This is MY President

[PeacePal]

These pix show a difference in leadership style, whouldn't you say? I did this in Photoshop, enjoy!

[yellowdogintexas]

1. if Al does decide to run in '08 this should be his campaign

poster, doncha think?

[Demoiselle]

11. Actually, maybe not.

He was adamant about not getting much publicity for this act. I'd support him in a heartbeat in 2008....but I fear the talking heads who trashed him so inexplicably in 2000 would manage to spin this genuinely fine act as grandstanding. Remember what they did to him five years ago..it was crazy and merciless.

[AlGore-08.com]

16. The coverage yesterday by the media was actually objective

So I think, on the whole, it was a very positive press cycle and a very positive sign.

[autorank]

2. Al Gore is MY PRESIDENT TOO! Recommended

Damn right, :yourock: Totally

[JuniperLea]

3. It's hard werk!

Being a REAL president.

We haven't had a REAL election since before GW was elected the first time. Yep, that's my president too.

[baldguy]

4. Al Gore personally brought 130 hospital patients home to TN for treatment.

Bush hugged a couple people for a staged photo-op in MS.

link:
http://www.thedailytimes.com/sited/story/html/216543

[AlGore-08.com]

13. There's a fuller account in the Knoxville News

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_4054083,00.html

Haven from fury Mercy Flight Brings Evacuees to ET

Gore accompanies about 140 arrivals from New Orleans but declines to take credit

By ROBERT WILSON

(snip)

About 140 people - mostly elderly and infirm - arrived Saturday at McGhee Tyson Airport on a chartered mercy flight from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, welcomed to East Tennessee by a bright sun and a host of medical professionals straining at the reins to help their fellow human beings without regard to whether they were on the clock.

The displaced hurricane victims came to Tennessee on a hastily arranged flight, accompanied by doctors and carrying whatever they had in boxes, bags or, in one case, an old suitcase tied up with rope.

Former Vice President Al Gore arranged the flight and was on board, but he declined to take credit for the airlift, fearing it would be "politicized."

(more)

[daninthemoon]

5. Look in the eyes. Can you pick the man who was elected president?

[DemGa]

6. Mine too

[nicknameless]

7. How about another split-screen with * at the McCain party?

Showing * at the Red Cross kind of implies that he gives a rat's ass.

[melody]

8. Not only my President but a fine human being

....whereas Chimpy isn't even qualified to work the slurpee machine at 7-11.

[Ishoutandscream2]

25. "A fine human being"

Yes, AL is that, and more. How things would be different if the 2000 election hadn't been stolen.

[BrightKnight]

9. Most people voted for him. - n/t

[osaMABUSh]

10. We all know how different it would be if Al Gore were President

No Iraq, less dependence on oil, possibly no 9/11, and an actual and immediate response to Katrina.

[rateyes]

12. I would SO vote for Gore before dreaming of voting for Hillary!

Wouldn't mind a Gore.Clark or a Gore.Dean ticket. We need LEADERSHIP in this country---that's the theme, IMO, for anyone running----and, if we're going to talk LEADERSHIP, we better put up a person who LEADS by EXAMPLE---it doesn't get any better than this.

[bee]

18. any combination of those 3 would be a dream ticket IMO. sigh~

edit to clarify:

Gore / Clark / Dean

[Mikimouse]

14. Wonderful quote, wonderful lady! n/t

[blarbushie]

15. http://www.algore.org/

Al Gore blasts Bush; personally airlifted Katrina victims
Friday, 09 September 2005
From The San Jose Mercury News
By TERENCE CHEA, Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Former Vice President Al Gore urged Americans on Friday to hold the Bush administration accountable for failing to adequately prepare for and respond to Hurricane Katrina.

"When the corpses of American citizens are floating in toxic flood waters five days after a hurricane struck, it is time not only to respond directly to the victims of the catastrophe, but to hold ... the leaders of our nation accountable," Gore told environmentalists at the Sierra Club's national convention.

Gore had been scheduled to give a speech to state insurance commissioners in New Orleans this weekend about the likelihood that global warming will spawn increasingly deadly hurricanes. He decided to take his speech to San Francisco after that conference was canceled.

"The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis, it is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences," Gore said.

Read more...

[dR. O]

17. well

a few years back i coined the name DUBYA GUMP bc of quotes like these
www.dubyagump.com

[bee]

19. I read it on your site last night.. laughed my ass off.

hey maybe thats what god said to him when he "told him to be president"..
"RUN DUBYA.... RUN"

[bahrbearian]

24. I love this one.

"As you know, these are open forums, you're able to come and listen to what I have to say."

[newyawker99]

26. Hi dR. O!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[RallyInDC]

20. Al Gore should have won and I should have voted.....

The last 5 years never would have happened.

[bee]

21. dont feel bad. youre here now and next time youll vote.

We cant change the past... but we sure as hell can change the future. :toast:

[Mr_Spock]

22. You're president is "bandwidth exceeded"?

That's quite odd!!

[ourbluenation]

23. same here - wazzup w/ the bandwidth thingy??