Al Go He's back

What makes Gore appealing is that he is very right on global warming
and right enough on the Iraqi war (we should have concentrated on Ben
Laden) and should not rushed into Iraq. He did believe in Iraqi WMDs
but most people did. He did not pander to panic or expoit it, which
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld did.

The majority of the American people are finally overcoming the
anti-global warming propagandists of junk science, and realize they
were lied to with regard to the real danger of Saddam.

In this sense, his being right will carry increasingly more weight as
time goes along;

From Britain we get the following

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http://news.independent.co.uk/people...icle620274.ece


Al Go He's back

By David Usborne


Gore did not stop making speeches, kindling speculation that his
interest in presidential politics had not died after all. Yet soon
thereafter he made the key decision not to stage a grudge match against
Bush in 2004. A little later, he was to endorse the one man in the
field of Democratic nominees who was most closely iterating his own
views about Iraq, Howard Dean. It was a choice that painted Gore in
more left-leaning and grass-roots colours than we had seen before even
if the endorsement was perhaps ill-fated - Dean famously imploded early
on in the campaign, handing the nomination to John Kerry.

But as Gore continued to shed the skin of hurt and disappointment, he
directed his energies in directions other than party political.
Reminding everyone of another of his long-held passions, the
development and democratisation of the internet, he joined the board of
Apple in 2003. Soon afterwards, he yoked himself to Google as an
outside consultant. It was a move made a little before Google went
public and the subsequent surge in the company's share value is
rumoured to have made Gore millions.

He didn't stop there, however. Teaming up with the London-based former
CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, David Blood, Gore in late 2004
co-founded an investment fund with a declared commitment to companies
making contributing to renewable industry. The firm, Generation
Investment Management, has pumped money into BP, for instance, in
recognition of its interest in renewable energy technology. Casting
himself also as a media entrepreneur, Gore in the same year co-founded
Current, a cable television channel aimed at the 18-34-year age group
that asks viewers to contribute directly to its programming. The
channel is struggling, but its intent seems refreshing.

The anger that many Democrats felt towards Gore in the wake of 2000 has
largely been exhausted (some of it inherited by Kerry) and with all of
this activism, something like a halo has settled over him. Many things
about Gore are appealing again: his reconnection with grass-roots
Democrats and the unimpeachable sincerity of his commitment to the
environment. Though this is not widely advertised, he and Tipper, for
example, go so far as to calculate the extent of their annual carbon
fuel expenditure with their travels and compensate by buying off-sets.
They have given money to a solar energy company in India and a
hydro-electric project in Bulgaria.

In a breakfast television appearance last week, Gore once more made an
attempt to damp down speculation about the comeback that would really
matter: running for his party's nomination in 2008. Still skilled at
the art of political obfuscation, he didn't exactly rule it out,
however. "I've said I'm not at the stage of my life where I'm going to
say never in the rest of my life will I ever think about such a thing."

Only Gore knows what he will do. Conventional wisdom still tips
slightly in favour of his eschewing the challenge of another
presidential run. But only slightly. Democrats, meanwhile, seem to be
divided over the virtue of another Gore candidacy.

It is impossible to ponder a Gore 2008 campaign, meanwhile, without
considering the other person whom everyone expects to seek the
nomination, Senator Clinton. Those who favour Gore jumping in tend to
be those (and there are many of them) who believe that while Hillary
may almost be guaranteed the nomination as of now, she may easily lose
badly when it comes to capturing the White House itself.

The minuses to a Hillary candidacy include an absence of charisma, the
fact that she is woman - a factor that can't be ignored - and her newly
acquired moderate position, which saw her support the Iraq war. Gore
scores about the same on charisma, but he has something that appeals to
some insiders: his base today is much more towards the left and the
grass roots of the party.

At the least, Gore may be forced to admit that he is no longer the
loser he was in 2000. Making a cameo appearance recently on the comedy
show Saturday Night Live, he averred that "I wasn't a very good
politician", to which a fan in the audience cried, "Well, you won."
Gore, who in person is a much funnier man than you would imagine with a
wry, self-deprecating wit, fired back: "Oh well. There is that."

