Gore will endorse Clinton

[catagory5]

Before next Saturday. As will Richardson. No info, none here. I dont know anythig. Just going by what they have been saying lately.

But I hope they dont. We have seen how Major endorsements can shit back in your face. So from me "stay out Gore"

[NJSecularist]

1. What a misleading thread title

Why would Gore endorse Hillary after how the Clinton's screwed him out of winning the presidency in 2000??

[closeupready]

8. He won't. He'll find a polite way not to.

Because he has class.

[mutant80]

41. Obama is too Right Wing for Gore

[mutant80]

44. Plus he took cash from Nuke industry then Screwed over his District

when they found radioactivity in their drinking water.
Obama came out with a good bill, then after getting huge donations
watered it down to the point that it actually protected the
nuclear industry.

[SoFlaJet]

10. and then the strong-arm crap Bill pulled

in Nevada to bump Gore off a bill and then proceeding to use the free trip provided to use fundraising-I say he endorses Obama

[RiverStone]

31. Agreed - very misleading thread title!

Just a hutch eh?

Then it's far better to NOT post it as fact.

[SteppingRazor]

2. What they've been saying lately? Like what?

At least gimme a quote or two here! :)

[BOSSHOG]

9. I saw

a post early today about Gore saying that she would be the best candidate to promote his environmental issues. But there was no mention of an endorsement.

I've yet to be effected by any endorsement one way or the other.

[stillrockin]

3. god, i hope you're wrong.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. dont present speculation as fact.

[zonkers]

19. Everyone, O.P. is a newbie! Not necc. a troll. Possibly an honest mistake.

Hey Lioness, I think I saw you in an NYC bar watching debates in 04 (Kerryville sponsored event). It was you, huh.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

20. very likely. well i think i am going to arrange a du meetup in nyc after the primaries

you know to let the healing begin and all :)

you are welcome to come

[Kittycat]

22. Check newbies history..

Troll or embedded poster.

[zonkers]

27. Hmmmm. I was afraid of that. BTW, what is an embeddd poster?

[Kittycat]

28. Sockpuppet for another member

[zonkers]

49. It's all about the lingo - aint it?! DU feels like the old DU. A bit

gruff and unruly. I kind of dig it. No place for the overly sensitive.

[Occam Bandage]

5. Don't present wild-ass guessing as fact.

[ursi]

6. Spec 5, maybe you should begin your headline with Speculation:

[halobeam]

7. Got "Friends"?

[UALRBSofL]

14. Where did you hear this?

I haven't heard anything about that.

[Name removed]

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[mitchtv]

16. cute picture, but Your message

seems to be not permitted

[cali]

12. Wrong. Dismally so.

I heard Richardson say on NPR yesterday that he will NOT endorse either of them. He didn't endorse before NM. He's not going to now. And Gore won't endorse either. And can your absurd, I wish they wouldn't. You wouldn't be writing such absurdity unless you wished that they would.

[onehandle]

13. Did Xenu tell you that? nt

[SoFlaJet]

15. and then there's this...

Will Gore Endorse Obama?

By Steve Clemons, Huffington Post. Posted February 7, 2008.

It is a rumor apparently spreading like wildfire through the Clinton campaign.

A well-placed spouse of a Clinton campaign insider just told me that a rumor is spreading like wild fire that Al Gore is going to endorse Barack Obama.

My source emphasizes that this is rumor and may just be paranoia and hyperventilation of the campaign, but it's important to know that this rumor is out there. Another source of mine inside Obamaland has told me that they have been working very hard to secure Gore's public support and trying numerous avenues to "encourage" him.

Frankly, I'm surprised that Gore would do this now -- despite his clear disaffection for the Clintons. He is the undisputed king of the climate change franchise now, but even kingdoms can be assaulted, undermined, outfoxed, circumvented, ridiculed, and starved.

If Hillary Clinton wins this tight race -- which she may still do -- then Gore is gambling with his own status as a climate-change first-and-only transcendant politician.

