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August 28, 2008
Category: Al Gore

Gore looks back

Gore draws loud applause for a speech that casts this as a replay, in some senses, of 2000, and particularly for a canned zinger:

Gore is also, strikingly, a rare speaker to mention abortion rights -- an issue Democrats have generally chosen not to press here in Denver.

"John McCain promises to appoint more Scalias and Thomases and end a woman’s right to choose," Gore says.

August 19, 2008
Category: Al Gore

CNN: Gore speaking Thursday

Al Gore, whom the primary left the Democratic Party's leading elder statesman, will speak to the huge Thursday night convention crowd, CNN reports.

August 15, 2008
Category: Al Gore

Unslotted in Denver

No point reading too much into who's been giving speeches in Denver, as Obama could always shuffle the lineup for his vice presidential pick.

Still, there are a few high-profile names outstanding: Al Gore's, most of all, though a Democratic involved in planning said he's expected to appear at the convention, Jim Webb's, Tim Kaine's, Chris Dodd's, and John Kerry's.

July 19, 2008
Category: Al Gore

Gore compares offshore drilling to invasion of Iraq

In a surprise appearance at Netroots Nation — which apparently was the worst-kept secret in Austin, Texas — former Vice President Al Gore followed up a speech by Nancy Pelosi by laying out a narrative on climate change and the energy crisis that seems ready-made for the Obama campaign to download.

“If you look at the seriousness of the climate crisis, you see how it ties to the economic crisis and the national security threat that we face,” he said. “200 billion dollars are being sent overseas just from oil.”

“The idea that we can drill our way out of this is just so absurd,” he said, comparing the push for offshore oil drilling — which has gained popularity and put environmentalists on the defense — to dealing with a hangover by having another drink.

“The defenders of the status quo are the ones who have dug us into this hole,” he said, commenting that Americans have been “so often fooled into finding a remedy for a problem" that has nothing to do with the problem at hand — pointing to the invasion of Iraq when America was attacked by terrorists in Afghanistan as an example.

“The engines of distraction and the great concentrated power of communication that you’ve seen turned on this issue or that issue is already hard at work," he says. "They will say we can’t switch away from oil."
“We have to switch our electricity generation system,” he says, noting that changing transportation fuels will take longer, before reiterating his plan to ensure that “100 percent of our electricity [comes] from renewable sources and carbon-constrained fuels over the next 10 years.”

"It is not partisan, it is focused on this single objective," he says. "we are trying to mobilize ten million grassroots activists.”

In response to a question about whether he'd join an Obama administration as climate czar, he says he'd rather "focus on trying to enlarge the political space in which political officials address this climate crisis ... I have seen how important it is to develop a base of support.

June 16, 2008
Category: Al Gore

Gore gets involved

The former Veep endorses Obama on his blog, and writes that he'll be at tonight's Detroit event:

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June 11, 2008
Category: Al Gore

Carville's flotation: Gore for Veep

Former Clinton aide James Carville suggested on CNN just now that Obama offer Al Gore the vice presidential nomination.

"I think if I was Senator Obama I would say the biggest economic problem we face is the biggest national security problem and the biggest environmental problem. And if I were him, I would ask Al Gore to serve as his vice president, his energy czar, in his administration to reduce our consumption and reliance on foreign energy sources," he told Wolf Blitzer.

Blitzer responded with some skepticism that Gore would accept a second tour, but Carville persisted.

"I'm not suggesting he's just any vice president. I'm suggesting that Senator Obama as president would give him a lot of authority to deal with our consumption of oil," he said. "I think it would send a signal to the world and send a signal to Congress and American people that he's going to be really serious and we're going to cut it and coordinate all of that as the vice president."

I'm not sure James Carville -- with whom Obama had a public spat -- is the first person whose advice he's going to take, though come to think of it there is an open slot on the vetting committee today.

May 21, 2008
Category: Al Gore

Gore v. budget cuts

My colleague Jeffrey Ressner reports:

May 19, 2008
Category: Al Gore

Gore raising for the DNC

Greg Sargent writes up a kind of unity fundraiser Al Gore's hosting for the DNC, with major donors from both Clinton's and Obama's camp on board.

February 06, 2008
Category: Al Gore

Al Gore's vote

Al Gore hasn't made an endorsement, but he has made his choice.

Gore's Smith County ballot was one of the 631,680 counted yesterday in Tennessee, where Clinton won the state by a 54% to 40% margin.

"He early voted," said Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider. "As a private citizens, neither of the Gores are releasing who they voted for."

February 01, 2008
Category: Al Gore

Remainders: California time

That's the RCP national average. A Fox poll has her up 10 today, while Gallup tracking has it much closer.

Obama has already substantially outspent Clinton on TV.

Oprah's coming back. Likely with jet.

Al Gore's been talking with Obama every two weeks.

Obama says Hillary's primary voters will go for him in the general, but the reverse may not apply.

Will the Super Bowl muck up Sunday night polling?

Krugman slams Obama hard for invoking Harry and Louise in his health care mailer.

Mickey Kaus complains about Obama's "desperate Hispandering."

New Jersey rules that absentee voters who change their mind can request a do-over.

An Obama post-debate memo declares "the clear winner was the Democratic Party" before trying to draw blood on health care and Iraq.

Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who is very close to Chris Dodd, endorses Obama.

Michael Scherer notes that those National Journal rankings only include two actual different votes between Clinton and Obama, because he missed many other test votes. Still, NJ is fairly rigorous about this, and the fact that he was on the left of virtually all their test votes does say something.

The Boston Globe goes inside the campaigns' attempts to rack up delegates on the margins, explaining that Clinton visit to Southern Illinois and that Obama ad blitz in Alaska.

In a two-day-old video, Dan Abrams chides the media for hating Hillary, and says the polls aren't even close. (But that was two days ago.)

Seattle musicians record "Fired Up, Ready To Go", now an Obama-themed funk anthem.

Len Nichols, er, de-Nazifies his take on Obama's plan.

Headline of the day: INTRIGUE 'FOR MAKE BENEFIT' BUBBA.

And Bill Clinton blames Teddy Kennedy for the No Child Left Behind "train wreck," though his wife also supported it.