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Al Gore Wants to 'Change Your Mind'

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Al Gore is talking as if he has ruled out another run for the presidency.

"I don't intend to be a candidate ever again," the former Democratic presidential candidate said in an interview broadcast Wednesday.

However, Gore then invoked the time-honored language of politicians who know it's perhaps folly to categorically rule anything out.

"I have no plans to be a candidate, and no intention of being a candidate," Gore said in the interview broadcast on NBC's "Today" show. But he added: "I've said I'm not at the stage of my life where I'm going to say never in the rest of my life will I ever think about such a thing."

Gore is making a round of public appearances to promote his new documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," which chronicles his efforts to bring attention to the dangers of climate change.

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"I am involved in a kind of a campaign, but it's not for a candidate," Gore said in the interview. "It's a campaign to change the minds of the American people about this climate process."

Gore was the Democrats' standard-bearer in 2000, but lost to George W. Bush in a disputed presidential election that was settled by the Supreme Court. He was vice president under President Clinton and before that represented Tennessee as a senator and congressman.

"I was in politics for a long time and ran for national office four times," Gore said. "I'm 58 years old and that used to sound like the oldest age in the world to me." Now, he said, "I'm enjoying serving in other ways. I really enjoy my life now."

© 2006 Associated Press.

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