Friday October 12, 2007, 4:55 am
PLEASE, Al - run for president - NOW!

Friday October 12, 2007, 5:23 am
That`s great. Maybe the World is starting to take a serious look at Global Warming.

Friday October 12, 2007, 5:39 am
I was thrilled to hear that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize. If anyone derserved it it was Gore. Now if we can get him on the presidential ballot in November, then we'll be able to clean up the mess that Bush is going to leave behind when the maggot leaves the WH. I hope the little prick dies of a heart attack before his term is over, then we will be done with the maggot forever...

Friday October 12, 2007, 6:00 am
*Ponders* How different would the world be today if Mr. Gore was president? VERY different probably.

Friday October 12, 2007, 6:02 am
Great News Cate! Now thats what you call a good man. Not Like.......

Friday October 12, 2007, 6:09 am
Mister Gore can make a larger impact OUTSIDE of politics, where he'd have to run everything by a compromised congress.

Friday October 12, 2007, 6:57 am
I agree with you Warren, as President he would have to make too many compromises that would not always be best for what he believes in.

Friday October 12, 2007, 7:20 am
Bravo! Kudos to Al GOre! I hope he will divest himself and his family of his Occidental Petroleum stock now.

Friday October 12, 2007, 7:28 am
I'm with Warren and Margaret! The only reason Gore is able to do what he does is because he is no longer in politics! If he got back into politics now, he would likely spend most of his time dealing with the other "Inconvenient Truth" which is the mess in Iraq! I say, Gore, keep doin' what your doin', baby!!

Friday October 12, 2007, 7:44 am
Woot-Woot! You go Al!

Friday October 12, 2007, 7:48 am
If he runs he will win, I don't doubt that for a second, and if he were to become President he would be the greatest leader this country has ever seen. He's truly the leader we need, but it's up to him.

Friday October 12, 2007, 8:52 am
Be careful what you wish for. Getting a prize that is just as political as any election,( remember even the mass murderer Henry Kissinger got one) doesn't mean that his movie is any truer today than it was yesterday.

Gore "believes" in money and power. He's getting rich off the fraud.

Friday October 12, 2007, 8:55 am
Congratulations AL!! Though reentering the quagmire of US politics may be unappealing to you at best, who else has the intelligence, vision, and experience to get us on track toward progress in all the areas we're now behind schedule. We need a progressive candidate for president who has the abilities to get things done. No othe candidate comes close. Thanks Cate for the post.

Friday October 12, 2007, 9:07 am
Until we get the special interest groups and lobbyist for big self serving businesses out of politics I'm afraid there won't be the changes this country needs. Gore seems to have more pull with where he stands now....and I'd like to add kuddos to Jimmy Carter for his honesty about our current administration. Now there is another man we can be proud of.

Friday October 12, 2007, 9:07 am
It is great :)

Friday October 12, 2007, 10:06 am
Compare this Nobel Prize winner to the Criminal-in-Thief of the 2000 "Selection", and you have to mourn the America that Should Have Been!

Friday October 12, 2007, 10:12 am
I really wish that Al would "get his Presidency back". The one that was "unlawfully" stolen from him, is still due him and "US" who by "unanimous" vote said, WE THE PEOPLE pick our own President, which never happened.

Headlines:

Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize
Ex-VP, intergovernmental body jointly honored for global warming work
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 10:03 a.m. MT Oct 12, 2007
OSLO, Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

World leaders, President Bush among them, congratulated the winners, while skeptics of man's contribution to warming criticized the choice of Gore.

For his part, Gore in a statement said he was " deeply honored ... We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."

Gore won an Academy Award this year for his film "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary on global warming, and had been widely expected to win the prize.

"His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change," the Nobel citation said. "He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted."

It cited Gore's awareness at an early stage "of the climatic challenges the world is facing."

Panel's two decades
The Nobel Peace Prize committee also cited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for two decades of scientific reports that have "created an ever-broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming."

The IPCC groups 2,500 researchers from more than 130 nations and issued reports this year blaming human activities for climate changes ranging from more heat waves to floods. It was set up in 1988 by the United Nations to help guide governments.


Climate change has moved high on the international agenda this year. The U.N. climate panel has been releasing reports, talks on a replacement for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate are set to resume and on Europe's northern fringe, where the awards committee works, there is growing concern about the melting Arctic.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said global warming "may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the Earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states."

Gore said he would donate his share of the $1.5 million that accompanies the prize to the non-profit Alliance for Climate Protection.

