Environment, Global Warming, Message Points, Politics, Worst President Ever
Nobel Laureate Al GoreAl Gore becomes a frickin’ Nobel laureate and all the mainstream media can talk about is whether he will now run for president. Like Gore’s been waiting until he could build his resume enough, say by winning a Nobel prize, to launch a campaign. ABC alone has devoted three web pages to the topic, while CNN is covering the story in its “Politics” section where it quotes an anonymous source on Gore’s prospects.
But he will not run, because he won’t take on the political machine assembled by Sen. Hillary Clinton, said the source. If the senator from New York had faltered at all, Gore would take a serious look at entering the race, the source said. But Gore has calculated that Clinton is unstoppable, according to the source.
Enough already. At least Reuters took a better angle on the “prize as presidency potential” coverage of the award. They are looking at the honor through the lens of Gore’s last run, not any future ones.
While Gore has grown in international stature since his narrow election loss, Bush has seen his credibility damaged at home and abroad by the Iraq war and other foreign policy woes.
Like Gore’s been waiting until he could build his resume enough — say by winning a Nobel prize — to launch a campaignHe is struggling to stave off lame-duck status and stay relevant while increasingly hemmed in by a hostile Democratic majority in Congress. His inner circle is steadily eroding with almost weekly departures of key aides and advisers.
And the president’s public approval rating, which soared to 90 percent after the September 11 attacks in 2001, has sunk close to historic lows, with some polls putting it below 30 percent.
Around the world, Bush has won few friends with his stance on Gore’s signature issue — climate change.
At a White House-convened summit last month, some of the world’s biggest greenhouse polluters called Bush “isolated” and questioned his leadership on the problem of global warming.
I’m glad Gore won the Nobel prize but, selfishly perhaps, I would have preferred he won the White House back in 2000. What a different — and better — world it would be if he had.
Golly, do ya think that maybe the Supreme Court will develop a conscience and give him the office that they denied him in 2000?
To tell you the truth, Trish, I don’t blame Gore for not running, but dammit we need him.
I’ve said for 40 years that the Dems and Thugs will both screw you, but I vote Democratic because they’ll do it slower. With that posturing corporate whore Clinton practically anointed, it means that the Dems are speeding up the screwing, and my butt’s getting sore. Who’s going to stop her?
to address jOhn’s concern the answer is we will stop the corporate dems.
IN 2008 we are going to vote for the Dems and put them in power of everything.
Then we are going to kick out the bad Dems 1 by 1. Watch how fast they’ll come around knowing that if we stay home they lose.
Well, Trish, not everybody is happy about the Nobel selection. Lene Johansen at GlobalWarming.org is downright angry:
“I am ashamed to be Norwegian today. The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose to give the prize to a shyster and a bureaucratic ministry of truth. I am not sure if I am more furious or more ashamed.
“There were plenty of worthy candidates, doing actual work to build peace between quarreling parties and reducing standing armies, but this years choice was a populist attempt to influence the political discourse on climate change.”
I read the whole blurt and I never did figure out why Lene was so pissed.
(http://www.globalwarming.org/node/1157)
Lene Johansen is perhaps a neocon implant of GlobalWarming.org who needs to feign outrage.
As per Lene, I saw another one last night, that slammed Gore for not being “extremely liberal” enough for her. The principal reason that the Left is powerless in this country is because they are willfully determined not to build coalitions. “if you are not 101% in alignment with my cause, you are the enemy, regardless of your stance on anything else” is the ethic to which my fellow lefties too often adhere. Gore must be the enemy because his house costs entirely too much to heat and electrify. And next year’s Dem presidential candidate must fail because…well, there’ll be some platform plank that isn’t letter perfect, therefore he/she is a disguised Repub.
Ahhh, powerless but morally unassailable – what could be better than that?