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Al Gore's Fans Make 2008 Draft Pitch

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-10 11:47|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Draftgore.com, which describes itself as a group of grass-roots Democrats, underwrote a full-page open letter to Al Gore in Wednesday's New York Times, imploring the former vice president to enter the presidential campaign. Monica Friedlander, founder and chair of Draftgore.com, said the timing of the $65,000 ad was a coincidence and not related to the prize.

$65k seems very low for a full-page political ad in the NYT. Isn't this the same discount rate MoveOn.org got from the NYT when they took out a full-pager to bash Gen. Petraeus?

Posted by Chris W. 2007-10-10 12:51|| 2007-10-10 12:51|| Front Page Top

#2 It's supposed to be the rate you pay if you run the ad on "strandby," which means no control over the day it appears.

Posted by Mike 2007-10-10 12:53|| 2007-10-10 12:53|| Front Page Top

#3 The ad runs two days prior to the Nobel Prize being awarded. Gore is in the running for the Prize. They also made a point to say that the "timing was a coincidence", which of course means that it is not a coincidence.

Posted by Chris W. 2007-10-10 12:57|| 2007-10-10 12:57|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm still rooting for Al to throw in his hat against Hillary on the Green ticket, just splitting the Demorats in twain. Hopefully, staying with the Greens and boosting them against Democrats for congressional seats as well.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-10 13:04|| 2007-10-10 13:04|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't think he could afford the pay cut.

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-10 13:36|| 2007-10-10 13:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Al is the one Dem I fear. He'll slaughter Hillary in the primaries and be a major contender in the general election. He has no votes to be held to account for on Iraq and many feel he had an election stolen from him. Others feel he's on the right side of the big environmental disaster of our age.

If he came into the campaign pushing hard to get the US off of oil (and had some kind of plan) he'd be virtually unstoppable.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-10-10 14:07|| 2007-10-10 14:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Al Gore in the '08 draft? I don't think he'll go in the first round; there aren't any teams with a real crying need for an offensive doomsayer.

:-)

Posted by Mike 2007-10-10 15:02|| 2007-10-10 15:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Quit wasting electrons, all of you, you are polluting our world!

Gotta go now. I am taking my entorage on a private 747 to speak about the dangers of polluting the atmosphere.

Posted by Al Gore 2007-10-10 21:38|| 2007-10-10 21:38|| Front Page Top

#9 I agree, Mike. Maybe I'm selling him short, but this guy doesn't 'scare' me at all. Hillary, on the other hand.......

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-10-10 21:38|| 2007-10-10 21:38|| Front Page Top

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