Ole Danbolt Mjoes, chairman of the prize committee, said the award should not be seen as singling out the Bush administration for criticism.

"A peace prize is never a criticism of anything," he said. "A peace prize is a positive message and support to all those champions of peace in the world."

President Bush abandoned the Kyoto Protocol because he said it would harm the U.S. economy and because it did not require immediate cuts by countries like China and India. The treaty aimed to put the biggest burden on the richest nations that contributed the most carbon emissions.

The U.S. Senate voted against mandatory carbon reductions before the Kyoto negotiations were completed. The treaty was never presented to the Senate for ratification by the Clinton administration.

“Al Gore has fought the environment battle even as vice president,” Mjoes said. “Many did not listen ... but he carried on.”

The White House said the prize was not seen as increasing pressure on the administration or showing that President Bush’s approach missed the mark.

“Of course he’s happy for Vice President Gore,” White House spokesman Tony Fratto said. “He’s happy for the international panel on climate change scientists who also shared the peace prize. Obviously it’s an important recognition.”

Fratto said Bush has no plans to call Gore.

Thanks Cate, read and noted with enthusiasm and hope.

Friday October 12, 2007, 10:15 am
Unfortunately, the larger doners will not back Gore on another run for the White House. It is widely believed that he should have easily defeated George Bush and that the election should have never been even close.

Friday October 12, 2007, 10:41 am
Nice picture of Gore with a "saintly" halo!
I too agree that Gore is able to do better work outside of the Presidency. He is much more free.

Friday October 12, 2007, 10:51 am
With the possible exception of Bono,
there is no more deserving individual
to have recieved the Nobel Peace Prize!
Congratulations, Mr.President!

Now, if the Nobel Committee has an
ANTI-Peace prize, I hereby nominate
GWB and Dick Cheney!
The award for such a prize should be
hanging by the neck until dead!

The last American to win the prize, or share it, was former President Carter, who won it 2002. At the time, then committee chairman Gunnar Berge called the prize "a kick in the leg" to the Bush administration for its threats of war against Iraq.

IMHO: They should have called it
"a kick in the nuts"!

Thanks, Cate!
A great post of very happy news!
noted joyfully!

Friday October 12, 2007, 11:36 am
Noted ty Cate

Friday October 12, 2007, 12:41 pm
So very well-deserved. Altho the official whitehouse statements have been neutrally gracious, statements by republicans have been anything but. Clearly this also falls into the incovenient truth department as well. I know Mr Gore has repeatedly indicated that he is no longer interested in running for president, I do so wish he would. While I strongly support Hillary Clinton for president, I would love to see her or anyone else as his vice presidential candidate. A boy can dream, can't he?

Friday October 12, 2007, 12:45 pm
David Roberts of "Grist" on-line magazine weighs in about Gore for Prez

For whom the Nobel tolls
Al Gore and the IPCC jointly win peace prize
Posted by David Roberts at 2:09 AM on 12 Oct 2007

Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." Here's the press release. Here is his statement:
I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is even more meaningful because I have the honor of sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- the world's pre-eminent scientific body devoted to improving our understanding of the climate crisis -- a group whose members have worked tirelessly and selflessly for many years. We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level.

My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.
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Over the past week, all the U.S. media could talk about was how winning might affect Gore's chances in the U.S. presidential race. To me this demonstrates just how badly our media is misjudging the race, Gore's significance, and our current historical moment.

There's no reason to think that winning the prize would have any positive effect on Gore's chances if he did run. Does the American public care about the Nobel, a prize awarded by a bunch of ... foreigners? Wouldn't winning a "peace" prize brand Gore as weak on national security? Doesn't it show that he thinks he's better than us? Who would want to get a beer with a Nobel Peace Prize winner? Wait, did he just sigh?

If he entered the race, Gore would run headlong into the same dim-bulb, theatrics-obsessed political press that did him so much harm in the 2000 race. He'd also run into Hillary Clinton's political machine. He would own the climate change issue, so other candidates would have to start attacking him on it and distancing themselves from it. He'd be forced to spend his time discussing one piece of frenzied ephemera after another, instead of focusing on his animating passion. He'd end up in a bruising, demeaning battle, and winning some peace prize wouldn't shield him. The process of electing a president, like so many things in the U.S. today, has become small and petty. It shrinks, cheapens, simplifies, and plasticizes those who take part in it, as Gore has already learned.

