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Will Al Gore Run in 2008?
Everywhere he goes, the winner of the 2000 popular vote is asked: "Would you consider running for President in 2008?" His answer is that he has no intention or plans to seek office. But he hasn't decided not to run, either. We're convinced that Gore can be persuaded to run. The purpose of this website is to encourage him to do so, while helping build a grassroots movement that will put him into the White House.
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Watch Al Gore on "60 Minutes" Sunday, March 30th
Posted March 28th, 2008 by Janet
Al Gore will discuss the climate crisis and the 2008 Presidential campaign on CBS's "60 Minutes" this Sunday, March 30th at 7 pm ET/PT.
Watching and waiting . . .
Posted March 18th, 2008 by earthmotherIn November of 2007, AlGore.org suspended its active campaign to get Al Gore to be a candidate iin the 2008 race for the White House. At that time, we informed all of our organizers that we were going into a dormant mode. Publicly, we remain dormant, but we are carefully watching the race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. As of this writing, Obama is ahead in delegates, but both candidates continue to split the available delegates in such a way that neither may have enough to be nominated on the first ballot at the convention in August. The next (and last) major state as far as delegates go is Pennsylvania. Depending on what happens there in April, we may decide that it's time to swing into action again.
If Clinton and Obama continue to do damage to each other's campaigns, if they continue to split the delegates, if it appears that the Democratic Party will be divided rather than united going into the convention, it may become evident that the party needs someone who can unite the Democrats, and most importantly, someone who can beat John McCain in November. To our way of thinking, the obvious someone is Al Gore.
We're not the only ones entertaining this notion. There continue to be many articles written about Gore as the unity or compromise candidate. Here are a few of the more recent ones:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/al-de-gore_b_90064.html
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03062008/news/columnists/only_gore_can_stop_...
http://www.newsweek.com/id/119851
http://www.southernledger.com/blogs/stevegill/?m=200803
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marvin-kitman/al-gore-for-president_b_9033...
While everyone understands that there are major obstacles standing between Al Gore and the nomination, there are various scenarios that, while long shots, could come to pass. We remain realistic about the situation, but we also feel that if there's any chance at all that we can somehow make our dream a reality, we need to try, but anything we would do would have to be ethical, reasonable, and realistic, and at this point, the options for us are few.
So we watch, and we wait. We'll keep you posted . . .
Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech by Al Gore
Posted December 10th, 2007 by Janet(Click here to view a video of this speech - - requires Windows Media Player.)
Oslo, Norway
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen.
I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it.
Sometimes, without warning, the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be. One hundred and nineteen years ago, a wealthy inventor read his own obituary, mistakenly published years before his death. Wrongly believing the inventor had just died, a newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his life’s work, unfairly labeling him “The Merchant of Death” because of his invention — dynamite. Shaken by this condemnation, the inventor made a fateful choice to serve the cause of peace.
Seven years later, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his name.
Seven years ago tomorrow, I read my own political obituary in a judgment that seemed to me harsh and mistaken — if not premature. But that unwelcome verdict also brought a precious if painful gift: an opportunity to search for fresh new ways to serve my purpose.
Unexpectedly, that quest has brought me here. Even though I fear my words cannot match this moment, I pray what I am feeling in my heart will be communicated clearly enough that those who hear me will say, “We must act.”
Watch a live Webcast of the Nobel Prize Ceremony
Posted December 9th, 2007 by JanetOn Monday December 10th, Al Gore will join Dr. Pachauri of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to accept the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. You can view the entire ceremony live via webcast at www.nobelprize.org.
The ceremony begins at 1:00 PM Oslo Time, which is 7:00 AM Eastern Time/4:00 AM Pacific Time.
