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Draft Al Gore for President in 2008: Sign the Petition

by NeoLiberal, Sat Oct 22, 2005 at 09:55:31 PM EST

Al Gore for President Draft Petition: Summary
Target: Al Gore, Former Vice-President
Petition Authors: Grassroots For Gore
Website: http://grassrootsforgore.blogspot.com/
Petition title: Al Gore for President Draft Petition.
Summary of the petition: We petition Former Vice-President Al Gore to seek the Presidency of the United States in 2008.

Al Gore for President Draft Petition

Dear Vice-President Gore,

We petition you as concerned citizens.

This nation needs a leader with vision, experience and passion. Americans of every political persuasion are tired of the neglect, greed, cronyism, corruption, and gross incompetence of the current administration. Our next President faces the daunting task of putting the country back on track on many domestic and international fronts.

Our nation's economy, which stands at the brink of financial bankruptcy, requires significant course-correction to return to the strong and robust state that you helped build during your tenure as Vice-President. Special interest-driven policies of the current administration imperil the environment; your extensive knowledge and lifelong commitment are sorely needed in crafting forward-thinking, sustainable, and balanced environmental policies. The provisions of our social safety net originally designed to offer a helping hand to the neediest among us were severely undermined during the long winter of Republican Congressional domination, and they await revitalization.

On the international front, the unwarranted, ill-advised, and ill-waged war in Iraq (that you firmly opposed in unequivocal terms from the beginning) continues to burn financial resources, diminish our international credibility and, most important, take the lives of Americans, their allies and countless Iraqi citizens. And yet the outcome remains uncertain. Our next President faces the task of resolving the Iraq quagmire and mending our weakened international relationships.

Mr. Gore, as a man of stature, intelligence, experience, visionary leadership, and deep, well-deserved respect at home and abroad, you are uniquely qualified to meet and master the many challenges facing the next leader of the United States of America.

The idea of your candidacy appeals to a broad cross-section of the electorate, and promises to energize scores of progressive grassroots volunteers who will stand with you every step of the way.

We ask you to take on the mantle of leadership, and accept the myriad calls for you to seek the Presidency of the United States.

Thank You.

To follow is an older diary of mine:

The Earth's in Peril, Mr. Vice President!

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I (none / 0)

messed up the little poll here. My bad. thanks for reading.

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by NeoLiberal on Sat Oct 22, 2005 at 10:06:54 PM EST

dear mr. gore (2.00 / 1)

no thank you.
sincerely,
florida

p.s. you gave up on us.

by justjusticenow on Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 12:52:15 AM EST

I'm tired of hearing this bullshit lie (none / 0)

I am tired of answering it too. I'll just let others speak for me.

TLS66@dKos:
36 FUCKING DAYS!!! Ended only by a USSC fruling that left him with no recourse. 36 days of being told by members of his own party, such as Robert Torricelli, not to fight it, of fighting a system stacked aginst him, and of being undercut by his own running-mate. He fought like hell for us, we did not fight for him ... we should have been out in the fucking streets by the millions. But, no, people wanted to watch their "Must-See TV".

MSOC@dKos:

BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT. (none / 0)

Sorry - didn't mean to yell. Please don't take the comment heading or the comment itself personally:

But you're just So. Very. Wrong.

Point One: He didn't lose.

Point Two: (and I've been asking this a lot lately) Just how much more fighting would you have had him do? Once the SUPREME COURT of the UNITED STATES issues a verdict, that's the fuckin' ballgame. Unless you think he ought to have barricaded himself in the Oval Office and refused to leave until GWB said "uncle," I just can't imagine what else Gore should have done.

Please -- if you HAVE an answer to Point Two, I am all ears, seriously -- because so far NO ONE has been able to say anything beyond, "He should have fought harder."

HOW? How should he have fought harder?

I couldn't say it any better than these two.

May you find peace.

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by NeoLiberal on Mon Oct 24, 2005 at 05:33:19 AM EST
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Re: I'm tired of hearing this bullshit lie (none / 0)

Amen! I was told to shut up then, and I am told to shut up now.... but I won't shut up! We wuz robbed! The end result has been a disaster of epic magnitude. So.... Run Al Run, Life may be like a box of chocolates, but if handed to you by a republican you can rest assured they will taste like shit!

by wmkrayer on Mon Oct 24, 2005 at 06:43:51 PM EST
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Give it up (2.50 / 2)

Seriously.

by KainIIIC on Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 02:05:42 AM EST

how about leading by an example? (none / 0)

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by NeoLiberal on Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 04:07:33 AM EST
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Gore (none / 0)

Gore probably will be the only Dem to beat Hillary, but he wouldn't necessarily be the strongest to go against the Republicans. If Hillary Clinton runs and no one else comes close, I hope Gore runs, but if other Dems get close in the polls, I hope Gore doesn't run.

by mleflo2 on Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 09:39:04 AM EST

Re: Gore (none / 0)

Actually, some Republicans find him to be a credible Democrat (those that see through the MSM spin).