No, it would be a disaster for Gore to enter the race at this point -- not because he might lose, but because he has transcended U.S. partisan politics. He has become a figure of global stature, one of a tiny fraternity of private individuals in the world capable of driving historical change from outside the confines of any institution. What many Americans don't realize is that the rest of the world is not distracted by the serial, lurid distractions that compose our political dialogue. Our national conversation is dominated by the resentful bile of a core of nationalist, reactionary, authoritarian ding-dongs, but it's not like that when Gore goes overseas. In other countries, they don't care about his electrical bills or his waist size or his clothing choices or his lack of that most important qualification for leader of the free world, the ability to act like a regular guy.

Gore can't act like a regular guy. He's smart, and he talks like a smart person. He's earnest and committed. He cares. He wants to help save the world. Inside the glorified high school of U.S. politics, those qualities make him a square, an easy subject of mockery. But outside the U.S. they are assets. Gore can help bring governments together; he can get powerful financiers, corporate titans, rock stars, and energy scholars in the same room. He can help shape policy and public opinion across globe, not just in the U.S.

We are at an inflection point in history. These are times of immense consequence. The world will either unite around the problem of climate change and start pulling as one in the direction of survival and sustainable development, or grim years lay ahead for all of us. We must learn, as a species, how to share our collective resources more equitably and how to become happier without using more stuff and creating more waste. We must decouple our health and fulfillment from our ecological impact.

That's the project Gore's involved in now. He is called to higher things than running for president.

Friday October 12, 2007, 1:07 pm
Al Gore's email posting says that he and his wife would be putting their portion of the prize money back into their cause. Imagine. Not lining his personal wealth pocket.

There is already a petition in circulation with several thousand names on it and you can accesss it through this group: AL GORE FOR PRESIDENT...AGAIN.

I will say that since the election that moved GWB into the White House was stolen, if he wants the job then he should go for it now. Yes, he has used his time since then to do much good--and if you want to say a "higher calling" I am fine with that. But this nation is again at the brink of another war while mired in Iraq and Turkey is biligerant today. We have so many domestic problems it would take a long time to list them. Right now, saving his country and impacting world issues as well seems like a VERY HIGH CALLING TO ME.
It will, indeed, be interesting to see where all of this leads. He has been fighting for these issues many years now, yet there are those already saying he started all of this as a clever tactic for gettting himself drafted as a candidate. Phooey...too much evidence to the contrary.

Have to note that he knows how The Hill works--presided over the Senate and even felt he was accountable to rule of law and the Constitution. Hmmm. Maybe the scenario will go this way: impeach Pelosi for not doing her job. Draft Gore for President. Impeach Cheney next, then Bush. Sweep Gore into office in the next election, or tap him earlier. We do not want Bush, Cheney or Pelosi or Rice....the succession...to ever occupy the Oval Office. Gee, what great t.v. this would make! Meanwhile, we can point to Al Gore and Jimmy Carter as American Idols.

Friday October 12, 2007, 1:40 pm
Al Gore has been keeping records for year about Global Warming way before people even started talking about it, and no one would listen to him. If they a Big IF I do believe things would be a lot better and we wouldn't be in the heat like we are. I also do believe in spending billions of dollars to send space shuddle more gases in the air upon liftoff. More money spent wasting away. How many hungry people here would it feed?

Friday October 12, 2007, 3:55 pm
Congratulate Al Gore on the Nobel Peace Prize
Target: Al Gore
Sponsor: Care2

Today, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Al Gore and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for their work to raise awareness about the threat of global warming.

With his passion and hard work, Al Gore has demonstrated that committed citizens can make a difference. He has inspired millions to stand together against one of the biggest challenges of our time.

This year's Nobel selection sends a strong message that to achieve peace we need to live in harmony with one another and with the environment. By stopping the destructive effects of global warming, we are not only preventing future conflicts ignited by lack of resources, but we are also fighting for our own survival.

Please take a few minutes to sign our petition to say "Congratulations!" to Al Gore for this remarkable achievement and urge him to continue his critical work to fight global warming!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/162701254

Friday October 12, 2007, 4:11 pm
HeyBMutiny -that's not a halo, it's Al's head inside the Nobel Peace Prize coin...LOL!!!

