Both my wife and I will vote for you. You have gained my wife’s trust. You have had my trust for a long time. If you do not run she will vote for a republican for the first time because she does not trust Obama or Hillary Clinton. Even if you do not decide to run, I have made the decision to writeyour name in if none of the other candidates are people I want to see elected. We voted for you last time because we trust you and we’ll vote for you again.

Re-elect Gore in 2008!

Gore is the only reasonable candidate out there who has captured the public imagination. No one need “Clintonesqe” or anything else. As and American living abroad, it is apparent to me that Gore is the only one who has any credibility in the wider world. We have an appalling reputation worldwide, even with our “friends”, and it needs rehabilitation.

I’ve never been much of a political activist.  I mean, I read the headlines in the paper and I exercise my right to vote, and that’s about it. 

So you can imagine my surprise when I heard myself blurting out to my husband over morning coffee, “If Al Gore decides to run for president, I’m volunteering his campaign.”

Startled at my own words, I tried to deconstruct their meaning.

Sure, I respect the man—who wouldn’t?  He’s been right on everything lately.  Right on his perspective on going to war with Iraq, validated by the President’s own commission to study it.  Right on the environment, validated by an international cohort of respected scientists.  Heck, the guy is up for a Nobel peace prize and an Oscar at the same time!

And you have to admire his character, too.  After being denied the presidency, he demonstrated grace and resiliency, moving forward to work for positive causes right and left--causes that will help all of us.

But upon further reflection, I realized that my motivations also had a dark side.  I was angry, deeply, intensely, furiously angry over the things that had happened during the Bush presidency. The desertion and despair of New Orleanians in the aftermath of Katrina, a war fought on false pretenses, the falling from grace of our country in the eyes of the whole world, the death and destruction we’ve proliferated that has killed or disabled so many innocents---

The past few years have left me feeling impotent and helpless as I watched the many mistakes made , starting with the wrong man ending up in the White House.

Yet fluttering above the depths of my smoldering anger is a glimmer of hope, with the next presidential election on the horizon.  How many times do we get a second chance in life to make things right? 

So please tell me what an inexperienced campaign volunteer can do to be useful, whether it’s stuffing envelopes, making phone calls, or sending emails.  If Al Gore runs for president, sign me up.

Vice President Gore,
Please consider running for president in 2008. Your experience, intelligence, integrity and eloquence have never been more needed by your country.  Your commitment to solving global warming could be better served from inside the White House than from the outside.

You are the only candidate that virtually every Democrat and a number of Republicans I have spoken to say they would support if you choose to run.  They are divided on the rest of the pack.

I pledge to do everything I can to help you win.

Look at the difference Al Gore has made as a private citizen and advocate for the Environment.

There is something to be said for following your passion. Although as Prez, he could turn all his hard work at Kyoto, into a reality here in the US, finally.

Green Industries need a strong visionary in the White House, that 10 year window to “do something” to turn the environment around, is closing fast, so there’s no time to lose here.

However, if Al chooses to remain single-minded and continue on his current path without all the political compromises, well maybe the next President will have enough vision to create a Cabinet Level position—like “Secretary of Environmental Issues”.  And then maybe Al Gore could just be persuaded to fill the position and lead that change, that the world so desperately needs.

Afterall, Gore was very instrumental in this change of mindset on Climate Change sweeping the world, don’t you think he’d like to see it through to its conclusion, especially if he can still stay focused and actually get something done?

I hope he wins. AGAIN!

20,432 rightfully concerned people have ALREADY signed the petition to draft Al Gore into the 2008 campaign!  The Democrats MUST win in 2008 if the US is to have any hope in the foreseeable future of restoring its currently torn to shreds / battered reputation.  We know Al Gore’s a man of integrity and vision therefore easily the best qualified and charismatic person the US has to lead it from its current state in the wilderness on the world stage.  (His “An Inconvenient Truth” documentary is now available on DVD).  Bush for god’s sake now wants to escalate the war by attacking Iran and Syria!  Result: even more dead American and coalition forces for no good or excusable reason whatsoever!  Come on now people, lend your support to this most worthy of causes after EIGHT DISASTROUS YEARS OF BUSH INCOMPETENCE AND OUTRIGHT LYING!  Please sign the petition to get Mr Gore to contest the 2008 election in the better interests of ALL US CITIZENS and for a more peaceful world!  Come on now, sign up.  I’m even going to donate a hundred hard earned dollars of my own to start with for this most worthy cause!  Al Gore for US president 2008!  America has to quit its agenda of “endless war” to the cost of mostly its ordinary and largely neglected citizens and innocent civilians abroad! 

