Is it just me or does this language sound familiar? [View All]

[Mabus]

the following excerpt is from a press conference Gore did in 1997.

QUESTION: Mr. Vice President, if there's nothing coy about the year 2000, anyone who expects to run for president in 2000 has to start very early thinking about money. Predecessors of yours have started PACs, political action committees or fund raising arms.

What are you going to do between now and 19...

GORE: I've made no decision about that whatsoever. And I really am focused on my work as vice president and doing everything I can to help this president.

If the time comes when I become a candidate, I'll be glad to answer such questions and talk about such matters at that time. But we're not there yet. Yes?

QUESTION: So you're going to raise no money at all? You will raise no money at all for a political action committee or anything else that would...

GORE: I have not set up a political action committee, and I've made no decision to do so. Whether I will in the future or not, I really haven't decided.

What I see: Al stays on message. He wasn't using this press conference to push his own candidacy, he was doing it to defend himself and he stayed on message. He pushed aside any idea that he would run.

Currently, most of his appearances are for environmental purposes and he responds the same way he did back in 1997: I'm here to talk about the climate crisis, I will not talk about my own political plans because it will distract from the climate crisis.

What do you guys think? Do these previous statement sound familiar?