Al Gore endorses Barack Obama for president



Al Gore, the presidential nominee turned anti-climate change crusader, threw his support behind Barack Obama today and vowed "to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected".

Gore previewed the endorsement on his blog before appearing alongside Obama at a rally in Detroit, the US automobile mecca that has come to symbolise the hardships wrought by rising fuel prices.

"Over the next four years, we are going to face many difficult challenges - including bringing our troops home from Iraq, fixing our economy and solving the climate crisis," Gore wrote.

"Barack Obama is clearly the candidate best able to solve these problems and bring change to America."

Gore, who fell 573 votes short of the White House in 2000 before winning the Nobel peace prize for his environmental advocacy, also urged his vast network of online backers to donate to Obama.

Gore has enjoyed an enduring appeal to the Democratic faithful, elevating him to dark-horse status during both the 2004 and 2008 presidential seasons. Gore ultimately endorsed Howard Dean for the party's nomination four years ago, a choice that bruised his political reputation after Dean lost to John Kerry.

This year most political observers predicted Gore would stay out of the battle between Obama and Hillary Clinton, due to the awkward fallout from the Dean endorsement as well as the unseemly implications of Bill Clinton's former vice president turning against his wife.

But once Clinton conceded to Obama earlier this month, the path was cleared for Gore to get behind the newly minted nominee.

Gore could become an effective campaign surrogate for Obama - particularly on the issue of combating climate change, where the author of the 1992 book Earth in the Balance can claim a far longer history of activism than Republican nominee John McCain.

Gore could also deliver a strong rebuttal to his running mate in 2000, Joseph Lieberman, who has since left the Democratic party and is now talked about as a possible vice-presidential choice for McCain.

Still, one role in which the former Tennessee senator has expressed zero interest is as an official adviser in an Obama White House. While Gore is often mentioned as a potential energy secretary or "climate tsar" for Obama, he emphasised through a spokeswoman earlier this month that he "has long since ruled out any possibility" of returning to Washington politics.

--Jay Leno

You are a buggie old guy. You know for a fact that Obama did NOT say anything even close to that.

Jesus, you rightwingers are just bizarre.

Depraved.

Exactly what he said - stay at home with the kid, take some tech courses and we'll (he and the gubmit) pay you a salary!

And Gore doing so is all the reason I need NOT to! The old salesman line goes hand-in-hand with Gore...you know how to tell he's lying? YUP...his lips are moving!

Leader of the Pack

AS the Democratic primaries revealed, Barack Obama is having a hard time winning the support of blue-collar voters.

So here's a piece of strategic advice for the candidate:

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Lose the Nicorette. Light up instead.

Consider these statistics, culled from studies of smoking patterns. Americans who make between $24,000 and $36,000 a year smoke at twice the rate of those earning $90,000 or more. The same applies to Americans with a high-school education rather than a college degree. Rural Americans smoke more than city-dwellers. As for race, there's a close correlation between states with high rates of white smokers and those where Mr. Obama polled worst in the primaries. Leading the pack of smoking states are Kentucky and West Virginia; industrial states like Ohio aren't far behind.

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Bottom line: small-towners in the Rust Belt and Appalachia don't cling to guns and religion so much as they do cigarettes.

By rejoining them, Mr. Obama would also touch voters in several heavy-smoking swing states: Michigan, Missouri and Nevada. Added bonus — Virginia and North Carolina, two leading tobacco-producing states, are both in play this election.

In the interests of full disclosure, I should mention that I'm an Obama supporter and fellow Nicorette chewer. Thanks to the gum, I no longer crave cigarettes. But I do miss the companionship of a shared smoke. Indulging in a vice stigmatized by most Americans is an easy way to bond with people with whom you otherwise have nothing in common.

This aspect of smoking would be of help to Mr. Obama, too. I suspect the discomfort some Americans feel about him has less to do with race than style. He can seem aloof, over-groomed and fussy about eating the right foods and getting enough exercise. Bumming a smoke on the rope line, soiling the sleeve of his pristine suit with cigarette ash and interrupting the flow of his soaring oratory with a smoker's hack would go a long way toward dispelling his effete image.

It would also help his wife, Michelle, who made him quit smoking at the start of the campaign. She's going through a rough patch right now as Republicans try to paint her as un-American. If her husband backslides and starts smoking again, Mrs. Obama could assume a more familiar role: beleaguered and betrayed spouse who can't reform her wayward, weak-willed husband.