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I mightn’t agree with everything Palast says, but at least he does do his bit to keep the admin “accountable and honest”!

Obama’s great, but like Clinton, I don’t think he could win.  At this point in American history, I think we’d see a black conservative in the White House before we’d see an African American liberal.  Same for women.  Not the way I think it should be, just what I think is the reality.

I don’t think experience is the issue for Obama either - I think he’d do great.  And Americans have voted other inexperienced politicans in.  Though I do think experience is a feather in the cap for Gore, and a good bet all around for the Dems.

Not that Gore would be willing to run.

I think Kerry bombed out on the American people, maybe cut a deal under the table.  I don’t think Gore did.  I think he stayed in and fought as long he could. 

Imagine where this country would be now if Gore had won, as he should have.

Imagine where the world would be.

We need Gore in the presidency, more than the U.N.

The same people who ran this same PAC in 2004 failed to persuade him then. Why do they think they will succeed now, and why aren’t they really supporting him by directing their energies to helping him regarding this climate crisis instead of trying to benefit themselves by using his movie? Spinning wheels on a draft movement again when the man is totally capable and has the resources at his disposal already to do as he chooses is in my view only about a group of people who failed before trying to get more attention now that he is more popular.

Al Gore is a statesman, businessman, and THE environmental leader of our times both here and globally, and he truly seems fulfilled with this most important of missions after stating multiple times he has no plans or intentions of running. Why are they then seeking to have him give all he has achieved up simply to enter the same beltway that ignored him on this for thirty years?

He will build a great grassroots movement in this country that will hopefully bring about the moral and political changes we need to see now on all levels and in business before that window closes on our planet. It is unfortunate that these people still don’t see the real urgency of that mission nor that this is a great and noble endeavor and continue to harass him rather than helping him.

put the brains back in the white house and the hope back into America!!

I have been an active member of the republican party for my entire life.  I worked hard to 2000 Bush/Cheney campaign.  With that being said, I would vote for Al Gore in a heartbeat, and I don’t think I’m the only republican that feels that way.  Al Gore is the most qualified individual to run our country and to restore it to what it once was.

If Gore was elected, he’ll recruit Kathrine Harris as his new steward especially in charge of cleaning all toilet sinks in The White House.

There is no Democrat more electable than Al Gore.  He must have gotten into Yoga or seen a chiropractor because he is nowhere as stiff as he was six years ago.  (Al Franken might say Gore saw a proctologist to remove the stick he had up his a**.) His agenda is compelling and there is nobody with such relevant experience (except on the other side but Darth Cheney has already said he won’t run).  Hillary as Veep is a consideration, but something tells me her ego won’t allow her to take the number two job.

I would vote for Mr. Gore in a second. It’s almost a no-brainer (not meaning disrespect for the thoughtful comments on other candidates). I would pair him up with Bill Richardson (governor of New Mexico). Mr. Richardson has a superb resume and has done excellent work for New Mexico. He would be a great president, but he isn’t as widely known as Mr. Gore. He is planning on running, but I’m thinking that he’s doing so not to win but to get the publicity so he can run more effectively in 4 or 8 years.

Unfortunately, I don’t think Gore stands a chance. Despite what his Inconvenient Truth may have done to rehabilitate his image, the American public by and large think of him as wooden and passive. He lost an election that was his to lose. It’s a media-driven process, and only someone with Clintoneque charisma (Bill not Hillary!) stands a chance. Edwards v Hagel?

Lord Byron - you are right, Dennis Kucinich is a long shot, and I too will support him, because I think Al is too intelligent to take on this mess.

