He was being pushed that it would all be decided by the election day this year. He came right out and said that was inaccurate and January 2008 would be much better in terms of money, wear and tear on him and his family, and no matter what happens the convention isn't until next summer..... He made sense, he doesn't need name recognition, most people KNOW what his issues are, and why burn unnecessary money that he can even finance from his own fortune now.... His Google Stock holdings from being a board member when they went public alone would do a major part of the deal for him. By next summer he could be peaking with an Academy award, a Grammy award, maybe a Nobel Peace Prize, and all the good feelings from his past..... and he doesn't have to get bloodied up like the other candidates will to differentiate themselves..... there is 11 months untill that convention next summer.... it only took George Allen 2 weeks to damage himself so bad with Macaca last year.... why play the odds, burn the emotional energy and just avoid the potential political traps until he has to announce... By Christmas there will be plenty of good campaign staffers who will be road-kill from the early primaries with the others who are running now...

Yeah, I know, I know..... but he would still be my "Dream" candidate with either Mark Warner or Obama as his running mate...

but I think Christmas is too late for anyone, except maybe Bill Clinton! :)

He's not running. Just as he's said about 103,892 times in the last year.

They announce the Nobel Peace Prize.

If he doesn't announce by November, he won't.

I think Gore and Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier will be the laureates this year.
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And frankly I think he's accept that he's not going to be president. I had held out hope that he would run; but, as it is now past Labor Day, I myself have finally come to accept that Gore is not running.

This video actually aired only one time on SNL, then banned.

why the decently rated Phil Donahue show was cancelled on MSNBC.  Too much anti-war rhetoric that might impact the parent company's bottom line.

to lampoon him for his excellent book "The Assault on Reason".  They said the book was just him "sighing" at the whole country.  That's the problem with the media.  They don't want to talk about serious issues.  They would prefer the presidential election be essentially a personality contest.  For them it's a high stakes American Idol, instead of people interviewing for the most powerful job in the world.

After being pummelled in the pages of the Washington Post, I have a feeling that sealed the deal that Gore wasn't going to subject himself to it again.  And you know what?  Our country is the worse off for it.  We should be able to pick a president the same way WE are subjected to obtaining a job.  Are we qualified for it?  Do we have the skills and talent to do the job right?  I think Gore had all the right qualities to be president but the Kool Kidz in the MSM thought he was too boring and serious, so that was that.  Pretty sad story.

What an eye-opener.  I knew at the time of the 2000 campaign that the media was being grossly unfair to Gore and were favoring Bush, but I didn't know to what extent, nor did I have specific names to attach to that hatchet job.

I'm so angry at the so-called 'liberal' media right now that I can't see straight.  I think from this point forward the blogesphere ought to be ever-vigilent on what these reporters and columnists do to our Democratic candidates and we should never allow this to happen again.  And with the blogesphere, we have the power to see to it that it doesn't, if everyone will stay on top of them and keep them honest.  If they're going to ruin our candidate, then we should ruin them!  We need to expose them at every turn from now on. 

Maureen Dowd and all the others bear a huge responsibility for giving us Bush - the worst president in history - and for ruining the candidacy of Gore, who I believe would have been one of the greatest presidents we would have ever had.  What a sad, sad waste. 

The media has their hit list and only "approved" candidates will be promoted. Who needs martial law when the media is in control?

We have an excellent field of candidates.  What would Gore add to the race?  Is the current field so bereft of talent as to leave you longing for a Gore candidacy?

to me in a way that nobody else is.  His courageous speech about a "constitutional crisis," his leadership on global warming, and his scathing indictment of the Bush Republican "Assault on Reason" all convince me that Gore would be an incredible president for our times.  That's why I'm "pining." 

Is there a current candidate who has not offered a scathing criticism of Republicans?  Is there one who would not be a leader and champion on/of environmental issues (you know anything is an improvement over Bush here)?  And is there a candidate who has not bemoaned unchecked executive authority?  And none of the current field inspires you, really?!  Did you watch that HRC Invisible video?  It made me cry a little. =)

I guess I am missing what Gore adds to the mix.  How does he trounce Clinton, Obama, or Edwards?  Would one of them not be an incredible president of our time?  What would Gore do that one of them wouldn't?

For whatever reason, though, Gore inspires me in a way that the others don't.  Not that I won't support our nominee 110%, of course...and maybe one of them will inspire me like Gore has (and Clark back in 2003).  We'll see.

that one would normally apply to some Hollywood starlet who goes out without underpants also gets applied to serious political discussions.  I suppose part of the problem is that news is completely ratings driven right now.

The general public doesn't really care about hard news any more either.  Not sure exactly why - perhaps people are too busy.  Perhaps they have been conditioned by advertisers and the media to not care as hard news is bad for sales.  Just look at declining subscription numbers for newspapers as compared to other forms of media...

...at the ongoing speculation for a guy who repeatedly says he is not running. I'm beginning to wonder what happens if the primaries come and go without Gore...will there still be "speculation"?

after the primaries would be if there were a deadlock and nobody -- Clinton, Obama, or Edwards -- had it locked up.  Then, you could get into Joe Trippi's brokered convention scenario that he laid out a few months before he joined the Edwards campaign.

There's no question that the media has long been unfair to Gore, most likely because they don't personally like him very much.  (But Bush gave them nicknames!)

On the other hand, Hillary got nearly disemboweled by the press when she was in the White House, and she's coming back for more.  Talk about a masochist!