The Obama campaign could also spin his smoking as a belt-tightening measure in tough economic times. Nicorette gum costs about 50 cents a piece, roughly twice the price of a cigarette, depending what state you're in. Smoking can even be cast as a patriotic act, akin to a flag pin. Tobacco goes deeper in our history than any other crop. Native Americans harvested it for centuries before Europeans arrived, and cultivation of tobacco ensured the survival and prosperity of Jamestown, the first permanent English colony on this continent. Without the weed, Jamestown might well have failed, leaving this land to be settled by wicked Spanish or perfidious French.

Of course, Mr. Obama can't smoke just any cigarette. Like everything in a campaign, his choice requires stagecraft. Clearly, a Dunhill or (quelle horreur!) a Gaulois would be disastrous. American Spirit has the right ring but the wrong demographic: young hipsters. Nor should the candidate bum Newports or Kools, brands traditionally favored by African-Americans.

To capture voters in coal country and smokestack towns, he needs an old-fashioned coffin nail. Unfiltered Camels come to mind, except Joe Camel has been tarred as a come-on to children. Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch — a slogan better suited to bruised Clinton supporters. And Marlboro, reported to be Mr. Obama's brand before he quit, evokes the wide open spaces and low-electoral-vote country of Montana or Wyoming.

So my choice would be Winston, which was the longtime sponsor of Nascar. Or, perhaps, Mr. Obama could take up smokeless tobacco. I'm sure the campaign can poll this kind of thing.

As for voters who might object, the highest rates of nonsmokers live in solidly red states like Utah, or in safely Democratic ones like Massachusetts, where I sit at this moment working my Nicorette. I can't kick the gum, but, Mr. Obama, yes you can.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/opinion/...amp;oref=slogin

Yes.

bush smokes baby Iraqis

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navc...icans+for+obama

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navc...operation+chaos

Yours...

Mine...

:~)

873,000 for rush ass

919,000 for rush's ass

Limbaugh's ASS is more important than his operation chaos

You know that isn't how you put it the first time. You just add whatever words you want and dismiss anything that might make sense.

Just admit that you were wrong and LP was right! MAKE OUR DAY and do the RIGHT thing!

Would you elect a smoker? Jeez, what a clown.

Hey goldieJu, how'd you like the last congressional elections? Did you run away and cry? Why did Jesus punish Reublicans? If Democrats win big this year then I guess god just hates corrupt, torture loving, war mongering Republicans.

If I could have a serious conversation with you, I would gladly give you my opinions. But I have my doubts that it's possible.

LMAO

Same with you!

For goodness sakes, Davis, "Down to basics", meant I put it in "my plain words" !

Your "plain words" are niether plain nor honest.

Democrat Barack Obama Tuesday accused White House rival John McCain of "posturing" as the Republican, tapping voters' anxiety about sky-high fuel prices, called for offshore oil drilling.
In a speech later in the Texas oil capital of Houston, the Arizona senator was to call for a 27-year-old moratorium on offshore exploration to be lifted -- reversing his own support for the ban when he ran for president in 2000.

McCain was again to push for a summer suspension of federal taxes on gasoline, to ease a little of the pain at the pump for voters already reeling from an epidemic of home foreclosures and job losses.

Obama, who has been hammering McCain and the Republicans on the economy, said his White House opponent's support of the moratorium in 2000 was "certainly laudable."

"But his decision to completely change his position and tell a group of Houston oil executives exactly what they wanted to hear today was the same Washington politics that has prevented us from achieving energy independence for decades," the Illinois senator said in a statement.

"Much like his gas tax gimmick that would leave consumers with pennies in savings, opening our coastlines to offshore drilling would take at least a decade to produce any oil at all, and the effect on gasoline prices would be negligible at best since America only has three percent of the world's oil.

"It's another example of short-term political posturing from Washington, not the long-term leadership we need to solve our dependence on oil."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=08...;show_article=1

Another flip-flop by McCain. The corporate whores are an integral part of the party. McCain assured their support with a simple bribe.

Gas wasn't $4 a gallon in 2000.

Paid $3.67 today. Of course lefties conveniently forget they are the ones that always touted higher prices to cut consumption and save the environment.

I still can't find any course of action lefties will be satisfied with. Like a spoiled child at the checkout counter they want everything at once and want Daddy to pay.

I hope you filled up! Gas prices: http://www.gasbuddy.com/GB_StateList.aspx

Lefties are unsatisfied by their very nature. Recent books and articles have verified the facts that they are unhappier, sicker, angrier and meaner!

Good thing they dont have corporate whores like george soros and warren buffet vested in their party.