Not only did the Supreme Court let the American people down but so did Tom Daschle, the Senate minority leader in 2000.  The last chance to contest the election was lost because Tom didn’t have enough moxy to stand up for the Florida Black Caucus who wanted an investigation and needed only one senator to sign their petition.  Our democracy was lost in 2000.

That said, although I think Al would win resoundingly, I wouldn’t want to think he was ‘pressured’ into doing it.  I trust Al will make his own informed decision and will continue to work for the sake of the world community.

For a qualified alternative that has always been an opponent of the Iraq war, I ask that you give Dennis Kucinich serious consideration.  He, too, is consistent, thoughtful, insightful, seasoned, and says what needs to be said.  That’s why you don’t hear him on MSM.  He’s not a political/corporate hack.

I do hope Al Gore runs for president.  He certainly is impeccably qualified.  And I hope he brings to his campaign the same passion he’s brought to the campaign against global warming.  Though all this clamoring for Al Gore to run does sort of remind me of the calls from the stands to play the second-string quarterback.

Till Al makes up his mind, though....my vote goes to John Edwards.

Oh please run for President Al Gore in 2008’. This country needs an experienced and dedicated person such as yourself. There is no one else that compares to you. Clinton...cannot trust her. Obama...way too young and inexperienced.
You are not afraid to speak out, the rest of the democrats have sold us out.

I totally agree with comment #49427 MAD AS HELL, and if people would care to know his father also had great ideals, and because of his ideals he was defeated, I believe Al Gore knew the election was rigged but people forget that Republicians were running the show when B Clinton was in office and the Supreme Court was run by Republicians, if the problem had gone before the House they would have chosen Bush, you know the Republicians put up a lot of money for this “Emperor without clothes,” and also Bush and company was just a repeat of his father’s administration, the only problem is junior did not even have his father’s brains.

Margaret from Vancouver Washington

Please, Mr. Gore, give us the opportunity to elect you to the presidency. Thus far only you and Mr. Kucinich have shown yourselves to be candidates worthy of the presidency. You both have shown yourselves to be compassionate, knowledgable men of action who understand the problems we face and have tangible ideas on how to resolve them. You both have earned widespread support, and you both deserve our respect. We need you.

Al, please go ! If you don’t, I will !

Re-elect Gore ! I love that sentiment, because it’s true. Gore was elected by the people, and robbed of his victory by Dubya’s little brother, Katharine Harris, and the Supreme Court ! It’s kinda pitiful, in a way, when a guy has to turn to his baby brother and steal an election ‘cause the people don’t want him…

But, we need Gore in ‘08 !

He’s the only one talking on the issues, and showing genuine concern about what he’s talking about.

President Gore would restore some of America’s dignity, more if he could serve for two terms, and get this country back to what it was socialy, and globaly during the Clinton era…

While I like both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama, they both come with question marks. Will a voter, tired of 8 years of Bush and his polarizing policies embrace a candidate also considered to be polarizing? Obama is just too inexperienced for the top job. Al Gore has the record and the focus to be the Democrats best foot forward, with Obama as the veep. Gore/Obama in 08 is the winning ticket.

Al Gore, please run. If you don’t, I’ll have to support Kucinich and he remains a longgggggg shot at best to get the nod by the Democratic party. I don’t want to have to vote for Hillary. Please, Al, run again and prove it to yourself, the U.S. and the world that you were, indeed, destined to be President of the United States.

I think I would VERY much like a Gore/Clinton ticket!  I think Obama would remind everyone too much of Dan Quayle ("Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy!")

Besides, Al Gore is not running from the Senate--Senators LOSE when they run for President.

Will the Democrats ever have the nerve to investigate Bush and his cronies?

I suggest all site for Al Gore work together. Here is one.

Al Gore Support and there are many others, let’s join in our effort to get him to run. If he does he will be elected.

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Al Gore - Democratic Party candidate in 2008.

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The most consistent comment I heard following 9/11 was, “O my gosh...can you imagine where we’d be if Gore had been elected?!”

Leaving aside, for the time being, the fact the he WAS elected...yes, I can definitely imagine how things would have gone if Gore had been elected.  Hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive, our country’s reputation around the world would likely not be in mid-flush, the bank would not be broken.” And heck, maybe Congress might actually still have a shred of integrity.  Hmmm...hard to balance out reality with what might have been, but I find myself tipping toward Gore on this one.

