Gore won't be going on the campaign trail; Nobel laureate shies away from partisanship

[DeepModem Mom]

Politico: Don't expect Gore on the campaign trail
By DAVID PAUL KUHN | 6/18/08

Despite Al Gore’s choreographed endorsement of Barack Obama Monday, top Democratic strategists don’t expect the 2000 Democratic nominee will risk his environmental agenda by campaigning vigorously in this year’s presidential race. They note that the new Gore—Nobel laureate, documentarian, globetrotting advocate for environmental issues—has in recent years shied away from more partisan domestic debates.

“(Gore) is not wholly going to abandon his profile as a Democrat but he also has his advocacy and citizen-of-the-world stature to take into account,” said a Gore confidant, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “He’s trying to weigh all of these things because he understands the importance of the White House in solving some of these climate crisis issues and there is a difference between the candidates on that issue.”

Those closest to the former vice president also suggest that he may have exhausted his interest in campaign politics, which would explain his change in direction from the 2004 general election, when he made several fiery speeches lambasting the Bush administration.

Gore regularly turns down requests to raise money for the national Democratic Party as well as for gubernatorial and congressional candidates—more indicators that he may be reticent about a return to the partisan rough-and-tumble....

***

A Democrat close to Gore said the Obama campaign has not asked Gore to take an active role in fundraising or on television or even in conference calls with reporters, as 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry has....

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11160.html

[babylonsister]

1. I'll wait til Gore says this directly. IIRC, he said he'd be available for

anything if it will help the Dems this year. :shrug:

[DeepModem Mom]

4. I just edited in the Gore person's comment that, actually, Gore hasn't been asked...

to participate. Of course, he's just now endorsed.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. I saw this story and thought it was not reputable

How would a Clinton advisor know what Gore is gonna do or not?
Wouldn't the story be more legitimate if it came from a Gore advisor?

[DeepModem Mom]

3. The first quote is from a Gore person, but it, in fact, is pretty ambiguous. nt

[BeyondGeography]

5. This comes off as some serious pot stirring by the Clinton camp

“If Gore had wanted influence with Obama he would have endorsed him during the primary,” said a former adviser to Bill Clinton. “I don’t think there are also any hard feelings between Obama and Gore. But I don’t think Obama is thinking that Al Gore was there for me when I needed him in the way that Bill Richardson was.”

Invoking the evil Richardson! What a fucking joke. Time to move on, people.