man and your honor will demand it. When you enter you can count on all of us to send all we can and more toward your campaign. These are the most desperate of times

So I hereby thank you in advance for saving the greatest democracy that has ever lived.

[RestoreGore]

36. you bet I will

[wildhorses]

2. K&R off to the greatest page with you

:patriot:

[John Q. Citizen]

3. Good, some proactive push and pull, and it's good to prime the electorate too. n/t

[RamboLiberal]

4. K&R - for my choice to lead the ticket - Al Gore

eom

[Blue Belle]

5. Right on!

I LOVE it! :)

[usregimechange]

6. Kick!

[orleans]

7. k&r n/t

[politmuse1]

8. Listen to the ad at Draftgore.com

You can listen to the ad on the Draft Gore website:

http://www.draftgore.com/

See first news item.

[tinrobot]

9. Do they need money?

Seriously. I'd chip in to help.

[Egalia]

10. Yes, they need money . .

they're taking the ads national in July, it's enough to make me start listening to radio again!

Run Al, Run!!!

[mopinko]

21. can we give through act blue?

skinner asked that we use act blue.

[diane in sf]

11. I wrote a letter asking Al to run. I'm mailing it tomorrow.

June 23, 2007

The Honorable Al Gore
2100 West End Avenue, Ste. 620
Nashville, TN 37203

Dear Mr. Gore,

I’ve seen the documentary of your environmental work, An Inconvenient Truth—it is beyond wonderful. I’ve read your latest book, The Assault on Reason, which is a great explanation of many facets of the Bush/Neocon putsch. And I’m rooting for your nomination for the Nobel Prize for all your continuous efforts on behalf of humanity and the natural world.

I’m also hoping you are presently running a stealth campaign for President. I would understand if you don’t wish to subject yourself to the more awful aspects of campaigning. I’m outraged by the lying Republican owned corporate media, and the still uncorrected voting problems that led to the theft of the presidential elections in 2000 and 2004, and the theft of congressional elections in those years as well as 2002 and 2006. The grind of campaigning and the compromises one has to make once in office are also probably daunting.

The theft of your presidency by the partisan Supreme Court made me feel ill and disoriented. I felt like I had entered Bizarro World where everything is backwards, stupid and wrong (ever read Superman comics when you were a kid?). I felt the same way earlier when the media pundits told me Bush had won the debate with you and I thought he sounded like a moron. This feeling has only gotten worse as each new neocon/Republican horror erupts. After 9.11 I started getting my news from the Web.

You and your family were subjected to horrendous abuse by thuggish bands of hired Republican mobs outside your home during the time of the recounts and legal wrangles. I regret that I as an individual and we, the majority of the voters in the US, weren’t more helpful in assisting you to secure the presidency that was rightfully yours and ours.

Because of your experience, reputation and pursuit of a better world, you have the most power to repair our international standing as well as our badly damaged constitution and offices. Your time as Vice President with Bill Clinton was the last time life was decent for middle-class Americans and the last time that America was admired by the rest of the world.

You have come through these trials a better, more aware man and I think you can be a better president than you would have been before this experience. I believe the American people have also come through a lot the last six years and gained a great deal of wisdom. The sheer, in-your-face outrage of Bush and friends has been a major wakeup call to even the most information starved groups in this country. It seems that 60–75% of the citizenry is reasonably awake now.

I believe restoring our democratic system and constitution have to come from the ground up and people are getting that. What I ask is that the “leaders” not get in the way of where we the people need to go. If they can help implement the policies we need, so much the better.

I will support any of the Democratic candidates now running, but I feel you bring more to the office due to your character and experience. Your personal fortune and fame will be very helpful in not being beholden to corporate interests—particularly because you can work effectively with the internet and the army of volunteers who will be there to help you. I would really like to see political races run in a new way, without the reliance on the 30 second tv ad—so costly in so many ways. This was the promise of Howard Dean’s campaign, but I feel he was done in by the DLC and the Republican media whores when he threatened to go after monopolistic media ownership.

