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Al Gore on '08 Democratic Race: "I'm Not Applying for the Job of Broker" [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard, AlterNet at 6:11 AM on April 1, 2008.


On "60 Minutes", Gore talks about his new multi-million dollar climate change campaign and reflects on both the 2000 and 2008 elections.
Al Gore on Campaign '00, '08 and His New Campaign on Climate Change

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Whenever I see Al Gore these days, I always think back to when I was a freshman in college and my dear friends were passionately arguing that Gore would be no different that Bush if he were elected and so I should vote for Nader. I didn't listen to them and I'm proud of that now, even if at the time I wasn't all that enthusiastic about my vote.

On global warming:

"We all share the exact same interest in doing the right thing on this. Who are we as human beings? Are we destined to destroy this place that we call home, planet earth? I can't believe that that's our destiny. It is not our destiny. But we have to awaken to the moral duty that we have to do the right thing and get out of this silly political game-playing about it. This is about survival,"

And on the deniers:

"I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view. They’re almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the earth is flat. That demeans them a little bit, but it’s not that far off."

Nice. Check out the video to your right for more.

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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Why would this man want to put himself through this again!
Posted by: chuckjs on Apr 1, 2008 6:39 AM   
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I have heard a lot call for Gore to run for President again, recently. Why would this man want to run for, and win the Presidency, again, only to have it stripped away by a Supreme Court, who over stepped their constituional mandate, and disinfranchised a good number of voters.

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WHENEVER I SEE GORE I AM REMINDED...
Posted by: bbfmail on Apr 1, 2008 7:05 AM   
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"Whenever I see Al Gore these days, I always think back to when I was a freshman in college and my dear friends were passionately arguing that Gore would be no different that Bush if he were elected and so I should vote for Nader. I didn't listen to them and I'm proud of that now, even if at the time I wasn't all that enthusiastic about my vote."

Whenever I see Gore I am reminded of what Jesse Jackson in an interview said of Gore's reply when he asked why Gore didn't pursue the disenfranchisement of so many voters in Florida. According to Jackson, his reply was "he didn't want to be accused of playing the race card". The interview with Jesse Jackson was done by Ms Huffington.

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Gore's transformation has been astonishing
Posted by: hound dog on Apr 1, 2008 7:55 AM   
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The media narratives against Gore in 2000 were grossly unfair, but regrettably, the Gore campaign seemed to play right into the Rovian smear tactics. It's good to see he no longer has consultants and handlers crafting his message. His mission now is honorable and noble.

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estherme
Posted by: estherme on Apr 1, 2008 9:00 AM   
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It is interesting to note that Al Gore has not told the people about Chemtrails and how our gov't & NATO governments are secretly spraying the skys with dangeros chemicals. This is not contrails from jets! This is daily sprating of dangerous aerosals that we are breathing in and causing health problems. Gore does not address this and the gov't gives nonsense talk about it is contrails. Are they spraying to control weather, to cause droughts so they can control the water shortage! ( Control the air and water, you control the people ) or are they doing military experiments on us! See: www.educate-yourself.org/ct ( Chemtrails Introduction). www.carnicom.com/conleft.htm www.bariumblues.com (spraying fake clouds with aerosul fibers) www.doewatch.com and scroll down to "The Science of Air Pharmacology or Chemtrails" See www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvioxjul6co&feature=related You tub has many videos on this. Search the videos on www.altavista.com and www.dogpile.com ( search "Chemtrails" and click on videos) There are numerous websites and information on the internet. Don't trust Al Gore or the government to tell you the truth! They have been spraying since 1987 and increased it alot since 1998. Now it is on a daily basis, but many people aren't aware or not interested. They are altering the air we breathe without our consent. This spraying affects the water supply, weather, land- crops & food, animals, insects, fish and our health! Anyone connected with government knows this is being done and the media remains silent. Well folks, if Al Gore doesn't discuss it, he is part of the problem. What is his agenda and special interests!! When are people going to wake up and not believe a damn thing the governemts say!!

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» RE: estherme Posted by: Richard House
» RE: estherme Posted by: deenie
"SIX DEGREES
Posted by: crazy carlos on Apr 1, 2008 9:51 AM   
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That is the spread of temperature rise to the when and where life for all intents and purposes is extinguished here on Earth. Mark Lynas's book of the Six Degrees we have as a species to salvage this planet. 2 1/2 degrees C. is the cutoff to when the changes will happen and will be beyond mankind's control. The date given by the author is 2015--6 years from now.

If he is even half way correct, the banking crisis is like a day of sunbathing at the beach.

Google Six Degrees and watch the National Geographic presentation of what happens to Earth progressing thru those degrees one by one. If this does not scare the shit out of you, nothing will. Crazy Carlos

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It's all the same
Posted by: audiodef on Apr 1, 2008 11:10 AM   
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to me, because without normal hearing, and there being no captions or subtitles in online videos, despite TRE-FUCKIN'-MENDOUS technological advances and the fact that most newscasts on TV are captioned, it all goes like this:

Gore: Aggab bah smooky poto the sammy dill wikko over the hojji poo with caca doo.

Tipper: Eeky tag kollip monnu jadfist (jadfist?) krill jumbo while the guhhuh woo did so many tupperware hummies.

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» Sounds Familiar Posted by: oldwoman
There are those Dems who would
Posted by: Quannah on Apr 1, 2008 1:38 PM   
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love nothing more than for Gore to have a do-over of the 2000 race. He definitely got screwed out of being President. But for those who would wish for a "President Gore" this time around... it ain't gonna happen.

