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Who knew Al Gore could be such fun? He's the toast of Cannes and was hilarious on Saturday Night Live. He's also Topic A in political  conversation. A lot of Democrats start to sound a bit giddy when the subject of a Gore presidential run in 2008 comes up. Even with recent troubles in the GOP, many of them have been preoccupied with the weakness of their leaders and the party's uncertain future. When discussion turns to Gore, everyone gets excited.At the center of the Gore boomlet is the New Al Gore. He's full of the vision and ass-kicking clarity...

HE'S BEEN CRAZY FOR A WHILE NOW As we and others have repeatedly noted, one of the major unreported stories of the last week was Al Gore's anti-American speech in Saudi Arabia. I've shaken my head in wonderment over what could have caused Gore to go so far over the top. Money, sure: the Saudis paid him more than a quarter of a million dollars. But they would have paid him even if he hadn't betrayed his country. To the extent that he did, anyway. For what it's worth, I was doing an internet search and ran across (this post)...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore called on Monday for an independent counsel to investigate whether President George W. Bush broke the law in authorizing domestic eavesdropping without court approval. U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales plans to testify in Senate hearings, expected next month, to give the administration's legal justification for the secret domestic eavesdropping operation. "A special counsel should be immediately appointed by the attorney general to remedy the obvious conflict of interest that prevents him from investigating what many believe are serious violations of law by the president," Gore said in a speech to The American...

As you know, this Friday, the Democratic Party is facing another critical fundraising deadline. I know from experience the importance of this deadline because it is when strategists need to make key decisions about battleground states like Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, and about all our key races. http://www.rnc.org/donate In 2000, my campaign had to make excruciatingly difficult decisions on allocating our resources to the most winnable states. We knew the final margin would be razor thin, but we had to pick and choose which states we could afford to saturate with TV ads during the final drive to Election...

New York voters. Your vote means nothing, since Kerry is so far ahead. I plan to WRITE IN Rudy. Not that he will win, of course, but I'm hoping that he gets enough write in votes to give him a boost for 2008. Think about it. Makes sense.

The tragedy of Al Gore isn't that he lost the presidency in a fluke--but that he was never really suited for the job in the first place. EVERY DAY, it becomes more and more obvious that a dreadful wrong has been done to Al Gore. No, not the outcome of the 2000 election, though that would have been gruesome for anyone. The election was a tie, each side had grounds to complain about one court or another, and each had reason to believe that some fluke had cost it an unknowable number of votes. In the end, the bad luck...

ATLANTA, GA – Ralph Reed today issued the following statement on Al Gore's remark in the September 13 issue of the New Yorker magazine that the President's faith is "the American version of the same fundamentalist impulse that we see in Saudi Arabia." "Former Vice President Al Gore's comment comparing the President's devout Christian faith to that of extremists and terrorists seeking our destruction was reckless and irresponsible. Attacks on a candidate’s faith have no place in the public discourse. I call on Senator Kerry to repudiate and renounce this statement by one of his top surrogates as unbecoming of...

They Said It!AL GORE ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S FAITH: "It’s the American version of the same fundamentalist impulse that we see in Saudi Arabia, in Kashmir, in religions around the world: Hindu, Jewish, Christian, Muslim." (David Remnick,"The Wilderness Campaign," The New Yorker, 9/13/04)

(2004-05-28) -- Former Vice President Al Gore, who has become a gracious, respected statesman since George Bush usurped his presidency in 2000, today said he has offered the Bush administration a "sensible proposal to bring peace with dignity to Iraq." In the dignified manner that has become the hallmark of his public utterances, Mr. Gore urged all Americans to "rally behind the president's efforts to bring freedom and democracy to Iraq." "We never want to say anything that would cause our enemies to question our resolve," said the itinerant professor. "I have quietly offered my ideas to the president, confidentially...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Iverson202-863-8614 Washington, DC—RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke issued the following statement today in response to a speech by former Vice President Al Gore attacking President Bush. “Al Gore served as Vice President of this country for eight years. During that time, Osama Bin Laden declared war on the United States five times and terrorists killed US citizens on at least four different occasions including the first bombing of the World Trade Center, the attacks on Khobar Towers, our embassies in East Africa, and the USS Cole.” “Al Gore’s attacks on the President today demonstrate that...