The triangulation and timidity in speaking out on various issues and the large corporate contributions to Hilary and Obama make me wildly uncomfortable. I love the populist positions of John Edwards, but he voted for that abomination of a bankruptcy bill. I thoroughly endorse the platform of Dennis Kucinich, but he will most likely not be nominated as the Democratic candidate and doesn’t have your stature or international experience.

So Mr. Gore, I am asking you if you will please run for president.

If you don’t run again, I understand. I know you will be working to do the best you can for our environment and to regrow our democracy from the ground up using the interactive, democratic, decentralizing features of the internet and new energy sources that we will be developing. This is where the world is heading—it is our evolutionary path. Fortunately a lot of this evolution is so decentralized that it is difficult for unscrupulous corporate operators to recognize and attack it. The Amory Lovin’s path to getting us off fossil fuels shows corporations how to profit by decreasing consumption. We currently have all the technology we need to decrease our energy footprint by 75–90%. New technology would enable us to do even better. The fossil fuel and mining interests are spitting into the wind if they think they can stop this. But they will continue to viciously attack people and organizations that appear to be putting them out of business or cutting into their often excessive profits.

I would like to see someone in office who can skillfully include as much of our corporate community as possible in our ecological goals. Everything I’ve heard from you lets me know you are living in the land of reality including your latest proposal to replace payroll taxes with carbon taxes.

cut...

I want our government to acknowledge the problems of global warming, unregulated corporations and corporate subsidies, resource consumption, extinction, economic injustice, health care, election fraud, resource wars etc., their interrelationship, and vigorously solve them with programs like the Apollo Energy Initiative. Our problems need to be collectively addressed. It is not enough for a bunch of individuals to be doing the right thing. I want to buy a plug-in hybrid right now, but it would cost me $35k to buy a Prius and add an extra battery. I can’t spend the money to do it because 60% of my income was directly bushwacked and I’m still climbing out from under that. A more reasonably priced off-the-shelf model is not yet offered. I want to install solar panels on my roof, but I can’t—I’m a renter. I pay the utility bills, but my landlord owns the roof and the uninsulated attic. (I live in San Francisco, where you have to be upper-middle class just to be poor, so two-thirds of the town rents.)

If you do run for president, I’m totally on your team.

I will be happy to send money when I have it again in the fall. I will volunteer for your campaign in whatever capacity you all need. I will work spreading the joy around to as many people as possible and put all my friends and acquaintances to work for you. I will be happy and proud to ask them for money and votes!

With gratitude for all you’ve done and continue to do,

[rosesaylavee]

14. Bravo!

:thumbsup: :applause:

[RestoreGore]

12. And how rude to time this just when Live Earth is supposed to be getting the attention

And now these "draft" groups want to turn Live Earth into a partisan political rally and ruin its meaning as well by descending on it with their political buttons, pins, shirts, and harrassment when people all over this world will be using July 7 as a day for our PLANET, not to profit from it and push even more suspicion on Mr. Gore's motives. You would think that out of RESPECT for Mr. Gore that for just ONE DAY they could let go of their own egos to allow Mr. Gore's endeavors the attention they deserve to get this message out apolitically based on its merits without them vying for the media attention with their selfish political soundbites like they hijacked his book signings, which I believe were cut short and now don't wonder why. If I didn't know any better I would think these groups had moles in them as well looking to purposely derail his mission and the way he chooses to do it now. I wonder how many political operatives still on the sidelines looking for jobs because no one wants them are involved in these groups from behind the scenes.

And really, DO the American people deserve a president they can respect after the last seven plus years? What have we done to deserve that? Why should Mr. Gore change anything about how he now chooses to get this crucial message out and the access he has to business and global leaders with the ability to raise resources and travel at his own leisure as opposed to being constricted by a bunch of anal political operatives and a corrupt spineless Congress that would only disappoint, when states and citizens are REALLY where the action on this must begin? Again, there is nothing but the same sound bites in this ad that he wrote about in The Assault On Reason, but it isn't surprising. And really, it is kind of disappointing because it shows that they aren't actually listening to the man and really don't care what he thinks. They just want what they want and screw how he believes is the best way to address this planetary crisis in time.

