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For AL GORE: One down, 2 to go

ConspiRaider

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It's official, and is what many of us predicted: The 2006 Oscar for Best Documentary went to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. CONGRATULATIONS to Big Al and Laurie David and everyone involved in that remarkable film.

Next up is the Nobel Peace Prize, let's see how Big Al fares with that one.

And the really really Big Shew - the U.S. Presidency in November 2008. A helluva lot of us Democrats are trying to persuade Big Al to go for it because we think he'd run the table.
 
ConspiRaider said:
It's official, and is what many of us predicted: The 2006 Oscar for Best Documentary went to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. CONGRATULATIONS to Big Al and Laurie David and everyone involved in that remarkable film.
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Congratulations Conspi! I think Al should eat more GREEN and less red meat. He's downright doughy! I say he doesn't run for president. And he can't win if he doesn't run.
 
steverino said:
Congratulations Conspi! I think Al should eat more GREEN and less red meat. He's downright doughy! I say he doesn't run for president. And he can't win if he doesn't run.
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Well Steve, he probably won't run. Says he won't. Thing is we need him. After the horrors of Bushco we're going to need an actual person, with real people in his Administration (instead of the Bushco machine) to try and repair the colossal damage.

I don't envy the next President, I really don't. To fix what this swaggering transplanted Texan has broken is a towering tall order.

Still someone has to, and he may be the best qualified. We'll see. It's going to be a Democrat, regardless. We'll see who emerges next year.
 
ConspiRaider said:
I don't envy the next President, I really don't. To fix what this swaggering transplanted Texan has broken is a towering tall order.
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Hi Conspi. :) Let's keep this to global warming. I do not accept that Bush "broke" our Earth with global warming. I will be charitable and say it may have been "postponed," but Clinton postponed it, as did FDR and all in between.

Let's not link the Iraqi war with global warming, shall we? :boxedin:
 
ConspiRaider said:
After the horrors of Bushco...

To fix what this swaggering transplanted Texan has broken is a towering tall order.
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FWIW, I do think there are significant problems that existed before 9/11 that 9/11 brought to the forefront that I don't think Bush has addressed. I do think Iraq is a serious issue but the notion that bush has done something to seriously break America is simply political rhetoric. It's kool aid. It's amazing people so readily drink the stuff up.
 
steverino said:
Hi Conspi. :) Let's keep this to global warming. I do not accept that Bush "broke" our Earth with global warming. I will be charitable and say it may have been "postponed," but Clinton postponed it, as did FDR and all in between.

Let's not link the Iraqi war with global warming, shall we? :boxedin:
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I hadn't thought of the global warming angle. I'll concede that Bush et al did a poor job. I don't at all think anything is "broken" as to global warming. I think it's time to take the issue seriously and I'm glad the Dem's are bringing out the truth of the administrations handling of the matter.
 
If Al Gore secretly has hopes of the White House in 2008 then his chances took a blow tonight with his film winning the Oscar and according to what I read he went up and spoke too, which would be another (self-inflicted) blow. I doubt at this point that he's either that out of touch or that unrealistic although I could be wrong.
 
I don't see why it should be so hard to be the next US president. First, you'll be popular everywhere around the globe just for not being Bush (assuming he doesn't run for a third term). Then, you have to pull out of Iraq. Not too hard.
There's no economic recession, and even though the deficit is surely a huge problem, dropping the Iraq war and removing some tax cuts should fix that.

About global warming.. well, the next president could of course act responsibly about that.. or postpone it to coming generations like all presidents before have done. I sure hope for the former, but anyway.

I think the fact is that many of the things that make so many people dislike Bush are actually easily reversible: pulling out troops, banning torture, removing some wiretapping laws etc, reinstating some taxes. There are of course irreversible losses (like thousands of dead soldiers), but I don't think there is much that has irreversably damaged the US as a nation. Except possibly international reputation - but in my experience, people are quick to forgive past sins of a major power.
 
Merko said:
(assuming he doesn't run for a third term).
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Do you even live in the US?

Merko said:
Then, you have to pull out of Iraq. Not too hard.
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So it's not going to be hard for you to watch not dozens or hundreds but tens of thousands of Iraqis die?

Merko said:
There's no economic recession, and even though the deficit is surely a huge problem, dropping the Iraq war and removing some tax cuts should fix that.
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At what point do you think the Laufer curve will bite back?

I'll leave the rest for now.
 
ConspiRaider said:
It's official, and is what many of us predicted: The 2006 Oscar for Best Documentary went to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. CONGRATULATIONS to Big Al and Laurie David and everyone involved in that remarkable film.
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Serendipitously, I watched that documentary for the first time yesterday, just before the Oscars (which I didn't watch, but which I saw the recaps of this morning, and which I--again serendipitously--flipped to on the tv just as Leo and Al were speaking).

Very impressively done. My only criticism of it was his lumping of all the serious diseases of the last hundred years (and the resurgence of some old ones) together as somehow linked to AGW. Bad form and not needed to get his point home.


ConspiRaider said:
Next up is the Nobel Peace Prize, let's see how Big Al fares with that one.
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For what?


ConspiRaider said:
And the really really Big Shew - the U.S. Presidency in November 2008. A helluva lot of us Democrats are trying to persuade Big Al to go for it because we think he'd run the table.
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Also serendipitously, I have been having this same thought over the past week or so--that Al Gore could win the presidency more surely than Hillary or Barak. Seeing his bit last night reinforced the idea for me.

Lotsa serendipity there. Must mean something, right?


Number Six said:
If Al Gore secretly has hopes of the White House in 2008 then his chances took a blow tonight with his film winning the Oscar and according to what I read he went up and spoke too, which would be another (self-inflicted) blow. I doubt at this point that he's either that out of touch or that unrealistic although I could be wrong.
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Why would you consider his appearance a blow and his speaking another? If anything, it removed the last vestiges of his reputation as a wooden speaker.
 
Let him run for office in 2008 ... it will assure a Republican Presidency.

Remember Ralphie? -- how many here thought that his running (on Green issues) broke apart the Democrat vote? Such short memories.

Of course, Republicans can be just as stupid and not nominate their best bet (Rudy) and put in another Bob Dole.
 
Jocko said:
So you're asserting that a democrat won the presidency in 2000, based on that evidence?
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No I did not assert that in that post. I said that the opinion that if he runns in 2008, "it will assure a Republican Presidency" is divorced from the evidence that Gore got the most votes in a presidential election once already. That evidence is incontrovertable.
 
hgc said:
No I did not assert that in that post. I said that the opinion that if he runns in 2008, "it will assure a Republican Presidency" is divorced from the evidence that Gore got the most votes in a presidential election once already. That evidence is incontrovertable.
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Please use votes that count -- e.g.; from the Electoral College.

And BTW ... it's 2008, not 2000 votes that will count. In 2000 there were three more tall bulidings in NY that are no longer there.
 
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Garrette said:
Why would you consider his appearance a blow and his speaking another? If anything, it removed the last vestiges of his reputation as a wooden speaker.
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Gore Obama 2008 looks to be a mortal lock.

Does Bill Richardson know this?

DR
 
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