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If you think Washington is scary now, consider this: Al Gore is not ruling out a 2016 run for president. Al Gore 2000 was awful, proving himself willing to divide the country and put it through hell during his attempt to sue his way into the White House. Al Gore 2016 would be many times worse. He would be a single-issue president, and that issue would be the total destruction of the economy in the name of the debunked global warming hoax.

Today we will learn whether Al Gore has won the Nobel peace prize. As someone who cares passionately about climate change, I'll be saying a little prayer. That he doesn't win, of course. The former US Vice-President has already taken over from Michael Moore as the most sanctimonious lardbutt Yank on the planet. Can you imagine what he'll be like if the Norwegian Nobel committee gives him the prize? More to the point, can you imagine how enormous his already massive carbon footprint will become once he starts jetting around the world bragging about his new title? Just after Gore...

Al Gore maintains that he won't seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2008 — but his actions seem to belie his words. Gore has kept himself very much in the public eye as the White House races kicked into gear, providing plenty of evidence that he is indeed eying another run for president: His award-winning global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" brought him back into the limelight last year. His new book "An Assault on Reason" is a best seller, and when he launched his national book tour in May, one observer said the event seemed "more like a...

Former US Vice President Al Gore appeared on BBC television today, and thanked Apple CEO Steve Jobs for proposing him as the next President of the United States. In May Jobs stated that Gore - also an Apple board member - would win the presidency if he ran for election. "If he ran, there's no question in my mind that he would be elected," Jobs told Time magazine. "But I think there's a question in his mind, perhaps because the pain of the last election runs a lot deeper than he lets most of us see." Today, appearing on the...

Al Gore has been downplaying speculation that he may jump into the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, but he’s just hired an operative who served as Joe Lieberman’s deputy campaign manager in 2004. Brian Hardwick — who worked in Gore’s fundraising operation in 2000 — was most recently a vice president at Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, the company co-founded by Clinton pollster Mark Penn. He joins Gore’s new environmental advocacy group, The Alliance for Climate Protection, Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider confirmed to Politico.com. The Web site notes that with Hardwick, Gore’s circle “includes a group of political...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a possible new threat to her presidential ambitions. Former Vice President Al Gore has again been entertaining offers to run for president. Gore has been discussing a run for a third party nomination with family and close aides. "Al Gore has been energized by the attention he's been receiving as America's leading environmentalist," a political source close to Gore said. "He believes this might present an opportunity to become president or at least try again." Sources close to Gore said Ralph Nader has sought to recruit the former vice president to run as the candidate...

Democrat Al Sharpton said Thursday he's waiting to see how the 2008 presidential field shapes up before deciding whether to declare himself a candidate. The civil rights activist spent the day on Capitol Hill, meeting with the four Democratic senators who are pursuing the presidency _ Chris Dodd of Connecticut, Joe Biden of Delaware, Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) of Illinois. Each met privately with Sharpton in their office. "I'm not making any endorsements today," Sharpton, who ran in 2004, told reporters at the end of his meeting with Obama. Obama said...

He served two terms as vice president under a popular president. He then lost the presidency in a razor-thin election. After eight years, he repackaged himself and won the race for the White House and was re-elected in a major landslide. That person was Richard Nixon. What Nixon did in 1968, Al Gore could repeat in 2008. Like Nixon, Gore faces a nation divided by an unpopular war. And like Nixon, Gore could transform anti-war anger and general public malaise into votes. Moreover, Democrats, moderate Republicans and independents are eager for a change, and Gore could emerge as a central...

Al Sharpton was absolutely correct when he discounted last week's endorsements of Howard Dean and Wesley Clark by local black politicians. As he has proven in two New York races before - and as he demonstrated at a press conference surrounded by minority public officials on the steps of City Hall Tuesday - Sharpton will take all the local black communities, with or without outsiders' endorsements. If Jesus were to return as a white man, walk on water, raise the dead and then run for office, he might take Sharpton down. None of the other pols has a mouse's chance...

For the past few months we have all been hearing and reading about the Democrat candidates for that Party’s nomination for President. What has amazed me is the way Al Sharpton, the master exploiter of riots, mayhem and murders, has been treated as a credible candidate. There he’s been, right up there on the stage the other candidates as they debate. Sharing the platform on occasion has been Carol Mosely Braun, a black former Senator whom voters dismissed for sheer incompetence. The problem for me is that the mainstream media have all developed amnesia, rarely mentioning that this candidate gained...

<p>LAST night's fund-raiser for the Rev. Al Sharpton at Jay-Z's 40/40 club was also a late birthday party for the Democratic presidential hopeful. He turned 49 on Oct. 3. Though Sharpton doesn't seem to be going anywhere in the polls, he was upbeat as he prepared to party with P. Diddy and Russell Simmons. Sharpton was buoyed by Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory in California. "He proved that you don't have to be a career politician to get elected," said the Rev. "We're a lot alike, only I didn't have a stunt man to do all my dirty work."</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - Donald Trump said yesterday he has no idea why he was listed as a sponsor of the Rev. Al Sharpton's upcoming presidential fund-raiser. "I don't know how my name got on there," Trump told The Post. "It's a ridiculous situation. I know nothing about his campaign, I know nothing about his party.</p>

As he campaigns for the S.C. Democratic presidential primary, the Rev. Al Sharpton is traveling down roads ignored by other candidates, and that's winning him publicity but also riling some black leaders. In campaign appearances and through his civil rights group, the National Action Network, the Pentecostal preacher has been upstaging the NAACP in debates over how to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in York County and a fatal shooting in Chester County. Sharpton has visited the state more than a dozen times since January -- logging two more days in the state than Sen. John Edwards of North...

Hold your noses folks, as Howard Dean is now officially, in the minds of the uber liberal editors of The Nation magazine's Online Beat, been christened Howard Dean the new version of Ronald Reagan, the Left's leader in the new liberal revolution. It's a lengthy article, so I have just quoted the second half. Harry Truman warned that, when given a choice between a Republican and a Democrat imitating a Republican, voters would not hesitate to vote for the real thing. And, with his support for the Bush administration's agenda on foreign policy and trade -- fundamental issues not just...

Highlight of the joint appearance of nine declared Democratic presidential candidates at the South Carolina fish fry came when the moderator, George Stephanopoulos, asked Senator Joe Lieberman if he was "too nice" to be president. That type of query about a lack of fierceness is known in our dodge as "the Dukakis trap." Lieberman was ready with a mock-serious "I'd like to come over there and strangle you, George," a Reaganesque response that drew the evening's biggest laugh. The 90-minute program began at 9 p.m Saturday in the East, after sundown, in deference to Lieberman's reluctance to campaign on the...

<p>Bill Clinton failed to lead the Democratic Party during last month's midterm elections, the Rev. Al Sharpton said yesterday, and the former president is now compounding the party's poor showing by blaming others.</p> <p>"For him to say that the Democrats failed to bring out a message is wrong," Mr. Sharpton said in an interview with The Washington Times. "He was the messenger, he was the one out there and helped run the campaign, him and [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Terry McAuliffe. So how can he give an objective opinion with his subjective involvement?"</p>

<p>December 5, 2002 -- MAYBE it's just wishful thinking, but the December buzz among Dems is starting to be that maybe, just maybe, Al Gore will bow out of the 2004 presidential race and deprive Republicans of their dream race - a Bush-Gore rematch.</p>