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Gore -- I don't have to run a 600-day Campaign
Posted May 17th, 2007 by LindainSFNM
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As The Honorabl e Al Gore switches gears from the environmental work he's been involved so heavily in for the past 5 years and moves back to his his political passion, he gave an interview to the New York Times that will be appearing on May 20, unless you have a subscription to Select.
Blogger John posted a preview of this recent interview giving the world hope that Al Gore's true passion to move us forward will decide to seek the Presidency.
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Wed May 16, 2007 at 03:22:50 PM PDT
From the NYTimes (subscription required) comes the strongest indicator that Gore will run, but probably not soon. The article, by James Traub, is quite long, mostly fawning, sometimes critical.
Below are some excerpts:
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Gore on the environment and public policy . .
"The central challenge," . . . "is to expand the limits of what’s now considered politically possible. The outer boundary of what’s considered plausible today still falls far short of the near boundary of what would actually solve the crisis."
Gore’s great fear is that business lobbies and lawmakers will unite around some kind of compromise legislation that will demonstrate "commitment" without actually driving up the cost, or driving down the permissible volume, of carbon emissions. And he views even the most stringent legislation as inadequate.
Gore on Kyoto Agreement in Clinton Administration
"If I had been president, would I have bent every part of the administration and every part of the White House to support this? Yes, I would have. Does that translate into criticism of President Clinton for not doing this? No. I was vice president, not president."
Gore on Running
When I asked Gore why he hasn’t dismissed all the speculation by issuing a Shermanesque refusal to stand, as he did in 2002, Gore said, "Having spent 30 years as part of the political dialogue, I don’t know why a 600-day campaign is taken as a given, and why people who aren’t in it 600 days out for the convenience of whatever brokers want to close the door and narrow the field and say, ‘This is it, now let’s place your bets’ — If they want to do that, fine. I don’t have to play that game."
The only conclusion that one can make is that if Gore really wants to change environmental policy, he needs to be in a position higher than Vice President.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/4/1429/95136
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peaceful revolution
If Al Gore succeeds in becoming president next year it will feel like a revolution in this country. He's got to go for it. America has been shamed, our sytem is messed up. We've betrayed the principles of our country. There's no more middle class, it's feast or famine. Greedy rich and uninsured hopeless poor with only lottery dreams. Al Gore can become our first great president since FDR, there is no doubt about it. He needs to keep playing his cards right. He's right, the money and length of these political campaigns are a joke. He's got to find a way, with smart and good people to protect and fight with him. The time is coming....
I agree!
In his Times interview, he said "I'm trying to say to you, be a part of the change," he told the crowd. "No one else is going to do it. The politicians are paralyzed. The people have to do it for themselves!" He was getting charged up now. "Our democracy hasn't been working very well—that's my opinion. We've made a bunch of serious policy mistakes. But it's way too simple and way too partisan to blame the Bush-Cheney Administration. We've got checks and balances, an independent judiciary, a free press, a Congress—have they all failed us? Have we failed ourselves?"