It will be interesting to see what happens, and of course if Barack Obama wins the primary and then the presidency, Al Gore will get significant credit. The problem is that that can work the other way too.

[IDemo]

17. I don't think Vidal will endorse anyone, but I'm sure he's an Obama backer n/t

[butterfly77]

18. Why does he have to stay out but,,,

all of the other senators can have their say for Obama..

[donheld]

21. Are you so desparate to start a thread that you just make something up?

:grr:

[Araxen]

23. Another user that should be temp banned or banned

for posting misleading titles.

[JTFrog]

24. Oink, flap, oink, flap....nope that pig ain't flying. n/t

[Unsane]

25. God how Id love to be a mod.

[indimuse]

26. thx..!

now i will go check my blood pressure...:(

[demokatgurrl]

29. You're right, you don't know anything.

But when you do, please post a link.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

30. Gore will back who his good friend Robert F Kenedy Jr backed.....Clinton

[IndianaGreen]

36. Al Gore knows the Clintons for what they are!

He won't endorse Hillary, neither now, nor in the Fall.

[joshcryer]

37. Gore clearly has a soft spot for Hillary's Green Collar Workers.

[jackson_dem]

46. Gore supported every major thing the Clintons did

[Xithras]

32. I really doubt Gore will endorse Clinton, even after the primaries.

Gore's big thing today is climate change, and it's been well known for years that there was a running disagreement between Gore and the Clinton's on how Kyoto was handled.

From an environmental standpoint on CO2 emissions, both Clinton and Obama have virtually identical proposals...the primary difference is that Clinton wants to give the carbon credits to industry so they can trade and profit from pollution, while Obama wants to auction carbon credits off to prevent ANY corporations from profiting from their emissions. Gore has never taken a position on that detail either way, so the two candidates are equals when it comes to global warming.

The difference, and the reason that I doubt he will endorse Clinton, is that Obama is promising $150 billion for alternative energy research, while Clinton simply promises $50 billion...mostly for CO2 emitting biofuel production. Obama also wants to create a $10 billion a year fund to support companies and individuals experimenting and researching in new power production technologies. He's also the only candidate that has brought up an outright ban on traditional coal power plants. From the perspective of an environmental campaigner, these make Obama's environmental proposals far superior to Clintons (which focus primarily on localized emissions and chemical pollution). Environmentalists would immediately attack Al Gore if he were to endorse a candidate with a weaker set of environmental proposals, which would undermine his legitimacy. Most people in the environmental movement would view it as placing politics above the environment, a situation no environmental leader wants to find himself in.

Honestly, I doubt we'll ever get an endorsement out of him at all. Gore has already stated that his new cause transcends politics, and he will have to work with the new president no matter WHO wins the GE this fall. Gore is too smart to potentially undermine his cause by siding with a politician who may not win. Even McCain supports the Kyoto protocol at this point, so Gore will not be quick to turn the man into his opponent when doing so doesn't benefit the issue he champions.

[BringBigDogBack]

33. Bullshit.

Pass that pipe.

[snooper2]

34. mkay...

go home now... ( www.hillaryclinton.com )

[IndianaGreen]

35. Al Gore will NOT endorse Hillary!

If he even endorses anyone at all, it will be Obama.

[mutant80]

40. how do you know? is there a link?

[IndianaGreen]

47. He got "used" by the Clintons before

and he ain't falling in the same trap again.

[mutant80]

38. Gore is a shitload better than Ted Kennedy!

[newmajority]

42. Which is why he'll never endorse Bushclinton.

n/t

[newmajority]

39. Yeah, Gore's gonna endorse Hillary

...right after EXXON endorses cars that run on water.

[WilyWondr]

43. I dont know anything

exactly

[rolleitreks]

45. You need a good slappin' boy, makin' trouble and knowin' nuthin' n/t

[Blue-Jay]

48. "No info, none here. I dont know anythig."

There you have it.

[in_cog_ni_to]

50. Gore and Richardson would be fantastic for Hillary.

I hope they do!