White House ‘downplays Gore visit.’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/26/white-house-downplays-gore-visit/

White House ‘downplays Gore visit.’

President Bush will today host the 2007 Nobel Laureates and will meet personally with Al Gore in the Oval Office “before a photo opportunity with the other Nobel winners.” But USA Today’s David Jackson writes that the White House is “playing down expectations” for the Gore meeting, as well as for Bush’s other meetings with the prime minister of Israel and the president of the Palestinian Authority.

UPDATE: Bush and Gore will meet privately in the Oval Office for what the White House concedes is a “photo opportunity.”


I wish Gore had just said no.

[theoldman]

1. If I were Gore I would ask Bush how he is enjoying his job.

I would then tell him how lucky I was since I left Washington DC.

[underpants]

2. They are trying to move this startling image off the front page

Everyone can't help but wonder what things would be like if Gore had been allowed to take the Presidency that he won.

[gateley]

3. Yeah, it would have been cool to decline the photo "opportunity". Gore's a

bigger person than I am, not surprisingly.

[peacetalksforall]

4. 'Photo opportunity' means an opportunity to have a picture taken with the President.

What a pile of stuff.

It should be a meeting to honor the winners.

I take it as an opportunity for a destruciton obsessed snorting and bad joke making dunce to meet a man of honor.

[otohara]

5. The Elected Prez & The War Criminal

I wish Gore would have declined this "opportunity" to have his photo taken with war criminal.

[Javaman]

6. goofus* and Gallant. nt

[Eurobabe]

9. yeah, really n/t

[blogslut]

7. Of course they do

Just the same, I bet my boots that the photo of Gore in the WH is going to make the teevee, print and interweb news - bigtime. :)

[underpants]

8. 5 minutes to Al

:bounce:

[Catherine Vincent]

10. Will it air on cspan?

[underpants]

11. thread here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2349889&mesg_id=2349889

[blogslut]

12. Downplay THIS - Assholes!

[Spike89]

13. Glad he went

Al Gore needs to do what he claims he wants to do, and that is make a difference in environment. W's hardcore supporters may not ever be convinced, but for a lot of people, being recognized by the president confers an aura of authority. In other words, Al knows he needs to convince as many people as possible, not just the left (who were mostly convinced before him anyway). Being an activist for a good cause means being as nonpartisan as possible and I'd have lost respect for Al if he'd played politics with this (considering that he could have run again if he wanted to play politics that badly).