Friday October 12, 2007, 5:09 pm
I think Al Gore should run for President-it's that important that we have a STRONG LEADER in office. He isn't ALL about lining his pockets-he believes what he talks about -I heard him speak here in Austin. He is so refreshing to listen to -he's intelligent, coherent, and well-spoken unlike BUSH who can't talk to save his life. Why anyone would have picked him over Gore is amazing and as we know Bush cheated and won only because he cheated. We probably don't deserve Al because Americans have become so complacent and sure of themselves and many still don't seem to have a clue how screwed they are by the current administration-how critical the next election is-if we get to have it-that our country's future is at stake. And although we have TWO strong DEMS, Edwards and Obama who can win the country, we have a LEFT that is easily DIVERTED, DIVIDED, and FICKLE. Easily distracted by RON PAUL whose voting record should be a DEAD GIVEAWAY that he is a NEOCON, there are actually people who think he's better than any of the DEMS-that's just BS, and then there are the THIRD PARTY people who are just sure they can form one somehow by magic between now and time to vote-NO! And the WORST? Those who AREN;T going to VOTE-just turn in a BLANK BALLOT to "MAKE A POINT"-to WHOM? THEMSELVES? Who is going to care? The REPUGS who will LAUGH even if they win by 20% - they don't care! AS long as they win....and the NEO CONS are still in control-Don't Vote your country DOWN THE TOILET-if we get to vote, VOTE for a DEM who can WIN MIDDLE AMERICA or we will LOSE and you will have GAINED NOTHING but another REPUG PRESIDENT....THINK PLEASE! This is the most serious VOTE or NONVOTE you will EVER CAST....The Republicons HAVE TO GO! NOTED.

Friday October 12, 2007, 6:12 pm
I am so happy he got this...I hope Clinton is next with his global initiative!!!

Friday October 12, 2007, 6:19 pm
I wish I had Al's energy.....no pun intended!

He's one of my heros!

Friday October 12, 2007, 6:30 pm
"He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted."
I sure agree, this year the Nobel prizes for peace and literature where for my favourites, I'm so stunned, and happy!
Thanks B Mutiny... Roberts has a pointI IMHO now: Al Gore belongs to the whole world, by mutual choice! Chris, thanks, I'd be happy to sign!

Friday October 12, 2007, 7:24 pm
GRRRRRRRRRReat NEWS!! He really deserves it!! Gore for President. Thx Cate.

Friday October 12, 2007, 7:42 pm
Wonderful news Noted

Saturday October 13, 2007, 6:25 am
Ironically and sadly, he may never have been able to acheive so much if he had actually taken his elected position as president, so this is one good thing that has come out of that horribly corrupt election (that I'm still not sure I forgive him yet for not standing up against). And how sad that we could have had a noble peace prize winner for a president instead of a crooked, greedy, war deserter and liar. Yep, amazing to think that this country would be a whole different place if Gore had demanded a recount.

Saturday October 13, 2007, 8:00 am
I'm so delighted that he won it. This is a great step towards fighting global warming!

Saturday October 13, 2007, 9:22 am
went to the right person

Saturday October 13, 2007, 1:18 pm
Noted!

Saturday October 13, 2007, 1:44 pm
Mudcat said, in part:

And how sad that we could have had a noble peace prize winner for a president instead of a crooked, greedy, war deserter and liar.

Not only that, but a mass murderer and the worst war criminal
of the last 60 years! AFTER Bush/Cheney are impeached and
removed from office, I want to see them BOTH sent to the
International Criminal Court at The Hague, to stand trial
for genocide and crimes against humanity. And if swinging from
the end of a rope was good enough for their buddy Saddam, then
it's good enough for Bush & Cheney!

Sunday October 14, 2007, 12:49 pm
How true,we all know how we voted and what happened in that election so sad. We in Florida know and we
regret that day.I think to myself "Was there more I could Of done?" I am so happy though That Gore the noble
peace prize,kind of says something.

Thursday October 18, 2007, 3:19 am
You know the last time a major world power in the west had a president who cheated his way to power as far as i can recall from history was Hitler who turned Germany into Nazi land a ravaged europe. Correct me if Im wrong, but shouldnt the land of the free be a bit worried about that. Al Gore should have won. And even the second term of Bush was cheated aswell. The fact the republicans turned on Bush as a result of him gaining power also testifys that even some of his followers would rather the peoples choice than a dictator. I wonder how long the Bush dynasty will last?

Thursday October 18, 2007, 4:58 pm
Hope he runs in '08!!!

Thursday October 25, 2007, 9:38 am
Good one!!! Yea Al.

Friday November 16, 2007, 7:00 am
noted