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by NeoLiberal on Mon Oct 24, 2005 at 05:41:54 AM EST
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Could of should of would of: Go for it Al (3.00 / 1)

Frankly, I stand with Neoliberal; Al is the voice that I like the most. He is man of integrity and intellect. He is a man abandoned by the DNC in 2000. A DNC that did not want to appear bitter and vindictive, a party that threw in the towel rather then taking on the fight. A DNC that advised us all it would be best for the country to avoid a constitutional crisis. He bowed out too early in my, not so humble, opinion! Which of us could have possibly foreseen the amazing history we have been living because of the 2000 elections?

Talk about a constitutional crisis! If these elections where tainted, than an illegitimate government enacted the Patriot Act and brought us to war, and has now installed a Chief Justice...isn't that a constitutional crisis? We may never know for sure! Not knowing is also a constitutional crisis! With all the doubt surrounding the 2000, 2002, and then the 2004 elections, why would SR 497 and HR 550 just now be taking hold? Where was/is Hillary on this important issue? Where was/is the DNC on this important issue? Why are we not making noise everyday?

Had these simple measures been in place in 2000, Al Gore would be President of the United States today. If these initiatives had been taken seriously, immediately following the 2004 election, John Kerry would be president today. What a different world we would be living in with Al or John in the Whitehouse! Nevertheless, the time to look forward is now and one of the strongest voices of reason, out there now... is Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.

So looking forward and with a strategy in mind, why should Al Gore announce years in advance if he is going to run for president? Perhaps Al Gore will run as an independent. If Democrats continue to be weak-kneed on the basic principles that define the values that made us a great nation; why should any of us vote for them? There is no guarantee that my vote will go to Hillary or Kerry or any of the many that do not dare touch the real subjects. Playing it safe does not make me all warm and fuzzy anymore.

The mess we are in is a result of a lazy, Status Quo, Democratic Party that refuses to stand up and say what we all know should be said. There are issues that need to be discussed, not ignored. We likely won in 2000 and 2004. However, Democrats did not have the will power to press the issue. Now time will only insure one thing: that we will never really be sure if either, or both, of these elections where actually legitimate. The republicans would not have let such a dubious result go unchallenged!

Therefore, if Al Gore wants to run, he will receive my unfettered, enthusiastic support. I, for one, will not be surprised if Gore enters this fray at just the right moment and I applaud Neoliberal for keeping the gentle, nudge-nudge, wink-wink, going strong.

Al you have my vote, and I do not stand alone in a hope that you will lead the charge, your way! Should you become a spoiler in 2008, it is OK with me! Right now I don't feel good about any of the democratic hopefuls; they all sound the same to me... keep doing what you're doing and if you don't run: I will likely take your advice. You make more sense then the whole lot of them, put together.

by wmkrayer on Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 12:09:55 PM EST

If we really want (none / 0)

Al Gore to run we will have to put together an organization without the candidate. That means we have to come up with a way for him to win both Iowa and NH without the candidate's participation.

So, how are we going to do that?

by Alice Marshall on Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 03:37:02 PM EST

Re: If we really want (none / 0)

NH allows write in votes in their primary (as does New Mexico, Wisconsin, NJ, and a few other states I can't recall off hand. Iowa is a caucus vote, and you would need reps for Gore there to publicly vote for him, and that would be much harder.) Honestly however, why do people continually wish to draft the man if he actually WON the 2000 election? Our PAC tried to get legal advice on this and we also set up a petition a while ago (that again not one Gore support site would endorse or support,) where we wanted to ask Congress to explore a legal and constitutional way ( even if it required an amendment) for Gore (and for that matter any candidate denied the Presidency by fraud that could be proven) the ability to serve their term once those responsible for the fraud had been brought to justice. We were trashed for that too BTW, by socalled Gore supporters.

A draft imo from experience in 2004 will not work. Al Gore himself even stated that while he might be open to political interest down the road that he "doesn't expect to have that." I can understand that after seeing the results of 2000, and the dissertion of the larger portion of the socalled Gore support base in 2004 when they settled for John Kerry over conscience and principle. Of course, they don't like hearing the truth about themselves regarding that which is why I am a virtual pariah in the Gore Internet community, but c'est la vie... At least our PAC stuck to our convictions, tried to get him votes in write in states and then with superdelegates at the convention, and endorsed him for President in 2004, which again, was not supported by those who seem so gung ho now that they think they are "in charge."

Anyway, draft or not, it ain't gonna happen unless we face off with voting machine companies first, which many on the left including those who constantly push 2008 seem to be in total denial about.

by thinkforyourself on Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 09:50:09 PM EST
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Re: If we really want (none / 0)

Sorry, I meant a draft in 2008. Been there , done that.

by thinkforyourself on Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 09:51:25 PM EST
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Re: If we really want (none / 0)

Oh, No. The idea is to encourage him to seek the nomination by a strong show of support.

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by NeoLiberal on Mon Oct 24, 2005 at 01:21:44 AM EST
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I agree I think Gore said (none / 0)

15 billion times he is not running. Also i was here in FL where Gore was ready to throw in the towel the whole time. One other thing that bothers me is that every single Senator didn't bother to even think about calling the election unfair now look where we are. But that is also Gores fault for not saying hey Sen. (insert name) Why the hell are you dooming are country to this!?
He just gave up it was pathetic watching him in the Senate chamber.

