OSTROY; Al Gore Will Not Only Run, but He Can and Will Win in '08
With an Oscar Appearance, and a Hit Documentary Gore Is Suddenly Very Cool
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Feb. 27, 2007 — Make no mistake: Former Vice President Al Gore will be our next president.
I am as confident about that assertion as I am that George W. Bush will go down in history as America's worst president ever. Gore is the right man at the right time, for many reasons. And it's clear that the momentum and buzz is shifting his way big time.
At Sunday's Oscar ceremony, Gore's movie producers took home the coveted prize for best feature documentary for "An Inconvenient Truth," his scorching red-flag raiser on global warming.
Gore joined them on stage and was graceful, poised and presidential. And it didn't hurt his hipness quotient any to be getting a little Leo DiCaprio love either. The politician also joined the Hollywood star on stage during the Oscars. That's right, Al Gore is suddenly cool.
It gets even better. In October, Gore will also likely be the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for being the planet's biggest advocate in the fight against climate change. His prestigious nomination in this exclusive club puts him in the company of such independent thinkers, statesmen and activists as Dr. Martin Luther King, President Jimmy Carter, Elie Wiesel and Mother Theresa.
Now let's talk chops. Gore's an enlisted Vietnam vet who served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, two terms in the Senate, and eight years as vice president in one of the most successful administrations ever. Let's not forget that he won the popular vote in 2000, and as many say, the Electoral College as well.
So wait, he's hip, he's brilliant, he's highly experienced. Is America ready for a real leader after two terms of a guy who makes Jim Carrey's "Dumb and Dumber" character seem downright cerebral? You bet your asinine Bush-isms it is.
I even have the perfect campaign slogan for Gore: "Imagine how it would've been."
Just imagine what the country would be like today had he become president in 2000 and not Bush. Imagine an America without this bloody debacle in Iraq. Imagine an America that commands the respect of its allies and is feared by its enemies. Imagine an America that puts the environment before big corporate interests. Imagine having a president who strives to bridge the gap between rich and poor, where the middle class, not the wealthy, gets the tax breaks, and where the minimum wage is not a shameful $5.15. Pretty powerful stuff on the campaign trail, huh?
--Andy Ostroy
MoDo wrote a column lauding Gore just now, as well. Jurassicpork captures it here.
Link here.
16 comments:
I agree completely, he is exactly who we need. a combination of vision, intelligence, experience and integrity.
I remember how disappointed everyone was when George Bush won (I live in Canada) and I was only nine! Hopefully Al Gore does win this next time because the war affects everyone, even us up here in the north, not to mention everyone being killed for reasons I am not even sure make sense. Here's a Canuck for Gore!
Hmm let me think. If Gore was Prez.
1. Still have 911-Check
2. Still ivaded Iraq (same intel) maybe the MSM would have been truthful about covering the actual WMDs found. No moonbats protesting the war because a Democrat was in the Whitehouse. Stop fooling yourselves hypocrits.
Wrong, anon.
If Gore were Prez --
1. Most likely he would have prevented 9/11, just as Clinton's diligence prevented threatened Y2K attacks. Gore would have taken warnings about Al Qaeda seriously.
2. No need for Iraq war -- no WMDs. No 3K American dead, 20K American wounded. No 600K Iraqis dead. No fundamentalist theocracies spreading in the Middle East.
3. Ending pollution-based global climate change.
4. Instead of pisssing it away, using massive Clinton surplus to pay down national debt, support projects that help the American people like shoring up New Orleans levees, helping the old and the poor.
5. Continuing competence in government -- with a FEMA that works! National Guard that's not overseas! Building schools and hospitals here, so we don't have to build them over there!
PS -- No kneejerk freeper name-calling allowed on this blog.
Wrong, anon.
If Gore were Prez --
1. Most likely he would have prevented 9/11, just as Clinton's diligence prevented threatened Y2K attacks. Gore would have taken warnings about Al Qaeda seriously.
