Ohh WOE is me... whys everybody pickin on me???
Posted on 03/27/2008 6:51:01 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- Former Vice President Al Gore said he sees no urgency in endorsing a presidential candidate.
But he tells The Associated Press that he expects the nomination fight to resolve itself before the Democratic convention in August.
Gore made the comments after a speech at Middle Tennessee State University on Thursday. He didn't elaborate on how he expects the nomination to be decided before the Denver convention.
Neither Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton is on track to win enough delegates in primaries and caucuses to clinch the nomination, so superdelegates like Gore could decide the winner.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen has proposed the nearly 800 superdelegates cast ballots in a two-day primary in June after the last voter primary to avoid a prolonged nomination fight.
ManBearPig Speaks!
Maybe the election results are already in a lock box.
Endorsement by Gore is the kiss of death.
He’d be a fool to try to intervene in this fight. Apparently he has enough sense to understand that.
Today the Governor of PR was taken down.
silly me. it just dawned on my why he's got the algorian press machine running. it's an election year. think of all the attention he'll get.
Three Our Fathers and three Hail Mary’s for that visual sin.
Go forth and sin no more.
And only 850 more FBI files to go...
Oh, HELL no! Candidates duking it out so delegates can choose the winner is exactly what a convention is all about.
You gotta let it play out, Guvna!
And, OBTW, if the demoncrats weren't so worried that their own voters were too STUPID to be entrusted with the selection of their candidate, this wouldn't be an issue, would it?
Remember the ultimate goal of Operation Chaos is to get the Dems to nominate this moonbat.
I’m Relieved that the Goracle has finally WEIGHED in on this issue.
Ohh WOE is me... whys everybody pickin on me???
For the last no telling how many years conventions have been nothing but one big infommercial for the parties. It would be funny if they tried to get all these superdelegates together and the networks told them if they did it they wouldn’t cover their convention.
No frickin’ kidding, Al. It’s called the Democratic National Convention.
This just in: Al Gore said the sun will rise tomorrow.
SMUG ALERT!
Talking to people with condescending tone and smile, with eyes partly or totally closed....
That headline is the most dumb-ass thing I’ve heard in years.
Gore was in TN today:
Former VP Gore, experts debate Internet’s accuracy, responsibility
The Daily News Journal
Al Gore put his Nobel Peace Prize to the test Thursday, sitting between the founder of Wikipedia and an iconic print journalist who challenged the online site’s accuracy and credibility.
Gore, along with Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and former Tennessean publisher and editor John Seigenthaler, were featured in a panel as part of a day-long discussion at Middle Tennessee State University on the First Amendment and the Internet.
The occasion, actually a pleasant exchange, marked the first time Seigenthaler and Wales shared the stage since Seigenthaler pointed out a 2005 biography of him on Wikipedia included false and malicious information.
While Seigenthaler said he was able to use “traditional media,” namely print, to address the concerns, many facing similar situations don’t have such access, Gore said.
“If you are a single individual, and you don’t know about a lot of this … then it can be overwhelming,” the former vice president and a visiting distinguished professor at MTSU said.
But, Gore said, “If you are determined and (go) after that stuff, it can be self-correcting.”
Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University and chairman emeritus of The Tennessean, said the situation was “particularly not pleasant when there’s nothing you can do about it except hurt…
“You struggle with what you should do and how you should approach it.”
The online biography, long since corrected and now monitored by Wikipedia to prevent further incorrect postings, falsely linked Seigenthaler with the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy.
Wales, in a cordial exchange with Seigenthaler, noted the irony of the situation, given the retired newsman is “very noted for his defense of the First Amendment.”
“What’s interesting about this is when he made this criticism, his approach was not to say, ‘Boy, somebody ought to shut these people down.’
“His approach has been to say, ‘Hey, we need to step back and think about a lot of the things that are going online… What are the responsible, institutional things that should come about.”
Gore noted Wednesday’s apology by the Los Angeles Times of its story that wrongly linked rapper Sean “Puffy” Combs to the shooting of Tupac Shakur. When the documents that the story was based upon hit the Internet, they were called into question, prompting the newspaper to backpedal.
“There’s so many examples now, and we can all cite them, of big mistakes in the mainstream media that a single analyst will find and talk about, then it spreads…
“Then, pretty soon, the mainstream media is saying, ‘Well, wait a minute, we need to go back and change that,’” Gore said.
Wales said the Times was, in fact, protecting the First Amendment by quickly apologizing for the story.
“We don’t normally think about that kind of thing — a newspaper stepping up and saying, ‘Wow, we blew that story’ — as a defense of the First Amendment,” he said.
“But it is. If they are not willing to do that, if they are not willing to take corrective action to continue to make the value of free speech higher than the cost, we couldn’t get very far.”
Wales, speaking about his Wikipedia effort, said his organization is “always looking for ways” to address problems posed by inaccurate postings.
“We have a very open system, open platform, that brings lots of good people in to build this amazing resource,” he said. “The difficult thing is, how do you do that while at the same time excluding the bad people or repairing the damage that they’ve done?”
Gore, Wales pointed out, as a former politician and public figure, is used to people posting critical things about him on the Internet.
“But now,” Wales said, “this could happen to anyone. This very platform that allows any blogger to post criticism of you also enables someone else to viciously attack that person.”
Gore said the phenomenon of falsehoods spreading faster than the truth isn’t new, but “the speed with which it can spread is new.”
Gore, in a professorial lecture on the history of communication, from its verbal and written origins, to the moveable-type press and the emergence of the Internet, hailed the Internet as the “single most powerful communication revolution in all of history.”
It is transforming society, he said, because of its “low-entry barriers” and “the meritocracy of ideas” that were pioneered in print.
He cautioned the crowd on the importance of keeping the Internet free and unfettered from government restriction.
“Anytime the United States Senate can vote to go to war against another country, at a time when 77 percent of the people falsely believe that the country we’re about to invade attacked us… that is an indictment of the quality of discourse that our democracy has been trying to deal with in this era.”
About 300 attended the event in the Keathley University Center theater. Several dozen students were turned away from the event, due to a lack of space. MTSU officials eventually placed two televisions in the lobby for students to watch the discussion.
Friends Caroline Buchholz and Heather Lynch said they attended the event because they are fans of Gore.
“He speaks the truth,” Lynch said. “I believe in what he stands for.”
Wales, during the forum, shared a humorous moment with Gore, who was once jabbed by critics for claiming too much credit for the emergence of the Internet.
When returning from an overseas trip, Wales said he was quizzed by Customs officials about the nature of his business.
I invented Wikipedia, he told the officer.
Yeah, you and Al Gore, was the reply.
Gore laughed the loudest in the room.
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.
The man who didn’t take the vote of the people as gospel and went with his lawyers to court said what?
Al should know. He invented primaries and the Democratic convention.
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