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'Rock star' Al Gore takes center stage at Live Earth concert [Barf 'Al'ert!]
AFP via YahooNews!.com ^ | 7/04/07 | Rob Woollard

Posted on 07/05/2007 12:34:14 PM PDT by melt

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Al Gore's image as a rock-star eco-warrior gets another high-voltage jolt of celebrity endorsement Saturday when the music world gathers to raise awareness for global warming at Live Earth.

But despite a growing clamour for the beaten 2000 presidential election candidate to enter next year's race for the White House, the chances of Gore running for office again remain remote, analysts say.

Breathlessly described by admirers as "the coolest ex-US vice-president ever", Gore has consistently stated he has no interest in launching a 2008 election bid, while stopping short of unequivocally ruling himself out.

"I haven't ruled it out, but I don't think it's likely to happen," Gore said in a recent interview with Time Magazine.

Yet Gore's prominent involvement in events like Live Earth -- which will see over 150 stars perform in eight concerts around the world to urge governments to set climate change targets -- will inevitably breathe new life into calls for a 2008 White House bid.

However, Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political scientist at the University of Southern California, said she doubted Gore would enter the running.

"I don't think at this point he's thinking about it," Jeffe said. "He's having so much fun where he is," she added, referring to Gore's new-found status as crusading environmental campaigner, as evidenced in his involvement with the Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth."

"His image problems have been waylaid by 'An Inconvenient Truth'," Jeffe said. "What you see in the film is what you get when you meet him -- an Al Gore who is charming, witty and does have some personality."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: algore; algoreburnsrecords; algoreisnotmypope; algoreisnotmyprez; antirockstar; globalwarmingscare; heplayedonourfears; hoax; liveearth; pmrc; rockstar
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Headline-wise, it's hard to tell which Al Gore will be taking center stage at "Live Earth"--- the one with rocks in his head, or the one who likes it "on-the-rocks"...

1 posted on 07/05/2007 12:34:17 PM PDT by melt
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To: melt

I feel sorry for young Al. Look who is father is. Gore the younger should be grateful that he didn’t kill anyone while driving under the influence.


2 posted on 07/05/2007 12:36:03 PM PDT by LottieDah (Democrats, AlQaeda and the ACLU working together to destroy America)
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To: melt

If Live Earth does for Earth what Live Aid did for Africa, we’re all doomed.


3 posted on 07/05/2007 12:36:21 PM PDT by sono ("Let's start the Fairness Doctrine with NPR." Dennis Miller)
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To: melt

25 years from now mention the name Al Gore and the likely response would be “Wasn’t he the guy that almost got the industrialized west to commit economic suicide before the Ice Age started?”


4 posted on 07/05/2007 12:37:57 PM PDT by AU72
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To: melt

Livin’ hard, drivin’ fast, takin’ drugs...

Yeah, he sounds like a Rock Star...

Oh, wait a minute... I thought we were talking about Algore III


5 posted on 07/05/2007 12:38:20 PM PDT by gridlock (Quack ... (thump) Quack ... (thump) Quack ... (thump) Quack ... (thump)......)
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To: melt

They should get the whole damn family up on stage and have them chase each other with butterfly nets.


6 posted on 07/05/2007 12:38:48 PM PDT by Plains Drifter (If guns kill people, wouldn't there be a lot of dead people at gun shows?)
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To: melt
According to Al Gore "If we don't stop Global Warming ManBearPig will escape his icy prison in Antarctica...I am cereal..."


7 posted on 07/05/2007 12:39:42 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: sono

Rush was going on about the electricity expended for the shows, the jets to take the “stars” to the venues, and the overall footprint these events will leave. Quelle hypocrisy!


8 posted on 07/05/2007 12:39:45 PM PDT by cardinal4
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To: melt

Eco-hypocrite is more like it.


9 posted on 07/05/2007 12:41:42 PM PDT by Clam Digger
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To: melt

Raising awareness??? People are not aware that AlGore is concerned?

I wonder how much over-priced, sweatshop produced, throwaway junk they’ll be selling at these venues?


10 posted on 07/05/2007 12:42:13 PM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: melt
Hey Tippy!

Hoisted on your own petard, huh? Shouldn’t have sold out.

11 posted on 07/05/2007 12:42:20 PM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: melt

The good news is that you know an issue is pretty much spent as a societal force when they start doing (Fill-In-The-Blank)AID concerts. Everybody goes out and has a good time, and they go back home and think it’s a good thing they solved that problem, whatever it was.

(Fill-In-The-Blank)AID is the second-to-last step before exhaustion of an issue. The final step before exhaustion, of course, is when John F’n Kerry makes it his Top Priority.


12 posted on 07/05/2007 12:42:50 PM PDT by gridlock (Quack ... (thump) Quack ... (thump) Quack ... (thump) Quack ... (thump)......)
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To: gridlock

I’m going to have to make that a tag-line


14 posted on 07/05/2007 12:44:54 PM PDT by gridlock (You know when you see the (Fill-In-The-Blank)AID Concert, an issue is headed for obscurity.)
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To: melt
Breathlessly described by admirers as "the coolest ex-US vice-president ever"

I can't take it anymore . . . I'm going to hurl!

15 posted on 07/05/2007 12:46:28 PM PDT by FoxInSocks
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To: melt

Live Earth Concerts Cause Global Warming!


16 posted on 07/05/2007 12:47:17 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: cardinal4
Rush also said that he heard that Algore was supposed to announce his candidacy this Saturday at the Earth Concert but now that this has happened, he doubts it. Of course, you know who is doing cartwheels over the news.
17 posted on 07/05/2007 12:49:05 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: melt

What a surprise. This is all about him. He is trying to be “relevant” after the 2000 election was “stolen” from him when it was “his turn” to be President.


18 posted on 07/05/2007 12:49:09 PM PDT by joonbug
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To: melt

Apparently Albore, III has taken these kinds of articles too much to heart, for he thinks it’s time to “party like a rock star’s kid” while driving 100 mph and endangering innocent lives.


19 posted on 07/05/2007 12:49:20 PM PDT by Enchante (Reid and Pelosi Defeatocrats: Surrender Now - Peace for Our Time!!)
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To: melt
Breathlessly described by admirers as "the coolest ex-US vice-president ever"

Nah, son. My dog Spiro Agnew came correct as a motha******, yo.

20 posted on 07/05/2007 12:50:45 PM PDT by wideawake ("Pearl Harbor is America's fault, right, Mommy?" Ron Paul, age 6, 12/7/1941)
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