At this point I am so sick of vichy dems my head wants to explode!
Al Gore is not a vichy dem, he has been citing Orwell for the last few years, he has spoken on the politics of fear, and his new documentary focuses on Global Warming. Al Gets it!
I just hope that we can get Al.
Anyway his new film, An Inconvient Truth opened at Sundance this week, it has spurred numerous articles about him and I just wanted to share a few of them.
Gore is bigger than ever!:
http://www.observer.com/...
Mr. Gore--no longer Bill Clinton's straight man, no longer the wooden, cautious candidate of 2000--has been raising his profile through a series of impassioned speeches against the Bush administration. They began in September 2002, when he warned against the invasion of Iraq, which he said "has the potential to seriously damage our ability to win the war against terrorism and to weaken our ability to lead the world."
He dwelled, presciently, on the risk of post-invasion chaos. That speech and others like it, along with his once-mocked warnings about global warning, have transformed him for Democrats into a kind of Cassandra, always right and always ignored. And his clear anti-war stand is in sharp contrast to Hillary Clinton's obsessively monitored but hard-to-explain position on Iraq. Nobody in Mr. Gore's political circle suggests, on the record or off, that he is actively planning a run for President in 2008. But the film "falls into the `we'll see if that gives anything legs' category," said a major Democratic donor who backed Mr. Gore in 2000 and is in touch with the former Vice President's circle of friends and allies.
What has happened in Hollywood and around the country is, everybody who sees his presentation on global warming is just blown away--and it isn't a real reach to think that he represents real vision and leadership in the White House, as opposed to what we have now," said Roy Neel, a longtime senior aide to Mr. Gore who is still close to the former Vice President. Mr. Neel added that Mr. Gore has told him he isn't running for President now--though Mr. Neel also said that "he would certainly be my candidate if he ran, and I think he'd make a hell of a President.
"It's no surprise that people spend a little time with him, get enthusiastic and say, `Damn! He'd make one fine President.'"
The Washington Post:
Al Gore, Sundances Leading Man
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Has ever a little indie film faced a greater hurdle? Imagine this sales pitch: Babe, it's a movie about global warming. Starring Al Gore. Doing a slide show.
With charts.
Hours before the filming of "An Inconvenient Truth," former vice president Al Gore works with a team to choose the best from among 400 slides and animations from his environmental show. (Participant Productions)
About "soil evaporation."
Improbable? Perhaps. So it's all the more amazing that "An Inconvenient Truth" had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday night before an enthusiastic audience that gave the former vice president and his movie a big standing O.
Kansas City Star:
A warmer Gore goes to Sundance
http://www.kansascity.com/...
The failed presidential candidate doesn't immediately come to mind as the kind of charismatic star Hollywood might turn to to dramatize a pet cause. But his quest caught the attention of a group of filmmakers -- among them "Pulp Fiction" producer Lawrence Bender -- who have translated it to a documentary slated to premiere tonight at a sold-out screening at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Gore's appearances around the country are drawing throngs. Two weeks ago at Vanderbilt University in Gore's hometown of Nashville, 1,100 people filled a large auditorium, with 300 turned away by fire marshals.
Gore was loose and funny. "I used to be the next president of the United States," he told the audience, drawing a roar of laughter.