---ERRR- Wrong. He was there for 8 years. He had the intel. His admin had the opportunity to capture OBL. But no. BTW. Y2K was stopped by a first responder doing her job.
2. No need for Iraq war -- no WMDs. No 3K American dead, 20K American wounded. No 600K Iraqis dead. No fundamentalist theocracies spreading in the Middle East.
---ERRR- Wrong again. The Clinton/Gore admin continuously made statements that Iraq had WMDs(Which were true.) The admin had plans drawn up to invade Iraq way before Bush was President and 911.
3. Ending pollution-based global climate change.
--ERRR- Wrong again. He has become "Mister UberEco" because he needs a platform to get power back and his financial interest in "carbon-offset" companies. If we are in such an unprecedented warming period, why did the Norse have sustainable colonies during the Medieval Warming period?
4. Instead of pisssing it away, using massive Clinton surplus to pay down national debt, support projects that help the American people like shoring up New Orleans levees, helping the old and the poor.
---ERRR--Wrong again. He had 8 years to shore up the levees.
5. Continuing competence in government -- with a FEMA that works! National Guard that's not overseas! Building schools and hospitals here, so we don't have to build them over there!
---ERRR- Wrong again. As a one of those Fed guys who was pulling people off the roofs of NOLA. I can tell you that I saw a lot of Federal competence in the skies and off the Coast of the Gulf States.
I know it is nice to dream. But please take the cape off of Al.
Interesting to hear that your fact-free bushist fascist faith still kowtows down SO low, celebrating Bush pissing away the Clinton surplus, Bush selling our country to the Chinese, establishing a fundamentalist theocracy in Iraq, Bush undermining the rule of law, etc. etc. etc.
(List too long to list all.)
Wow.
Bushist fascism = BUILDING ROADS, HOSPITALS, AND SCHOOLS OVER THERE SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO BUILD THEM OVER HERE!!
What part of that don't you get??
"B-B-But Clinton!"
Your hatred of Clinton is idiotic.
Who can't balance a budget?
Who can't find Osama?
Who can't manage disasters?
Who can't stop snooping?
REPUBLICAN'TS!!
Incompetent Idiot Liars
It is nice to see you subcribe to the squashing and deletion of any opinion opposed to your left agenda. Bravo. Bravo.
Bravo? Yeah, I learned to do that at FreeRepublic. Been there? Done that? Most reichwing blogs don't even have comments.
Acually I have never been to the FreeRepublic. I like the lefty blogs. It gives me insite into the minds of madmen and crazy women. It strengthens my resolve to expose your side for the anti-semetic , anti-american nutjubs you are. You owe allot to guys like me go volunteer to fight your right to preach your crap.
- two tours incountry outside the wire.
"anti-semetic" "nutjubs"?
1. Who's anti-Semitic?
2. Freedom of speech = crap?
3. I'm the one who's been pushing for top quality benefits for Vets, bud, just as long as this blog has been on the air in cyberspace.
Doesn't it piss you off that bush and cheney are draft-dodger service avoiders? Chickenhawks who want wars fought -- just as long as it's someone else's blood being spilt? What's the name of this blog?
Do visit free republic. You'll love it. I think it's www.freerepublic.com
Google "Dirty Bush to Vets: Shut Up and Die"
That one has links back to the others, such as "Dirty Bush to Vets: First We Maim Your Minds, Then We Dump You. It's Hard Work."
no it doesn't piss me off. What pisses me off is guys who rat the brothers out who are still fighting and dying. Or freaks at "Peace" rally's holding up Palestine Flags. And the fact that you deleted my post just proves how much of a coward you really are and that you can't compete in the arena of free ideas.
If bird craps on my car, I wash it off.
My blog. My rules. Deal with it. Or not.
"Rat the brothers out"? You wouldn't be meaning you support keeping quiet about atrocities, would you?
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