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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-24-07 07:12 PM
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Run, Al, Run
From the Rolling Stone...

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13248532/why_gore_should_run__and_how_he_can_win/1

The ideal candidate for the Democrats may be the man who won the popular vote in 2000 -- and who opposed the war in Iraq from the very start
TIM DICKINSON


A stiff Vice President campaigns on his administration's legacy of unprecedented prosperity. Looks terrible on TV. Bows out, following a disputed vote count. Then, two terms later, with no incumbent in the race, he re-enters the fray. Promises to change the course of a disastrous war founded on lies. And charges to victory. I'm referring, of course, to the 1968 campaign of Richard Milhous Nixon. But four decades later, history has a chance to repeat itself for Albert Arnold Gore.

If the Democrats were going to sit down and construct the perfect candidate for 2008, they'd be hard-pressed to improve on Gore. Unlike Hillary Clinton, he has no controversial vote on Iraq to defend. Unlike Barack Obama and John Edwards, he has extensive experience in both the Senate and the White House. He has put aside his wooden, policy-wonk demeanor to emerge as the Bush administration's most eloquent critic. And thanks to An Inconvenient Truth, Gore is not only the most impassioned leader on the most urgent crisis facing the planet, he's also a Hollywood celebrity, the star of the third-highest-grossing documentary of all time.

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Keep the faith! B-)
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SoFlaJet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-24-07 07:26 PM
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1. I've never donated money
to a candidate in my 51 years on this planet but if Al Gore runs I WILL send dough-Run Al Run
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-24-07 07:28 PM
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