CNN: Gore To Speak On Last Night Of Dem Convention

Al Gore will reportedly speak at the final night of the Democratic convention -- a coveted spot, but one that should put to rest the rumors (however faint) that the former vice president might reprise his role for Barack Obama.

The story appeared on CNN.

"We are learning," the network's anchor said, "that former vice president Al Gore has accepted a speaking role at the Democratic National Convention. It will happen on the final night of the convention. Of course, he'll be appearing on the same stage as Barack Obama receiving the party's presidential nomination officially. Not sure what he'll say or exactly what time he will give it. But we know and we have been reporting there's going to be a lot of people there. They're expecting the crowd to be something like 70,000 or so. Former Vice President Al Gore has accepted a speaking role at the Democratic National Convention."

Gore has long stated that he does not want to return to the White House whether as vice president or in another administration role. But his statements have not been enough to tamp down the (unlikely) speculation that he might be tapped as Obama's number two. The selection of a Thursday evening speaking spot should, however, put the final nail in that coffin. Vice presidential candidates traditionally address the convention on Wednesday night.

Undoubtedly, having Gore take the stage the same evening as Obama pushes a sharp message, reminding voters about the fundamental dynamic of this election: how different things could have been had George Bush not taken the White House in 2000.

Comments

[lboucher]

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - Rasmussen
Nearly half of U.S. voters (49%) think it is at least somewhat likely that Hillary Clinton will overshadow the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama at the party’s national political convention next week. Twenty-three percent (23%) say it is Very Likely!!

[luvobama]

Never going to happen. Check you ears, I think your brain is leaking.

[Darkdonnie]

Wow really pithy responce!

[dnegri]

A little prosaic question: the Convention is in Denver. We have a candidate, Mark Udall, in a tight Senate race there. Does anyone know if Udall will be getting in high profile attention? I'd have loved to see him be the closing speaker. But maybe that's always reserved for someone of "national prominence"? Just wondering.

[MIKEinNYC]

Gore is a blustery loser. Biden is one of the dumbest guys in the senate with bad hair to boot.

In polls that are truly anonymous Obama trails by plenty. Today AOL is reporting that McCain is ahead in its anonymous poll 75%-25%. This type of spread cannot be ignored.

Obama is head and shoulders above these clowns. If he is going to win this he had better choose a veep with something on the ball and not associate himself with proven, detestable losers. A creative choice is called for here.

[dnegri]

Whether or not Biden is one of the "dumbest guys" in the Senate matters little. He's dynamic, confrontational and has the high profile "credentials" that the media always love to talk about. He's got a strong record on supporting police, veterans and women. My complaint with him is that he co-authored that horrendous bipartisan "bankruptcy reform" Bill. And he's really in bed with the insurance industry, primarily because that industry has so many big firms located in Delaware. But that's largely beltway politics, not what the average voter sees. And the Republicans sure won't be ble to use his pro-business position against him.

[Plowboy]

Joe Biden has no original thoughts. He gets most of his ideas from the same source as his old buddy, Joe Lieberman.

[dnegri]

BTW: What is a "truly anonymous" poll? Standing on the street corner? I've actually been polled twice in the past year by national polling services and in neither case was I asked for my name or any personal identification information other than party affiliation (and once if I was likely to vote). As for the 75-25% claim, I suspect that "anonymous poll" was taken at the door of one of those lovable
right-wing Evangelical megachurches. So, do you have any links?

[MIKEinNYC]

To find AOL's poll just go to www.aol.com. You'll find it on the first page. As far as its anonymity goes, you vote from your computer. You do not have to be logged in. It's set up to prevent "ballot-stuffing". You can only vote once from a computer until the poll is reset a few days later. That seems pretty anonymous and random to me. Typically I see vote totals numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

To pollsters who stop you on the street you are not anonymous even if they don't take your name. They see you.

You are not anonymous to pollsters who call. They have your phone number.

The AOL poll collects none of this information.

[Veratruth]

Most people go to church where they feel welcome. The "RICH," powerful and loud clappers probably feel very welcome at Rick Warren's church. Many churches have become divided over religion since Bush has been in office. The Bible warns about the "church divided against itself."

[luvobama]

I want whatever those pollsters are smoking. Talk about a black out high.

[cosmic]

HAHA an anonymous Poll by AOL? America On Line? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Darkdonnie]

Today
look the polls are turning. O's are down with his negatives up and John's are holding per a right wing, oops no per the Los Angelus times poll an extreme left leaning paper. Wow who would of thunk it!

[lboucher]

There is positve movement to swing 160 delegates from Obama to Clinton. If that happens, Clinton will re-establish her campaign and face John McCain in the fall.
Twenty delegates have switched from Obama to Clinton in July. A floor convention vote to fully seat the delegations from Michigan and Florida — will be called and benefit Clinton in a HUGE way.
On to Denver!!

