If Al Gore is going to have another pop at the presidency, the time is now. With a Nobel Peace Prize (albeit shared) to add to his Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth - an unprecedented double - the man who was Bill Clinton's vice-president for eight years will never get a better chance to go for the top job.
Gore is huge. Everybody knows his name. He can - and he does - take the credit for awakening America to the realities of climate change. With the possible exception of Hillary Clinton, he makes the current runners for the 2008 presidential election look like tiddlers.
How's this for a dream come-on to an ambitious politician? "America and the Earth need a hero right now - someone who will transcend politics as usual and bring real hope to our country and the world."
That's from a Draftgore.com 'letter' printed in the New York Times on
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There’s never been a better time for Al Gore to win the presidency, says charles laurence, but . . . |
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Wednesday as a $65,000 full-page advertisement. Monica Friedlander, Draftgore founder, has garnered 136,000 signatures and adds: "It's a moral imperative for him to be a candidate."
It must be tempting. Another group, California 4 Gore, has had volunteers gathering signatures in every voting district in the state, and California has more crucial presidential 'college' votes than any other.
The national Democrat machine has been buzzing for months with rumours that a Nobel would trigger a run. But - and it's a very big BUT - Al Gore is a man who has already proved that he can't win the White House however good the odds.
His loss to George Bush in 2000 was the ultimate humiliation because it has always been obvious that his old boss Bill would have cake-walked another term if the Constitution 
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Nobel Prize is no longer dynamite
Al Gore is finally beating Bush
What The Papers Say
