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The Al Gore watch (Thought Alarm)

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:57:00 GMT

Now that John Edwards has strapped himself onto the Obama gravy train, the big question is: where's Al Gore? He remains the one major Democratic leader who has not thrown an endorsement. Like a great rock band that wont take the stage until the suspense has reached a fever pitch, the crowd churned into a frenzy, frothing like a thick foamy substance, crying out like a mass orgy of one living...

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What About Al? Rumblings Of An Obama Endorsement By Al Gore (Commentary - The Post Chronicle)

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:45:58 GMT

Speaking to reporters last night as he boarded his plane for Chicago, Obama said he was not really pushing Gore for an endorsement. "I'd love to have it......

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The “Al Gore Watch” (PoliBlog)

Thu, 15 May 2008 13:48:05 GMT

I have always been skeptical of the notion that Al Gore would emerge from his trophy room to broker a deal between Obama and Clinton over the nomination. However, he does still have the power to influence the outcome, as Bloomberg rightly notes: Edwards's Endorsement of Obama Starts Clock on `Al Gore Watch’ John [...]

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Edwards's Endorsement of Obama Starts Clock on `Al Gore Watch’ (BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com)

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:45:16 GMT

Julianna Goldman and Kristin Jensen, Bloomberg - John Edwards's endorsement yesterday of Barack Obama leaves former Vice President Al Gore as the major Democratic figure still on the sidelines in the party's presidential race. Edwards, a former North Carolina senator who ended his own bid for the nomination in January, said Obama is the candidate who can [...]

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Al Gore Financially Invested in Climate Cause (The Two Malcontents)

Thu, 15 May 2008 05:55:47 GMT

CNSNews.com - Weeks before announcing a $300-million, three-year advertising campaign to raise awareness about global warming, Al Gore was conducting a slide show for a group of investors in Monterey, Calif., touting companies such as Bloom Energy, Amryis , Mascoma and other firms that are not household names — yet. These bio-fuel and green technology firms could be poised to take off, Gore...

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Report: Digg walked away from $100 million offer from Al Gore (Webware.com)

Wed, 14 May 2008 19:42:00 GMT

Plenty of would-be buyers have been named for social news site Digg , but one we haven't heard much about: Current Media , the cable and Web news channel that was launched by former vice president Al Gore. It's one of the juicy tidbits detailed in BusinessWeek columnist Sarah Lacy's book, Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 , which hits...

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A response to the Huffington Report story (The Presidency of Al Gore, 2001-2009) (illinoisreview)

Wed, 14 May 2008 20:42:19 GMT

by George Dienhart The original story is here. My timeline is the same as the original author. I think this way more probable than the outcome written by Norman MacAfee. On January 20, 2001, Al Gore, the candidate who won...

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A question to Al Gore - and his answer (A Quantum Diaries Survivor)

Wed, 14 May 2008 18:26:31 GMT

I am very happy to post a link to my friend David's blog, where he has a streaming video from an event in Rome, at the point where he poses a tough and interesting question to Al Gore on the accelerating debate on the Climate Crisis. Please have a look! [...]

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"Al Gore is so feminized and diversified and ecologically correct, he's practically lactating." (Climateer Investing)

Wed, 14 May 2008 18:08:00 GMT

- Maureen Dowd Thanks to the Columbia Journalism Review for the memory: How Do You Top “Practically Lactating?” To quote a colleague: “The does-the-candidate-bowl-and-drink- beer-in-a-masculine-seeming-way? approach to political punditry is [Maureen Dowd's] one move— MORE

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Today in Biofuel Opinion: Should I follow Al Gore’s half-baked notion to save the planet or feed my family? (Biofuels Digest)

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:02:11 GMT

Sean Hannity, Hannity & Colmes (FOX News): “But the fact is, Al Gore has a financial stake in spreading global warming hysteria….Was Al Gore thinking about saving the planet or perhaps lining his pockets'…Now that the wheels are coming off of Al Gore’s global warming bandwagon, well, even some of his loyal supporters may have [...]