[Quotidien]

PUHH-LEEEZ

You're like the Japanese soldier who was left alone on the South Pacific island for 40 years and never realized that WWII ended.

[luvobama]

They are plain ol' crazy.

[luvobama]

Do you like having the biggest, longest nose in the room? Well, you do.

[RememberTheAlamo]

Hi luvobama,

Don't know if it is possible or true . . . but all my neighbors are pulling for her . . . might be some kind of convention secret . . . kinda like a double reverse in football!

But I must ask . . . do you not like the rest of the people in your party?

Hard to imagine that helps unity?

[coloradosiren]

Yeh, and she would go on to be the biggest losing democratic candidate in our life time, even worse than Carter.

[WFV]

It's good to have a dream, lb, but being delusional is a diagnosis.

[PeppermintTwist]

Quote from the blog: "that should put to rest the rumors (however faint) that the former vice president might reprise his role for Barack Obama." To that I must say: not necessarily. It could be that Gore will indeed speak in the VP slot and then appear on stage with Obama the next night to introduce him, stand there together with him to show the whole ticket in all its change + experience + vision = GLORY, and then segue fabulously into Obama's speech.

Oh, please let that be what the sitch is.

[saltysea]

Will PUMAs or McCain people ever tire of posting childish, snarky bits that we must wade through to get to posts with substance?

[Darkdonnie]

To Hot for you! GET OUT!

[luvobama]

What a pithy comment.

[leftoflennon]

Oooh, smart !

[coloradosiren]

Not hot, just dull.

[HerbTee]

I so look forward to having a replacement Democratic senior statesman representing the Party like Al Gore. Bill Clinton has pretty much lost that recognition, along with his dignity and self-respect.

[Phil123]

I'm sure that Albore will fly in on his Gulf Stream jet, and give a nice speech while his Escapade is kept idling outside with the air conditioning running so that he won't have to step into a hot car. In his speech he will tell us all how we should be riding our bicycles to work to save the planet.

[ikesambobby]

Hey, watch what you say about our "REAL" President!

[Phil123]

"REAL" only if there was no controlling legal authority.

[olivia]

Don't you understand how this works?

Every time Gore travels somewhere to give a speech, thousands more people start making small changes that add up to huge changes.

How short-sighted can you be?

[Phil123]

So Al Bore deserves to fly around in a Gulf Stream because he's important. Sounds like "Animal Farm." I get why you socialists are OK with this.

[PeppermintTwist]

Gore drives a hybrid, so take your right-wing smear tactics elsewhere. Gore lives his green ideals every day, with passion.

[Darkdonnie]

I can't stop laughing my side hurts. do you ever gag drinking all that bathwater! Just be carefull they don't change it to Kool-Aid.

[GunneraGirl]

You're sure? Tell us how you have verified this? Tell us how you, for instance, have done more to address the effectsof climate change in your life, than Al Gore has in his. Tell us, you complete fool, how you know he uses an air conditioner in his car?

Don't waste my time with your idiocy: go post on some neanderthal right-wing site. Fool.

[Phil123]

OK stupid maggot. My carbon footprint is about 50X less than Gore's, you stupid maggot. Al Bore's use of energy is legendary, you stupid maggot. It was all over the news about 3 weeks ago how a 3-limo caravan sat outside idling with the AC running waiting for Al Bore while he gave a speech you stupid maggot. Pay attention to the news you stupid maggot.

[dnegri]

Yes, it's always nice to know that low-information bloggers do exist. Taking a break from FreeRepublic.com?

[Darkdonnie]

Pithy responce!

[JXJASON]

There were a lot of dumb Republicans who voted for George Bush. They will not vote for the Bush clone.

I should know because I was a dumb Republican. I am now a registered Democrat and I have campaigned in PA for Senator Obama.

Senator Barack Obama will be the next President because he is the better candidate.

OBAMA 08

[saltysea]

Thanks for letting us know, JX! and welcome!

[Amsterdam83]

Right on man. Though I was only 17 back in 2000 and couldn't vote, I was in support of Bush. I changed my tune by '04. Glad to see you have as well. Many of my young friends in Michigan are doing the same. Better late than never!

[barackobama4prez]

Thanks for those words. They lift my spirits.

[Darkdonnie]

Y ye yes yes Obama obama obama t th the messiah i will follow you! You are the one! even pelosi said your set from above. OOOObama OOOObama

My son drink the Kool-Aid!

what no!

shhhh oooooobama shhhhh drink drink

WAKE UP he is a straw dog! nothing inside! No bite! No meat!

[luvobama]

Are you huked on foniks? Your grammar and spelling are atrocious. Although they do go nicely with your logic and common sense.

[PeppermintTwist]

Well, it might surprise you to know that I AGREE with you on Obama...which is all the more reason he needs to pick someone with extreme SUBSTANCE, passion, integrity, vision, experience, knowledge, etc. as his running mate...someone like...hmmmmm...who could it be...who could it be....could it beeEEEEEE: AL GORE! (Answer Key: YES, it could and should.)

