Al Gore is getting the band back together.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

http://blogs.nydailynews.com/dailypolitics/archives/2006/04/exclusive_gore.php

You may start with all the appropriate smilicons and wild speculation...now.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. Please God

I don't ask for much. But can I have Al Gore? Please? PLEASE?

[faithnotgreed]

9. count me in on that too tg

his "new and improved" energy is a wonderful thing
but most important it seems he has reconnected with himself and to people so that he can now come across as a real human being
and not a politician out for something

the "defeat" and time outside of the beltway has done a great deal for him i think for him to reconnect to - or perhaps even find - who he really is

on edit: just for full disclosure i didnt care for him in the 2000 run
far too dlc or disconnected etc
but the man who has been speaking out - and helping with katrina victims etc - he is the one i could be excited about

[TheModernTerrorist]

30. same ol energy

he just doesn't have the DLC or the DNC's thumb holding him down this time :-)

[janx]

47. What an interesting primary it will be if he decides to run!

Wow.

[The Doctor.]

20. "We're on a Mission from God"

[Warpy]

2. As long as he leaves all those corporate lobbyists turned

DLC handlers where they belong: in their offices on K Street trying to bribe Congress to betray the US public.

I'd like to see what sort of campaign he'd run without a bunch of corporate conservatives questioning his every move.

I might not have to shower after voting for him.

[deminks]

3. My president.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[NMDemDist2]

4. is it just me or is that website SLLOOOOOWWWW to load? I'm all ready

with a Gore happy happy joy joy dance too!!

:bounce:

[Pirate Smile]

6. Daily Kos has a big Diary on it and there is a DU thread on GP also.

So does Hotline and the Political Wire.

[greenbriar]

5. Gore/Kerry ~ poetic justice

GORE/KERRY 2008 POETIC JUSTICE
BECAUSE WE THE US DESERVE IT

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Phoenix Rising from the Ashes

[henslee]

8. "We're on a mission from God."

[Teresa4ChrisCarney]

12. Here ya go

[henslee]

15. Thanks. I will cherish that shot.

[Uncle Joe]

24. Most excellent photo!

Al is the Soul Man!


Kicked and recommended!


:kick:

[mirandapriestly]

26. Love...it...! nt

[Bake]

39. Great pic! Who is that on the left? n/t

Bake

[NYCGirl]

40. You don't recognize Bill Clinton? But seriously (rimshot), that's Jim

Belushi.

Edited because I typoed "RIMSHOT". D'OH!

[Bake]

42. Well of course it is!

Duh! For some reason, I was trying to recognize him as a "political" type. :-)

Bake

[Uncle Joe]

41. Jim Belushi of Saturday Night Live fame.

I have a question though, what does Bake mean other than cooking? Does it mean they are hot?

[Bake]

43. Maybe ... but more like Shake & Bake

And I don't mean cooking!

Bake

[tridim]

10. The Band?

[Lefty48197]

28. You betta THINK

'bout what you're trying to do to yourself.

[sam sarrha]

11. who said,"Formaldehyde is the only cure for some presidential candates."

meaning of course that it was an obsessive compulsive behavior untill the day they died of old age or exhaustion..

[mcscajun]

14. Never heard it before, but it might have been said about Stassen

Harold Stassen, that is. He ran for the Republican nomination NINE times.

[mtnsnake]

13. If anyone deserves to be president, this fine ex-vice president does. nt

[d_b]

16. I hope the 2nd album is better than the first one.

[journalist3072]

17. I would love to see Al run, and try to re-claim the seat he was denied

We need Al's leadership, compassion and intelligence.

[Neil Lisst]

18. it's a Jazz Band - The Al Gore Rhythms

It's my fictional band for Al Gore.

[bleever]

31. That's pretty good!

:thumbsup:

[acmavm]

19. Gore has said he's not thinking about 2008 at the moment...

My, my. We may have us an interesting primary come 2008.

[MasonJar]

21. This country has not been worth a flush down the "commode"

since GWB stole the elections in the most Machiavellian piece of "crap" equivocation ever perpetrated on the USA.

[KoKo]

22. I hope the "old band" doesn't inclued Donna Brazille...........

Otherwise it would be great news. I'd like to see more about who he would pick for VP. His last choice wasn't a good one. And, I hope another bad choice isn't foisted on him....

