Of course, my response to the Washington Post regarding their efforts to demean Mr. Gore's work in tying it all to a presidential run without facts, will more than likely not be a popular opinion here, as has been proven previously. This is the reason why I was called a "stalker" here by MSOC...because I dared to ask her three times what she did in 2004 for Al Gore, since she and some others here are so gung ho for him now in drafting him whether he "wants it or not," but didn't feel that urgency and support for this man then... and as of yet, that question has not been answered and I know it will not be answered. This is why I was called mentally ill and other assorted names by some other Gore supporters here... because I look at this from a human rather than a political perspective. Because I put my planet before politics. Because I dare to believe in my heart that Mr. Gore is a great man regardless of whether he runs for office or not. Because I believe the work he is doing now is what he is meant to do now, and because I believe in him.
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Watching Al Gore
My response:
As Chairperson of Patriots for Al Gore, (a grassroots organization that is not connected to the Honorable Al Gore) I do not believe that Al Gore should run for President in 2008 and have delineated that position in a letter I wrote to him recently, because I and our group truly care about him and also support his current endeavors. We also believe and know he won the election of 2000, and have been advocating for a Constitutional remedy to be provided by Congress regarding possibly "restoring" the term to him that was stolen from him, our country, and our people. More about that can be found on our website at http://www.patriotsforgore.com.
My position regarding this topic may seem hard to understand, because to some if you say you support him you have to support this prognostication. Well, sorry, that is wrong. So let me explain for those who do not think on a level above political and don't seem to see Mr. Gore as a human being and one with a family and a life, some of why I feel as I do.
For anyone to understand where Mr. Gore is coming from now, I believe you must understand the pain he went through in 2000. This wasn't just any election that was lost. This was an election won, and stolen by those who are still being allowed by the very same people who also now clamor for Gore to continue their reign of terror in this country. And that includes the Democratic Party leadership that has only in this election year decided to even hint at having a backbone.
This was an event in his life that shook his very soul I am sure, and forced him to reflect and reevaluate what is important in life. I believe he has emerged from that American tragedy as a man who does see that importance, and has decided to devote his life to those things that are important such as facing global warming. I truly don't believe that unless you too have gone through a cathartic experience in your life that you can even begin to understand what an experience like that does to change your life, your priorities, and make you see so many things clearer than you did before.
As a man who was a part of the DC beltway society for so many years, perhaps the 2000 coup also opened his eyes to so much more regarding what and who really controls the apparatus of Washington DC, and he has also then worked on a way to circumvent that apparatus (Current TV being the prime example) without having to give up the freedom he has to express himself as the man he always wished to show to the world...The freedom you still don't have completely as a member of the elitist DC beltway. He is a success in that regard now, and also in his vocal advocacy for our planet and we are very pleased with that.
Only, so many of those who claim to "support" him don't seem to see any of that as important. They only trivialize it, and use it to link it to what they find to be more suited to their own desire for excitement and a "glamorous" campaign that is only taking place in their own minds, while the world passes them by and the current regime lays the groundwork for their continued invasion of the Middle East now that will continue to hurt us now.
I then in good conscience cannot support people who did not support Mr. Gore and this country when he and America needed to be supported the most... before it got to the point where those who hijacked this government now have the power to lower the boom on us completely. 2004 was the year we should all have taken to the streets Ukranian style to demand that Al Gore be placed on the ballot. We should have done more than that. We should have marched to Washington DC and demanded he be placed in the office he won! We (our PAC) did our best then and in 2004, but unfortunately, the status quo is just too big for a small group of grassroots Americans out here not considered part of the apparatus.
Therefore, we didn't do that en masse. We didn't stand up to the status quo as a whole in 2000 or in 2004. Many preferred to just stay comfy in their chairs blogging, talking, and complaining about it instead of doing something to stand up to the status quo they now want Al Gore to reenter to "save them." How ironic. And they now call for him without remorse. Without asking for forgiveness for how they abandoned the Constitution as well. Without seeing the reality of the situation.
