Al Gore for President public bookmark list

I know this list is kind of ugly. But hey, so is delicious. :) Let's see what happens if we pile on and add items. Also, let me know what other features would be helpful. Thanks! Opie
 

YouTube - After The Garden

Unseen Al Gore Campaign video - Google Video
Well, it seems about the right time to come out of the closet and say that Al would in fact be the best president. So I am starting this little list of bookmarks to share notes on why Al should run, and how to get some organizing done before he jumps in.  So if you have ideas, feel free to click "Comment to folio" above.  And feel free to drag-and-drop (Firefox) or click-and-fuss (IE) and install the bookmarklet above to add material to this page.  Thanks!  Best wishes, Opie
Rolling Stone : Al Gore 3.0
Al Gore 3.0
The man who won the presidency in 2000 is looser and more outspoken than ever. Is his global-warming movie a warm-up for a third run at the White House? (From the July 13-27, 2006 issue of ROLLING STONE) BY WILL DANA

WILL DANA
Rolling Stone : Why Gore Should Run -- And How He Can Win
If the Democrats were going to sit down and construct the perfect candidate for 2008, they'd be hard-pressed to improve on Gore. Unlike Hillary Clinton, he has no controversial vote on Iraq to defend. Unlike Barack Obama and John Edwards, he has extensive experience in both the Senate and the White House. He has put aside his wooden, policy-wonk demeanor to emerge as the Bush administration's most eloquent critic. And thanks to An Inconvenient Truth, Gore is not only the most impassioned leader on the most urgent crisis facing the planet, he's also a Hollywood celebrity, the star of the third-highest-grossing documentary of all time.

"He's perceived very differently now than he was six years ago," says Frank Luntz, the Republican consultant who advised George W. Bush to dispute global warming during the 2000 and 2004 elections. "He's an icon. Imagine that: Al Gore, Mr. Straight and Narrow, Mr. Dull on Wheels -- now he's culturally cool."

Indeed, Gore is unique among the increasingly crowded field of Democratic contenders. He has the buzz to beat Obama, the substance to supplant Hillary, and enough stature to enter the race late in the game and still raise the millions needed to mount a successful campaign. "Very few people who run for president can just step in when they want, with a superstar, titanic presence," says James Carville, the dean of Democratic strategists. "But Gore clearly is one of those. He's going to run, and he's going to be formidable. If he didn't run, I'd be shocked."
RollingStone
abc11tv.com: Al Gore Documentary On Global Warming Wins Oscar
Al Gore Documentary On Global Warming Wins Oscar

LOS ANGELES, February 26, 2007 - Former Vice President Al Gore used the success of his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" to expand his efforts to educate people about global warming - and to tell a few jokes.
The film turned Gore's road show about climate change into a film that won Academy Awards for best documentary and best song.

Gore also teased a bit Sunday night about his plans to possibly make another presidential run, although backstage, he said he was not a candidate.

The win was a triumph for Gore, who has kept a sense of humor about the 2000 election, where he won the popular vote, but lost the election to George W. Bush.

"My fellow Americans," Gore said Sunday. "People all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started with the possible will to act. That's a renewable resource. Let's renew it."

Earlier in the evening, Gore
Oscar win was one more first for Al Gore - A Concord Monitor Article - Your News Source - Concord NH 03301
Oscar win was one more first for Al Gore

Monitor staff
February 27. 2007 8:00AM

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The carbon dioxide and other pollutants we have already let out of the bag ensure that no matter what we do, the problem will get worse before it gets better."

That warning about the threat posed by global warming appeared in this space in 1988, during Al Gore's first run for president.

Gore was one of the first politicians to grasp the seriousness of climate change and to call for a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouses gases. He held the first congressional hearings on the subject in the late 1970s.

On Sunday, Gore and his crew won the 2007 Oscar for Best Documentary for An Inconvenient Truth, a film built around the slide show Gore has given hundreds of times all over the world.

The documentary deserved to win. It is no mean feat to make a film about a man talking and showing charts and graphs that's informative and entertaining enough to be the third-highest grossing documentary of all time.
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Earlier this month, Gore was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work calling attention to climate change. He just might win that award, too.

