Al Gore for President!

Time has excerpted his book, and this chapter encapsulates the elephant in the room that comes up in so many discussions on this forum.

Here's an example:
Gore needs to be President. Full excerpt is here.

Gore mentions a bit of this in this excerpt. I can't wait to read the book!

If he did throw himself into this (and it would be an entirely unselfish act for the benefit of the country if he did choose to run, after the devastation of the 2000 debacle), I don't think he would suffer the same foibles as before. This is a man who has come through the woods.

I would frankly love to see Obama as his running mate. Can you imagine? But that Chris Rock routine does come to mind. I don't know enough about Richardson to weigh in on him one way or the other.

Pending Gore, Obama's my guy too, but the scary racial hatred in this country is so ubiquitous and intense that even if he did manage to get the nomination, he would be a walking target.

Here's another problem: corruptible voting machines and republican dirty tricks.

It's literally going to take a revolution, an "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" moment.

But mastronikolas just made a great point: Gore is the only one out there who is really thinking about the future. He is the "morning in America" potential candidate, the only one.

Everybody's points about the necessity of his on-camera presence are true, but I think he's in a place where he could pull it off. He has already felt crushing defeat, he knows what it's like. He has nothing more to lose if he runs. If he went out there with the same sense of calm and not really "wanting it" vibe, and really projected that he's doing it for the country, not for himself, that could be his key to winning over voters.

It's like when you're in a position in which you don't really want a job but a company needs you so badly because you're really the only one who can do that job, it gives you a great sense of confidence to make sound, deliberate decisions and not become lost in indecision, eagerness to please and self-doubt. Gore is in that place. He's right, he knows he's right, and the facts are bearing themselves out for the world to see.

Look at the republican debates! They want Ron Paul out of there because he's the only one with a modicum of sense. The rest of them are so desperate to appear a certain way they come off as also-rans on The Bachelorette. McCain is melting down. Three of them don't "believe in" evolution. "Double Guantanamo"? Who are these people!

Yes, the election will be stolen but if the choice is clear to anyone paying attention, that could challenge the hacked vote count and eagerness of the networks to declare the GOP candidate the winner.

You've just touched on the reason Alberto Gonzales has been firing US Attorneys. When you have an overwhelming majority and not as much centralized organization as in the presidential election of '04, it's much harder to steal an election. Because democrats won so many elections in '06, the Rove solution is to attempt to overturn those elections through fake voter fraud cases.

But I have to ask you:

Do you deny that voting machine irregularities and instances in which poor neighborhoods had to stand in line for 6 hours to vote on 3 machines while in nearby rich counties there are more machines than voters and no waiting? Or that republican organizers didn't call voters in poor black districts and give them a different voting day? Or that GOP flunkies registered voters in democratic areas and then destroyed those registrations? Negative vote counts on machines? Are you denying that all the voting machines in the country are run by two brothers with strong ties to Bush? Or that the voting commissioner in Ohio didn't pledge to give his state to Bush and follow through on that pledge?

When you look at the alleged voter fraud cases the GOP wanted prosecuted they're nothing. These genuine irregularities named above went virtually uninvestigated.