[Late Slip]

49. What about John Edwards?

Would he take VP slot again? What about the BIG chair... I really liked him. Is the democratic establishment really behind GOre? I don't know but I'd really like to read/hear from someone that really does know. Any takers?

[saltpoint]

23. You know us, Tandalayo_Scheisskopf. We're never the ones to forestall

wild speculation.

Some of us live for it!

___

I think Gore hasn't made a final decision yet but I think the table is set. He's sending out a few invitations to dinner and the kitchen's heating up.

I think he believes it will be a good, clean, strong shot at the job he won properly in 2000. And I think the country would get behind him more this time than last.

[mirandapriestly]

25. He has doing an excellent PR job the last couple years

and I don't mean that cynically. I think the image he is presenting is sincere and I've come to really like him. I was a little disappointed about the Vanity Fair cover, though, it was a little bit silly, didn't read it though, just saw it on the news stand.

[Tiggeroshii]

27. So...

What if he picks Hillary as his running mate?

Would he lose a lot of our support?

:shrug:

[NYCGirl]

32. I don't think there's much of a chance of that. NT

[Samantha]

45. There is zero chance Gore would run with Hillary

They have been at each other's political throats since 1992, despite the fact that Hillary likes to say the Gores are their (the Clintons) friends....

[roguevalley]

29. if he thought winning would allow him to affect legislation and

behavior about the environmental onslaught coming, he would run. Please.

[tavalon]

33. Is Neel one of the ones who kept Gore muzzled?

If so, I'm not happy. If not, kick ass, let's get him up there where he belongs, assumining there is am America to lead after we nuke Iran.

[AlGore-08.com]

50. Roy Neel has been a major player in all of Gore's campaigns

starting with Gore's first Congressional race. Neel ran Gore's 1992 VP campaign. He was Gore's chief of staff in both the Senate and in the office of Vice President. Neel was also the deputy chief of staff for Bill Clinton. During the 2000 campaign and the recount, Neel was in charge of the transition team - - which means that he almost certainly would have been chief of staff for President Gore.

Neel ran Howard Dean's campaign, and after Kerry won the nomination, Neel ran "The Nader Project", which worked to reduce Kerry's vote loss to the far left.

This is news because Roy Neel is a long time Gore friend and loyalist, and a major political player.

[Clark2008]

34. OK - I finally had time to read this.

And I don't get ANYTHING from it that says he's running.

It says he hired a guy who worked campaigns to help him with a tour to promote global issues.

And, that's ALL it says.

Sorry - I won't speculate on it at this point.

[tomreedtoon]

35. That would be the dance band from the Titanic?

I don't know why anyone would cheer Gore, unless they are really desperate not to see Clinton or Dean or Obama or anyone else to be the candidate.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

37. Dean has a job.

Hillary has the equal potential to be either a wild success or a terrible disaster. She is that polarizing. I'm guessing disaster, and the country is a little tired of this conflict between the houses of Windsor and Tudor. Obama is still in the minor leagues, not ready for primetime. Dean has a job.

While I am not a "supporter" of Gore, I do know that there is much to admire about the gentleman and that he would make a great president. He has also grown as a person and a citizen of both America and the world in the last 6 years.

[dusty64]

36. I don't have time to

read all this right now, but I DO hope if he is thinking of running for reelection that he puts together a whole NEW team. Was not impressed w/ the old one. BTW, President Gore IS my President!

[Clarkie1]

38. Gore on climate change, Edwards on poverty, Clark on security

It's good we have a lot of voices out there who are experts in their fields.

They key in 08' will be the candidate who can best bring all the important to focus, and interrelate those issues in a broader message that will appeal to the American people.

Clark's take is that all these issues...climate change (he has two new podcast out recently on the subject), health care, education, and poverty are ALL part of National Security.

I think it's very good we have a lot of great Dems lending their voices in their fields of expertise.

[LittleClarkie]

44. Hrm. Rehiring one of the dudes from 2000

and from Dean's campaign, neither of which did all that terribly well in the long run.

Shouldn't he bring in fresh blood?

It would be like Kerry hiring Jordan or Shrum again.

[janx]

46. ...REALLY?

I'd love to see Gore run in 2008!

[Clarkie1]

48. Does he play bass? Or play to the base?

I'm sorry, bad joke...I have a weird sense of humor.

:-)