There is a Forrest Gump feel to Gore's life. Gump, the fictional character portrayed by actor Tom Hanks in the movie of the same name, had an uncanny ability to be present when history was being made and to influence, albeit unwittingly, its course. Gore has often done the same thing knowingly.
YouTube - Al Gore: Leadership Needed To Stop Global Warming
ABC News: Gore Announces Concert Series for Climate Change
Live Earth: The Concert for a Climate in Crisis
YouTube - Al Gore to launch "Live Earth", in the spirit of "Live Aid"
YouTube - "CONVENIENT TRUTHS" Video Contest
YouTube - Energy CRISIS -Robert Redford on Larry King Live
OPML, The Harvard Book of
OK, I am not without an interest here. I need your help. I want to help Al, and I don't know how.

I would love to help ginn up encouragement for Al, and help make connections among Al supporters in order not to fall behind the other candidates' grassroots activities. Contact me on the "email to Opie" on the web site. Thanks so much for your help. Al needs us. We need Al. Let's try to find each other sooner rather than later.
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Draft Gore 2008 PAC (v.4) | Grassroots Organizing Really Early (v.4)
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Analysis of Right Wing Smear Attack on Al Gore Netscape.com
"This is a textbook example of the mindless swarming behavior that is so typical among right-wing partisan flacks. First, everyone on the right--from top to bottom--simply assumed that the content of this press release, which was put out by an organization none of them had ever heard of before, was factually accurate. Actually, that probably gives them too much credit. It's not that they assumed it was accurate, it's that they didn't care. The press release was chalked full of truthiness, and that was good enough."

That about sums it up
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Evolving Times Message To Al Gore - Change The Tagline For LiveEarth
Message To Al Gore - Change The Tagline For LiveEarth February 27, 2007

I was so excited about the previous post on Al Gore's LiveEarth Concert that it didn't even occur to me that something was amiss until just now.

What's wrong about a global event to combat climate crisis you might ask? Absolutely nothing is wrong with the event. What is wrong is their focus on "Combatting Climate Crisis."

It's wrong for two big reasons. First, whenever you fight or combat something, you are setting up sides, right and wrong, positive and negative and entering into the endeavor from a place of adversarial perception. The last thing we need right now in our move towards sustainability is more battle.

Second, by focusing the Climate Crisis, what are they bringing global attention to? Correct, the climate crisis? From a Law of Attraction perspective, what do we want to focus global attention on? Right again, sustainability, or a clean environment or fresh air, or . well you get the idea.

So how about it Al? Would you be willing to change your tagline from The Concert to Combat Climate Crisis to something like The Concert to Create A Clean Earth?
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Greenadelphia! Blog Archive Draft Al Gore March Meetup - 03/20/07 @ 7 PM
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David Seaton's News Links: Al Gore, rolling thunder
I can't think of a better farewell, "get stuffed", message for George W. Bush than a landslide victory for Al Gore as his successor. Imagine Bush's face at Gore's inauguration, imagine Bush's face as he listens to Gore's inaugural address... to the ovations... No greater repudiation possible, nothing could more bitter for Bush than that. Go for it!
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In the wake of Al Gore's victory (okay, technically it was Davis Guggenheim's victory, but you get the idea) at the Oscars, I anticipated a wave of positive press about Gore's efforts to raise awareness of global warming. What I didn't anticipate were the numerous comments from the press . . . about Gore's appearance, specifically, his weight.

The conventional wisdom seems to be that Gore cannot run for national office until he drops some pounds, as he did in 2000. In addition to being shocked that this topic would even come up in the wake of the seriousness of An Inconvenient Truth, I was also struck by how those critics (and Democratic consultants, including, not surprisingly, Donna Brazile,) don't have a clue as to how people respond to image in politics.
Let's assume Gore jumps into the race (as I certainly hope he will.) If I were advising him (not that he needs to get into the habit of listening to advisers, as that's a big part of what did him in in '00,) I would tell him not to lose too much weight. Right now, Gore looks avuncular. And, for a Democratic presidential candidate, avuncular is a GOOD THING!!!! Remember how the Rove smear machine was able to portray Kerry and Edwards as effeminate sissies (all those stupid jokes about them being gay because they hugged so much) partially because of their physical presentations? Kerry was slim, overly well-groomed, and was caught on film windsurfing. (The fact that he was from the state that had just legalized gay marriage, and that the Democratic National Convention was held there, to boot, certainly didn't help matters as far as this image was concerned.) The meme of Edwards-the-prettyboy is still alive and well today-- major political web sites and news programs have made reference to the very popular YouTube video that shows Edwards scrutinizing over his hair before going on TV (and whoever posted it on YouTube accompanied it with the theme music "I Feel Pretty.") An overly-attractive, too-well-groomed candidate reinforces the right wing smear machine's portrayal of Democrats as weak, effeminate sissies.

 

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