[Rose Siding]

13. I really don't see how this detracts from the mssg of Live Earth in any way

And yeah, America -the country, the idea that we love- does deserve a president we can "respect".

[RestoreGore]

28. That day is for our planet and must be kept Apolitical

All I see in the news regarding ANY GOOD THING this man does is tying it to the same damned question, "is he running?" Live Earth, the Nobel Prize nomination, his books, An Inconvenient Truth, ALL tied into some BS clandestine political motivation because all the media gives a damn about is discrediting his message. And I think at some point it is rude, it is wrong, it is a distraction, and it is detrimental to getting out this important message in a SINCERE fashion. I am not going to Live Earth to witness a GD political rally, I am going as an environmentalist for my PLANET and I don't care about the political stripe of anyone there. Al Gore has stated that this is not a political issue but a moral one, and by God he is right and I believe that should be respected on that day at the very least. And as far as the 'idea' of America you respect, logically then you cannot deserve a president you respect unless you respect your country enough to get up and change it first.

[Old Vet]

16. Point taken................

Yes, Really, YES we do deserve a president we can respect.And what have we done to deserve gore,Put up with the worst president ever for starters.Last question,Can one listen to the man at the same time wonder what position could he affect more change for the planet,Public(President) or private citizen???

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. The people running this ad are NOT the ones being rude

:hi:

[SharonRB]

20. ....

:yourock:

[NastyDiaper]

24. We are trying to build a political platform that he may step on if he so wishes..

My signature is among them. This is not about ego and cash from stickers.

It's about trying to create a platform that would suit Al Gore. If such a thing can be created. Even if he dopes not run, I think it's good to go in that direction.

In the meantime, I will remain active here in the Democratic (capital D) Underground, and within the Draft Gore orgainzations.

[closeupready]

25. Awfully selfish of you.

Hope your ashamed of yourself.

[NastyDiaper]

26. I think RG is only looking out for the same thing we are.

No reason for shame, I just wish our motives would not be mis-interpreted as frequently as they are.

In the end, the primaries will be over, and we will all be on the same team.

Peace.

[RestoreGore]

29. Not me, I am supporting this planet as he asked me to

And making a difference. That's far from being selfish.

[closeupready]

30. In every Gore thread, you attempt to shift focus away from constructive talk towards you and your

shattered faith in government. I suggest you switch parties, if that's what you want.

[RestoreGore]

32. Then I suppose you didn't read The Assault On Reason...

because what I am saying as well as MANY others is exactly what Mr. Gore stated in The Assault On Reason. So should he switch parties too? You can bury your head in the sand if you wish, but that shattered faith in this government is VALID under the circumstances.

[closeupready]

33. Actually, yes I have read it, and the message is clear: Americans must participate more.

Constructive discussion is a part of that. Take your self-pity somewhere else because we all have tons we'd probably like to unload but don't out of respect for others here and because doing so diverts attention away from SOLVING PROBLEMS and towards INDIVIDUALS.

[RestoreGore]

35. You make no sense

What problems are you being stopped from solving by my replying to this thread?

[closeupready]

37. None, but if you can dish out the negativity, be prepared to get it in return.

Pretty simple.

[RestoreGore]

38. Supporting Live Earth...

And the integrity and sincerity of Mr. Gore's endeavors as well as his judgement is not negative regardless of the projections you wish to make here. The only negativity comes from those who constantly gang up on anyone who dares to express an honest opinion with a sincere motivation simply because they don't tow the line here. I am PSYCHED about Live Earth and VERY POSITIVE that the effect it will have across the world can be sustained if we get beyond the political framework this issue is seen in and political groups using it to their own advantage. And I will continue to express that opinion and any disagreement I have about any efforts that I do not believe are in those best interests. Pretty simple.

[closeupready]

40. We're ultimately on the same side,

but I will continue expressing disagreement with your disagreement with those who wish to draft Gore. :hi: Peace.

