I so want to become active in this group.

[lildreamer316]

Ever since (don't flame me!) I saw Al on The Tonight Show to launch Current I have been convinced he was going to run again. He didn't say anything about it; I just got one of those gut feelings...and of course his wonderful works since Katrina only add fuel to the fire for me. I think he is the single best candidate and that his time has surely come. I am so enthused for this idea. Glad to have a place to commiserate about it.

[FreedomAngel82]

1. I really hope so

I think we need a progressive such as him to undo all that Bush has done. I think he's our best bet right now. While I also have this feeling that Kerry will be president it has been sort of weakning and I think we are re-living history with the Vietnam era except with Iraq and Gore could be our version of Nixon (only in the position of course). I do hope he runs but I think it's smart that nobody is saying anything right now about running except the rightwing media.

[ginnyinWI]

5. I'd be happy with either Kerry or Gore

or, actually, any Dem who is intelligent, experienced, principled, a good leader, and able to articulate a clear message about Dem values. The problem has not been with our last two candidates: it's been with the party and the message.

Gore's campaign was ruthlessly attacked by Rove, and he was painted as stiff and out-of-touch, and also was tainted by Clinton's lack of personal morals. Also they didn't have near the amount of money the RNC had. And he still was the legitimate winner.

Kerry was also ruthlessly attacked by Rove, and he was painted as aloof and out-of-touch with the mainstream and painted as too liberal (which means weak to a lot of people), and too associated with Hollywood and the far left, which is very scary to social conservatives. But mainly it was Iraq and people believing that we were safer with the repubs in charge. The money was there this time, but not the organization, and we had a very bad time getting the message out.

Each man is a great statesman and American. Each one was not understood for who he really is by average Americans. We need a stronger Dem party which is able to overcome the negative spin machine. And we need to expose the other side. Jonathan Alter thinks our main meme to knock out the Right should be that they are FAILURES. It's a simple message and applies in a lot of ways, because they have failed in many, many ways.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

2. Washington, Lincoln, Gore.

Welcome, Dreamer! Today I carefully read Gore's speech to the Sierra Club in San Francisco. Great leaders are made by desperate times. Washington led the country through the Revolutionary War. Lincoln held the union together. Roosevelt ameliorated poverty in the Great Depression and worked with Churchill to defeat fascism. Now a greater threat than all those combined not only endangers our republic but world civilization, namely global warming.

Gore is the man of the hour. In 2009 when Gore has been re-elected and finally inaugurated, the world will be poised to take the next step beyond Kyoto. This time the US Senate will be ready to do the right thing. As Gore said in San Francisco "political will is a renewable resource."

Gore is the man with a vision for reconciling civilization with the environment, the necessary prerequisite to survival. Not since Bobby Kennedy have we had such a leader with the charisma and the vision to lead the people, IMO. I have never been so proud to be a Democrat!

Here is a short bit from the speech and the link:

"This is a moral moment. This is not ultimately about any scientific debate or political dialogue. Ultimately it is about who we are as human beings. It is about our capacity to transcend our own limitations. To rise to this new occasion. To see with our hearts, as well as our heads, the unprecedented response that is now called for. To disenthrall ourselves, to shed the illusions that have been our accomplices in ignoring the warnings that were clearly given, and hearing the ones that are clearly given now...

There is another side to this moral challenge. Where there is vision, the people prosper and flourish, and the natural world recovers, and our communities recover. The good news is we know what to do. The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed, and as they become available and become more affordable when produced in scale, they will make it easier to respond. But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait, we have every thing we need - save perhaps political will. And in our democracy, political will is a renewable resource."

http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/gorespeech/

[IndyOp]

7. Moral challenge. Principled leadership -

THIS is what people are hungering for...

"This is a moral moment. This is not ultimately about any scientific debate or political dialogue. Ultimately it is about who we are as human beings. It is about our capacity to transcend our own limitations. To rise to this new occasion. To see with our hearts, as well as our heads, the unprecedented response that is now called for. To disenthrall ourselves, to shed the illusions that have been our accomplices in ignoring the warnings that were clearly given, and hearing the ones that are clearly given now..."

:applause:

[StellaBlue]

3. Add me to this list

and ditto to the comments above

I think Al's 'wildnerness time' has crystallized his wisdom and intentions and he has put to rest the Washington-grown, slick, mediabeast that we saw in the 90s, who turned me off.

He strikes me as intelligent, thoughtful, earnest and universalist in his outlook. Just what we need right now.

[Jamastiene]

4. He's rock solid.

I wonder if he knows he has two votes here in NC. I know I'd vote for him if he'd just run again. I did it before and I'd do it again. They can't beat him with silly crap like they do most other dems/progressives. They are afraid of him, IMHO.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

6. Welcome! n/t

[HeeBGBz]

8. Ditto for me

Gore is my #1 choice for 08. Way above everyone else in my heart and opinion.

[sproutster]

9. Add me too - He walks the walk and that is what we need.

[sandyd921]

10. Head and shoulders above

the rest of the Democratic field as far as I'm concerned with the exception of Russ Feingold. My ultimate fantasy is a Gore-Feingold ticket. :loveya: