A Campaign Gore Can't Lose

[terip64]

I don't know if this is a dupe, but I know I didn't see it here and it well worth the read.
I worry about the environment more than anything else. This man is the best qualified for the job of fixing this mess we are in. He understands it. Can you imagine having someone in the Whitehouse that understood something of this magnitude? I know I would sleep better.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/17/AR2006041701259.html


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A Campaign Gore Can't Lose

By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, April 18, 2006; Page A19

Boring Al Gore has made a movie. It is on the most boring of all subjects -- global warming. It is more than 80 minutes long, and the first two or three go by slowly enough that you can notice that Gore has gained weight and that his speech still seems oddly out of sync. But a moment later, I promise, you will be captivated, and then riveted and then scared out of your wits. Our Earth is going to hell in a handbasket.

You will see the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps melting. You will see Greenland oozing into the sea. You will see the atmosphere polluted with greenhouse gases that block heat from escaping. You will see photos from space of what the ice caps looked like once and what they look like now and, in animation, you will see how high the oceans might rise. Shanghai and Calcutta swamped. Much of Florida, too. The water takes a hunk of New York. The fuss about what to do with Ground Zero will turn to naught. It will be underwater.

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"An Inconvenient Truth" is a cinematic version of the lecture that Gore has given for years warning of the dangers of global warming. Davis Guggenheim, the director, opened it up a bit. For instance, he added some shots of Gore mulling the fate of the Earth as he is driven here or there in some city, sometimes talking about personal matters such as the death of his beloved older sister from lung cancer and the close call his son had after being hit by a car. These are all traumas that Gore had mentioned in his presidential campaign and that seemed cloying at the time. Here they seem appropriate.

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In the meantime, he is a man on a mission. Wherever he goes -- and he travels incessantly -- he finds time and an audience to deliver his (free) lecture on global warming. It and the film leave no doubt of the peril we face, nor do they leave any doubt that Gore, at last, is a man at home in his role. He is master teacher, pedagogue, know-it-all, smarter than most of us, better informed and, having tried and failed to gain the presidency, he has raised his sights to save the world. We simply cannot afford for Al Gore to lose again.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/17/AR2006041701259.html

[Warpy]

1. If he allows himself to be saddled with DLC handlers again

he'll duplicate his dismal performance in 2000 and Kerry's lackluster performance in 2004.

Mary Beth Cahill needs to stay where she is, shilling for corporations.

So do the rest of those "handlers." They've screwed up enough campaigns. Let them remain in obscurity and collecting dirty money as lobbyists.

[AtomicKitten]

2. since you asked - dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2577102

[Kashka-Kat]

3. I want a boring president dammit!

Who needs a psychopathic warmongerer suffering from religious delusions of grandeur, or for that matter- who needs a compulsive sex addict. Who needs that kind of excitement.

I WANT A MATURE, COMPETENT, INTELLIGENT, ARTICULATE, CLEARTHINKING creative problem solver...

I daresay there are many of us out here who are looking for same....

That whole thing about Gore being saddled with the label "boring" by even our own side was such a tragedy... considering what happened as a consequence. Same way that Jimmy Carter was abandoned by the left in 1979/80 which opened the door to Reagan.