Gore,don't count on a 2008 run, stopped short of an equivocal statement

[cal04]

Al Gore, the Democrats' nominee for the White House in 2000, says he has all but ruled out running for president in 2008, saying the best use of his time is to educate people about global warming. "I haven't made a Sherman statement, but that's not an effort to hold the door open. It's more the internal shifting of gears," said Gore, referring to Civil War-era general William Tecumseh Sherman. "I can't imagine any circumstances in which I would become a candidate again. I've found other ways to serve. I'm enjoying them."

Gore referred to Sherman's famous words upon retiring from the Army in 1884, which put to rest talk of a presidential run: "If nominated I will not run; if elected I will not serve." Gore, in an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week," stopped short of issuing such an equivocal statement. But he said his time is best spent educating people on heat-trapping gases raising the Earth's surface temperature. He's promoting "An Inconvenient Truth," a film that chronicles his intricate slide shows on global warming.

Vice president from 1993 to 2001, Gore ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1988 and narrowly lost the 2000 presidential campaign to George W. Bush, despite collecting more popular votes than the Texas Republican.
"I honestly believe that the highest and best use of my skills and experience is to try to change the minds of people in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world about this planetary emergency that we simply have to confront," Gore said.
"I have no plans to be a candidate for president again," he said. "I don't expect to ever be a candidate for president again. I haven't made a so-called Sherman statement, because it just seems unnecessary, kind of odd to do that."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060604/ap_on_el_pr/democrats2008
saw the interview, he was great and I didn't get the feeling people couldn't get him to run if they tried
anyone else feel that way?

[msongs]

1. we should take him at his word and look elsewhere...

I'm all in favor of gore running (Gore/Clark is a winner for me) but NOT for a cat and mouse game. makes him look bad, wishy washy, another flip flopper or worse that he doesn't really want the job.

come on al, make the sherman statement or say you're available.

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[Minnesota Libra]

2. "he doesn't really want the job" if it's a repeat of 2000 but.............

....if people like myself are willing to work at "drafting" Pres Gore then he might just take it. I'm getting more and more indications that he could be talked into it and I couldn't think of a better ticket and one that would have more chances at wiping the neocons/fundies off the political scale for a while than :hi:Gore/Kerry. :bounce:

[shance]

3. Can we blame him? Look at Media Industrial Complex's artillery aimed

at Gore and his family.

Look at what the Military Industrial Complex and Neocons did to our best Democratic leaders JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King and Paul Wellstone?

Our best most humanitarian, leaders simply cannot do their jobs until we as all American citizens are their insulation and their protection.

We have to as Americans, let the rich profiteering extremists like the PNAC know that we won't tolerate anymore killing of our best and brightest for their oil, their gold and their fancy parties. We have to begin defending and protecting good leaders like all the ones Ive mentioned and the ones like wonderful Al Gore, who cares deeply about the direction we are going.

[otohara]

4. The Highest Use of His Skills

would be President of The United States

[calmblueocean]

5. Who wrote that? The word is 'unequivocal' not 'equivocal'.

un·e·quiv·o·cal (ŭn'ĭ-kwĭv'ə-kəl) pronunciation adj. Admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; clear and unambiguous: an unequivocal success.

That's what Sherman's statement was, and the kind of statement they want Gore to make. An editor should've caught that.