[Name removed]

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[Scout1071]

46. Sorry, but I couldn't disagree more.

What gives you the right to determine when people can show their support and how? You know, I created those organic t-shirts because there is a demand. People want it. AND they want to get on board with the environmental message and taking action. They aren't mutually exclusive. They can happen together. And they are happening together - rather naturally. People are altering their lifestyle and getting on board with Draft Gore at the same time.

[RestoreGore]

47. What gives you the right to determine how I can?

And to express that? I have every right to state my view that Live Earth should be Apolitical and to express my distate with any effort for anyone that seeks to distract from it. Perhaps it is those who think they corner the market on supporting the man and how to do it that need to step back and realize that it is mutually exclusive to some and respect that for a change. And it also speaks volumes that this effort is having to piggyback on Mr. Gore's endeavors to get attention. I don't agree with doing that and will express that because it is my right just as much as it is your right to express your opinion here.

[Jackpine Radical]

15. And so begins the Long March.

I don't know why it is, but a few weeks ago some sort of Rubicon was crossed in my mind. First I knew about it was when some friends asked who I thought the Dems would nominate. I blurted out, "Gore, of course." And somehow I had no doubt I was right.

[connecticut yankee]

17. Run, Al, Run!

If he only would!

[thetaoofterri]

19. Run for OUR lives, Al!!

Please!!

[NastyDiaper]

23. Gogo Iowa for Gore! nt

[Scout1071]

27. Re-Elect Al Gore!

RUN, AL, RUN! And I love it they are running the ads in Iowa. Awesome.

And don't forget to show your support with my all-natural, organic t-shirts! http://shop.goreganic.com

[ooglymoogly]

31. Big rec for our real President, Al Gore. nt

[politmuse1]

39. You can donate to Draft Gore through ActBlue

Someone suggested that donations be made through ActBlue, and you can do that to donate to Draft Gore for actions such as the radio ads, print ads, and the many other expenses. There's no safer way to donate. Here are the links through the contributions page and directly to the DG ActBlue page.

http://www.draftgore.com/contribute.htm

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/entity/16474

[Uncle Joe]

41. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Veronica.Franco

[JamesA1102]

42. Wouldn't it be a better idea to

encourage Iowans to vote for Gore in the August Straw Poll rather than to remind them that he's not running?

[colorado_ufo]

43. Re-elect President Gore!

[gentlegiant]

44. Apropos of nothing, but I'll try to segue...

I saw Harpy Coulter on GMA yesterday morning, and she was comparing Bush Jr to FDR, with a straight face, saying the two were very much alike in their deeds and accomplishments. (I almost lost my Instant Breakfast.) And now the segue: I wonder to whom she'd compare Al Gore?

[bvar22]

48. We know where Al stands on the Environment, but

don't you think we should find out how he is going to solve our other problems?

*The withdrawal of our troops from Iraq? I KNOW he has regularly spoken out against the Bush Iraq War, so can we assume he is Anti-War? Hillary/Obama claim to be anti-war, and yet each has pledged to keep the Occupation rolling along for years.

*NAFTA/Free Trade/IMF. Does he favor withdrawal from these treaties nd renegotian on a bi-lateral basis with priority given to Human/Labor Rights & the Environment? This is a BIG issue, and historically, Al Gore has been on the wrong side. Has he changed his mind?

*Universal HealthCare....does he support Single Payer, or will he try to subsidize the For Profit Insurance Corps and HMOs?

*How does he plan to deal with the bloated Defense Budget? Does he plan to reduce it to a sane level, or give more money to the Corporations who Deal in Death?

*What is his plan to deal with Election Integrity (BBV)?

I love Al Gore, and would love to support him for president. Before I can do so, I NEED to know where he stands on the above issues.

Aren't these things important to you?

[rosesaylavee]

50. He does address many of these issues in his

Assault on Reason. Not all of them directly but he does address the corporate takeover of our country and that pretty much addresses all of those problems you listed, doesn't it.

I would imagine that when/if he runs, he will provide more info on what he would do specifically.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

49. Raised on the radio, a grass-roots re-election draft, gotta be a first and in the nick of time.