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For V.P., An Al Gore Avatar? (VF Daily)

Wed, 14 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

A quick Internet trawl came up with the following names: Benjamin Spock (the popular “baby doctor” and best-selling author); Jerry Rubin (the Yippie firebrand); activists Robert Drinan and Philip and Daniel Berrigan; anti-war Congressman and activist Allard Lowenstein; United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez, McGovern's wife, Eleanor; TV newsman Roger Mudd; Republican governor-bigot George Wallace;...

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Al Gore - Officials Hit Hbo Documentary On Florida Recount (Contactmusic Ltd)

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:18:27 GMT

Former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who represented the Al Gore team during the 2004 Florida recount, has denounced the HBO drama Recount, scheduled to air on May ...

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In the Public Eye: Who's Up (Al Gore) And Who's Down (Oprah Winfrey) (PewResearch.org | All Feeds)

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT

More than seven-in-ten Democrats (72%) have a favorable opinion of Gore, who was the party's presidential nominee in 2000; overall, Democrats' views of Gore have changed little since 2002 (69%). However, the proportion of Democrats expressing a very favorable opinion of Gore has increased by 11 points (from 24% to 35%). About half of independents (53%) have a favorable impression...

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AL GORE LOST WVA AND LOST THE PRESIDENCY... (THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS)

Wed, 14 May 2008 01:14:00 GMT

... AND OBAMA IS WAY TO THE LEFT OF WHERE AL GORE WAS BACK IN 2000. DITTO FLORIDA. THEREFORE: OBAMA WILL LOSE THE GENERAL ELECTION, BIGTIME.

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I hope Al Gore is hanging his head (Daniel Hannan)

daniel.hannan@telegraph.co.uk (Daniel Hannan) — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:17:28 GMT

I am ashamed to admit that I had never heard of Irena Sendler, whose obituary appeared in this morning’s paper. Hers is an awesomely humbling story, even by the standards of her heroic generation. Irena Sendler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize A Polish Catholic, she spirited some 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto, displaying casual and extraordinary courage. She kept a list of...

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Why Al Gore is bad for the planet (Dish Network 2008)

Tue, 13 May 2008 13:15:00 GMT

Why Al Gore is bad for the planet Dear fellow conservative: Did you know that the Live Earth concert to "save the planet" released more Co2 into the atmosphere than every SUV in America? Or that estrogen from birth control and "morning after" pills is causing male fish across America to develop female sex organs - and that environmentalists, who are overwhelmingly "pro-choice," have helped cover...

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Earth Daze, Courtesy Of Al Gore (Global Warming Is A Hoax)

Tue, 13 May 2008 01:02:00 GMT

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 4:20 PM PT Shortage: Al Gore sees no climate improvement since he made "An Inconvenient Truth." Actually, things have gotten worse. As the environmentalists celebrate Earth Day, the rush to replace fossil fuels threatens global famine. A week after Tax Day, April 15, we are forced to endure another indignity, Earth Day , April 22. This...

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Fox News: ‘Blame Al Gore For Your Rising Food Prices’ (Think Progress)

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:41:50 GMT

Yesterday on Fox News's Hannity's America, host Sean Hannity attempted to blame Al Gore for skyrocketing global food prices: But how did the food shortage become so acute so fast? The growing consensus is that the crop deficit is directly related to the increased demand for production of, quote, “earth friendly” bio fuels, an effort pushed [...]

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Unflash Gordon's Al Gore moment (Memex 1.1)

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:59:28 GMT

Remember when Al Gore invented the Internet? (Well, actually I suspect that that story may have been an embroidered urban myth.) But here's a report of a claim by Gordon Brown that a Brit invented the iPod. While talking about the economy during daytime television show, This Morning, Brown let it drop that it [...]

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Hannity And FOX News Blame Al Gore For Global Food Crisis (News Hounds)

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:17:12 GMT

Out of touch Sean Hannity and FOX News trivialized and exploited the plight of those who are struggling with skyrocketing food costs by using the crisis to smear Al Gore. Instead of an honest look at the problem, Hannity's America presented a shallow, distorted report last night (5/11/08) that presented Al Gore as the single most important reason for the food shortage. The only solution...

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