There hasn't been a primary yet, and somebody is saying who the VP pick of a candidate who hasn't even announced will be? Get a proctologist with a flashlight to show you where that information comes from. Might as well claim what the DJIA will close at on election day. I can guarantee with 100% accuracy that none of the serious contenders have closed the door on their VP pick. No way. They might have a favorite or six, but they have to wait until after a few primaries at least to see how they fare, and where their ticket needs some help. If nothing else, it's helpful to let a few primaries weed out the weak players, show who has the popularity, ability and stamina for the biggest political campaign on the planet Earth. If somebody does have their VP pick, that means they are not going to win. For example, I wouldn't be surprised to see the Libertarian party has a full ticket. Or the Green Party. Or that one Perot started. Picking a VP is one of the biggest moves in a campaign, and the serious campaigners are pros.
. June 14, 2007 SouthAmerica: Reply to TGreqq I said the following: Al Gore should take his time on the process of deciding who will be on his presidential ticket as the vice president â Al Gore needs a running mate who will help him carry one of the red states. ***** Let me clarify for you regarding what I said: Al Gore should wait and get a better reading on the entire US political landscape before he chooses the best candidate that he can find to help him win one of the red states. A candidate that will be a good addition to his presidential ticket and help him win at least one red state. In my opinion, Al Gore made a major mistake in 2000 when he added Joe Lieberman as the vp on his ticket. If he had picked instead the Senator from Florida at that time that would have given him a better chance to win in 2000. .
Let me quote what I said in response to: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1500999#post1500999 I didn't say you said it. Geez, what an ego you have.
. June 14, 2007 SouthAmerica: Bill Clinton is a master politician and I bet he already knows that Al Gore will be the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party in 2008. I am sure that after the dust settles Bill Clinton will endorse Al Gore for president in 2008. There are various red states that are vulnerable in the 2008 presidential election â that is why Al Gore has to wait and pick the right vice presidential candidate to add to his ticket. A possible candidate for the a VP spot on Al Goreâs short list should include Bill Richardson, the New Mexico Governor â He might be able to bring to the table a red state and also some of the Spanish vote. .Barack Obama is the US Senator for Illinois â He could bring some black votes to the table, but Illinois voted as a blue state in 2000 and 2004. Note: Al Gore did carry New Mexico and Illinois in the 2000 presidential election. But in the 2004 presidential election John Kerry was not able to win in New Mexico - New Mexico voted as a red state. .
. June 16, 2007 SouthAmerica: A possible candidate for the VP spot on Al Goreâs short list should include Ralph Nader â He might be able to help the ticket on some swing states. A Gore/Nader ticket might win in Florida â a red state in 2000 and 2004. Hillary Clinton the US Senator for New York â She could bring some woman votes to the table, but New York voted as a blue state in 2000 and 2004. .
. June 18, 2007 SouthAmerica: The British mainstream media started grasping that âAl Goreâ will be the next president of the United States. Eventually, even the mainstream media in the United States will grasp the inevitable. ********* âIt has got to be Al Goreâ - If he is as serious about climate change as he says he is, he has to run for the US presidency By: Peter Preston Monday June 18, 2007 The Guardian - UK The American debate, as ever, sets a shining city on a hill and calls it Las Vegas. The question is not only who America needs for its next president - it's who is worth a flutter. Place your bets, please. Can Hillary find the human warmth to win a few primaries? Will Obama cut the mustard in Mississippi? Is John Edwards a busted flush? But this time, perhaps, the game is different. This time all normal bets are off. Just occasionally, a new politician on the block can transform political priorities. David Cameron (though you won't hear Labour or Liberal Democrat dignitaries admit it openly) has done that already. He may not have hitherto evinced much interest in matters environmental. His Guardian online columns, written way before leadership happened, are notably short on greenery. But the moment he got on his bike and made saving the planet a Conservative cause was the moment the issue itself - climate change - made a step change in British electoral consciousness. Prime Minister Cameron couldn't let global warming slide inertly down the league table of global concern without exposing himself as shallow and opportunistic in the most humiliating way. He must, in or out of office, keep plugging away for solutions. He can't pipe down - and so other parties have to pipe up, too. Education, education, education? What the hell use is that if your school is under water? National health? Not in hospitals where the air conditioning has collapsed. Climates change, but the challenge doesn't. Which is where we reach the inconvenient truth about Al Gore. And why he needs to be the next man in the Oval Office. Normal political punditry, to be sure, yawns at the very prospect. Poor old lumpen Al - Bill Clinton handed him power on a plate seven years