[luvobama]

It is so refreshing to know that there are people out there that are open to changing their minds. It's called wisdom.

[MIKEinNYC]

I am tired of reading that AlGore won the 2000 election. He did not.

Bush, like it or not, won Florida by several hundred votes which means that he received that state's electoral votes, which means that he won the election.

This was thoroughly researched and written about in the New York Times, which is clearly not a friend of the Bush administration. Even the Times had to concede that Bush won, fair and square.

Another thing I don't want to hear about anymore is the so-called butterfly ballots in Palm Beach County. I remember reading that Palm Beach County is one of the most affluent counties in the entire United States. In order to accumulate that kind of wealth it is safe to say that its residents possess some sort of intelligence and political acumen, certainly sufficient to fill out a paper ballot.

Sore losers,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, cut it out. Look forward., not back. Better luck next time.

[Fabienne]

If intelligence were a prerequisite for acquiring wealth, we'd have less than one percent of the wealthy we have today.

[saltysea]

No, the NYT did not conclude that Bush "won."

The reality, therefore, is that Mr. Bush's victory in the most fouled-up, disputed and wrenching presidential election in American history was so breathtakingly narrow that there is no way of knowing with absolute precision who got the most votes. After all, there is no perfect way to decide which disputed ballots should be counted and rejected.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E3DB1338F931A25752C1A9679C8B63&scp=4&sq=gore%20AND%20won&st=cse

Other studies conclude that Gore did win. That is why may intelligent journalists refer to Bush winning because his henchmen on the Supreme Court gave it to him.

[sever]

That whole article hurt. I was 20 during the 2000 election, and I wasn't that engaged. I knew I liked Gore, but didn't hate Bush until around 2003...therefore I didn't vote.


'Even if they wanted to, how do you challenge a president who is basking in job approval ratings of close to 90 percent? '

Ugh.

[messy]

Henchmen? no. The supreme court is nobody's henchmen. They HAVE henchmen, but they themselves are not.

[PeppermintTwist]

Gore won. The Republican FOBs (friends of Bush) stole the election. That's pretty much the long and the short of it.

[Wilbur]

Gore won in 2000...deal with it.

Wilbur

[MIKEinNYC]

I don't know what reality you're dealing with but I do not recall a President Gore.

Bush won the election. Gore did win the popular vote.

[JackND]

Will he speak at the convention or at the stadium?

[GooeyButter]

the stadium is part of the convention. an open convention.

[olivia]

How do people get tickets?

[EdgarPost]

DWP= Down with Pumas Democrats, if you want to see your economy go to ruins, you global standing do south and prevoke wars for the sake of it as well as having your civil liberties taken away from you while global oil company rake in record profits.. .. well then join the PUMAS. I live in England and trust me I have seen your country being loved enormously when clinton was prez to being hated now W is at the helm. And these PUMAs, my god, plain stupidity.. .. Just dumb beyond belief, they have to be republicans, either that or closet racists looking for a reason to note vote for Obama because 95% of his issues are inline with clinton. DWP- I hope to see this accroynm.

[conscioushope]

God save the Queen.... and your good sense....
to see PUMA's even across the wide, wide ocean for what they are.

[Cassie129]

They're not Democrats. Their leader is a Republican.

[EdgarPost]

DWP= Down with Pumas

Democrats, if you want to see your economy go to ruins, you global standing do south and prevoke wars for the sake of it as well as having your civil liberties taken away from you while global oil company rake in record profits.. .. well then join the PUMAS.

I live in England and trust me I have seen your country being loved enormously when clinton was prez to being hated now W is at the helm.

And these PUMAs, my god, plain stupidity.. .. Just dumb beyond belief, they have to be republicans, either that or closet racists looking for a reason to note vote for Obama because 95% of his issues are inline with clinton.

DWP- I hope to see this accroynm.

[olivia]

DWP

Mostly Republicans I think. Nobody could support McCain who will be attacking Iran, just out of spite.

[OhReallySheSaid]

Now here's change we can believe in: The man who single handedly gave us George Bush and his awful administration because he couldn't muster a few paltry votes in his home state of Tennessee in 2000 to win, will now be our farewell speaker at our convention.

Now there's a great example of setting a new course, Way to go!!!

As the uber liberal essayist Gore Vidal so cleverly said the other day, "change to what?"

[strength]

HEY HE HAD ENOUGH VOTES IN FLORIDA, BUT YOU SAW WHAT HAPPENED THERE WHEN THE STATE GOVT WAS RUN BY A BROTHER OF ANOTHER.

[lmab]

The list of Democrat losers hanging around is pretty long.........Hey, where's John Edwards? Nevermind......................Some of them even join the other party in order to get face time. Republican losers don't stick around....they become CEOs once they perfect their criminal ways. .