But he was such a lump before. What's to keep him from a re-lump?

And, have you tried to watch Gore's tv network?

And, how can we forgive him for doing anything but insisting on a complete Florida recount in 2000?

That lump's a chump!

My fave candidate right now is Russ Feingold, the only senator to vote against the Ashcroft PATRIOT act. Co-sponsor of Campaign Finance Reform w/ John McCain. National Health Care, top priority. First Senator to call for a timetable for troop redeployment from Iraq.

Representing Wisconsin since 1993 as a Wellstone-style Progressive, called for major cuts in Defense to balance the budget (Remember the Peace Dividend?)

Good talker. Got his head on straight and not afraid to lead from logic and principle even if that means he sometimes stands alone.

Dem's need to pull the plug on their DLC "triangulators" and return to defend the Four Freedoms of Roosevelt, and 'liberal values' as expressed by Kennedy.

This also means speaking out against torture, invasion, domestic spying, gulags, and unchecked executive power. Unfortunately, Dem leadership seems to think these 'butchy' qualities helped Bush win, or something, so they don't want to distance themsleves from the glow of evil.

So evil wins in America? Cool. Condi Rice, then, 2008 - 2017.

How about Gore-Feingold?

I think that's what interesting about Gore: he blew it by playing it safe in 2000—including that call for a partial recount, which was a "safe" move. I don't think he'll make that mistake again. I think Gore has been emboldened by his years in exile.

I think he pretty much cut his ties with Lieberman when he endorsed Dean instead of feeling the Joementum during the 2004 primaries.

There was a nice Spike Jonze documentary about Al Gore in the latest episode of The Believer.

I watched a download of that speech. I was stunned. Gore showed more passion and charisma in that speech than he did in 90% of his presidential champaign appearances. What happened to the old Al Gore, the wooden caricature that could put anyone to sleep? His presidential campaign nearly bored me to death.

Right now Hillary Clinton seems to be the most talked about Dem candidate. But I really think she wouldn't stand a chance in the general election. If Gore could consistently talk with half the passion he showed today, during a campaign, I think he'd have a real chance. And it sure would be poetic justice.

Your question of what his loss did to him is an interesting one. He all but disappeared for a couple years, probably to lick his wounds. One certainly has to wonder what he learned and what he would do differently if he ran again. He is definitely a very intelligent man, and has shown real bravery in the past (he actually went to Vietnam, unlike our draft-dodging current president). It is conceivable that he could make a dramatic comeback. Personally, I like the idea.

No no no no no no no no. Al Gore, even if he is technically from Tennessee, is a blue blood who lost in large part because he does not connect with voters in the midwest and the south. The Democrats' biggest mistakes in the last two presidential election were a) taking for granted that they lost those voters and running total blue bloods (Gore was about as Southern as Bill Gates, and Kerry was a total New Englander), and b) choosing instead to rally the urban archipelago, the locked-in blue states, and praying it would be enough. It wouldn't come down to corrupted Ohio or Florida or any 'swing state' if you had a down to Earth candidate with universal appeal.

Clinton had no trouble winning many of those states that many of you felt were locked in Republican votes in 2000 and 2004. He also connected with those midwestern and southern voters; being Southern himself helped a great deal. Why does everyone insist on making the exact same mistakes in 2008?!

I've been hearing the MLK speaches today and it makes me wonder: Why can't we get a candidate like that?

The Bush v. Gore campaigns of 2000 were a perfect representation of what the two party system has become. The son of President Bush v. the son of Senator Gore. Choose your aristocrat.

I remember when a friend and I were watching Barack Obama's awesome keynote speech at the '04 DNC, and my friend said, "That guy is so good, he is going to get assasinated."

That's a compliment I sure would never want to receive.

I read the text of Gore's speech earlier today, and just finished listening to it via mp3 download. I thought the content was right on: a thoughtful and thorough elaboration of the biggest problem facing the country right now. But the audio--I don't know. Gore definitely catches fire a few times, but to my ear he generally sounds more or less like a goofball. And he has this habit of pausing and breaking momentum in the middle of a sentence and then, coming to the end of the sentence, rushing right over it like he's afraid of periods.

I was pleased to hear him reaching out to Republicans and trying to focus on goals that (nearly) all Americans share. I would be much less afraid these days if I felt that people all over the political spectrum, however vehemently they might disagree, still respected each other's ideas.

"In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.

Now the trumpet summons us again--not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need--not as a call to battle, though embattled we are-- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"--a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility--I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it--and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own. "

JFK Inaugural, Jan 20, 1961

I dig seeing a president use the phrase 'citizens of the world'. Seems so much more winning and, dare I say, 'American' than today's 'collateral damage'.

I'd love to see a political party set on restoring our good conscience and example for the world. The first step might be electing a Democratic majority in the House this Fall committed to prosecuting the elite miscreants that falsified the case for war, ordered the abrogation of the Geneva conventions and other lawful codes regarding treatment of prisoners, and may be found at fault in hundreds of thousands of wrongful deaths and injuries in Iraq.

Al spoke well today. Let's see if he keeps at it and inspires a courageous house-cleaning within his party. I could forgive him for 2000 if he actually started doing something now.

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