Gore Non-Commital On 2008 Run
I suspect we’ll have a pretty good idea who’s running and who isn’t when the smoke clears in November, and that’s why I’ve been very negligent in covering 2008 news lately, but Al Gore isn’t coming out strong one way or the other:
Former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday he hadn’t rule out making a second bid for the White House, though he said it was unlikely.
Gore spoke to reporters in Sydney, where he was promoting the local premiere of his documentary on global warming.
“I haven’t completely ruled out running for president again in the future but I don’t expect to,” Gore said before the Sunday night premiere of “An Inconvenient Truth.”
“I offer the explanation not as an effort to be coy or clever. It’s just the internal shifting of gears after being in politics almost 30 years. I hate to grind the gears,” he added.
Gore, who lost the presidency to President Bush in 2000 in disputed circumstances, said there was no doubt the impact of global warming would be best addressed through the power of the presidency, but making a documentary was second best.
Gore’s renewed popularity and movie tours across the United States have spurred speculation of a White House run in 2008. He has previously repeatedly denied such intentions.
Al Gore, to his credit, is a sincere liberal. By this, I mean that one feels his concern over global warming is genuine, not some cooked-up (pun not intended) scheme to keep his name in the headlines, in the mode of John Kerry. I don’t appreciate his newfound willingness to go nuclear, so to speak, in his criticism of the president (you can be opposed to someone’s politics without getting red in the face and screaming in public like some two-bit high-school football coach), but he’s got a right to run and an issue to run on.
Having said that, he has very little chance of winning, but then again, I though Lamont had no chance at all in Connecticut, so what do I know?…
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