WHEN OBAMA IS OFF THE TELEPROMPTER

John Podhoretz - 06.17.2008 - 11:26 AM

The November election is, and remains, Barack Obama's to lose. Usually, candidates whose victories are entirely in their own hands make it through. It is clear Obama's path to victory is through the teleprompter. Let him give a big speech and he drives it like Tiger Woods hitting a fairway, as he did Sunday with his stunning sermon about the importance of fathers. But let him sit for an interview with a well-prepared reporter who isn't interested in shilling for him and Obama makes mistake after mistake. This is what happened the other day with ABC's Jake Tapper, who got Obama to talk about how we need to treat terrorism as a law-enforcement matter — which is exactly what he should not be saying if he wants to solidify those less-liberal Democratic votes in the states where he was shellacked by Hillary Clinton — and how he opposes all forms of school choice — which works against his vague message that he is a vague agent of vague change.



I suspect this is why John McCain is so eager to get Obama into those town-hall meetings Obama seems intent on avoiding. McCain has been doing them for 25 years and is very good at them; it's a mark of how good he is at them that he doesn't make career-threatening gaffes during them. McCain wants Obama off that teleprompter, which is sound strategy. But he can't make Obama go anywhere Obama doesn't want to. The media pose a different challenge for Obama.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/in...podhoretz/11931

THE SECOND COMING OF JIMMY CARTER

McCain knocks it out of the park. This should resonate with those of us old enough to remember how lousy Carter was as POTUS and will probably be an attack point for McCain throughout the campaign. Obama's supporters are either too young to know or think Jimmy is the best thing since sliced bread for his support of palestine and draconian regulatory regime that lead to gas lines, high taxation, 18% mortgage rates, 12% inflation, the hostage crisis in Iran and the worst economy since the depression.

Watch the interview: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/09/mcca...rs-second-term/

the second coming of Bob Dole

Well, you it half right at least.There's no doubt that the American people feel about Bush the way they did about Nixon.

Carter can walk in public- HE IS LOVED WORLD WIDE

bush will NEVER walk alone- THE WORLD'S MOST HATED MAN

Let's see

1. Bob Dole withdrew American support from the Shah of Iran, his government fell, and one of our most valuable friends was replaced by our bitterest enemy
oh no... that was Jimmy Carter

2. Bob Dole couldn't get the hostages from American Embassy in Iran released (444 days)
oh no... that was Jimmy Carter

3. Bob Dole illegally visited Cuba giving Castro a huge propaganda victory.
oh, no... that was Jimmy Carter

4. Bob Dole created a coup in Hati when he oversaw elections against the President's wishes
oh, no... that was Jimmy Carter

5 Bob Dole supported and befriended Manuel Noriega, Nicolai Ceaucescu, Marshal Josef Tito, Kim Ill-Sung, Hugo Chavez, and of course Yasser Arafat
oh no... that was Jimmy Carter

5. Bob Dole was attacked by a rabbit
oh no... that was Jimmy Carter

to quote: Democrat Eugene McCarthy was asked why he voted for Reagan in 1980, he explained that Bob Dole had

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quite simply abdicated the whole responsibility of the presidency while in office. He left the nation at the mercy of its enemies at home and abroad. He was quite simply the worst president we ever had.

Whoops! Sorry, that wasn't Bob Dole, that was Jimmy Carter

There are just too many flaws in Jimmy Carter to enumerate. We don't need Barack to carry his torch and carry on with his ineptness.

whoops Carter shoulda attacked someone

a peace president

shameful

WHO DID BOB DOLE ATTACK?

FYI Bob Dole was a war hero! Bob Dole's fellow senators elected him six times to be their leader, because they know he is honest, trustworthy, a man of his word, his word is his bond, and they know he has exceptional leadership skills. The employees of the United States Senate, the waiters, waitresses, others who work there, voted Bob twice, four years apart in two surveys, as the nicest, friendliest of all 100 senators.

(paraphrased)

watch Dole fall off the stage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWib8GbrIlA

Dole tells Limbaugh to BACK OFF McCain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lTYlJzK6GY...feature=related


grrr

What's with you? Do you have Buyer's Remorse with Obama? The topic here is George Soros' Puppet Barack Hussein Obama. Don't you want to discuss him?

Bob Dole has a very interesting story. Why don't you start a new thread about him?

why don't you sew yer lips to McCains ass with THIS thread

"its not a vote for McCain... its a vote against the SCARY BLACK MAN"

It's a vote against a scary anti-American billionaire George Soros


George Soros' Puppet Boy

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11168.html

The one in yellow didn't move out of the camera shot. Maybe she doesn't speak English?