Good God, the man is SERIOUS about this issue as we ALL should be, and all operatives looking for accolades can do is talk about 2008 in a question and answer session! If I had been there I would have had tons of questions to ask him about carbon sequestration, solar energy, biofuels, the WATER CRISIS, market trends, etc. THANK YOU Mr. Gore for saying the obvious in response to that comment. ONE election is NOT going to turn this around, and this man CANNOT DO IT ALONE. So sad so many people just don't GET IT. Perhaps if this person who started this website to get 65 million people to vote for Gore in his fantasyland would instead have them pledge to DO SOMETHING THEMSELVES TO HELP HIM AND THIS PLANET, we might actually see some progress regarding this crisis! And I like this: Answering on his OWN terms. You go , Mr. Gore. Isn't it absolutely LIBERATING to be able to do that? Don't you change a thing about it!
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/10262006news70791.cfmGore shows anger over Bush record
Thursday, October 26, 2006
By KATHIE DURBIN Columbian staff writer Advertisement
PORTLAND -- Most of the time he tries not to show it. But former Vice President Al Gore harbors a deep anger toward the Bush administration. He's angry about how President Bush handled the international terrorist threat, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the threat to the planet posed by the buildup of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere. Whether that anger will propel him into another campaign for the White House is an open question. His temper flashed during a question-and-answer session at the Rose Garden on Tuesday night after his two-hour slide show on global warming.
It came in response to a question from an audience member wanting to know whether Bush, who beat Gore in the 2000 presidential election, had seen Gore's film on climate change, "An Inconvenient Truth." Gore responded that Bush has vowed publicly never to see the film. "That's why I wrote the book," he quipped. "Maybe he's a reader!"
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Gore's answers prompted applause -- and a question from a young man in the nosebleed section who has started a Web site to inspire a Gore presidential bid in 2008. "My goal is to get 65 million people to pledge that if you run for president in 2008, they will vote for you," he said. If he can do that, he asked, "Would you at least consider the possibility?"
Gore responded by offering his take on the state of politics in 2006, which he described as "toxic." I do think we have a democracy crisis and our political system is not working the way it should," he said. "I was born into a country where reason mattered ? where we could disagree but then set our differences aside. It's a false hope to think that this one election is going to turn things around." Then he answered the question --
on his own terms. "I've come to believe that the highest and best use of my skills may be to try to change people's minds and create a new political reality," Gore said. His goal, he said, is to build a base of voters who will demand that the nation's leaders address the global warming challenge. That may be happening. Already, 10,000 people have volunteered for training to present a version of Gore's slide show in communities across the nation.
Gore cautioned against a rush to pass global warming legislation that contains only half-measures, saying that could drain the movement of energy. "We cannot write the legislation today that would solve the problem," he said. 
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