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What makes Gore appealing

Why are you posting this here and not in any of the numerous relevant
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On 27/05/06 18:29, in article ,
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What makes Gore appealing

Why are you posting this here and not in any of the numerous relevant
groups?


Especially since few posters here vote in the USA.

The British press apparently is interested, however,
since the item was from the British press. And it as
an more interesting item that the death of the head
of Michelin. (CEO of Michelin dead).

Some posting subjects are even more deadly
(Sending clothes home??) and purists would
not consider (3 days in Istanbul) in Europe.
Gore's current them, played well at Cannes.
Almost certainly Gore would have been preferable
to Bush in liberal old Europe.

In fact the election of Gore as the next president
would probably make traveling easier for Americans.
They would not be asked why they have a such a dumb
President.

Having both US and French nationalities, I promise
I will vote for Gore (if he runs) and Ségolène Royal (if she
runs) although not on the same ticket.

******

Global warming ambassador
Gore takes message to Cannes Film Festival

BY ANGELA DOLAND
Associated Press Writer

This story ran on nwitimes.com on Friday, May 26, 2006 12:45 AM CDT

Michael Moore has been the American on a mission at the Cannes Film Festival
the last few years. This time it's Al Gore, with the documentary "An
Inconvenient Truth."

The former U.S. vice president climbed Cannes' famous red carpet in black
tie over the weekend for a screening of the film about his efforts to
educate people about global warming. Gore usually takes his message to more
modest locales, such as school auditoriums and hotel conference rooms.

"As for my personal reactions to all the cameras, the red carpet and all
that, I'm old enough now to put this in a different perspective," Gore told
The Associated Press on Monday. "I am able to enjoy it without allowing it
to get out of proportion."

Directed by Davis Guggenheim, "An Inconvenient Truth" chronicles Gore's main
preoccupation since losing the 2000 presidential election: touring the world
to give factual, funny, and very disturbing slide show lectures about
climate change.

"It's something that feels like a mission," Gore said in an interview on a
hotel rooftop overlooking the Mediterranean.

Gore says he enjoyed Moore's films, including "Fahrenheit 9/11," the
documentary critical of President Bush that won Cannes' top prize two years
ago -- although he can "fully understand why they drive others to
distraction if they have different political views."

But unlike "Fahrenheit 9/11," "An Inconvenient Truth" has no political
agenda, says Gore, who reconfirmed he has no plans to run for president in
2008. He believes global warming is a moral, nonpartisan issue, and he says
many Republicans have embraced the film, which debuts in U.S. theaters on
Wednesday.

"Underlying it all is a mission to move the United States and the world past
a tipping point, and to change the minds of enough people so that they
demand that politicians in all political parties take action to stop this
crisis," said Gore, who has studied the problem since he was a college
student in the 1960s.

The Bush administration, which has rejected the Kyoto Protocol on control of
greenhouse gas emissions, prefers letting industry take voluntary steps. The
United States accounts for a quarter of the world's greenhouse gases.

The movie seems a tough sell, with its stream of facts, photos of melting
glaciers and graphs linking the rise and fall of atmospheric carbon dioxide
to temperatures.

Though there are a few amusing animated segments -- Gore rescues a cartoon
frog from a pot of boiling water at one point -- most of it takes place in
conference rooms.

In reviewing the film, the AP's David Germain wrote: "To be sure, Gore is
preaching a sermon, and he does take the occasional jab at business
interests, the Bush administration and naysayers who remain noncommittal
about whether global warming is real or simply a result of natural cycles.
So he's not entirely an apolitical saint doing what's right by humanity. Yet
even skeptics who go in scornfully figuring Gore is serving his own
self-interests may come away wondering: What's in it for him? "

Guggenheim says he was skeptical when the project was presented to him.

"I was like, you can't make a movie about a slide show, and I'm not so sure
having a politician telling us is the best way to hear about it," Guggenheim
said. "Then they brought me to the slide show and it just blew my mind. ...
I just wanted to give people that experience, give them a front row seat."