The reality of the situation for me then is this:
Our government is already bought and paid for by special interests, secret societies, lobbies, AIPAC, PNAC, the IMF, CFR, and any other corporate or political organization you can think of that serves their own interests over those of the American people. Tell me that hold will be completely gone by 2008.
The Democratic Party in many ways is just as much into benefitting from the above as the Republican Party is. Tell me that is going to change by 2008. Tell me the DLC holds absolutely no sway in who the candidate is going to be. Tell me there is going to be an uprising to run the DLC out of the Democratic Party. Tell me Howard Dean will actually buck the system and find his voice to stand up to it, with all of those clamoring for Gore now joining in.
Our voting process is rigged and corrupt. Eighty percent of all of our votes are counted by corporations beholding to Congressional members and the current majority party. Tell me that corporations will be completely out of this process by 2008. Tell me that there will be no political influence in the buying and selling of votes and policy. Tell me that votes will be counted fairly, by hand, in public by 2008.
If you can't tell me yes to any of those things and aren't willing to really get up to change that now, what is the point of all of this?
You see, it is so glamorous to prognosticate. It is so glamorous to make people think it is going to be so easy in this system. However, it is also deceitful and disingenous as well. And I didn't even go into the character assassination, the media blitz, the spotlight on all Mr. Gore ever did his entire life being dragged up all over again, etc. And of course the "he's too fat" talk. Also, there is the fact that his family may not wish for him to go through this again because of 2000... because of that status quo... And yes, because of those who were nowhere to be found when this country needed them to stand up to stop Bush before all of this happened.
I don't have faith in those who say it will be done this time, because they failed us the last time and are playing it the same this time. All I see are political opportunists using all Mr. Gore does as political fodder. And to me it demeans all the work he has done on a crucial issue facing our very survival. Perhaps that is why at a global warming presentation he did at Drew University last week, his staff asked that no questions be asked of him about any political future. Perhaps even he is tiring of all of this factless baseless prognostication just to sell papers. Perhaps he is tiring of people dismissing his work simply to use him as a prop against Hillary Clinton.
I don't know, but it is really such a shame to see that the only way people seem to give a damn about his efforts regarding global warming these days in the political sphere, is if they can attach a bloody presidential run in a corrupted system to it. But then, why should I even be surprised about that, and perhaps he realizes that to let this prognostication go on only brings people to the issue. It shouldn't be that way, but that seems to be the nature of it all in this country.
Mr. Gore is a good man doing a good thing now based on its merits, and we at Patriots for Al Gore support his endeavors and him. And should he never run for office ever again, we will continue to support him just as vigorously, and even more so, because he will have proven that you don't have to sell your soul to make a difference in this country and this world.
Thank you,
Jan Moore
Chairperson,
Patriots for Al Gore
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You can agree or disagree, your choice of course. However, looking out at where this planet is today, I have complete faith in Mr. Gore to know exactly what he is doing. He sees the issue of global warming as the issue now, and he is correct. How I wish those in the political world truly felt the same way.
And I hope their strategy of tying all he is doing to an eventual run for president without any facts or true indication from him doesn't actually wind up backfiring and hurting this issue's seriousness. I for one hold the environment dear to my heart, but if I had any inkling that Mr. Gore's movie and book were simply done as a political ploy as articles like these do intimate, I wouldn't go see his movie. I would actually feel betrayed. But you see, I know from his eyes as he is doing this presentation that this is his heart as well, which is why articles like this actually infuriate me, and actually show a disrespect and dismissal for that conviction.
So perhaps those who can't seem to help but push this political BS on us 24/7 without any facts to back it up need to step back and understand other perspectives regarding what they are doing in their zeal to make others believe that just rahing rahing for someone is actually doing something.
Where I come from, actually getting off the sidelines is doing something. That is what Al Gore is already doing, and he has been entreating people to do the same (and that couldn't have been clearer in his speech of January 16 of this year,) but apparently as articles like the above prove, they were just words to use as political fodder by some to sell papers. And that also saddens me.