gore was right: about climate change, the war in iraq, among other things. last i checked, he had nothing to do with mr. clinton's love life. there is no "shaky science" about global warming jim, unless you're working for exxon. ask australians what they think, as they work on their 5th year of drought.

all that said, for the very nonsense posted by jim & slado, gore shouldn't run. because, even though it is, in fact, nonsense, the MSM and the republicans will run with it, again. these would be the very same morons that brought us bush, who's been pretty much wrong from day one.

given bush's history of total failure from birth, we all knew this, but darn, he'd be fun to have a beer with!

i don't know that i'm particularly enthralled with obama as a v.p.; what's he done? well, um, uh, aside from being him................not much.

hillary has her baggage, but so does anyone who's been in the public eye for any length of time, it goes with the territory.the question becomes: is that baggage too heavy to carry over the bar.

Gore was prescient. For decades he has maintained that the Earth was teetering in the balance, even when doing so subjected him to ridicule from other politicians and cost him votes. By telling the story of climate change with striking clarity in both his book and movie, Al Gore may have done for global warming what Silent Spring did for pesticides. He will be attacked, but the public will have the information needed to distinguish our long-term well-being from short-term special interests.
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Perhaps the country came close to having the leadership it needed to deal with a grave threat to the planet, but did not realize it.

Jim Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

If Obama goes for VP he'll be doing an Al Gore as VP for eight years, and look what happened to Al Gore.

Gore won't try for the nomination. At some point someone will set him down and explain the real world to him.

Obama may give it a go. He won't get past Nebraska. No experience and and when he starts facing a hostile press, he'll fade.

A year ago I would have said that Hillary couldn't win because she has well above 50% negatives, and people vote against, not for.

Now, I don't know. After this midterm it appears that the MSN has been successful in carrying enough water for the Demos to convince the public that national security doesn't matter.

Q. So is it fair to say that you think global warming is the most important issue of all -- ahead of, say, the war on terror?

A. That is certainly the way I think about it, and that is the way the scientists [who study climate change] think about it. It is certainly a challenge to the moral imagination because it is so big and so threatening. It is the issue. If we choose not to act, the consequences would be unthinkable. We need to awaken people to how high the stakes are. We have everything we need to solve the issue except the will to act -- but that, too, as the movie points out, is a renewable resource.

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Makes perfect sense to me, Slado.

a good analogy would be those scientists, in the pay of tobacco companies, being "skeptical" about the link between tobacco use and various health problems.

while many scientists may disagree on the extent of global warming, no legitimate scientist argues that it isn't occuring, none. to even argue that it's not happening shows a complete, willfull ignorance of all the research done over the past 30 years on the subject, not to mention the ever widening hole in the ozone layer.

or, are you going to claim that isn't real either?

you may not believe gore, but what you believe has little to do with reality. the reality is that we are having an adverse impact on the planet's environment.

H. Clinton is seen by too many as an extremist and she's really scary. I'm almost scared to not support her b/c she'd come find me and tear off my arms Janet Reno style. She seriously does have a really good chance.

Then, he added: "I haven't completely ruled it out."

I'm holding my support for the first candidate that doesn't pledge allegiance to the DNC or GOP and lobbyists.

Gore only looks and sounds cool when he isn't running for or holding office.  If he ran the party would over-starch him stiff again.