That said, I do think it’s prudent to be aware of how politicians on both sides of the aisle can play the citizenry of this country.  And Bush’s success at manipulation should be our primary flashing red caution light.  I like Gore.  I love his consistency on issues that I believe need to be of primary focus.  However, I’m sensing in these posts almost a messianic excitement for him which can be amplified by our rampant dissatisfaction with Bush.  I say this only as warning: he’s still just a man who is capable of extreme folly like the rest of us.  If he does announce his candidacy, he has the added star power of being the “reluctant leader whose supporters wouldn’t take no for an answer,” like Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic.  That doesn’t make him less than the fallible human being that he is, and how do we really know he hasn’t postured himself for this “groundswell?” Let’s not check our brains at the door in our excitement.

That said, he’s got my vote if he runs!

Please sign the petition on DraftGore.com urging him to run. You can add your comments there.

The question is not whether Al Gore is the most qualified and most visionary person to run for president today. The question is whether we can turn the pressure on so that he can be drafted or convinced to run. Please join Draft Gore campaign by signing up at http://www.draftgore.com or by joining a local meetup at http://draftalgore.meetup.com

And don’t forget to read the new Al Gore’s book: “The Assault on Reason” coming this May 2007

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I’m British, so I cannot vote in US 2008 - but I can give my opinion nonetheless. I had the privilege of seeing Al Gore give a speech in Copenhagen last week on global warming. The guy is a visionary - he has been preaching about climate change for decades, long before it became a mainstream political and social issue. In fact, his personal, Churchillian-Like crusade has woken up the rest of the world to the dangers we face. Al Gore is charismatic, funny, and brilliant—well ahead of the other potential presidential contenders. He can save not only the USA after the crazy Bush years, but also the rest of us who want a habitable planet for our children, and their children. Someone has to persuade the guy to run. If you are reading this Tommy Lee Jones then please speak to your buddy—for everybody’s sake.

I think it would be great to see Gore in the race, although I can’t help but wonder if he wouldn’t be more effective working in the grassroots.

I have to take exception to the statement “The first political figure to oppose the Iraq war.” That’s crap, and I don’t know why the real anti-war leaders in Congress, like Dennis Kucinich, are always treated as though they don’t exist.

Gore’s apparently genuine antiwar fervor makes me proud to be an Al.

But will he stand up against the Israel lobby?

should he run hopefully americans will finally recognize the worth of the man....

personally you d be doing the global community a favour should he be elected…

e canadian in spain

So if he does win again by a close margin, is he going to wuss out AGAIN and let the Republicans steal the election?

Sorry, he had his chance in 2000. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us.

Only Sen. Obama can restore hope and dignity to America.

“Gore is increasingly seen as Democrats’ best bet to win back the White House.”

Thus far, I agree.  I think he’s the best bet the Democrats have got.  He won before, and I think he’d win by even further on the second round, if the Democrats can just get a handle on the corrupt Republican voting machinery.  The Congressional sweep gives me hope there, but I think that game is far from over.

Clinton’s a great politican on some issues, but I think it’s a bad move to put her out there.  Too risky and the stakes are too high.

RE-ELECT GORE

I’ll vote for Al again. Mr. Shrub was not elected. He is a walking hoax/puppet/pawn with surprisingly low intelligence.

Al Gore is absolutely the MOST qualified to be President...more than any other potential candidate. He was right about not invading Iraq & staying in Afghanistan & getting Bin Laden, he was right about global warming, he was right about the Social Security “lock box”...he was right about every issue in the 2000 campaign & had he been elected, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in now! The DNC must urge him to run in order to save this nation & get our reputation back. RUN, AL, RUN!!!

Al Gore is elequent because he has done his homework and is the most knowledgable person on the horizon. It is unbelievable that so many Americans chose Bush over him, It’s totally insane. I know, many will say Bush people stole the election in 01 and 04. I agree, but why did we allow it to happen.

Al Gore is the most intelligent and least affected by special interests of all the potential candidates out there. I think he understands the need to re-establish the health of the middle class. Without a healthy vibrant middle class America will ultimately fall.

