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Gore Insists He Has No Plans To Run For President
In remarks made to the Norwegian press, Al Gore again insisted he has no interest in entering the 2008 presidential race — and that winning the Nobel Prize did not change his mind.
"I don't have plans to be a candidate again, so I don't really see it in that context at all," Gore said. "I'm involved in a different kind of campaign. It's a global campaign. It's a campaign to change the way people think about the climate crisis."
This isn't encouraging news for those still pining for another Gore candidacy, but the small crack in the door left open by Gore's language ("plans" do change, after all) will likely ensure that this won't be the last time he'll be asked about a potential run.
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Why is everyone letting this man play them like that?
The European press has it exactly right. Publish his coy denials as firm statements that he won't run for office. Back him into a corner. Let him deny the reports -- on the odd chance that he actually thinks Mark Penn's polling is wrong again.
October 17, 2007 10:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
What happens to the "Draft Gore" money when it turns out that he's not running? Do the operators of those operations spend it on a nice NYT Ad thanking Al for all his greatness?
At some point doesn't he have to state the ultimate demur so that people don't raise unseemly sums using his name?
October 17, 2007 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love that whenever Gore repeats that he's not running for president, it counts as a newsworthy item.
October 17, 2007 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think he can run if he wants, doesn't
have to if he doesn't want to, I do
think he's the closest thing we've seen
to a science guy in office, though, and
that's pretty encouraging, and, even if
he doesn't run, he's given the pollution
and climate change enough 'energy' to
get a lot of people interested in it
and thinking about it, and now that the
Iraq war has been openly admitted to be
about the oil, it's just underlined in
all-caps and on the front burner, even if
it's not so much about polar bears as it
is about peace in the middle east and
throughout the world.
October 18, 2007 3:28 AM | Reply | Permalink