It is excerpted from the book Reporting by David Remnick
http://www.nytimes.com/...
It looks to be from a New Yorker essay so people might be familiar with it. It gives a nice taste of what Gore is like. Whenever any of us think "what might have been" we must first think how Gore deals with that question.
The excerpt after the break gives some idea of what those of us who hold out hope for a Gore decision for 2008 have to expect.
"Basically, the answer is, I do not expect to ever be a candidate again," Gore said. "I really don't. The second part of the answer is, I haven't ruled it out completely. And the third qualifier is, I don't add the second part as a way of signaling coyness. It's merely to complete an honest answer to the question and it in no way changes the principal part of the answer. Which is, I really do not expect that I will be a candidate. If I did expect to be a candidate again, I would probably not feel the same freedom to let it rip in these speeches the way I am. And I enjoy that. It feels"-and there was that word again-"it feels liberating to me."
Please run Al. There are many of us who will bust our butts for you.