Running the Davis, Nelson Klein team in Florida.

by Liberal on Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 05:46:54 PM EST

Thanks BUT NO Thanks Al ! (1.00 / 1)

Al, you had your chance- YOU BLEW IT!

To even have to fight over Florida when you SHOULD have won your home state & a few others is YOUR FAULT.

YOU TOOK A GAMBLE & DECIDED by YOURSELF to RUN AWAY from Bill Clinton's 8 Year Track Record of success.

You did EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER to STAY AWAY from 8 Years of Progress, Prosperity, & Peace in America under your Democratic partner Bill Clinton.

You took a CALCULATED RISK of DISTANCING yourself from Clinton. If you had won, YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN BRILLIANT! But YOUR DECISION did not work.

It's time to Move on. We have other Democrats who CAN OFFER THIS COUNTRY a New Direction.

NO ONE IS INDISPENSABLE in POLITICS. Certainly Not you. We love you and respect you. But it's 2008 & not 2000!

FAITH WAS NOT ON YOUR SIDE! God Bless!

by labanman on Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 06:31:21 PM EST

Al Gore should have fought Bush (none / 0)

MUCH HARDER IN FLORIDA FOR THE PRESIDENCY

He basically rolled over and played dead..

Kerry did too..

Did somebody pay him to do that?

by ultraworld on Mon Oct 24, 2005 at 12:56:57 AM EST
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Please see my comment above (none / 0)

LINK

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by NeoLiberal on Mon Oct 24, 2005 at 05:40:21 AM EST
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To the Reader: Now, this guy is a spam artist (none / 0)

I have rebutted his prefab spam may times before.

For instance, here.

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by NeoLiberal on Mon Oct 24, 2005 at 05:39:20 AM EST
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hiya (none / 0)

1. Florida 2000 recount. See this LINK.

Dude, once the supreme court ruled, it was OVER, and he therefore conceded. Protesting there after would have been little more than a nonsensical charade.

2. No he did not say even once that he "is not running". He said he has no plans, but he also said that he can't rule out future interest. LINK

Get your facts in order.

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by NeoLiberal on Mon Oct 24, 2005 at 05:48:26 AM EST

Still Al Gore (none / 0)

No matter what he is still the Al Gore who so alienated progressives and leftists that the Green Party became a viable force in Democratic elections by opposing him. None of that has changed. Gore is not different.

I didn't vote for him in 2000 and I would not vote for him in 2008 for the same reasons.

by aahpat on Mon Oct 24, 2005 at 09:50:33 AM EST

Re: Still Al Gore (none / 0)

-->"No matter what he is still the Al Gore who so alienated progressives and leftists that the Green Party became a viable force in Democratic elections by opposing him. "

Gore's 2000 run was sabotaged by a group of that called itself "``Environmentalists`` Against Gore" that wrote this (link):

...
Many of our members support Ralph Nader, and others believe that even having George W. Bush in the White House, under the eye of an energized environmental community, will lead to better protection for nature and wildlife than we can expect from Al Gore.
...

Why did they do that? Who knows? May be Carl Rove tapped them somehow?

I would guess at least that they sensed a "kill" since the election was predicted to be very close (thanks to Clinton's Blowjobs), and decided to do the Democratic party with this subversion.

It didn't really work though. Did you notice how many fewer voted Nader got in 2004?

Greens are getting noticed again because of the Iraq War votes by people like Bayh, Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Lieberman. Blame them instead of Gore.

-->"I didn't vote for him in 2000 and I would not vote for him in 2008 for the same reasons. "

Then you are charged with helping Bush sieze power. You must be proud!

Were you one of the "``Environmentalists`` Against Gore" by any chance?

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by NeoLiberal on Mon Oct 24, 2005 at 11:58:58 AM EST
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Re: Still Al Gore (1.50 / 2)

LOL!

The same tired and baseless right wing Democrat demonization of people willing to confront you with the truth about yourselves. That environmental argument is just plain silly and irrelevant.

It was you intransigent right wing Democrats who drove millions of disaffected liberlas and leftists to the Greens, the Libertarians, the Ventura Reformers and the Independents-(who in 04 took up with Nader).

Gore screwed himself when he voted to confirm Scalia.

Before you trash the 94K Greens in Florida in 2000 who voted for Nader look to the 240K Democrats who voted for Bush in Florida in 2000.

And look to both Gore and Kerry who have both ardently supported the Jim Crow drug war that has electorally disenfranchised more minority and nonconformist Americans than would have made the difference in both 2000 and 2004. They intentionally supported the mass disenfranchisement of minorities and the left thinking that they could poach the moderates in the GOP for votes. It didn't work and now they live with defeats at their own hands. SEE MY DIARY: Why Democrats can no longer win the presidency

by aahpat on Mon Oct 24, 2005 at 01:20:59 PM EST
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