Just as evleth is posting sooo many topics about the US, politics, economy
and the such, why shouldn't the guy post his own contribution ?

"Earl Evleth" a écrit dans le message de news:
...
On 27/05/06 18:29, in article ,
" wrote:

What makes Gore appealing

Why are you posting this here and not in any of the numerous relevant
groups?


Especially since few posters here vote in the USA.

The British press apparently is interested, however,
since the item was from the British press. And it as
an more interesting item that the death of the head
of Michelin. (CEO of Michelin dead).

Some posting subjects are even more deadly
(Sending clothes home??) and purists would
not consider (3 days in Istanbul) in Europe.
Gore's current them, played well at Cannes.
Almost certainly Gore would have been preferable
to Bush in liberal old Europe.

In fact the election of Gore as the next president
would probably make traveling easier for Americans.
They would not be asked why they have a such a dumb
President.

Having both US and French nationalities, I promise
I will vote for Gore (if he runs) and Ségolène Royal (if she
runs) although not on the same ticket.

******

Global warming ambassador
Gore takes message to Cannes Film Festival

BY ANGELA DOLAND
Associated Press Writer

This story ran on nwitimes.com on Friday, May 26, 2006 12:45 AM CDT

Michael Moore has been the American on a mission at the Cannes Film
Festival
the last few years. This time it's Al Gore, with the documentary "An
Inconvenient Truth."

The former U.S. vice president climbed Cannes' famous red carpet in black
tie over the weekend for a screening of the film about his efforts to
educate people about global warming. Gore usually takes his message to
more
modest locales, such as school auditoriums and hotel conference rooms.

"As for my personal reactions to all the cameras, the red carpet and all
that, I'm old enough now to put this in a different perspective," Gore
told
The Associated Press on Monday. "I am able to enjoy it without allowing it
to get out of proportion."

Directed by Davis Guggenheim, "An Inconvenient Truth" chronicles Gore's
main
preoccupation since losing the 2000 presidential election: touring the
world
to give factual, funny, and very disturbing slide show lectures about
climate change.

"It's something that feels like a mission," Gore said in an interview on a
hotel rooftop overlooking the Mediterranean.

Gore says he enjoyed Moore's films, including "Fahrenheit 9/11," the
documentary critical of President Bush that won Cannes' top prize two
years
ago -- although he can "fully understand why they drive others to
distraction if they have different political views."

But unlike "Fahrenheit 9/11," "An Inconvenient Truth" has no political
agenda, says Gore, who reconfirmed he has no plans to run for president in
2008. He believes global warming is a moral, nonpartisan issue, and he
says
many Republicans have embraced the film, which debuts in U.S. theaters on
Wednesday.

"Underlying it all is a mission to move the United States and the world
past
a tipping point, and to change the minds of enough people so that they
demand that politicians in all political parties take action to stop this
crisis," said Gore, who has studied the problem since he was a college
student in the 1960s.

The Bush administration, which has rejected the Kyoto Protocol on control
of
greenhouse gas emissions, prefers letting industry take voluntary steps.
The
United States accounts for a quarter of the world's greenhouse gases.

The movie seems a tough sell, with its stream of facts, photos of melting
glaciers and graphs linking the rise and fall of atmospheric carbon
dioxide
to temperatures.

Though there are a few amusing animated segments -- Gore rescues a cartoon
frog from a pot of boiling water at one point -- most of it takes place in
conference rooms.

In reviewing the film, the AP's David Germain wrote: "To be sure, Gore is
preaching a sermon, and he does take the occasional jab at business
interests, the Bush administration and naysayers who remain noncommittal
about whether global warming is real or simply a result of natural cycles.
So he's not entirely an apolitical saint doing what's right by humanity.
Yet
even skeptics who go in scornfully figuring Gore is serving his own
self-interests may come away wondering: What's in it for him? "

Guggenheim says he was skeptical when the project was presented to him.

"I was like, you can't make a movie about a slide show, and I'm not so
sure
having a politician telling us is the best way to hear about it,"
Guggenheim
said. "Then they brought me to the slide show and it just blew my mind.
...
I just wanted to give people that experience, give them a front row seat."