V.P. Obama is the "dream" of the DNC? (The 300lb Gore-illa)
A ticket of Al Gore for President and Barack Obama for Vice President would create an electricity and enthusiasm that would transform American politics and send shock waves of excitement throughout a world yearning for new American leadership. - Brent Budowsky (Huffington Post)
BILL HEMMER : Do the Democrats need a savior? And if so, is that savior in the shape of Al Gore? - Fox News
Democratic Senator of Illinois Barack Obama put to bed that question from a voter who donned a t-shirt reading, "Obama and Gore: Experience and Youth, Obama and Gore: Wisdom and Truth." The supporter asked the '08 presidential hopeful if he would consider taking "the wind out of Hillary’s sails" by asking Nobel prize winner former Vice President Al Gore to be his running mate before the primaries. - ABC News (Political Radar)
But let's play a little. Let's say the elders of the Democratic Party
decide, when the primaries end, that neither Obama nor Clinton is
viable. Let's also assume—and this may be a real stretch—that such
elders are strong and smart enough to act...What if they then approached Gore and asked him to be the nominee, for
the good of the party—and suggested that he take Obama as his running
mate? - Time Magazine
Not only has the media played up the "Vice President" possibility of the democratic primary front-runner, who leads in national polls, has gotten more primary votes than any candidate in history (republican or democrat) and has raised more money than any other candidate in the history of campaigns. But the establishment "Illuminati" has threatened to change the rules, make new rules or just plain overturn the will of the people (maybe that's why I'm a republican, I know who I'm dealing with [insert sarcasm here]).
But simply put the audacity to pull out all the stops (including the Tanya Harding 'Knee Cap'em Strategy') shows either a desperate attempt to win or a prejudice that extends beyond just the DNC. It is absurd and insulting to the millions of Americans to think that even when your winning you are a loser. That is the message being broadcast by the media, insinuated by the opposition and projected by the pollsters. Presidential hopeful Barak Obama handled it well stating, "I can promise you that as President I will have him (Al Gore) involved in our administration in a very senior capacity in his role...having won the Nobel peace prize and an Oscar that being Vice President again would be probably a step down for him." It seem as though certain factions do not, will not and cannot allow the "front runner" status of Senator Obama the feed the hopes and fears of this nation. If you wont let him be the "front runner" is it a stretch to say you wont let him be President?
Our democracy,
Bycha Buxton
Comments
This really goes back to the heart of the issue here. Big corporate media owned by rich people who know the Clinton/Gore machine of the last decade fed them well. They'd love another Clinton and they'd take another Gore. Both of them entrenched in Party of Davos politics and ruling elite mentality.
While I believe Obama is a centrist and not nearly as left as he should or could be, he certainly has bucked the trend of needing corporate money to succeed. His donor rolls scare the living daylights out of the old corporate money that has funded the Democratic party for the last 20 or 30 years. Its harder to turn a guy towards your interests if he doesn't need you.
Makes it easier for us lefties to push him to extreme places like we did FDR and Teddy to make radical change. He wouldn't already be bought out.
I could be completely wrong here, but...
Sadly, Al Gore as pres. just isn't going to happen in 08. The man said it himself, he's fallen out of love with politics. And I certainly don't see him wanting to be VP either.
As much as I would love to see him back in the administration, or even just at an advisory level, something tells me it wouldn't be the same Gore as when he was VP.