ago and he let it slide. He wouldn't allow the departing wizard to give him a hand. He pandered to old Democrats rather than new, offering ancestral mood music to the public service unions. He made more of the very successful economic same seem a threat, not a promise. Maybe some hanging Palm Beach chad hung probity and his prospects out to dry, but he shouldn't have had to struggle so close to the brink in any case. He had his chance and he threw it away. He's over: let him go. Except that Al Gore isn't over, and has not gone away. On the contrary - his profile and organisational structure still in place - he has become America's true prophet of climate change. In the beginning, that seemed like retirement or a move to some showbiz style of career, starting liberal radio stations, making earnest movies. But events, if we're honest, have reshaped all that. When Gore fully embraced the threat of global warming, half a decade ago, he was just one figure on one side of the argument. He said that carbon dioxide emissions were wrecking our world and that something had to be done. George Bush (and his Republican half of the world) didn't agree. There was no climate change and therefore nil need for uncomfortable action. Kyoto could be safely left to stew. But that, crucially, isn't the case any longer. There isn't a debate in an artificially balanced way (if you leave Channel 4 documentaries and a few loony tunes out of the equation). We don't know precisely how serious the threat has become - somewhere between horrid and utterly disastrous - but science as a whole says a clear threat exists. American states from California to Rhode Island are unilaterally signing up for international protocols. American business can't sit this one (and its new technologies) out. Why, even Bush surreptitiously burnt his old beliefs at the G8 this month. How long have we got to take decisive action? Ten years at most, say the direst American voices (like Jim Hansen, Nasa's top man on climate change). And where does the heart of that action necessarily lie? In Washington DC, because that's where any fight against global pollution necessarily begins. Other politicians and nations can pressure and preach - but top-down decision-making starts in the Oval Office. Is that possible when climate change is just one "normal" issue among many, to be ceremonially weighed against US jobs or gas prices or Chinese imports? It's not. But that, with inevitable shades of emphasis, is where every extant presidential candidate stands. Too timid, too slow. Global warming is an utterly abnormal issue that needs a leader all of its own. Gore has fashioned himself as that leader. He can't just sit there and pontificate. He has to run. And, when he does, the rest of us have to put inconvenient Illusions aside and listen. Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2105343,00.html .
well.. that is the script the oligarchs have planned. not sure if they will succeed though.... this whole fake scare just so they can tax the US for breathing is going to be exposed for what it really is... a big scam. gore isnt exactly the brightest chap out there. we will see what the american people have to say about all of this... it will be very interesting to watch the former monopolistic press try to push his junk science on us with their hands open. FOOLS!!!!!
. June 19, 2007 SouthAmerica: Now - even the American press is starting to catch up with reality. *********** âAl Gore Favored To Win 2008 Presidencyâ Inglewood, CA, June 19, 2007 (TransWorldNews) Al Gore has still not declared whether he would be joining the race for the 2008 presidential elections, but that has not stopped the online sportsbooks to offer a 6-1 odd to Gore to win the presidential election. With Gore just releasing his new book, âAssault on Reasonâ, analysts from USElectionPolls.com feel there is a possibility that he might enter the presidential race. Those who have read the book, proclaim that Gore is laying a foundation for his campaign for the presidential election. Gore has denied that he will enter the race but many analysts do not believe him. They contend that if and when Gore enters the race, he will jump ahead of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic candidate. There are others who believe that Gore is popular because he is against the process of politics and his popularity will fall if he enters the presidential race because the he would become a part of the process he has been criticizing so vehemently. While online sportsbooks feel that the odds of Gore winning the 2008 presidential election were high but after the release of his new book, those odds have jumped even higher. Now, whether the former Vice President, Academy Award winner, writer and a campaigner against global warming jumps into the fray needs to be seen. .
. âIowa radio ads encourage Gore to run for presidentâ The Associated Press - June 25, 2007 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Grassroots supporters are ramping up their efforts to encourage Al Gore to run for president in 2008. The Draft Gore Committee launched its first radio ad today in Iowa. The 30-second ad, dubbed "You Who," will go national in July. It features a chorus of voices seeking Gore's attention and urging him to seek the Democratic presidential nomination. The political action committee claims to have gathered 94,000 signatures on an online petition. It's not officially affiliated with the former vice president. Gore, of Nashville, has repeatedly said he has no plans seek the nomination, though he hasn't ruled out a bid. .