From The Archives...An Elephant Never Forgets!AL GORE (D-TN) TODAY DENOUNCED THE WAR IN IRAQ: "Raising his voice to a yell, he drew early applause by angrily denouncing the administration. ... President Bush 'has exposed Americans abroad and Americans in every town and city to a greater danger of attacks by terrorists because of his arrogance, willfulness, and bungling at stirring up hornets nests that pose no threat whatsoever to us,' Gore said." (Sara Kugler, "Gore: Rumsfeld, Rice, Tenet Should Step Down," The Associated Press, 5/26/04)GORE IN 1998 CALLED FOR NATIONAL UNITY AGAINST SADDAM, DEFENDED ATTACK ON SADDAM: "We need national resolve...

THE COMPANY HE KEEPS… Al Gore’s Close Ties To MoveOn.org Cast Serious Doubt On His Credibility_____________________________________________________________Today, Al Gore Teams Up With MoveOn.org To Attack Bush, Call For Resignations. “Al Gore will try to boost his party’s chances of regaining the White House by criticizing President Bush’s Iraq policy in a speech today, in which he will call for the resignation of five Bush administration officials and one military leader. The event, sponsored by the political action committee of the liberal group MoveOn.org, seeks to motivate the Democratic base.” (Amy Fagan, “Democrats Unleash Gore On Bush,” The Washington Times, 5/26/04)MOVEON.ORG CALLED...

Something to Yak About – Al Gore, Film Critic Former Clinton veep Al Gore seems to have found a couple of new pastimes to while away his idle hours; reviewing wacky disaster flicks and pounding Republicans. After heaping praise on the movie The Day After Tomorrow, a cinematic tour de force on preposterous ‘global warming’ nonsense, Gore said Tuesday that we humans are “conducting an uncontrolled experiment” on the planet and warned of possible catastrophe. Egad… dial it down a notch… Al Gore, Policy CriticWhen Al Gore isn’t reviewing crazy disaster movies, he’s reviewing government policy. Seems Gore has teamed...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With the next presidential election two years away, undeclared candidate Al Gore is trailing in a new poll. Trailing or not, Gore's name likely will be on the ballot, most people think.</p> <p>A CNN/Time poll conducted November 13-14 shows that two-thirds of the public thinks Gore will be the likely Democratic nominee in 2004, but half surveyed said the former vice president won't win the White House. Only 41 percent said they would vote for him if the election were held today.</p>

Since Al Gore has no job, he decided to take a sightseeing vacation to Europe. While visiting England, he is invited to tea with the Queen. He asks her what her leadership philosophy is. She says that it is to surround herself with intelligent people. He asks her how she finds out if they're intelligent. "I do so by asking them the right questions," says the Queen. "Allow me to demonstrate." She phones Tony Blair, puts him on speaker 'phone and asks, "Mr. Prime Minister, please answer this question: 'Your mother has a child, and your father has a child,...

What: Al Gore will give two speeches about the current state of democracy as part of the John Seigenthaler lecture series at Middle Tennessee State University. When: 1.) Tuesday, November 11 4:30-6:30 p.m. Topic: Media and democracy 2.) Tuesday, November 25th (date change) 4:30-6:30 p.m. Topic: Race and democracy Where: The State Farm Room Business/Aerospace Building Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN Details: Both lectures are free. Originally, reservations were required, but now part of the auditorium will be opened to the general public on a "first come, first served" basis. Reservations made prior to October 5th will be honored....

Just a reminder, for all you AL GORE fans here on FR - Al Gore is the host tonight, on SNL.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrat Al Gore, criticizing President Bush as he tests the waters for another possible presidential bid, accused the administration Thursday of an "attack on civil liberties" and ignoring signs that Osama bin Laden had been planning a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. It was the former vice president's second scathing attack on Bush in a week. Speaking at a Democratic fund-raising breakfast in Wilmington, Del., Gore took issue with the administration's handling of intelligence information prior to the Sept. 11 attacks and for its treatment of some terrorism suspects since then. "The warnings were there" before the...

Al Gore. State election officials ultimately declared George W. Bush the winner by a margin of 537 votes, but during and after the election dispute, questions remained about the uncounted ballots of 175,010 voters, ballots that had been rejected by error-prone tabulating machines employed in many Florida counties. Confusion and conflict, much of it generated by partisan intrigue, prevented these ballots from being counted during the election controversy. However, in 2001 every uncounted ballot was carefully examined in a scientific study by the University of Chicago, which concluded that when all the votes were counted, more votes had been cast...