I keep hearing, from comments overseas, in the UK mostly, since the Live Earth concert, mutters about Al Gore running for Prez. HUH?????
Am I missing something here??? When did Al throw his hat into the ring? Have I been asleep at the election wheel?
I haven't heard a peep about Gore running for Prez again. Where the heck are they getting this stuff from?
Okay, he hasn't officially announced he's running. Yes, they are polling dems in Iowa and New Hampshire, but...he's not on the ticket! They also poll for other non-canadates, and they too, sometimes do well in the polls--but that doesn't mean ANYTHING. Nothing. Zip.
If someone's not running, they're not running--political polls become near meaningless. Yes, he is CONSIDERING it, but...I think he will hurt the party more than help it, in the long run. He's just not a strong enough speaker--he failed last time, and I don't think he's up to par this time.
Do I like the man? Yes, I sort of do. He rather reminds me of a young and trendy version of Jimmy Carter. Do I think he'd make a good Prez? Yes and No. I think he'd focus more on the true issues that blight America/the World, but...I don't think he's forceful enough to get action from the narrow-minded, empty-headed, selfish Congress/US Senate. Seriously, no. It'd be great to have someone more or less genuine, but...he's perceived by those in power, and shallower Americans, as weak--because he cares so much about humanity, and the world around us. Sadly, too many Americans view that as a weakness, not a strength--not me, but..yes, I do in fact know Americans who really do feel this way.
Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama are the current Democratic frontrunners--in the end, I predict, in the Democratic primaries, that it'll be these two running neck and neck--tho' that could change of course, but I don't foresee that happening.
If Gore by some chance, does throw his hat into the presidential ring, he would only win because he's white male. Seriously, not joking. We're still a very arse-backward nation, when it comes to putting women and blacks into office. Makes many an insecure white Anglo-Saxon American very uncomfortable. So Al might win their votes.
IF Al Gore runs, it, in all likelyhood, won't be until 2012, I'm thinking. I may be wrong--I read he'd canceled 6 months worth of trips--one to Japan to discuss global warming--Ironic, ey?
But, I don't think he can run for VP again--tho' I'm not certain. It's possible, I suppose. I should know that, having taken a political science course in 2002, State and Local Government--but alas, I don't remember--and, quite honestly, right at this moment, I'm too hot and sticky and knackered to walk over to the bookcase and look it up in the old textbook.
But I've yet to hear that he's running for Prez, for certain. He's not even filed yet, as far as I know, and the deadline's not far off.
I heard that he'd all but , though not absolutely categorically 100% ruled himself out of ever running for president again