I sent the following this morning. I urge all of you who have been hoping for a Gore run to put your thoughts down and do the same. Petitions are not enough. Write. Contribute. Volunteer for the ballot efforts.
It is time to run Mr. Vice-President. I know you want nothing more than to devote your full attention to the climate crisis, but the best way to approach the problem is from the place where you can exert the greatest force for positive change. The office of President is like no other. It is a force multiplier in the right hands: offering the opportunity to wake a sleeping giant.
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The 20th century saw two great Democrats rouse the American people, with our innovative and resolute spirit, into action that changed the very ways that we relate to our universe. FDR allied us against nationalist hatred and in so doing changed, ushered in scientific revolutions that changed how we look inward on the very structures of matter. JFK saw rivalry and convinced us that the best remedy was to reach higher - high enough to look down on this little blue ball and realize that every creature on this planet is connected by the thin blue envelope of air that we all breathe, and the water that is the indispensable elixir of all we know as life.
It is time now for you to lead us into the 21st century. It was time for that a few years back actually, but the need has only grown in the interim. It is time to ask the American people to rise to a great challenge: to ask what they can do for their country, and what we as a country can do for the world.
There is no walled garden where we can live while watching the rest of the world deal with the crush of untold ecological consequences. America is, person for person, the biggest cause of the current crisis. The flip side of that coin is that we as a nation present a forum for ideas and actions that might actually lead to solutions to the climate crisis. We need you in the one place where you can most help our nation realize its potential for change. We need you in the one place where you can best lead us in leading the world. We need you in the one place where you can best lead each of our six billion neighbors in working together to fix what is broken.
It is time to run Mr. Vice-President.
Respectfully,
ResIpsaLoquitor
Places to get involved:
Act Blue Draft Gore Page
DraftGore.com
A link to Michigan (Oct. 23 deadline) ballot efforts
Oh, and in case it isn't self-evident in my letter: Congratulations Mr. Gore! And thank you.