Al Gore is NOT your savior!

by Brandon Lovejoy [courtesy of Blog for America]

I must say I'm more than a little dismayed by the situation regarding the candidate straw poll. Do people really feel that simply because Gore can use his prominence as former VP to raise the alarm about global warming that he would be at all constructive, or not beholden to powerful interests while back in the whitehouse? Have people forgotten about his Occidental Oil ties? Or the fact that he presided over his own defeat in 2000?

Gore gets a little breathing room from elite influence, is reborn, and starts doing some good by raising awareness of global warming, and suddenly everyone who should know better gets amnesia and writes him into a really important poll? This is preposterous! The second he steps foot back into the whitehouse he'll be sitting on his hands like he did for 8 years before! Leave the man in peace to try and assuage his guilty conscience, don't write him in! He's actually doing something constructive as an almost ordinary citizen, don't take that away from him.

Here we have Dennis Kucinich in 2nd place, a real champion of peace, who has -never- taken bribes from the empire, and who is beholden to no one but the American people, and folks go out of their way to try and draft Al Gore,, who's NOT EVEN RUNNING. It's like giving someone a chalice of gold filled with everlasting life and then watching them set it down to pick up a disposable Mickey D's cup and start slurping sugar water. It's like herding cats. I'm sadly disappointed. For those of you that participated in this travesty of common sense, PUT KUCINICH INTO FIRST PLACE ON THIS POLL or rue the day there was a massive lapse in judgement by 25,000 people and counting, who should know better. AL GORE IS NOT YOUR SAVIOR!

Get behind the man with VISION! and COURAGE! two things Al Gore and his convenient publicity will never have. It's like a NeoCon wet dream, they must be laughing their asses off... I can hear them now.. "Yeah, draft Gore, we own him, that'll be perfect." You know what? I think i can even hear the sound of Karl Rove typing away at his computer in the background, yep, he just cast a vote for Gore, and another, and another..

***

What follows is a little refresher on Gore, courtesy of a Democracy Now interview from July of this year between Amy Goodman and Ralph Nader for the 25,000 amnesiacs out there who 'wrote in' Gore.