Think about it. Why does any person need to make 400 times more than their production workers make? How much money do the rich need?

Senator Webb said in his response to the Bush State of the nation speech, that when he graduated from college the average CEO made 20 times the salary of their workers. Today they make 400 times as much, Is that sick or what?

If he decides to run, I’m there.  I’ll support whatever path he chooses to take, but we will be the ones that lose out if he decides not to run.  Unless of course he becomes part of the new 08 Democratic president’s administration leading the war on global warming.

He was right on Iraq, unlike Hillary, and he was shafted in 2000.  I have the feeling a lot of Americans will have the hunger for redemption if Gore runs again.  He is the only Democrat who can defeat Hillary, who most sane people would agree would be a disastrous choice for the Dems in a general election.
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Al Gore would make a TREMENDOUS US president!  Americans so rightfully disillusioned by Bush and the Republicans should well and truly get behind this drive to DRAFT AL GORE into the 2008 race NOW!  Get your union-printed Made in USA bumper stickers NOW!  The United States of America would have a far more PROSPEROUS FUTURE AHEAD under the VISIONARY LEADERSHIP of such a man as Al Gore!  COME ON PEOPLE!  Support the man who WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE to the LIVING STANDARDS OF ALL AMERICANS as opposed to the chosen few under the Republicans!

http://www.draftgore.com/index.htm

This drive to recruit AL GORE FOR 2008 is the BEST NEWS (I’ve read) in years! Remember, in the LAST TWO US ELECTIONS the Republicans have “WON” BY LARCENY!  And the Republicans will employ all their usual underhanded thievery and trickery again come 2008!  (You can put your last dollar on it!)

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Katherine Harris and the Supreme Court are the real traitors to the democratic system. When they chose to select a president instead of the usual election, they robbed Mr. Gore of an office he had been chosen for by the majority of the people, and they robbed the people of a leader who would have led them through five years of healing and seeking peace instead of five years of bloody war. Mr. Gore would have stood tall and honorable to the rest of the world as a diplomat and a good neighbor and a helping hand. Instead we are seen as irresponsible, reckless, bloodthirsty, oil driven, and power hungry. Greedy and empirical.

Isn’t it amazing how 300 stolen votes in Florida as changed the course of history--If Gore had been declared president in 2000 we would NOT be in Iraq now, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis would not be dead, 3,000 American troops would still be alive and 20,000 servicemen would not be seriously injured.

We wouldn’t be having disingenuous discussions about global warming; instead we would be implementing a serious alternative energy program, utilizing U.S. scientists and engineers to stimulate the middle-class economy which has suffered under this “entrepreneurial president,” who is more concerned about the interests of CEOS and those earn 400 times more than the average worker.

Bush talks about building a democracy in the Middle East, but the cornerstone of all democracies is in the strength of the middle-class, and not in the prosperity of less than 1 percent of a country’s population. 

And yes, of course Gore SHOULD run, many believe that he already did win in 2000—-it is too bad that “our democracy” allowed Bush to be appointed by the Supreme Court, and the voters flaccidly accepted that decision—-they certainly paid a price for their indolence.

There is no better prepared or more knowledgable person for the position of POTUS.  And besides that, everyone knows he was robbed.  It is amazing to me that there is not more discussion of this truth in MSM.  The fact that he is rarely mentioned by MSM suggests something...doesn’t it?  Gore for President.

I got to see the former Vice-President speak in Sioux Falls tonight.  I would like to see Mr. Gore run for President.  He is the only one who is discussing the real issues of the day.  The rest of the field seem artificial and shallow.  We as a nation are running out of time.  We need a President who will shake up the entire way we operate as a society if we plan to be around long.  Al is the guy.

No question, I’d vote for him first above any other...hands down.  But please, no Liberman...pick someone that has some kind of personality, elloquence.

Headless

Al Gore is too valuable to waste in ugly and corrupt U.S. partisan politics.  We need him desperately at the United Nations.  We need him to organize the International Court of Law.  We need him to continue his global environmental works.  We need him to tower over and clean up the filthy U.S. military/industrial mess.  I haven’t seen any of the candidates for president as yet able to consider or willing to take on these tasks.