Sadly, Gore will never be President, and if he's smart, he will stay as far away from this race as he can possibly get. I say that because whoever is elected in November is going to have the worst job in the world. Period. It will arguably be the toughest US Presidential term in our history, given all the nasty clean-up and damage control he (or she) will have to contend with. Gore is a smart man. I believe his wisdom will over-rule any presidential ambitions he may still harbor.

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AL GORE IS ONE HAPPY CAMPER
Posted by: VZEQICVA on Apr 1, 2008 2:07 PM   
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Watching him accept the Nobel Peace prize was very impressive. He and Tipper look very happy and are living the well deserved good life. I can't believe he longs for the policial scene. But if he does, I'll take him. We lost a good man. Thanks, ANNA

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Give us this day, our daily dose of Al Gore propaganda
Posted by: joeunix on Apr 1, 2008 4:23 PM   
Current rating: 2    [1 = poor; 5 = excellent]
and forgive Al Gore's evil.

And if you think I believe that puny solar panel array provides enough electricity to heat that enormous mansion, you're nuts.

Al Gore spends in excess of $45,000/year to heat that pretentious mansion--and Gore has the unmitigated gall to wag his finger at us and scold Americans for their alleged contribution to so-called "Global Warming"?

The hypocrisy is mind boggling.

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» $45,000?? Posted by: buffeliscious
Blossom
Posted by: rruppen on Apr 1, 2008 8:44 PM   
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The people who know Gore best say he was rarely if ever there for them on pressing matters on the homefront, ranging from strip-mining to radioactive contamination at Oak Ridge to the pollution of the Pigeon River by Champion International. "More often than not, Al Gore sided with the polluters against the people," says Maddy Cochrane, a longtime environmental organizer in Chattanooga. "Gore follows the money."

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» RE: Blossom Posted by: lesterliu
» So all y'all's points... Posted by: buffeliscious
Helen Caldecott -" Top threat still Nuclear war and Nuclear power."
Posted by: herbal on Apr 1, 2008 11:24 PM   
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We can call Gore a nay saying flat earther for forgetting the biggest millenia lasting nuclear pollution that has been killing long before Three Mile Island. We are still getting plutonium fallout from the stratosphere from early US, French and Russian above ground testing that is causing cancer in children. 40% of Europe is long term isotope contaminated by Chernobyl. Wales farmers cannot sell their milk because of strotnium 90 content!

Global Warming is already critical. Nuclear is long past critical. We must eliminate all nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, NOW It will require no less thatn turning all incumbent Congress out and installing all new ones with the exception of those with a perfect anti-war voting record.

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» Exactly! Posted by: joeunix
» RE: xactly! Posted by: rickiey
» RE: Exactly! Posted by: joeunix
» rickiey TROLLING Posted by: herbal
Preterition
Posted by: wagadog on Apr 2, 2008 5:58 AM   
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is the word you're looking for.

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Al Gore is an Oil profiteer and arch hypocrite.
Posted by: joeunix on Apr 2, 2008 10:29 AM   
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Want proof? Read on.

An excerpt from "Gore and Occidental Petroleum".

"For example, in the Democratic Party, Vice President Al Gore has a long-time relationship with Occidental Petroleum that has been enormously beneficial to the company. Occidental's late chairman, the controversial Armand Hammer, liked to say that he had Gore's father, Senator Albert Gore, Senior, quote, "in my back pocket", unquote. When the elder Gore left the Senate in 1970, Hammer hired him for $500,000 a year. Personally and professionally the vice president has profited from Occidental largess. To this day he still draws $20,000 a year from a land deal in Tennessee brokered between his father and Hammer. The total amount is more than $300,000. The personal relationship between young Gore and Hammer was very close throughout the 1980's, including trips on Hammer's private jet and constant campaign contributions."

An excerpt from CorpWatch titled "Al Gore: The Other Oil Candidate".

"Occidental's planned drilling of the Elk Hills doesn't only threaten the memory of the Kitanemuk. Environmentalists say a rare species of fox, lizard and the kangaroo rat would also be threatened by Oxy's plans. A lawsuit has been filed under the Endangered Species Act. But none of that has given pause to Occidental or the politician who helped engineer the sale of the drilling rights to the federally-owned Elk Hills. That politician is Al Gore.

"That was good news for Gore. Despite controversy over Dick Cheney's plans to keep stock options if elected, most Americans don't know that we already have a vice president with oil company stocks. Before the Elk Hills sale, Al Gore controlled between $250,000-$500,000 of Occidental stock (he is executor of a trust that he says goes only to his mother, but will revert to him upon her death). After the sale, Gore began disclosing between $500,000 and $1 million of his significantly more valuable stock.

"Nowhere is Al Gore's environmental hypocrisy more glaring than when it comes to his relationship with Occidental. While on the one hand talking tough about his "big oil" opponents and waxing poetic about indigenous peoples in his 1992 book "Earth in the Balance," the Elk Hills sale and other deals show that money has always been more important to Al Gore than ideals.."

Gore could care less about the "environment."

His real concern is that he becomes a billionaire, via his "Global Warming" scam.

Professor Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT has this to say about Al Gore's "Global Warming" scam, and Gore's many conflicts of interest:

Question: How cynical do you think Gore is?

Answer: It's hard for me to tell. I think he's either cynical or crazy. But he has certainly cashed in on something. And 'cash in' is the word. The movie has cleared $50-million. He charges $100,000-$150,000 a lecture. He's co-founder of Global Investment Management, which invests in solar and wind and so on. So he is literally shilling for his own companies. And he's on the board of Lehman Brothers who want to be the primary brokerage for emission permits.

Question: That sounds more cynical, less crazy.

Answer: I think his aim is not to be president. It's to be a billionaire.

Read the entire article.

Gore is an arch liar and a hypocrite.

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» Richard P. Lindzen... Posted by: buffeliscious