I have to admit, I’m finding it difficult to get behind Clinton or Obama. I don’t hold out a lot of hope for either one winning. The chances they’re given are largely based upon poor front runners in the GOP field. But recently, word has came out that Fred Thompson is discussing a possible run. And from what I’ve heard and read, the right have Thompson held up much like the left has Gore… as some kind of great white hope.

I have my fingers crossed for Gore. Thompson will surely wipe the floor with all other GOP contenders. And will probably trounce his way right on into the White House in a non-Gore election.

(Nota Bene: Thompson WILL BE another Bush!)

MSNBC -Newsweek Periscope:

Gore on the Un-Campaign Trail

March 26, 2007 issue - Since the documentary he starred in, “An Inconvenient Truth,” won an Academy Award, speculation has only increased about Al Gore’s potential entry into the presidential race. He is not taking any overt steps toward running, and that may be the cleverest strategy of all. [...] Laurie David, who helped bankroll Gore’s film, and whose “personal fantasy” is that he run, says that when she presses him, he’s always coy and says his cell phone is breaking up. “I believe him when he says he doesn’t have any intention of running,” David told NEWSWEEK. “But I also believe the door is not completely shut.”

A leading indicator of his intentions could be Gore’s waistline. The theory is that slimming down will be a signal he intends to run. “He has lost a few pounds, and Hillary can read into that what she wants,” says a longtime adviser who declined to be identified discussing his boss’s figure. [...]

Gore is also finishing a book that sure seems like a prelude to something. “The Assault on Reason,” to be published in May, is about “the forces in society that are undermining democracy,” says Roy Neel, Gore’s chief of staff. [...] Laurie David and Sheryl Crow will lead a college tour that will culminate with a rally in Washington. Perfect setting for a presidential announcement, but Gore won’t be there. He’ll be conducting a virtual reunion of the thousand “climate messengers” he has trained to carry on his crusade.

I needed something uplifting today, so I listened to Al Gore’s speech from January 2006 at the American Constitution Society. This was a great speech……..the man moved me that day. Too bad Bush has continued to abuse the constitution and the rule of law has NOT been restored. But I digress…….

And the Nobel Peace Prize goes to … Al Gore?

He ‘has put climate change on the agenda,’ two Norwegian sponsors say
OSLO, Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore was nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his wide-reaching efforts to draw the world’s attention to the dangers of global warming, a Norwegian lawmaker said Thursday.

“A prerequisite for winning the Nobel Peace Prize is making a difference, and Al Gore has made a difference,” Conservative Member of Parliament Boerge Brende, a former minister of environment and then of trade, told The Associated Press.

Brende said he joined political opponent Heidi Soerensen of the Socialist Left Party to nominate Gore as well as Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier before the nomination deadline expired Thursday.

“Al Gore, like no other, has put climate change on the agenda. Gore uses his position to get politicians to understand, while Sheila works from the ground up,” Brende said.

“I think climate change is the biggest challenge we face in this century,” Brende said.

During eight years as Bill Clinton’s vice president, Gore pushed for climate measures, including the Kyoto Treaty. Since leaving office in 2001 he has campaigned worldwide, including with his Oscar-nominated documentary on climate change called “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Source: MSNBC.com

Al Gore certainly deserves this recognition. But not everyone thinks so. Take a look at this image grab from MSNBC’s Live Vote on the subject:

Are there any doubts that this unbelieving twenty’six percent intertwine with that thirty’something percent crowd that still faithfully stand behind Bush and all things Jesus? Why oh why can’t there be a separate place, (complete with a separate atmosphere), for these folks to live?!