Gore wins Nobel Prize, Presidency next?

[freedomlover]

As widely anticipated for quite some time, Al Gore has this morning been announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Whilst Hillary Clinton is beginning to be seen as the de facto next Democrat Nominee - could Gore be the next Democratic nominees, and thus President.

It was suggested to me earlier this year that three things would happen:

1) Gore would win an oscar for his film
2) Gore would win the Nobel prize
3) While Clinton, Obama et all tear themselves (and the Democratic Party) apart, Gore would be seen as the person to unite the party, and a 'Draft Gore' campaign would begin.

What do people think, firstly about the implications of Gore winning the Nobel prize, and secondly, about whether or not he will make a run for the White House next year, and if he does run, whether he can win (again ).

This is just the global liberal establishment licking each other's ass. Will Gore and his entourage be flying to Oslo to pick up the award? He could always have it posted to him in Tennessee and help save the planet.

[seabhcan]

As widely anticipated for quite some time, Al Gore has this morning been announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Whilst Hillary Clinton is beginning to be seen as the de facto next Democrat Nominee - could Gore be the next Democratic nominees, and thus President.

It was suggested to me earlier this year that three things would happen:

1) Gore would win an oscar for his film
2) Gore would win the Nobel prize
3) While Clinton, Obama et all tear themselves (and the Democratic Party) apart, Gore would be seen as the person to unite the party, and a 'Draft Gore' campaign would begin.

What do people think, firstly about the implications of Gore winning the Nobel prize, and secondly, about whether or not he will make a run for the White House next year, and if he does run, whether he can win (again ).

This is just the global liberal establishment licking each other's ass. Will Gore and his entourage be flying to Oslo to pick up the award? He could always have it posted to him in Tennessee and help save the planet.

Ha ha, good point. Maybe he should swim to save the whales.

[EvotingMachine0197]

Really? I'm very surprised by that. Because he made a movie? All seems way OTT to me. Would there not have been others more deserving? The Anna Liu Burmese Democracy protester for instance? She's been under house arrest for 20 years or something.

Aung San Suu Kii won it back in 1991

Rats! beaten too it... and all because I had to check how to spell her name!!

As for Al - not a bad cv he's got

VPOTUS
Academy award
Nobel Peace Prize

Would be enough to get you most jobs, but maybe not the big one...

Ah cool. I wasn't aware of that. Sorry for the name mispelling.
But the point was that surely there are lots of people more deserving than Al Gore, a politician who made a movie?

Maybe it was for not going to court over the pregnant chads in 2000?

[freedomlover]

As widely anticipated for quite some time, Al Gore has this morning been announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Whilst Hillary Clinton is beginning to be seen as the de facto next Democrat Nominee - could Gore be the next Democratic nominees, and thus President.

It was suggested to me earlier this year that three things would happen:

1) Gore would win an oscar for his film
2) Gore would win the Nobel prize
3) While Clinton, Obama et all tear themselves (and the Democratic Party) apart, Gore would be seen as the person to unite the party, and a 'Draft Gore' campaign would begin.

What do people think, firstly about the implications of Gore winning the Nobel prize, and secondly, about whether or not he will make a run for the White House next year, and if he does run, whether he can win (again ).

This is just the global liberal establishment licking each other's ass. Will Gore and his entourage be flying to Oslo to pick up the award? He could always have it posted to him in Tennessee and help save the planet.

Ha ha, good point. Maybe he should swim to save the whales.

But the other whales might mistake him for a fellow whale. They're roughly the same size.

[NYB]

He got his chance and blew it, big time! He should stay out of the race.

[seabhcan]

The last couple of peace prizes have all been anti-Bush.

2001 - UN and Kofi Anan (enemy of far Right in US)
2002 Jimmy Carter
2003 Shirin Ebadi of Iran
2005 IAEA for stopping Bush bombing Iran
2007 Al Gore, why defeated bush in 2000

[Shankill Browser]

The Prize:
There are about 4 or 5 other catagories of Nobel Prizes, could he not have been awarded one of them?

The Presidency:
Don't think he'll run. Right now, he's on top of the world. An election is always going to be a 2 horse race and a fall from there would be pretty long and steep.

[Akrasia]

I wonder will he go to pick up his peace prize in his private jet.

Gore's personal environmental credentials are laughably pathetic. It is a joke that he won the nobel prize when there are far more deserving candidates out there. People who have actually done things (other than self promotion)

[noodles]

Ultimate smack in the face for Bush and his neo-cons. Bush is already being talked of widely as the worst president America has had. This award has little to do with honouring Gore and is more of an anti Bush vote.

These things do matter and it may help swing more moderate Americans away from militarism and colonialism. Most people trust the American people to make the right decision (eventually). It tells America that the world doesnt hate all Americans just the ones who act like nazis.

[Supersid]

The last couple of peace prizes have all been anti-Bush.

2001 - UN and Kofi Anan (enemy of far Right in US)
2002 Jimmy Carter
2003 Shirin Ebadi of Iran
2005 IAEA for stopping Bush bombing Iran
2007 Al Gore, why defeated bush in 2000

The whole "Peace Prize" is a joke that just discredits the other Nobel prizes. Most of the winners have been politically inspired and none linked to actual achievement.