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By Brent Budowsky, Consortium News. Posted August 14, 2008.

McCain is an environmental sellout. So why isn't Gore challenging him visibly, aggressively and clearly?

Anyone can champion the Earth when it's easy, yet too many remain silent when it's hard.

The forces behind oil are taking charge in the great energy debate -- and the issue of global warming has virtually disappeared from the political campaign, with barely a word from its strongest advocate.

By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com. Posted August 9, 2008.

It's the same old story: Money talks, and bullshit walks. And don't be surprised if we're the ones still walking after November.

By SETH BORENSTEIN
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3NLY5naFMJIsbKHNeiWIKMTsEiQD91G3IBG0

WASHINGTON (AP) — Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.

Posted June 8, 2008 | 01:18 AM (EST)
Obama - Blank - Gore: The Third Pereson on the Ticket
by Bob Ostertag
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-ostertag/obama-blank-gore-the-thir_b_1...

Just for a moment, forget about the Obama ticket and allow me to place my nomination for a third: Al Gore for a high-profile cabinet-level post on climate change.

Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth To Be Staged As Opera
by Karin Kloosterman, Jerusalem, Israel on 05.29.08
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/al_gore_goes_op.php

We hlope it's not a tragic one where all the main characters die in the end: The Associated Press is reporting that Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth is going to be staged as an opera. From lecture halls to film, okay we get it. From film to books, a natural transition. But opera?

Published on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
Corrections: In Which The New York Times Perpetuates the Myth It Created -– That George Bush Won Florida in 2000
by Larry Beinhart
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/27/9223/

“In 2001 painstaking postmortems of the Florida count, one by The New York Times and another by a consortium of newspapers, concluded that Mr. Bush would have come out slightly ahead, even if all the votes counted throughout the state had been retallied.”

Once again the Republican attack machine completely misses the target. Think any of their dim bulb watchers will notice?

Fox News: ‘Blame Al Gore For Your Rising Food Prices’»
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/12/gore-food-fox/

Yesterday on Fox News’s Hannity’s America, host Sean Hannity attempted to blame Al Gore for skyrocketing global food prices:

Al Gore: Uncommitted Superdelegate Committed to Stopping Climate Change
by Bonnie Hulkower on 05. 6.08

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/al_gore-uncommitted_superdelegat...

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/05/06/gore_weighs_in.html

Gore Weighs In

The Assault on Reason Al Gore was interviewed on National Public Radio about his book, The Assault on Reason, but he also spoke about the Democratic presidential race. Here are some key excerpts:

"Even though it has gone on much longer than is normal in the age of primaries and caucuses, nevertheless I think the odds are overwhelming that it will tip rather decisively in one way or the other before the convention even meets."

Published on Thursday, April 24, 2008 by Foreign Policy in Focus
The Democrats ‘Free Trade’ Divide
by Mark Engler
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/24/8499/