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Gore On Prez Run: "I Haven't Ruled It Out," But....
From a new interview with Al Gore in Time magazine:
"If I do my job right, all the candidates will be talking about the climate crisis. And I'm not convinced the presidency is the highest and best role I could play. The path I see is a path that builds a consensus—to the point where it doesn't matter as much who's running. It would take a lot to disabuse me of the notion that my highest and best use is to keep building that consensus."What it would take, specifically?
"I can't say because I'm not looking for it. But I guess I would know it if I saw it. I haven't ruled it out. But I don't think it's likely to happen."
As Time notes, it's in Gore's interest to "keep the door ajar." But as we reported here recently, many of Gore's closest associates have all but concluded that he isn't going to make the race.
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I wish AL just STFU. If he wants to run, announce otherwise , STFU.
May 17, 2007 12:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
There's that decisiveness we all love!
May 17, 2007 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love Al Gore. He is just keeping himself in the thick of things because eventually he is going to endorse someone and than someone will probably, more than likely win the Democratic nomination.
May 17, 2007 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
If he did "just STFU" people would accuse him of playing his cards "close to the vest", and thus he would then by extension be hiding his own candidacy. I would imagine that it would pretty hard to say anything innocuous when you have journalists asking you the same question over and over.
He's not running, which is too bad, because I think he is the person best prepared by training and experience to be the next POTUS. However, there are other decent candidates out there.
-Dave Adams-
May 17, 2007 3:35 PM | Reply | Permalink